It always happen when a team losses continuesly, needed some reason to make fuss and escape from their failures.. English team batting is more dependent on Bopara, O Shah, Pietersen and Flintoff. Bell, Collingwood and Matt Prior are out of form. The batting is not clicking properly and this showed even the Kanpur ODI as well. India needed just 241 in 49 overs and by 40 overs India reached 198 losing only 5 wickets. India needed another 43 runs in just 54 balls. So, the match was in control of India and India saw that they were ahead in run rate as fixed according to D/L method, England were not able to create any pressure. So, India truly deserve the win.
Controversies will be created because England lost 2 in row already and nothing is going in their favour. English Media and team say that umpires should have fixed a 45 overs match instead of 49 overs. This will not bring the situation where batting second team will face the bad light and the alloted overs will be finished without applying the Duckworth- Lewis. But umpires had calculated everything fine and one should respect the umpires decision. But just imagine if India team faced the English team situation, media and public will fall on the umpires and ICC. So, losing team will always feel bad about losing the match without finish the full quota of overs.. Whatever India won the series and I hope India win the remaining 3 matches and clean sweeps.... :)
Answered by
Madhu Vamsi
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11:52 PM on November 24, 2008
