Gingerfinch wrote:bhaveshgor wrote:Another laughable aspect is the English media/commentators criticising Kohli captaincy when he hasn't even been that bad.
if anything he been managing the team/ setting good plans and fields.
As with Anderson. Difficult to criticise the opposing captain who is 3-0 up. Who was criticising?
quite a lot of people really not really sure why they been attacking kohli considering he been captaining well.
they basically got issues with little things more annoying when you considering Kohli doing it as a plan and isn't really been that bad in setting defensive fields.
Nasser been making the same point since Rajkot.
Don't get me wrong been times when his captaincy been odd although that mostly been in rajkot or a small period in Vizag but generally he hasn't been that bad made good bowling changes and been setting the rights fields at the right time.
What really been annoying is having a go at him for the in-out fields or the field back in mid on or off.
very annoying when you considering england haven't really scored runs or scored bucket of runs and it is quite clear the bowling plans/fielding plans work.
in this test they were having a go at him for not allowing his spinners to bowl more maidens but they missing the point that with the extra bounce it brings extra scoring options and it is quite hard bowling maidens.
actually quite hard setting fields in mumbai because with the bounce the batsman got more boundary options and can rotate strike easily.
not really sure Kohli deserves criticism for his field placing.
Edit not been all england either seen some indian fans complain as well but I really don't understand why.
do they honestly expect the spinners to bowl maidens after maidens or that all fielders stopping the singles.
yes the field was back on day 1 morning session.
but quite possible Ashwin, Jadeja, Yadav wanted the extra protection while they get into their grooves.
When they were bowling well after tea the fielders were up anyway.
it really sounds that the cool thing in cricketing world these days is to have all the fielders up and if any captain places any fielder back he is a poor captain and having a shocking time in the field.