***Official*** India in Australia

[Agent TBY]

Wish play went on for another hour

If your tail-enders hadn't stuck around so long, you'd still have had a day's worth of play left.

 

[Mister Wright]

It was valuable to the team's cause, but **** some people are crapping on about it like it was the finest innings of his career. He was incredibly lucky not to be out about 3 or 4 times before he actually was, his running between the wickets and inability to find singles was absolutely terrible, he was batting far too slowly on what was a batsman's paradise and he barely hit a convincing shot all innings.

Counted about 4 convincing 'attacking' shots in his innings, some very solid defensive shots also. Looked good towards the end.

 

[Laurrz]

mm the ball is spinning a bit sorta

worried about that a tad with Kumble and Harbhajan... if they roll us for 200 they will win this probably [unless we bowl em out for 300ish which is unlikely]

most likely scenario is that we bowl em out for 400ish... we get a slim lead... a session before stumps....
then we have to bat the entire day 4 i feel... giving us a 350 odd lead ... india needing 350 to win on the final day... wow

 

[Mister Wright]

Love how this test match has played out so far, with each team gaining an advantage at different times during the match. Will be an interesting day tomorrow. Hope India get up around 400 to make a real game of it.

 

[Agent TBY]

Dravid v Chanderpaul in the matches being played currently.

Shoot.

 

[Son Of Coco]

Give me a break last time Gilly dropped catches like that was during the 05 Ashes series and whenever he has a bad day behind the stumps Australia as a team too seem to have a bad day in the field.

Punctuation would make me less confused.

 

[Son Of Coco]

Oops.. goofed up i misinterpreted his post didn't read it carefully enough i though he has wrote that it usual for Gilly to drop catches like this!

I wondered what the hell was going on!

 

[Son Of Coco]

Hogg on.

Mr Miyagi?

 

[Son Of Coco]

This only proves Ponting has missed a trick by not bringing him into the attack a lot earlier than he did!

It was definitely surprising...I'm not sure what he was waiting for given it turned yesterday!

 

[Son Of Coco]

B Hogg 3.3 5.43/Over

How about 4 pacers with Shaun Tait. Would have kept Lax and Dravid out of "taking" control. Key is to bowl faster than those old eyes. ~~~

Is your name Confucious?

 

[Son Of Coco]

He has been dire and if this is the way he is gonna bowl at test level then i can't see him playing ahead of Tait.

He was alright at the start of the innings. It may have only been for a few overs but he bowled well at the start.

 

[Craig]

It was valuable to the team's cause, but **** some people are crapping on about it like it was the finest innings of his career. He was incredibly lucky not to be out about 3 or 4 times before he actually was, his running between the wickets and inability to find singles was absolutely terrible, he was batting far too slowly on what was a batsman's paradise and he barely hit a convincing shot all innings.

Nobody is saying that. Just an out of form batsman finding his feet again and not throwing away his wicket and being able to stay out there.

 

[Son Of Coco]

Have you only recently become an idiot or have you always been one?

 

[Son Of Coco]

That's one example of why Australia are so good, they keep on trying through the whole day and now there are two new batsmen at the crease to face the last 30 minutes of play.

Congratulations on fantastic knocks from both Laxman and Dravid though. Two entirely different affairs, yet both beautiful in their making.

I agree, and they were scrappy today in parts (Gilchrist's catching for one) but I'd guarantee they'll come at the Indians hard tomorrow.

 

[Mister Wright]

Gilchrist was very poor today, wasn't he? Needs the pink gloves back.

 

[Laurrz]

showers predicted next 3 days

 

[Son Of Coco]

Gilchrist was very poor today, wasn't he? Needs the pink gloves back.

Yeah, I haven't seen him keep like that for a long time.

Just had 'The Great Walking Debate' on ACA...gee they're wankers! haha

They show the Symonds stumping from behind the keeper as some sort of definitive proof he was out...spend more than 5 minutes trying to come up with ideas guys!

 

[Captain Cricket]

showers predicted next 3 days

That would hurt us. Our only hope to win this match would be to bowl the Indians out by tea tomorrow before any rain begins.

 

[Matt79]

Hope it doesn't rain over the next few days, the match is set up beautifully.

Didn't Laxman play well today? Just a joy to watch an innings like that.

And, wow, who would have suggested such a thing, but things evened out a bit today, with India getting a bit of luck, with some easy catches dropped, a wicket off a no-ball, and what looked to me to be a pretty plumb LBW turned down. It's almost like these things even out in the end!

Laxman played some wonderful shots, and I was really pleased to see Dravid stick at his task and achieve a good score - hopefully this will mark the turning of a corner in his form and he'll be back to the Dravid we know and love.

I thought Lee's ball to remove Wassim Jaffer was a doozy, and unless I'm mistaken TEC, it swung in. Johnson bowled well, but today was the first time IMO that the predicted "there are two batsmen set, and no Warne or McGrath to throw the ball to" problem occurred.

 

[Captain Cricket]

Didn't Laxman play well today? Just a joy to watch an innings like that.

Brilliant effort considering he made more than half of India's score so far.