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The Big Fight: The veterans of Team India fail to mount the slightest semblance of a resistance Down Under. So what has gone wrong? On The Big Fight, we debate: Should the legends step aside?

Sachin Tendulkar scored only 95 runs in 6 innings…Little master completely out of form…But he gets out of form very seldom…

Tendulkar unable to perform up to his own standards…Averaged 38 in 2007 and just 34 in 2011 on England tour…Well below his career average of 55.71…

Rahul Dravid Bowled OUT Off His Defence

Sachin TendulKar Goes For the Big One During ICC CWC2011.

Aleem Sarwar Dar (Urdu:علیم سرور ڈار)(Hindiअलीम सरवर डार) (born June 6, 1968 in Jhang, Punjab) is a retired Pakistani first-class cricketer and a member of the ICC Elite umpire panel. He won three consecutive ICC Umpire of the Year awards 2009, 2010 and 2011, after being nominated twice in 2005 and 2006. Aleem Dar and Simon Taufel are the only umpires to have received the award since its inception. He has played for Allied Bank, Gujranwala Cricket Association, Lahore, and Pakistan Railways as a right-handed batsman and a leg-break bowler. Since his retirement as a player, he has gained prominence as one of the leading umpires in international cricket. He was educated at Islamia College, Civil Lines, Lahore Many things went wrong in the Boxing Day Test of ‘Ashes 2010/2011′ including the argue of Australian Captain Ricky Ponting with the Pakistani Umpire Aleem Dar. Aleem Dar is the only umpire who showed the world that human is still precise than machine. Both captains challanged his decisions in the last matches of ‘Ashes’ under the rights of UDRS but failed to change the decision Zaheer Khan & Australia Captain Ricky Pointing had a verval Fight in the 1st Test in Mohali today. Zaheer Khan gave a mouthful to Ricky Ponting while he was walking back to the pavilion after he was brilliantly run-out by Raina. Ricky Ponting who was walking stopped and retaliated to Zaheer Khan pointing his bat towards Zaheer. Umpire Billy Bowden intervened to end the spat between …

Dravid said that since the 25 over format had already been tried in Australia it would be interesting to see what response one would get out of it. He was of the opinion that the advantage that of the toss would be negated. Dravid also felt that it would give the option for people to come in for the second half of the game and watch their team bat. Courtesy : Cricketnext.com

Pakistan cricket’s enfant terrible Shoaib Akhtar has stirred yet another controversy, this time questioning the class and temperament of India’s batting stalwarts Sachin Tendulkar and Rahul Dravid. In his just-published autobiography “Controversially Yours”, the temperamental Pakistan speedster has accused Tendulkar of being scared to face his scorching pace on a slow Faisalabad track. He also claimed that Tendulkar and Dravid were not match-winners nor did they know the art of finishing games. “….Vivian Richards, Ricky Ponting, Brian Lara and the likes of them are great batsmen who dominated with the bat and were truly match-winners. Initially, when I bowled against Sachin, I found these qualities missing. He might have had more runs and records, he lacked the ability to finish the game,” he said in the book, to be formally launched here this evening. Akhtar, who announced his retirement during the World Cup this year, also cited an example where he felt that Sachin was mighty scared to face him. “We would have faced a humbling defeat in the series but for the fact that we reined in Sachin Tendulkar. “What went in our favour was that Sachin was suffering from tennis elbow! This severely handicapped the great batsman. We managed to psychologically brow beat him. Sachin also tempered ball with mud he added. “We bounced the ball at him and were able to unnerve him. I returned to the dressing room that first day with the knowledge that Sachin was not comfortable facing …