Sunday, June 14, 2009

Will history repeat itself? India was in the same situation in the last world cup in 2007. That time India had lost the first game of Super Eight to New Zealand and needed to win against England and South Africa to qualify for the semis. That time Yuvraj came to the party and he has to that again.

Dhoni is looking in awful form, Raina hasnt done anything till now, Yusuf also had not done anything till the last game, and Gambhir has lost the touch of 2008. It all depends on Rohit and Yuvraj, these two are in form and need to fire.

Dhoni as a captain also has not done well, his bowling changes were shoddy in the last game against West Indies. Harbhajan was taken off after bowling a maiden to Gayle which had eventually led to Gayle’s dismissal. More pressure at that time would have changed the game completely. Then Zaheer India’s best bowler did not even complete his quota of overs!

Dhoni the captain cool is finished!

Teams

England: (probable) 1 Ravi Bopara, 2 Luke Wright, 3 Kevin Pietersen, 4 Owais Shah, Paul Collingwood (capt), 6 Dimitri Mascarenhas, 7 James Foster (wk), 8 Graeme Swann, 9 Stuart Broad, 10 Adil Rashid, 11 James Anderson.

India: (probable) 1 Gautam Gambhir, 2 Rohit Sharma, 3 Suresh Raina, 4 Yuvraj Singh, 5 MS Dhoni (capt/wk), 6 Yusuf Pathan, 7 Irfan Pathan, 8 Harbhajan Singh, 9 Zaheer Khan, 10 Ishant Sharma, Pragyan Ojha

Timing

Sunday, June 14, Start time 1730 local, 1630 GMT, 22:00 IST

 

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