India Cricket
What are your thoughts about Indian Cricket: the players, their strengths, weaknesses, etc.?
India has recently fallen short of winning some opening matches in the ICC tournament which will hopefully cause them to reflect on team performance. They are an aggressive team not sparing any slipups the opposing team makes, but they just have not been able to put out runs as they usually do.
It seems like Indians are very passionate about Cricket. This is so ridiculous.
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FURIOUS India fans stormed the home of wicketkeeper Mahendra Singh Dhoni overnight to protest a five-wicket rout by Bangladesh in its opening World Cup match, police said. The angry mob tore down walls and pillars of Dhoni's house, which is under construction, in the eastern city of Ranchi, to protest the 26 year old's performance in India's shocking defeat in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad. India was all out for 191, with Dhoni returning to the pavilion without scoring in India's, a shock to the cricket-mad country of 1.1 billion people. "Dhoni die, die," the protesters chanted, burning effigies of the long-maned player, who has scored 1958 runs in 68 limited-overs international matches and is counted among India's most aggressive batsmen, police said. Dhoni's hometown, Ranchi, is the capital of Jharkhand state, which last year gifted Dhoni a 360 square metre plot of land to build a house on. They screamed anti-Dhoni slogans and demanded the withdrawal of the prime residential plot worth 5 million rupees ($140,000) police and witnesses said. "It seems Dhoni is banking more on modelling than wicketkeeping and batting," Sohan Mahto, one of the protesters, said. State authorities deployed troops at the nearby home of the under-fire player's family to prevent possible attacks, a police spokesman said... |
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