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    Sunil Gavaskar questions England's tactics against India in ICC Champions Trophy 2013 final

    Former India captain Sunil Gavaskar on Tuesday questioned England’s tactics against India in the ICC Champions Trophy 2013 final, which the hosts lost by five runs on Sunday.

    Gavaskar asked whether England are the new ‘chokers’ in cricket in wake of their dramatic slip against India from a comfortable position in their chase of 130 at Edgbaston in a rain-truncated final.

    Gavaskar wrote in his column for the Times of India: “Are England the new chokers? That question has to be asked after they collapsed from a winning position to lose yet another summit clash of a global event.”

    The former Indian cricketer said England batsmen were responsible for their disastrous show in the final.

    “The manner in which some of the later batsmen got out was nothing short of blind panic as they played shots that schoolboys would think twice about and there was a run out that was comical to say the least,” Gavaskar wrote.

    He added, “This is the fifth ODI final that England have lost and the manner of the latest defeat bring out awkward question of their temperament.”

    Gavaskar heaped praise on Team India after their memorable win.

    "India on the other hand under 'captain cool' kept their nerve and when it mattered raised the level of their game to keep pressure on and just did not give up when the situation looked tough. They were by far the best team in the tournament and fully deserved to win what is likely to be the last ever ICC Champions Trophy," he wrote.

    "They [India] are now the only team apart from the West Indies who have won the world trophy in every format of the game," he expressed.

    Gavasakar criticised the International Cricket Council (ICC) for not keeping a reserve day in the schedule in case no play was possible on the day of the final.

    He wrote: "While applauding the ICC for its decision to extend the playing hours and to give the patient crowd some cricket, it is hard to understand that there was no reserve day for the finals. Of course, the reserve day could also have been as bad as the final day and there could have been no game at all, but to have a final of a 50-over tournament being decided over 20 overs, when there is already a T20 World Cup, made little sense and was quite clearly unfair to both teams who had worked so hard to get to the finals."

    Gavaskar said, "If it was because New Zealand had to complete its tour of England with the mandatory T20 Internationals, then the question is why the tournament was not slotted after the New Zealand tour was over."

    He concluded, "If host countries are not going to give the best month of their summer to an important tournament, should they be given the event at all?"

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    Excerpts from a very good article about dhoni...

    June 25, 2013
    Dhoni's feel for cricket



    What Dhoni did in offering Ishant Sharma the 18th over of England's innings with Eoin Morgan and Ravi Bopara at the crease and 28 runs required from 18 deliveries, was something altogether more instinctive, a rare and charming combination of intuition, judgement and experience that carried with it inherent risk. Here was the match, in the hands of the team's most profligate bowler.


    There was an element of Napoleon's dictum on luck about Dhoni's decision, and there is no doubt that had things gone the other way, he would have come under heavy fire. But one of his great qualities is a calm fearlessness that he has shown so often. The underlying logic behind using Ishant was sound; Dhoni knew that England would take the batting Powerplay in the last two overs, and he wanted his spinners for them. But his decision was proactively to bowl Ishant rather than Umesh Yadav or Bhuvneshwar Kumar, and that was at the heart of India's win.

    It would be fascinating to hear Dhoni talk about it in depth, to know exactly where it came from. He has played so much cricket now, and so much of it under tremendous pressure, he has a deep feeling for the rhythm of the game; he hears its heartbeat acutely. It informs his subconscious, it leads what we might call intuition or instinct, but in reality it is something more weighty and useful. Let's call it intellect.
    ഇരവഴഞ്ഞി അറബിക്കടലിനുള്ള താണെങ്കിൽ , കാഞ്ചന മൊയ്തീനുളളതാ...
    ഇത് മൊയ്തീന്റെ വാക്കാ.. വാക്കാണ് ഏറ്റവും വലിയ സത്യം..



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