Hi
Cant miss a cricket thread !
Now with the decline of the Australians I truly believe that we are the best test squad. Gambhir,Sehwag, Dravid, Sachin, VVS, Dhoni are more than talented as batsman and Zaheer, Ishant, Sree, RP can hold their own as seamers. Its Harbhajan Singh who has to pull up his socks.
We should groom a good wrist spinner. Amit Mishra has the basic skill but needs to develop fast.
Each team has its weakness and ours is that we are just not athletic enough or dont work hard enough on our fielding. IMO SA are always around the top mainly due the sheer brilliance in the field. Player for player we will strongly dominate the SA side.
Am going on about SA as they seem to be the major threat at the moment.
The domestic level in our country needs a major revamp. Lessen the teams and u will have a higher standard in the Ranji IMO. Small changes in format too are long overdue.
Sri Lanka are another strong team but off late we get the better of them and Pak/WI are too inconsistent to really challenge the best. Eng in bowler friendly conditions are always a threat but then ENG never really wins anything major!!!
Anyway these are just my views and are not based on ANY RANKING system.
I have seen almost no sport in the last month as I am in between homes and have missed both tests but kept myself updated only with the newspapers. I am dreading the retirement of Sachin, Rahul and VVS. I cant see a Rohit Sharma filling any of these big shoes though I feel Murli Vijay has that something special but is far from a finished product.
Will keenly await opinions from the other HFV cricket buffs. I know vortex & Asit are cricket followers and it would be nice to exchange views with many others.
Rgds