A lot has been written and more trees wil be cut to describe Mumbai Indians' choking skills. So lemme add a few electrons as well :)
The biggest reason in my opinion i that Sachin should be stripped of captaincy. He is bringing lethargic thinking and subdued mindset to the team. Bring back Pollock as captain.
Mumbai lost 3 matches in last over:
Reasons are plenty: bad fielding, useless batting!
But the most glaring reason is the GOD's captaincy:
1. vs KXIP:
a. Bowled 2 of the most a$$-hole spinners with 4 overs each.
b. Underbowled Jayasuriya and Dwayne Smith
.c. Gave last over to Nehra when Pollock had 1.
2. vs DD
a. Over-relying on D Kulkarni and Sanath.
b. What was S Chitnis-the specialist offspinner doing in team? Chosen for batting?
3. vs RR
His mistake has been so obvious that even a 9-year neighbour told me about it during the match. Every TDH who was watching the match knew that 19th over should be given to Dilhara and 20th to Nehra. Nehra had bowled an awesome 18th over (Really unfortunate to go for cheeky boundaries of yorkers).But the incharge was not TDH but The apple of every woman's eye, the pride of india: Mr. SRT. An over to Raje: A guy who hasn't played a single First class match. When you have a clear cut example of: The wilting of young D Kulkarni in DD match under pressure.
Ofcourse he had choices of Jayasuriya and D Smith.But ok,that can be forgiven. Because at the bottom of the heart, we know that this *pearl in India's feather* can't think laterally like S Warne.
In the end Tendlya has thoroughly proved that forget MI, he is not worth captaining his Mohalla team. He is a good batsman, he takes stunning catches once in a while, But he can never be a good leader. He can clear CAT, he will never clear PI for a leadership course He can dig Mt. Everest but he can never lead a team to dig Mt. Annamalai.
All in all, Tendlya has put himself in fray for Man of Series award. Maybe Tanvir and Watson need to do a lot of hardwork to clinch the award from him.
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Good to see u writing after such a long time... :)
Captaincy is not Sachin's cup of tea or coffee or whatever... But losing the last three matches from winning positions was too painful for me because I thought they would go on to win the tournament after such a 'phoenixy' return
Hey Anand! :)
Am alive - thankfully! It was good to see you visit my blog...thanks!
Completely agree with you, Anand. Firstly, I, quite frankly, couldn't see, why, why, why didn't the Mumbai Indians have any proven Aussie player in their team. Ronchi? A tonker of the ball? Nonsense! Where did they sniff him out from? Secondly, granted, Sachin was the original captain, but his captainship track-record is anything but impressive and given that he was coming back from yet another injury, team management should have sticked with Pollock after his brilliant showing. Sachin was given too much freedom it seems; I found it moronic that media even credited Sachin's presence in dressing room for some of MI's victories. Perhaps, I guess what they slyly implied was: It's good to have a liability stationed in the dressing room rather than have him floundering on field.
My loyalties are still with Mumbai Indians, though. I think Malinga's presence next year will be a big boost. And yes, Bhajji's return too. But I still wish they had the class of Mohali or Rajasthan.
An-ex-Sachin fan
-Plumber
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