Cricket News In Brief - Part 2 - August 23, 2011
Indian Captain, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/MS-Dhoni-c2028, stated that he doesn’t believe in surrendering, after his side was handed a series whitewash on English soil.
There were injuries to several key players and the skipper believes that its time to groom young bowlers, in order for the team to have a good bench strength.
It was Dhoni’s first series defeat as captain of the Men in Blue, having previously led http://www.senore.com/Cricket/ICC-World-Cup-2011-c100625 Cricket World Cup 2011 triumph, earlier in the year.
England Head Coach, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Andrew-Flower-c44362, was delighted with his side’s performance
and compared it with the Ashes triumph of 2009.
He said that other than Australians, it is always special to play against Indians, while singling out his bowlers as the main men, who inflicted a 4-0 defeat upon their opponents.
Meanwhile the English press has slammed the Indian team. “England have embarrassed them. There are insufficient superlatives to describe their performance in this series,” said the Daily Telegraph.
Former Indian captain, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Sunil-Manohar-Gavaskar-c91863, expressed his disappointment over the manner in which his side lost to England, claiming it as “surrender.”
He believed, that the team, which came into the series as the No. 1 Test side, did not live up to his crown and should have at least lost by closer margins.
Gavaskar’s fellow commentator, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Ravishankar-Jayadritha-Shastri-c84254, stated that it was a mixture of bad form and injuries which led to India's demise, but conceded that it was a wake-up call for everyone.
Kangaroos' skipper, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Australia-c746.
He stated that he is more than happy to work with any playing XI which is picked, while hoping to achieve more success as captain of the team.
Clarke’s next assignment will be a tough Test match series against http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Sri-Lanka-c758, having already won the Limited Over Internationals by 3-2.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/SR-Tendulkar-c2556 are reported to receive terrorist threats
by some Kashmiri natives, who are plotting to kidnap the Indian duo.
Indian intelligence has since then increased the security of the two cricketing legends and will fully investigate the situation.
The threat has been common to Cricketers, with many incidences occurring previously.
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