Did you watch India - England match? What did you think about the match and its outcome?
Boycott says "Tie right result"!! Do you think the same way? Nothing wrong in thinking the same way except in that case you should also think "India is not in running for this world cup!"
In the first match the Indian bowlers allowed Bangladesh to score 283 whereas Bangladesh batters had very tough time against Ireland bowlers where they could only score 205!
In the second match the Indian bowlers allowed England to score 338 whereas England batters had a tough time against Netherlands bowlers to surpass the score of 292!! [Oh... even Netherlands batters score 292 against England's bowling attack :-)] Also England was recently thrashed 6-1 by Australia in the one-day series!!
Previously I has stated that India need to improve their bowling... and this time also I am of the same opinion - India needs to bowl well!! Many experts think / commented that India lost last few wickets pretty cheaply [actually last 5 wickets fell for just 11 runs - which is shocking!!] and should have scored more - may be much more.
They are absolutely right - India batted pretty badly by losing last five wickets cheaply (I will come to that later) but I think with this kind of bowling you can never be sure about what is the 'safe score' - 350, 370, 400?? And who knows England may have still managed to get to that score... :-)
Batting 2nd put any team under huge pressure when they know that have to score 6-7 runs per over... and with that kind of pressure on England batters, Indian bowlers could not take the advantage. So, though the match is a tie but as far as the team spirit / morale is concerned 'England has won the game' as batting second and still scoring 338 is much more difficult than scoring the same batting first.
Now coming to batting - not only India's 2nd half of batters failed to shine (after first match some headlines said 'Believe the hype: India's batsmen are ready' - huh!!) but I feel the batting order was wrong!! How can a batsman in full form - Kohli - is sent no. 7 batsman when he's an accomplished opening, 1 or 2 down batsman? Whatever happens he should be sent as a batman at no. 1 to 4 - not after that as he's not accomplished to play with the tail (unlike Laxman :-))!!
Yuvraj: Though he scored 58 - he literally 'fought' hard to score those runs and he's far from this best.
Dhoni & Pathan: Though they scored 31 (25) and 14 (8), none of them looked very convincing and one suggestion to both of them - you can't score 6 or 4 in each delivery so play as per the merit of the ball, push it and run!!
So, India should stick to same batting order for the first 4 batters Sehwag, Sachin, Gambhir and Kohli - unless something extraordinary happens!! Then they can change the ordering of the next three Dhoni, Yuvi and Pathan as they are hard hitters and 'mostly' ride on their luck!
Anyway - all the best to India and hopefully they will pickup their bowling soon!!
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