India's eight Test defeats in a row frustrate Anil Kumble – Cricket News Update
The former Indian skipper and legendary leg-spin bowler http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Anil-Kumble-c44737, admitted on Saturday that losing eight offshore Test matches in a row after remaining at the top of the ICC Test rankings for quite a while was quite frustrating.
During a media encounter in Kolkata, the 41-year-old former Bangalore leg-spinner said that winning and losing is part of every game, but successive slumps from a once world number one team bothers the management as well as fans.
"Defeat can be acceptable when you know that the opposition is dominating, but not when you are a No 1 side,” said the spin-bowling veteran on Saturday. “The last time, we were dealt with such a blow was in 2000 Australia series that we had lost 0-3," he
added further.
The Men in Blue, under http://www.senore.com/Cricket/England-c56013 in August last year.
Dhoni and men faced a humiliating 4-0 Test series whitewash at the hands of the Poms last summer and tried to cover the shambles blaming a series of injuries on the trip, which saw the tourists losing likes of http://www.senore.com/Cricket/V-Sehwag-c2739,
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/SR-Tendulkar-c2556.
After starting the Test series as the World’s number one Test side, MS Dhoni-led http://www.senore.com/Cricket/India-c750 quickly went down the Test rankings and finished the series as the number three Test side on the table. Dhoni’s men emulated their below-par performance in their next
away Test series, against http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Australia-c746, losing with the same margin.
Now, a tight international schedule awaits the Men in Blue, which will see them playing ten Tests between August 2012 and March 2013, and Kumble hoped the Test series whitewashes at the hands of Ashes rivals would serve as a wakeup call for Dhoni and Co.
ahead of their upcoming engagements, home and away.
"To see that happen again, was very difficult to digest. Hope this serves as a wake up-call and kick-start a process. Hope they do well in the coming months."
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