Im pretty happy with the way wev played in both the games.
Coming off a looong break, so obviously rustyness is to be expected, both the other teams have got good practice by playing each other.
The reason i am pretty satisfied is because wev looked good in the field. Wev got the best batting line up you can ask for, at full strength. And although we folded against lanka, i expect the batting to click once sachin and saurav are back. Also importantly, its a very young batting line up, lots of experimentation happening. So it will take time to find stability. It makes us highly dependant on sehwag and dravid. And as fabulous a player sehwag is, hes not really the dependable type.
Whats been nice to see is how good our bowling and fielding has been. With the new players coming in, the ground fielding is looking good again. Yuvraj, kaif, raina are brilliant in the field. Venugopal, dravid, pathan etc as well. Harbhajan looks to have gotten over his action dillema that had been bothering him for awhile, and hes getting back to his best. Zaheer too seems to have gotten over the injuries, looks much fitter, much more determined. And same goes for pathan, our main bowler, not getting as much swing as he would in england, and hes cut down severely on the pace.. but hes bowling well. Just need to really sort out the 5th bowler issue.
