England fans and media have been crazy with their comments, debates and articles as far as this series is concerned and they have a good reason to as well. But by calling India and their player useless bunch of sh!ts is going way over the top. Frankly, is embarrassing and shows how arrogant have England have become. Yes, they have won 3 tests by huge margins, which as an Indian supporter is very embarrassing. I checked out quite a lot of articles before the series even began and there was nervousness among the England supporters as India ARE world champions. The moment I knew IPL was to start 5 days after the world cup conclusion, I feared the team and the nation would lose the appetite to play good competitive cricket. England fans and media are going nuts over winning the series against and Indian team that is fatigued, and has little motivation to play cricket due to the congestion of cricket calendar.
The abuse England fans are giving Indian players is simply unwarranted. Saying Dhoni is rubbish is very insulting. He is miles ahead of Strauss in terms of captaincy and very good behind the stumps. He is just having an off series as every cricketing player has in his career.
Saying that India have no no Batsmen/ bowlers coming through shows how ill informed the England media and the fans are. Badrinath, Mukund and Sharma are fantastic players, very composed technically reminds me of a certain Dravid/Tendulkar. Praveen Kumar very good swing bowler and I am surprised at the decision to call RP singh, I would have gone for Irfan pathan instead. He showed brilliant form during the IPL.
BCCI have made a blunder in team selection as well. As as result the series has become very embarrassing for India. England fans should not look too much in to this result. Keep your feet on the ground English fans.
p.s Congrats on the top spot. <OK>
England fans disrespectful!!
posted on 20/8/11
Special mentions go to Toofan and Hippocrite. Almost every Indian fan was guilty of this, the only exceptions were Medium Pacer, Speaking Civilised and vvsfan.
posted on 20/8/11
I wonder if Pox's question was:
If India was not the best side when they were #1, who was the best?
posted on 20/8/11
Hard to tell, I think SA were probably better than India at that point, their last 2 tours of India were both draws and they had just beaten Aus in Aus. However they lost their bottle and lost at home to Aus. I don't think until this series any team could claim to be better than any of the others. England are the only team that won home and away versus Aus whilst also have good records against India and SA.
I think it has been very tough to call recently, when we have a weak Aus team almost drawing in India, then India and England both managing close draws away to SA.
If we look at the results, India drew 1-1 with SA both home and away so you can't realistically claim one is much superior to the other. India have won at home and lost to Aus. Aus have lost at home and won away to SA. The standout is that England have beaten Australia home and away and have destroyed India at home.
England seem clearly the best currently but India did not seem to be undoubtedly the best team. They also did not play away from home against good opposition in their time at the top, when they finally played decent teams away from home they lost the top spot.
posted on 20/8/11
India team was never really a strong #1. They rarely won convincingly. They were rescued by Laxman in SL, and again in SA, and he was the star in their 2-0 home win over Australia (first test looked almost a certain win for Aus). During that period, SA had a very good opportunity to beat England at home. They should have won that series 3-1 but for their inability to dismiss England's #11 batsman on the final day in two matches.
posted on 20/8/11
India has been annihilated by England and media's criticism is not unwarranted.It should motivate them to tighten themselves up.
posted on 21/8/11
http://www.espncricinfo.com/england-v-india-2011/content/current/story/528854.html
Read this. The best thing for Indian cricket is ridicule.
posted on 21/8/11
India are vein ridiculed for spoiling the cricket Summer
Nobody talks about the Test matches because no-ones interested due to the matches being totally one-sided
posted on 21/8/11
Maybe the OP wasn't here before the series. 90% of the wumming was being done by Indian fans, who have since evaporated into think air!
I personally don't think their wumming was 'disrespectful', just delusional. I have no problem with banter actually. Not sure why our Indian and Pakistani friends here can't do it without ethnic insults etc.
India have been humiliated but some Indian fans still have a sense of humor. A guy in the crowd had a placard that read, "DRAVID versus England".
posted on 21/8/11
Let's be realistic here.......
The Indians are being slaughtered here.
This is proper cricket. They really can't wait to get home and have another SLOG in the IPL.
Sehwag looks as though he's getting in some practice for tje IPL
posted on 24/8/11
The truth is that in being #1 India were extremely overrated, they cannot win much outside the sub continent at Test level.
In English conditions the series has shown that India cannot even reach the level of producing a proper contest.