End of dissapointing year 2012 for indian team
In the year 2012 for the Indian cricket team which has won the cricket world cup in 2011 the performance in 2012 has been a not great one in either of format. In tests india had played nine winning 3 losing 5 and drawing 1. The biggest disappoinment was when the Indian team lost the English team in India which is considered to the plus point for the team, they lost a series after 8 years. The year saw the retirement of the greats like Laxman, Dravid and the master blaster who retired from the ODI cricket. The biggest problem that the Indians had that the big players and team was not able to perform as a unit. The batting was not up to mark and bowling was not to that class of South Africans who has Dale Steyn, Morkel, Philander and Imran Tahir. That is why the Indian team is at number 5th. At one stage the team was on the number 1 rank. In the ODI there were some individual brilliance like Kohli who scored 183 against Pakistan in the Asia Cup but did not qualify for the finals ...