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It is heartening to see loads of experiments happening in Indian cricket under the able leadership of Greg Chappell and Rahul Dravid. Sometimes these experiments bring good results if not great results, often end up in crazy results. History of experiments in one-day cricket In one day cricket these experiments got noticed when Martin Crowe asked Deepak Patel to open the attack. Being an off spinner, Patel was able to create interesting impact and propelled New Zealand to Semi final only to loose against mighty Pakistanis under Imran Khan. (Well.. subcontinent players were licking their lips for these type of opening bowlers to murder them) Later Arjuna Ranatunga brought his sensational opening pairs Jayasuria and Kulwirathna with explosive beginning that hit out all other teams and won the world cup in 1996. So, experiment in Indian cricket is well expected, after Chappell’s appointment and of course Chappells are well known for their experiments in Australia as most of us can re...

This Team India is certainly doing well and high in morale when it will face mighty South Africans. South Africans cannot be rolled over as it happened to Sri Lankans. South Africans are known for hard fight and I believe this will be one of a crucial series for the youngsters in Team India. Each member of the team seems to be relishing his role and ready to do whatever the captain and coach wants? But are they immensely talented and ready for hard seasons at abroad? Especially the batsmen? Even great Sachin in these days plays superbly in one match and become ordinary in remaining matches. Yuvarj and Kaif does well when the axe is on their neck, otherwise, the team happened to content with their athletic fielding only. Shewag become prisoner of his own mental conflict either to continue the assault or check the strokes especially when he is in 30 to 40. Batting in Indian pitches is more or less not so difficult and every Indian batsman knew that he could excel in any given c...