India vs England Test Series: Somebody's Loss is Somebody's gain
The title of my post reminds me the "Law of Constant Mass/Energy " or something along that lines I remember vaguely from Physics which I studied like ages ago but still can't make any head or tail out of it. It's more apt when a depleted England team meets the powerful Indian team who is fresh from their success from Pakistan tour.
Well to begin with England had everything to gain from this tour and India had a lot more at stake being the favorites and at home. From the start it was very imperative that India would have to have a perfect game for all the 3 tests played and even a slight lapse of concentration would cost them exponentially. It happened the same in Pakistan in the 3rd test at Lahore and now at 3rd test at Wankhede. Probably a pattern which Rahul Dravid will definitely have in mind when he plays a third test against WI.
Personally my memories of Wankhede had never been good. I was at Wankhede when India lost to Aussies in the famous 2004 series which they eventually won 2-1. But that fateful morning when the lunch was called India still had Rahul Dravid and Tendulkar at crease almost the same like this time. That India lost the test match after the departure of Rahul and Sachin the very same way as they lost this time. The only difference was India lost to Australia in about 3 days but that was the team who were one of all the time best Test Teams as against this Injury Depleted England team.
I always feel Post scripts once the match has ended are so boring because it robs you of excitement as the match is already over and you know what happened. So Dravid made a wrong judgement, India should have gone with 7 batsman, Laxman/Kaif should have played sounds so rhetoric that I personally will not even go into that. So much has been written about everything it will just be repetitive.
In the end it's just one loss. That it happened against a half strength England side in Dravid's 100th and Tendulkar's 132nd match makes in all the more worse. But as Lance Klusener famously said after South Africa's famous loss to Aus in WC semis "No one died".
Well to begin with England had everything to gain from this tour and India had a lot more at stake being the favorites and at home. From the start it was very imperative that India would have to have a perfect game for all the 3 tests played and even a slight lapse of concentration would cost them exponentially. It happened the same in Pakistan in the 3rd test at Lahore and now at 3rd test at Wankhede. Probably a pattern which Rahul Dravid will definitely have in mind when he plays a third test against WI.
Personally my memories of Wankhede had never been good. I was at Wankhede when India lost to Aussies in the famous 2004 series which they eventually won 2-1. But that fateful morning when the lunch was called India still had Rahul Dravid and Tendulkar at crease almost the same like this time. That India lost the test match after the departure of Rahul and Sachin the very same way as they lost this time. The only difference was India lost to Australia in about 3 days but that was the team who were one of all the time best Test Teams as against this Injury Depleted England team.
I always feel Post scripts once the match has ended are so boring because it robs you of excitement as the match is already over and you know what happened. So Dravid made a wrong judgement, India should have gone with 7 batsman, Laxman/Kaif should have played sounds so rhetoric that I personally will not even go into that. So much has been written about everything it will just be repetitive.
In the end it's just one loss. That it happened against a half strength England side in Dravid's 100th and Tendulkar's 132nd match makes in all the more worse. But as Lance Klusener famously said after South Africa's famous loss to Aus in WC semis "No one died".
posted by Googlogger at 3/25/2006 07:19:00 PM
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