Indian scorecard reads a sorry look

So the selection fiasco paid rich dividends and the most inexperience Indian middle order in long time collapsed to Dale Steyn;s career best figure.

My foot in the mouth. Lol. I know with my style of writing I am bound to win more foes or critics with guns ever pointed to me like the rangers from the neibhouring country sitting at the border sharing with this huge republic / democracy.

So thats not going to deter me from writing my thoughts out, which may appear fucking comical to most who do not take a min to abuse me or call me different adjectives / expletives esp one blogger who presumes herself / himself to be thoughtful.

Anyways chuck that, let the critics have a hearty laughter at my expense, I am glad that I give them a chance to laugh in their otherwise half sad and incomplete life.

Back to the topic, the Sahas and the Badris failed to live upto the expectations the captain and the others would have had with them. I have not seen the scorecard but the comments in one of the previous posts suggest Badri would have scored decent (more than my prediction of 10s or 20s). So good for him. But then situation was tailor made for him to grind and cast a shadow over return of Yuvraj when fit. Unfortunately he did not and like Yuvraj’s 3 hundreds which have come up when India were back on the wall (or their faces to wall)…

So I am not sure if he remains a challenge to the likes of Laxman and Yuvraj when they recover from their injuries.

This also proves that the Indian Test middle order still needs the Fab Three for long time than what we would have expected. We do not want to go the first innings way in the future when the debutants fail to live upto their expectations or find suddenly making their debuts when none expected them to.

If Badrinath bats longer for time and in process scores runs and justifies his outburst then its good for the team and most prolly him, but if he does not then he is the man to make the way for Laxman next game if fit. Yup Saha too, but then I am sure somebody else would replace him if RD is not yet fit again.

We need RD and VVS for some time more contrary to what critics and experts might say.

Cheeka must be seeing his blunder most prolly and hope he would rectify the same for the 2nd test when one of the pacer would go and  2 more specialist batsmen plus one buffer comes in. Perhaps he needs to learn some project management from iT managers who always have lots of buffers in their bench so that when a resource goes on leave, the buffers work and keep the show going on.