CB series

I am extremely happy and proud on seeing Indians winning the tough down under CB series. Kudos to our young Indian team. One should notice that we have won the series defeating the winners and runner-up of the last WC. To beat them and Aussies particularly in their own backyard is really creditable.

The seniors namely Dravid, Ganguly, Laxman can hit some astonishing boundaries and few sixes. But for seniors singles are hard to come by when Australia has Ponting, Symonds, Clarke and Hussey in the circle. This adds pressure to them and subsequently many times they have landed up in Silly run outs and failing to convert fights to wins. But this young team could not only run singles but twos when the same fielders are standing in the 30 yard circle adding additional valuable runs to total along with odd fours and sixes.

The young team fielded very well. They just didn't field but saved runs making the run gathering tougher for Aussies.

Last but not the least, our bowling was excellent and consistent. In spite of Zaheer's and RP Singh's absence, the bowling department never looked raw. The young lads kept their head cool and approached thier task professionally and troubled all Aussies batsman throughout the series. I feel this package surprised Aussies a lot. They knew well about the stardom packed India batting line up and would have never thought that Indian bowling will trouble them in Australia at all. It looks that they had appointed Symonds, Hayden and others to keep Harbhajan distracted so that he doesn' t trouble them too much.in the game. But the trick never worked mates, rather it made Indian team stronger and more determined to do well.

Generally India takes lot of time to settle in down. India would come closer to yield a draw in the last match (remember Azar's, Laxman tons). But in this tour we acclimatized to the Aussie condition quickly and started to play good cricket.

BCCI and the selectors should stick to this team and also give them enough rest. At the end after all they are humans too.