***Official*** India in Australia

[duffer]

Not allowed to point out a poor decision am I?

Aussie cricket fans complaining about umpiring is like Man U fans complaining about Mike Riley not giving them enough penalties.

 

[Johnners]

Sheesh, he hardly complained....

Anyway, Johnson seems to be bowling well today, whilst he's still bowled his fair share of wide ones, imo he's made the batsmen play more than he did in Sydney.

Tait on the other hand, has been quite ordinary.

 

[sideshowtim]

Aussie cricket fans complaining about umpiring is like Man U fans complaining about Mike Riley not giving them enough penalties.

Where did I complain genius? I just said it was a shocker and I was surprised how an umpire couldn't give that out.

 

[Days of Grace]

Tait is rubbish. What a load of rubbish the aussie media saying he can bowl 160 plus. He is in the 130s now and gets no movement whatsoever. What a load of old rubbish.

 

[social]

Good on ya' Billy.

He's obviously been given instructions to make up for Bucknor's howlers in the last match.

Billy's another umpire that has been poor for the past few years

 

[social]

Tait is rubbish. What a load of rubbish the aussie media saying he can bowl 160 plus. He is in the 130s now and gets no movement whatsoever. What a load of old rubbish.

Umm, he can and frequently has.

Unfortunately, he can also bowl craplike he has today

 

[Days of Grace]

Billy's another umpire that has been poor for the past few years

Whatever. If he saws off Dravid/Tendulkar you wouldn't complain.

 

[Johnners]

Tait is rubbish. What a load of rubbish the aussie media saying he can bowl 160 plus. He is in the 130s now and gets no movement whatsoever. What a load of old rubbish.

Would like to see where they said he can bowl 160 plus? He can most certainly bowl 150 plus (and does so on a regular basis) and generally gets movement. A bowler can't have a bad day in just their 3rd test match?

 

[Days of Grace]

Umm, he can and frequently has.

Unfortunately, he can also bowl craplike he has today

What I am saying is that I don't think he has the stamina for test cricket. In the last over, even his pitched-up ball was only 134 km/h.

 

[Days of Grace]

Would like to see where they said he can bowl 160 plus? He can most certainly bowl 150 plus (and does so on a regular basis) and generally gets movement. A bowler can't have a bad day in just their 3rd test match?

Wasim Akram commentating now says he heard the aussie media saying Tait can bowl 170 km/h plus

 

[social]

Whatever. If he saws off Dravid/Tendulkar you wouldn't complain.

Tendulkar and Dravid both were beneficiaries today, so what's your point?

 

[Johnners]

Wasim Akram commentating now says he heard the aussie media saying Tait can bowl 170 km/h plus

Well whoever said it clearly has NFI. Tait is fast, consistently, but he's never before been touted as a 170km/h bowler.

 

[Days of Grace]

Meanwhile, Gavaskar bursting out laughing saying that in Sydney fourth innings, Symonds/Clarke took 7 wickets, and Hogg took none.

 

[duffer]

Where did I complain genius? I just said it was a shocker and I was surprised how an umpire couldn't give that out.

Bahaha, had you benefited from a howler like that, would you have commented? Nup, only when you had to cop it.

 

[pup11]

Tait is rubbish. What a load of rubbish the aussie media saying he can bowl 160 plus. He is in the 130s now and gets no movement whatsoever. What a load of old rubbish.

If anything's rubbish then that's the Aussie media, they hyped up this so pathetically, the WACA pitch is full of demons, Tait can bowl around 170 clicks, India would get blown away, blah... blah.. blah.. so they are the one's who should be ridiculed.
Lets be honest, this is the kind of gamble you take when you pick someone like Tait (and TBH i don't Ponting has used him all that well either), he can either be exceptional or be erratic and wayward like he has been today, you don't get an average performance from Tait, so that's something Australia would have to take in their side if they decide to pick him.
Johnson hasn't bowled exceptionally or anything, but he has attacked the stumps more in this game, the two balls from which he got his two wickets were pretty ordinary and the best ball he bowled today (the yorker to Dravid) couldn't fetch him a wicket.
Anyways we need a few wickets before the end of day's play, otherwise India would be in the driving seat.

 

[duffer]

When exactly has he bowled 170?

 

[burr]

I'm really dissapointed by this wicket. I stupidly bought into the hype.

 

[vic_orthdox]

When exactly has he bowled 170?

Someone silly suggested it in the paper today that he possibly "could".

 

[Johnners]

When exactly has he bowled 170?

Don't think Pup was saying he had, just that the media was exaggerating everything (i.e. they said he could bowl 170, when he obviously can't, and never has).

 

[duffer]

Don't think Pup was saying he had, just that the media was exaggerating everything (i.e. they said he could bowl 170, when he obviously can't, and never has).

Yeah, realised that mate, I just wanna know what spells these media people have seen that suggest he could get anywhere close.