Readers' views on the Team India ratings.
I agree with your ratings.I understand that Ganguly has done a lot to the team as captain.But he has understand that one cannot sleep with his past record.Current form is important.So he should be kicked out of the team & captaincy should handed over to kaif who has the spirit.
jeyaprakash
Bangalore
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They are right for 70% of the ratings,yadav should be given 7/10
vinod
cochin
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Yes i agree with the ratings of Harish and Deepti's.
Ashwani Chugh
Ghaziabad
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Main Points to keep in mind:
(a) If we consider the performance against big team like New zealand and Srilanka then we will find in six matches Dravid has 2, Yadav, Ganguly and Sehwag has one 50 and Kaif has one 50 and one 100. We won in only one match against New zealand. Then why players like dhoni, Yuvraj, Sehwag get so many points ?
(b) Now if we make an average considering the players who have played at least 5 games (12 such players) then average point for team India will be 5.7 (which is very near to first division 60%) still India won only one game out of six big matches so we are giving them a criteria to get first division if they some how manage to win only once in five or six matches against teams which has better rating than India and they are doing that so what is wrong ? !!!!!
(c) Main problem is that We criticise only Ganguly and he deserves that but by doing that we are focusing only to one man but cricket is a game of 11 players.
Therefore, i do not agree with ratings because it is not clear except throwing Ganguly out what else we could achieve from that, it very highly overrates the players, for an example , Yuvraj has played 5 big matches with a score of 1(N) , 22(N), 20(N), 12(SRI), 42 (SRI) with an average of 19.4 but he scored 8 points for his performance against weak West Indies and Zimbabwe on the other hand, if we see Ganguly
even in the miserable condition he scores 5, 19, 31, 51, 26 with average 26.4. Therefore i think points for
Ganguly is OK but for Juvraj it is too high. If we see carefully except Kaif who has an average 47 against
big teams all other players are highly over-rated.
If we look at the past then we will find only Scahin, Ganguly and Dravid was the key to win big matches and problem is now except Dravid no one is consistent enough so that India can win regularly.
In crisis we always tried with lot of new players but how many of them survived ? We will tell Yuvraj and Kaif but it is only 50% true because look at the average Yuvraj has 31 from 126 matches kaif has 35 from 97 matches far below than Sachin , Ganguly and Dravid.
We are searching for new players it is a good step but i fear in the end we have to look towards Sachin and Dravid. For Ganguly it is hard to survive any more.
I think worse is still to come because our golden boys are old now.
Kinsuk Acharyya
Kolkata
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No, I think that Rating of Raina is incorrect. he not get much chance but he impress in fielding and batting.
Mayur
Mumbai
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I am not agree with your rating. Ashish Nehra & Ajit Agarkar both are overrated . Both of them have never bowled a good spell against strong Team Like Aust, pakistan England etc . They have taken wickets but their wickets are meaning less. They always give more than 60 in 10 Over. They must be dropped by team immediately.
Harnam Singh
Gurgaon
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Very Good.U really refelected the feelings of our nations cricket lovers.
S.RAMACHADNRAN
ATTUR-SALEM-TN
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Report was based more on reputation. Agarkar got wickets and didn't give runs in the first spell needs higher rating, may be 7/10. Dravid should get 3/10. Venugopal 1/10.
Shripad
Brisbane
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If you think venugopal Rao is playing that is unfair. I would prefer VVS Laxman who scored 4 centuries last Year that too he scored Century in Final One Day in Pakistan. When they are giving chances for others why not laxman . he is a class player. he scored 2 centuries in Australia in One day Match. Another person i would prefer is Zaheer Khan who is the man of the Series in Afro-Asian one day series. he is a class bowler.
Jagan
Chennai.
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I agree with your ratings ,only the 5 rating given to Sehwag is I think is a little high. He has'nt performed one bit but for his 75 vs NZ in Zimbabawe Tri-series final.
Over the last year or two Sehwag has had a tendacy of throwing away starts,like he did in the Sri Lanka Tri-series final when he had got 48 in 22 balls. Sehwag is a very flamboyant batsman but he has a resposibilty of giving his team a good start and if needed he should be ready to curb his natural insticts fot the team cause.
Aditya Deuskar
Pune
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Yes,I agree fully with ratings.Non performers deserve sack.Hope you will give simmillar ratings to selectors past and present who have ruined Team India by whimsical and regionalistic approach.
arun telang
Bangkok
