Test Match Special

Some English fans seem to complain that D/L robbed Eng of victory. I find it absurdly difficult to imagine they really think Collingwood would have scored the runs in company of Panesar/Anderson. He is no Afridi,I doubt even Afridi would have managed it.
As far as D/L lewis method advantage,if it was not present, SA not England would have been in 1992 WC final.
I agree with Ravi Bala. Agarkar is a waste of time,money and effort as a cricketer.He should join the ICL instead of playing for India.
He picked up 4 wickets in the 4th ODI,but he seemed more surprised himself after he took those wickets. Batsman offer him wickets because he offers 2-3 boundary balls per over.Sometimes he gets lucky and picks wickets.I wonder if he has taken wickets with actually good balls which batsman has not understood.
Irfan pathan is a much better player than Agarkar even when he is out of form.

As far as the umpiring benifit error score stands 5 -1 in favour of England,so I really dont think England should complain too much

Many people came out quickly pointing to me that the D/L was not around in 1992 and it did not come to rescue of England. Exactly the reaction I wanted. It was rule after all was it not just like D/L is.
I wanted to get that reaction becasue I just wanted to make a point that no law/rule in any game is perfect especially if it affects the normal flow of game.
Every rule to achieve a result is flawed and we have to accept it.Sometimes the rules work in our favour ,sometimes they dont. Thats luck.
For eg in FIFA WC I remmber France played very good in the final but lost in the penalty shhotout. The whole of Italy rejoiced and the penaly shootout seemed a good idea to Italians.
But when Italy lost in shootouts in 1994 final ,the same law seemed so unfair to the same Italians.
To overcome this so called unfair means of deciding a game,FIFA came out with sudden death concept ,wherein again many teams played excellent soccer for 90 min +extra time and lost because of one mistake in sudden death.
What I am trying to say is nothing in life is perfect unless it goes our way.
So Dont you think ,those complaining about howD/L robbed Eng ov victory stop complaining because it may be quite possible the D/L comes to English rescue in next game.
Be sporting guys and accept what happened.

Agarkar is a burden to watch. As an Indian,whenever I see him in the Indian lineup,I get the feeling India is playing with 10 players and opposition with 12 players. He gives away so many runs ,it feels as if the he is batting for opposition. Even when he takes wickets( once in 10 matches),it gives the impression ,the batsman got out because he was too greedy for more boundaries and ppaid the price for it,rather then get out to wicket taking ball.And when Agarkar goes out to bat,the less said the better.To call Agarkar an allrounder is like calling George Bush as Mahatma Gandhi.

On an average,Agarkar gives approx 55-60 runs per match and takes 1 wicket oftop 5 batsman and 1 wicket of lower order.If Agarkar is dropped from team and Yuvraj,Tendulkar,Dravid,Ganguly and even Dhoni combine to bowl the 10 over alloted to Agarkar,we may still be in with a chance, that all these wont give away 60 runs and take a wicket or maybe even two.

Ideally I would like to see Ganguly,Sachin and Yuvraj bowl 14-15 overs between them.In place of Agarkar take Rohit sharma who can bat very well and bowl a bit offspin. The rest of 5-6 overs can be shared between Dravid,Rohit Sharma ,even Dhoni ( I daresay) even Karthik or Uthhapa. The rest 30 between Zaheer,Piyush,Powar.

The Indian team should enter the next matches as following team batting in following order.

Tendulkar
Ganguly
Dhoni/Dravid(depending on situation)
Yuvraj
Dravid/Dhoni
Rohit Sharma
Uthhapa/Karthick
Zaheer
Powar
Chawla

Atleast perhaps there is a chance one extra batsman might score the overall runs given by the parttime bowlers,but agarkar definetly gives away 55 odd runs and scores 5 odd runs.
I know there is only one fast bowler in my team ,but lets accept it that only one Indian fast bowler always bowls well in one match, and others hardly contribute.

Those of you suggesting D/L system is useless and a more better way was to deduct number of runs scored in last 5 overs,I have a question.

Example: If England was 220/3 and Flintoff and KP bat to their potential and take the score to 290 in next 5 overs. Then if it rains and the target is reduced for opposition to 45 overs.Do you mean to say the extraordinary batting that took England from 220 to 290 (70 runs 30 balls) would be cancelled out. Would it be fair????Sometimes the difference of margin between two teams in the runs scored by a batsman in an over or two.

There is no 100% method by which we can be fair to both teams if rain interrupts.
Besides D/L is rule applicable to both.Every team in the world has faced the boon as well as curse of D/L at some point of time.Its just one of the thnigs not fully in control of a human.

Even in real life, it sometimes happens that may people dont work 50% of time but are noticed by a superior only during the other 50% time when they work. sone unlucky ones work 80% of time and relax 20% of time but their luck is such a a superior always notices them during that period, and gets impression he is no good worker.
I use yahoo messnger despite my office laws banning it and have done so succesfully for years ,partly due to preacaution, but mostly due to luck.On other hand my friend ,who used to warn me of risk of getting fired for using yahoo and who himself did not use it for the intial year finally got caught on the second day he downloaded the messnger and that to by the Project manager who visits that part of the office once in 3-4 weeks.My friend downloaded the messnger because he saw for 2 years I had no problem and his work area was one where PM hardly visits.
So sometimes things go our way and sometimes they dont but the effort should always be there.;) even if it is chatting;).