Dude
You are the BIGGEST HYPOCRITE on this PLANET. You are double standard person. You praise some one when he is good and take opposite stance just next day.

YES it is a historic day for indian cricket ,hopefully we will occupy this position consistently.

Conratulations to all Indians and Indian cricket team. We are proud of you always. We will be NUMERO UNO not in cricket buT in every field. Sir, If we encourage and appreciate all the good players from any field we will be doing good for India and and the player. Allways give them POSITIVE ENERGY which is a great booster.

Cheers
Rakesh Bhalla

This is the best year in History of Indian Cricket. We started the year as Twenty20 World Champions. In September we reached No 1 spot in ODI form of the game and now in the test match form of the game. No other team has reached this heights in cricket.
Having seen Vijay bat also proves that the best of Indian Cricket is yet to come.Does he look like India's No 3 for years to come ? Yes.

No, he isn't

Congrats to Team India! I think this is a time to look at the positives rather than the negatives. The fact remains that India has been one of the most consistent Test teams at Home and Away in the last 10 years. Nothing in sports comes purely by luck unless backed by consistent performance, and India have done that.
Sri Lanka will do well to stop harping about the absence of the DRS system. They have been hammered fair and square by a far superior side. They need to focus instead on their own missed chances like when they allowed India to get away from 32-4 in Ahmedabad, and dropping Sehwag on zero in Kanpur.
Once again Congrats to India for a superb effort!

While reading your article, why do I get a feeling you are inwardly upset that we got to No 1? Why does everything you have to say come with a negative attached to it? Are we still searching for excuses and ways to belittle this team's meteoric rise in world cricket? Are we still searching for ways to keep doing what most of us Indians love to do most - criticize our country and find excuses to pull down anything positive we see?

Just curious...

Congratulations to Indian team and to your player by player indepth account.
Team India has won due to sincere and devoted efforts of the whole team which is beaming with enthusiasm.
Now the everything should be done in respect of batting. bowling, fielding, physical and psychological and mental fitness, to retain the No 1 position.
Mind games may also be taken care of.

i entirely agree that Dravid has never received the recognition that is due to him on the basis of his contribution. Mr Ghosh's article would have been complete had he mentioned the dismal performance of much over rated Harbajan!

Umpires have the right to be blind, deaf and dumb.

yes you are right Ghosh about Dravid. The media always wants Sachin or Dhoni to get all the credits and attention. In fact Dravid was instrumental in this series for India's win. Also most of the former players have praised Saurav and Anil and not Dravid's captaincy. Under Dravid only India registered first ever win in South Africa, Series win in West Indies and England. Its sad that Dravid being a perfect Team Man do not get the credits.

Congrats to Team India for becoming the NO 1 team in the world. There is no doubt that the current team is a wonderful team filled with some truly exceptional players who are among the greatest in the game. But the real NO 1 tag will apply well when the Indian team start winning more consistently abroad and beat teams like Australia and S Africa in their dens, which we have not so far. This will be the toughest part for our team since these teams are very strong on their home soil. In addition, they have pitches that are quick and bouncy, something that requires great skill. It will be a real challenge for Dhoni and lads to maintain the NO 1 tag and show the world outside as to why they are so.
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What is worrying is our bowling stocks are quite low? With Ishant off colour and none to fill the boots of Zak, it will be a major headache that will strike the team management. We need to unearth some quickies and groom them now to get set to fill the void when it comes. i read somewhere that there are some young quicks, all they need is proper support. RP, Irfan, Munaf, etc have all proved to be disappointment, but hope they can bounce back and get back into the team.
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We are lucky to have the presence of stalwarts like Viru, Sach, Rahul and VVS, all truly exceptional players. But the last 3 are in the final stages and we need to get the right players to fill their places when they hang up boots. Rohit Sharma, Rayudu, Yusuf, Badrinath, are some who can be encouraged to fill their places when the time comes

its true u criticize a player when he fails and praise him when he delivers. regarding dravid, i remember u had criticized him, but now u r singing a new tune for his scores in last matches.
in my opinion, dravid is highly overrated. no doubt he made good scores in the recent tests, but at what expense? his strike rate is very low and most of the balls he leaves with his arms raised high. he might say he needs time to dig-in. how much time? 10 hours.?
in his last inning, he let 5 bowls go by, and then
gave a catch on a similar ball which even a school boy would not do.
i would even go so far as to say that when he and sehwag were batting, dravid was hogging the crease and not letting sehwag bat when sehwag was
red hot and hitting each ball for a six. that made sehwag become cold and the reason was his missing out on a triple century. otherwise, had
dravid been unselfish, he would have not have taken a single off the last balls and made sehwag a mere spectator. sehwag has dravid to blame for not letting him bat when he was warmed up and missing his triple ton..
just goes to show dravid is playing only for personal records, and to hell with others. if you are going to take a full day to make 50 or 60 runs what is the use? it becomes boring and is not "cricket". why india team retains him i dont know, we dont need "walls" whose strike rate is so low.
sehwag is a man among man, fearless from 1st ball
and big hearted. its a pleasure just to see his face on the tv screen.
in my opinion, any other player would perform better than dravid and at a higher strike rate
(raina, uthapa, kholi and many others).
i repeat, please dont play for amassing personal records, play for country and for team...

why r u against sachin????????????india reach no 1

and who was apt person to talk about it sachin tendulkar a person who has seen it all...For 20 year......

Dravid was never a good captain. India would have achieve this position if Greg 'chappal' would not have introduced.credit to sachin,saurav,rahul,laxman,kumble,bhajji,zaheer,dhoni

CONGRATULATION TO TEAM INDIA,FANTASTIC,NOW GET READY TO

GET YOUR ASS KICKED BY PAKISTANI SUPERIOR TEAM.

These rankings are an absolute farce. The Indian team gets walloped outside the country every time and only piles up scores on dead local pitches against weak competition in inconsequential games. The players ( many who should have retired ages ago) also build up useless mind numbing stats of no value to the game. This is a total farce.

complete nonsense. India has never won a series outside the country, they are the kings in their backyard with cooked up pitches. also, their star players are old fogies who should have had the grace to retire years ago, particularly Tendulkar. Lost the T20, Champions Trophy, not a single donestic T20 franchise got through for the Champions league and got wallapoed in the one day series by a depleted australian team. Sehwag is only good in India. case closed.

While savouring the victory of India, we remembered everyone. But sadly hardly anyone remembered one person, who deserves the credit for this more than anyone. It's Rahul Dravid. India's journey towards the top started under Ganguly and in 21 tests that Ganguly won for India, Dravid scored at a whopping average of 102. He single-handedly contributed 21% of India's scoring which itself is a world record. Thereafter as a captain, he led the team to victory in South Africa, won the series in West Indies and England after ages. He had only a short slump in batting. But again he rose up and everyone knows what has been his contribution again this time around. But sad is that neither anyone, including Dhoni, either mentioned about his batting or captaincy. This best gentleman of cricket world, has always been a silent performer, at timeg a lone warrior standing bravely against odds and on pitches where others did not know to last for half an hour. From Headingly to Adelaide to Pakistan or New Zealand either in SA or West Indies, this man has answer for all kinds of wickets and each and every bowler. But he hardly gets any credit. I don't demean the contribution of others, including Sachin, who apart from Dravid has been another standout performer for us abroad throughout his career. We have had Kumble, another gentleman who destroyed opponents single-handedly and then Ganguly who instilled a killer spirit in the team. But more than anyone, Dravid needs to be feted for the invaluable service he has rendered to the team and for doing it without any complaints and any publicity each day for last one decade. His value would be felt only when he is gone and I am sure there won't be anyone who can fill in his shoes.

when will we grow up?...why r ppl celebrating as if they hav won the world cup?...ratings dont represent the reality...let India win a series in Australia or SA...& they so easily forgot last months defeat in ODIs against australia...anyway, now if SA wins another match they'll be back at the top...so this is pointless...

Get a life...only 8 countries play this boring sport...so stop fricken gloating....Youll have achieved more in Chess, Hockey, Tennis, Badminton,etc..........recognize them morons

Due Credits to Indian Team.. But hey, you Media folks, stop bragging too much and get down to realities..You need to prove like Australia for at leat 5 years to be in top there and claim if possible. Until the, just shut up and keep making millions.... keep deluding the Indian Mob and take INDIA DOWN....

Bad umpiring has been a problem, does anyone remember we lost test series 1-2 in SL last year Sachin was given out wrongly by Dharmasena. And India esp. Sachin has been a consistent victim if bad umpiring (Remember those pakistani umpires in Sarjah, pakistan and also Steve Buckner too)

West Indies and Aussies has enjoyed this #1 spot for decades and decades. And population in those countries is less than our Gujarat. We follow only one sport nationally denying attention and resource to other sports. Time look beyond bollywood (copycat) and cricket for entertainment.

The article is pretty much sarcastic but is equally an eye opener but it would be wrong to say that Sachin & Dhoni get the credit all the time, in my opinion for players of caliber like dravid n sachin it hardly matters who is talking to the press n who gets the acclaim, it always n will always continue to be india's victory that will matter the most to such geniuses.Its something we people who should be learning modesty from such players n probably should stop cashing on such worthless tabloid. As far as umpiring decisions are concerned it's obvious that if they go in india's favour then why should we cry n if against then WHY NOT! IN THE END IT SUMS UP TO PLAYING IN THE SPIRIT OF THE GAME.

kudos team india, you truly deserve this. this team is performing consistently in test arena from some time. This team has class(sachin,laxman), solidity(dravid,gambhir),flamboyance(sehwag,yuvi,zaheer) and above all one good leader(dhoni). I wish team india show the same commitment and class in all formats of the game and be true champions.

TOI Please stop him from writing ... he is waisting space ... When india lost series and matches to Australia, CT and T-20 WC he was the one to criticize each and every one ... Even he start putting question mark on career of Dhoni, Sehwag etc. If India won any match like here 2 matches he starts praising them like GOD ............ What you think Mr. Avijit are we people FOOL ???

It is a good news for us that India has become a NO.1 side in the world as per the ICC world cricket rankings in test. Yes they deserved to be there and in past they all played very fine cricket so far. But now real task starts from here, Its is the time where Dhoni and his men need to show consistency or ability to win matches against big teams like Australia and SA.In past India convincingly Defeated Aussies by 2-0 lead in their soils. So in test we can say we are a better side in the world. In contrast if we say from past 2 years Dhoni and his men unable to win in Big matches and series. For Example world Cup 20-20 and ICC champions trophy.India should win these series which makes our country proud.We know its not an easy task but we hope they can do this and eventually in 2011 world cup will be belongs to Dhoni and his men.So at last I pass by regards to Indian cricket team.

A thing rightly pointed out. BCCI is neglecting test cricket..most aristocratic form of cricket. nothing against ODI or T20 but test cricket should play upper hand while in planning. But guess BCCI is departing from cricket for factor M.

Hi All, this is a request that please stop making an issue of small things like why sachin and dhoni is given more limelight in media or why others are not appreciated like sachin. I will say ask the common man why they can't accept anyone as their heartthrob than SACHIN - as simple as that. Who won't agree that Dravid is one of the greatest test batsman of his era and Sehwag is no doubt the biggest blaster at this point of time. I considered myself as the biggest fan of Sachin but I agree Sehwag have played some better knocks than him in tests in SubContinents. But we should be happy that India is the NUMERO UNO and chill maaro and Wish them All the very best for future.

I agree with you about Dravid.
He along with Kumble is most underrated players of India.Sachin ,Saurav are highly rated players by your media.We can't count the no of times where Rahul saved India from very shameful situations.Sachin may be agood player but the chances he has got no other batsmen never got.
He will fail 8 times then will score a big hundred then we will be happy.But this will happen with others they will be axed.
I also agree with you about Ojha..he should be given continuous chances.

Why is that everyone tries to find fault and post comments like they know everthing and the people who are there in the front are nothing but idiots.
Grow up people, try to praise others, be rational. There are many ways of expressing the opinion but why so negativity in our thoughts. Why should we linger on the bad things and let this precious moment go without celebration. Congratulations to Team India.

What's the problem wid dis guy??? This article is ridiculous as his any other article..

How come everyone is forgetting Anil Kumble who took a good team built by Ganguly and built this great team?

We need to put this in perspective. Pls read my blog on URL above.

This is a good introspecting article. Two points ,I shall highlight. 1) Rahul Dravid nowadays is treated as step son. 2) The umpiring was horrible & went much in favour of India

Please stop writing. You just bore people with your stupid writing .............

Congratulations to THE MEN IN BLUE. Enjoy while you can, guys, cos number One may not stay with us for long. In the after match media Q&A session, Dhoni himself was doubtful for how long this No1 status will remain with India. Reasons being India is playing only 2 Test Matches (against minnows Bangladesh)whereas its competitors, namely SA and AUS are playing 4 and 6 Test Matches. SA is playing against Eng in SA so chances are SA will thump Eng in all those 4 Test Matches. AUS is playing 3 Test matches against WI - looking at WI's performance in 1st Test, its very much likely that AUS will give WI a battering in athe remaining 2 Tests. And than Aus plays Pak in AUS 3 Test matches. Again having seen Aus in this Aussie Summer they can beat Pak in that series as well (may not be 3-0) ......... So looking at this, it is very much unlikely that India will be No1 after these test matches in SA and AUS. Proud moment for Indian Cricket though. Cheers PD

First of all congrats to Indian team for gaining no.1 spot and also the series.I don;t think you need to point out each and every player for what they have done in the series.its not only sehwag,dhoni,dravid,sachin...its the total team effort we can say for the wiining the series..of course the no.1 spot as well.As you said this team success increases the speactators.i agree with your point but i don;t find the right thing in saying that test format is getting less interest day by day....its the real format of game...Even if the 20-20 become more popular test cricket will not lose its importance.....Hope we will keep our position at no.1

long wait of 77 years is finishes now. This the historic day for indian cricket team. Dhoni guys really played well . So that they get this position
but to maintain this position is really a great challenge for team.