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Sunil Gavaskar was pissed with Indian batsmen who perished twice to the Pakistanis bowlers lose the Karachi Test. Said Gavaskar: "It was never going to be easy to survive for almost two days but what was utterly disappointing was that India could not even bat out the day and lost well before closing time on the fourth day itself. For far too long, there have been the so-called experts who have been talking about how attacking batting is the only way to win. That may be true, but there has to be the ability to be able to lower a few gears and bat to save a game that can't be won and so live to fight another day by surviving."
Does he still think so after their performance in the 1st ODI?
"No, but they still could have got twenty more runs. Don't tell me they could not have avoided losing 7 odd wickets for the addition of 20 odd runs in 5-6 odd overs?"
Well the odds did look stacked against the Pakistanis after the Indian innings. Others say that no Shoaib Akhtar and Afridi failing to fire was a trick actually designed to make the Indians lazy. Imagine.
Meanwhile some lazy people think D/L method stands for Day-Light method. But D-L and D/L is not the same thing and there is no use pretending that it is.
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