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The coach chappel is a good commentator not a good coach , he don’t have any thing in his head , he has lots of things in his tong, is the main reason for lose of match , he changed the rhythm of team my doing experiment. He has to see the cricket, in Indian perspective, not like Austrian or south African style.

India batsmen are not consisted that is a reality, chapel have to accept it.
SO he should not do experiment in reducing the proportion of Indian bating line up with blowers compared with last world cup.
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Bangladesh have arrived, but what went wrong for India?

I present you three instances how India perceived Bangladesh cricket team before the match.

1) SET Max channel airs a promo of their "Extraaa Innings" program starring panelists Mandira Bedi and Charu Sharma. They show 9 teams including the number ten in ODI ranking Zimbabwe but leaves out the number 9 Bangladesh.

2) DD National channel airs "the Fourth Umpire", a cricket analysis program. Their episode during the India-Bangladesh match contained Indian cricket legends like Chetan Sharma and Kris Srikanth among the panel. They were discussing how India will win this World Cup and which players will contribute to what extent. Then there was the public opinion section via telephone. An young Indian was asked "In last match Gibbs has hit six sixes an over. So what India will do today?" He said " Dhoni will strike 7 sixes an over today." How? "Bangladesh will produce a no ball which will be dispatched over the rope again." Then the panelists were laughing at Bangladesh being a minnow and Srikkanth's view seemed like they deserved the 7 sixes an over.

Srikkanth dismissed any chance of Bangladesh causing an upset against this Bangladesh. Another panelist Anjum mentioned Bangladesh had beaten New Zealand in an warm up match. Srikkanth remarked all these are rubbish. There is a vast difference between India and Bangladesh so Bangladesh cannot win. India has come to win the world cup. If they loose today they should take the next flight home. Everybody was laughing. Chetan Sharma commented India should not take Bangladesh seriously. If India should respect Bangladesh then they should not have come to this World Cup.

During the match break Srikkanth was upset with India's paltry total of 191. After some discussions he commented that it was the Indian batsmen who gifted their wicket , the Bangladeshi bowlers had really done nothing special. Chetan Sharma thought that Bangladesh batting is not that strong. Srikkanth still thought that India should take the next flight home if they loose.

After the end of the game as India lost to Bangladesh Chetan and Srikkanth were not there to comment. People were wondering whether they went to the travel agent to confirm the Indian team's return ticket. Anjum, the another presenter thought that Bangladesh may cause another upset to beat Sri Lanka to provide a chance for India in the World Cup. Wow! what a complete turn around of assessment about Bangladesh.

3) Bangladesh has toured every Test cricket nation except India. Because cricket is a business to them and having Bangladesh is commercially unprofitable. A tour with a said minnow is commercially unattractive for the media and advertisers. India last toured Bangladesh in 2004 December. Bangladesh has beaten India for the first time then. After that India cancelled their next scheduled tour to Bangladesh twice and did not play them in last couple of years. The reasons suspected was again commerce. So India chose to deffer it till May 2007. I am not sure whether they will come to Bangladesh or invite back Bangladesh as there will always be excuses available.

So what can you say about the above instances? Simple arrogance and looking down on others has caused India this disgrace. As a saying goes "none are more unjust in their judgments of others than those who have a high opinion of themselves". India has took their eyes off Bangladesh who progressed a lot in 2006. Their techniques got better and they are getting used to winning albeit most of the opponents were not from the super eight of Cricket.

This simple arrogance also sieged the Indian cricket team who came to the field without in form Sreesanth and Kumble and decided to bat first probably with a score like 350 in mind. And the pressure on the players were immense as they found Bangladesh bowlers using the conditions and maintaining line and length. When Bangladesh was batting they just had no clue why these eighteen year olds were not respecting the paper tiger bowlers. While Bangladesh had a game plan they just had no plan "B" to tackle the surprise.

Anand Vasu says in Cricinfo that:

Bangladesh have slowly, steadily, doggedly worked at their cricket to the best of their ability for years now, and the fruit of that is this win. The point is that they have been around for a while now, it's just that not too many have taken note.

The Bangladeshi Newspaper Prothom Alo said this win is a reply to the Indian's disrespect about Bangladesh. Bangladesh proved India that what is commerce to them is merely a game for them. The article concludes with the hope that India is put down on their feet with this shock. If they still cannot revise their opinion about Bangladesh they will be reminded in the coming tour.

Now India will go nowhere with blaming players and the coach for this loss. Cricket is religion, passion and everything to Indians. Actually millions of Indian cricket fans deserves better from the Indian team. And this will happen when all the extra pressure of high expectations and influence of commerce in cricket are reduced. Let the Indian team play for themselves, not for the cup, but for the sheer pleasure of the game. India has enough good players to become a champion but now it may be too late for this World Cup.

We have to agree that India played below their standards helped Bangaladesh to dominate every part of the game.

I dont think Indians have taken Bangaladeshians lightly. They didnt play confidently, 3 top guns who crossed 10,000 Runs mark in ODI history played like their debut match. Once Sehwag's stump was uprooted everyone started playing defensive cricket. When Mortaza was firing Indians should have taken the advandage of the other bowlers instead their mind frame was similar against other bowlers as well. That helped Rafique and AbdulRazzaq to carry on the momentum till the end of the innings.

The regular scene through out Ganguly's Innings was stepping down the track against the spinners. At all those time there were plenty of gaps in the ring to take comfortable singles and doubles. This has led to the increase of number of dot balls to his account.

Bangaladeshians have capitalised this aspect of Indian's play well. Thanks to the wonderful captainship of Habibul Bashar. His bowlers responded beautifully by bowling at consistent line and length. Sourav is a master against spinners but none of the spinners let him to cross the rope atleast once. Though he tried to do it in number of occasions.

Yuvraj's play was the convincing factor out of Indian Innings. He rotated the strike regularly and sometimes disappointed with the poor running between the wicket by Ganguly.

Bowling was normal and the pitch lost all the dew and helped the batsmen in the second innings of the match.

To conclude this. Sports must be taken in a sportive manner. Those who failed in this match has done wonders in the past, this is a bad time for them. The manner in which the cricket followers take the game has huge impact in the remaining part of the series. Just cheer up. Thats the maximum extent we can do. No one has the right to touch or hurt them personally. Sorry for the happenings against Indian cricketers. We request our cricketers to take this as a Bad dream. Victory is yours.. Come on India!!! Come on!!!