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***Official*** India in Australia

Woodster

Woodster

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Even from a neutrals perspective, I am genuinely excited about this final Test. Can India achieve what was unthinable after the Sydney Test in coming back to square the series on Australian soil ? Or as has been the case so many times in the past, will Australia bounce back from the disappointment at Perth and secure what would be an impressive series victory ? Or will the weather ruin it all ?
My money, the same kind that I hand over to the bookies with a rather disturbing regularity, is on the Aussies.
 
Burgey

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It's been great and bad for India, imo, that Sreesanth hasn't been here. It's given Sharma a go and the other quicks have also bowled admirably, which has been a huge plus. On the negative, had he been belted around out here he may have learned to shut up.
Certainly I don't think he could have done any better than the guys who've played.
 
Woodster

Woodster

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He does tend to enjoy creating his own headlines with his empty headed comments. I like the aggression he displays on the pitch, even if it is a little unnecessary at times, whatever he thinks works best for him. Plenty of room for improvement for him.
 
Woodster

Woodster

International Captain
Ishant Sharma has been impressive in spells during the tour. The obvious one in the last Test where he troubled Ponting no end with the amount inward movement he was getting. He is nice and tall, gets good bounce and also movement at decent pace. Is inclined to get carried away at times but that is not a surprise for a young inexperienced bowler.
 
adharcric

adharcric

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Burgey said:
It's been great and bad for India, imo, that Sreesanth hasn't been here. It's given Sharma a go and the other quicks have also bowled admirably, which has been a huge plus. On the negative, had he been belted around out here he may have learned to shut up.
Certainly I don't think he could have done any better than the guys who've played.
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He doesn't need to shut up. As long as he doesn't let the sledging and antics get in the way of his performance with the ball, he's fine.
 
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Love that Ambrose story and it was even better watching it live. That 1995 series was intense. Remember being up very late seeing it!

Overcast day in Adelaide today and it's going to be quite wet tomorrow too. Any suggestions as to what the toss-winning captain should do? Adelaide can be a very tough place to bat if the weather is adverse because it swings miles there.
 
Woodster

Woodster

International Captain
Got to bat for me, the pitch is supposedly nice and true. Get a decent first innings score on the board (providing the team batting first negotiate any movement that may be around early on) and all of a sudden there is huge pressure on the side going in to bat with 400+ on the board to chase down. This is of course in an ideal batting first world.
 
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"The Aussies should be worried I am coming" - Sreesanth
"I love the spotlight. The Aussies should be worried I am coming." Meet the quote-a-minute, bold and brash Sreesanth. He even refers to himself in the third person. "Sreesanth's way is to be aggressive. Sreesanth will always remain Sreesanth."

Sreesanth was in Delhi, where it's bitterly cold, as the chief guest for the Gatorade Pacers' talent hunt but didn't allow the weather to dampen his spirits. The press descended on the arena and he indulged them, extensively and individually. Even as the event wrapped up in the evening and the attendees hurried towards the warmth of their cars, Sreesanth was addressing his audience, revelling in the spotlight.

A shoulder injury had ruled him out of the home Tests against Pakistan and the ongoing series in Australia but he has been training and is ready to make a comeback during the triangular series in Australia in February.

"More than their [Australia's] batsmen, I have been working on my own bowling," Sreesanth said. "I felt my left arm was not kicking into the bowling action properly. So I went back to the technique I picked up at the MRF Pace Foundation years before. I held a ball in my left hand too and, now, I had to drag it back down so that I could hurl the one in my right hand properly. As a result, the left palm doesn't open out and the hand doesn't fall away. I have just worked on my load-up too and I'm very pleased with the way everything is going."

He cannot wait to get to Australia. He recounted with glee the sledging in the recent Australia-India encounters that he played in and took pride in how "we [India] never backed down. Why should we? We have players who can give it back with interest."

It's not all hot air, though, and his talent for the verbal battle surfaced when he told of an incident involving Brian Lara. "He [Lara] defended a ball with an exaggerated back-and-across movement and I just stood there and murmured my disapproval," Sreesanth said. "Next ball he was beaten and I said, 'is this the King Charles Lara? Who is this impostor, moving around nervously?


"I should have kept my mouth shut for the next ball - mind you, it was a length ball - Lara just pulled it over the church beyond the boundary! He is a true legend."

Sreesanth's cricketing life seems to be a series of Youtube moments. He explained his famous dance after hitting Andre Nel for a six in Johannesburg.

"He [Nel], along with [Mark] Boucher and [Herschelle] Gibbs were constantly at me. Nel tapped his chest and said, 'you need a big heart to play' and he sniffed in the air and said, 'I smell blood.' I sniffed back, 'where where?' and prayed to God to give me the strength to hit that six. You should have seen his face. I asked him, 'how was that slap and where is your tongue now?' He just went quietly back to his run-up."

They manner in which Sreesanth re-tells these incidents makes you feel that he enjoys the adrenalin rush in the middle. In his mind, he is the biggest star in the world and the cricket field is a great stage for him to enact his own script. "What's the worst that can happen? Six sixes? I can always come back next over. All I need is just one ball to get him [the batsman] out."

Unlike other bowlers who remember their wickets, Sreesanth remembers how many catches were dropped off him. "They will tell me I took x number of wickets but I will add these dropped catches to them. It helps me lift myself when my mood is down." Sreesanth's brother actually records the number of dropped catches and keeps him informed and motivated.

In February, Sreesanth will once again encounter the likes of Matthew Hayden and Andrew Symonds with whom he has had run-ins in the past. Unless he has mellowed down during his forced rest, expect more fiery exchanges on the field.
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Thats great I am quite dissapointed he wasn't here for the test series - would have been like throwing petrol on the fire at Sydney :laugh:

He sounds like a real character, the game needs more characters!

Can't wait for the one dayers now.
 
Burgey

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adharcric said:
He doesn't need to shut up. As long as he doesn't let the sledging and antics get in the way of his performance with the ball, he's fine.
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That's true, but what's he done for me lately?

He carried on like he did int he one-day series in India and got pumped. Just makes him look a tad silly imo. Nel like, tbh.
 
Burgey

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Top_Cat said:
Love that Ambrose story and it was even better watching it live. That 1995 series was intense. Remember being up very late seeing it!

Overcast day in Adelaide today and it's going to be quite wet tomorrow too. Any suggestions as to what the toss-winning captain should do? Adelaide can be a very tough place to bat if the weather is adverse because it swings miles there.
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Going out to the game mate? An Adelaide test is one I want to go to in the future.

iirc it was pretty overcast in Adelaide on day one last year as well, and the Poms ended up scoring 550+. With the Indian spinners, I'd think Ponting would want to bat 1st in any event, and I can't see India wanting to do otherwise - if they were happy to do it in Perth with all the pre-match hype about the pitch, they'd be wrapt to do it in Adelaide I reckon.
 
Johnners

Johnners

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Nah, you'd be crazy to send someone in at Adelaide imo. Game starts at 10:30am QLD time Burgey, which would be 11:30am for you, and 11:00am for Adelaide.

I think.....
 
Johnners

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Nope, I'm not in any of the floods. They're 800kms north (Emerald) of me, and 500kms North West (Charleville). We haven't had much rain at all in January despite the endless amounts of cloud cover :(

Does anyone what the final teams are? I.E. has Tait been swapped for Hogg, HB Singh in for...someone?
 
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