India's apparent 'hearing problem' in addition to bowling and fielding woes are being blamed for their failure to defend a score of 338 against England.Much has has been said about how poor bowling and fielding - in addition to a late batting collapse that resulted in the fall of India's last seven wickets for 33 runs - enabled England to ultimately tie the thrilling ICC Cricket World Cup clash in Bengaluru.
However, two huge blunders by skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni and bowling ace Zaheer Khan appear to have gone unnoticed as the dust settles on one of the ICC CWC's most dramatic games.
England skipper Andrew Strauss, who was the architect of India's agony thanks to his highest ODI score of 158, should have been out when he had scored a mere 13 if wicketkeeper Dhoni, Zaheer or close-in fielders had appealed for a caught behind at that point. Strauss clearly nicked a Zaheer delivery but there was no appeal by the Indians.
98 runs later, the England captain had another stroke of luck when he again edged Zaheer to Dhoni with his score at 111 but, once again, n
one of the Indians appealed.Television commentators, who heard the replays of the clear nicks via stump microphones, thought that the Indian players probably did not hear the edges because of the immense crowd noise. They proved to be costly errors
source cricinfo.com
