10-run win for New Zealand over India

It was a good match yesterday, Indians are getting a hang of Twenty20. Its actually not Chaddi Cricket like what our Expert Navjot Singh Sidhu says. This is fast stuff. There is a difference in approach between T20 and 50 over match. T20 is not just slogging and bane for bowlers. Daniel Vettori showed us yesterday.

Vettori is not a big turner of the ball not can be compared to the likes of Warne, Murali, Kumble, Prasanna, Chandra etc. He has simple but clever variations. We did struggle. T20 does not give you time to settle get your eye in etc etc. You have to score from the word go, so a sound technique is important. Our fast bowlers were not penetrative. They looked dull. Field placements were not great either!!!T20 challenges everyone cos you gotta take quick decisions, if something goes wrong, the time to react and rectify is close to none. Our batsmen (even batsmen from other countries were no better) should go for proper cricket shots than go for slog from ball 1. On the whole this is a learning curve for Team India. It sounds funny because this is the world cup. But Team India has prepared so well by playing just 1 T20 match prior to T20WC.Even though its 20 overs you need some skill and smartness to win. Because T20 does not give many chances. We missed a few yesterday. Hope the Team learns from this and hopefully wins the next couple of matches to progress to the next level.
Surprised to see, Dhoni playing a sheet anchor role in game against Newzealand.

There something very terrible with his MINDSET nowadays. The same attitude was seen with England one dayers and surprisingly, he continued it in 20-20 cricket. This format (20-20) is not made for sheet anchor role specially when you are chasing a mammoth total of 191 (as per Indian standards).

We lost the game when Dhoni contended himself with 1 ball 1 run. Had been some hitting by him, the others would have rallied around him. Very unfortunately, Dhoni was rallying around others to build up his innings.

20-20 is not about playing sheet anchor, its about hitting one hard hit (AT LEAST) one over and then rotate, if needed. That never came in the middle overs, Dhoni keep on playing sheet anchor creating pressure on the other hand, and we lost it.

I beg to differ from Dhoni that bowlers let him down. I think both are equally responsible. Our bowlers are never been good at death. Agarkar (MOST MINDLESS CRICKETER YOU WILL EVER SEE), Sreesanth (MORE IN TANTRUM AND MEDIA HYPE THAN IN DELIVERABLES) and Yuvraj (SHORT IN COFIDENCE BOTH IN BOWLING AND BATTING) were not good enough. Irfan would been still better with his lack of pace. Similarly, KARTHIK is not made for 20-20.