***Official*** India in Australia

[silentstriker]

100 run partnership! Excellent.

 

[Captain Cricket]

Finally! Simmo! SS you jinxed them!

 

[Johnners]

Finally!!

Gilly now equal with Boucher.

 

[silentstriker]

Ugh, he got carried away and if he had kept his head we could have gotten to 500, but you can't really complain about 63 runs from Harbhajan!

 

[Burgey]

Hmm - Billy Bowden didn't intervene to rule not out.

The umpiring standard in this series has not improved a jot.

Anyway, well batted Harbhajan and Kumble, despite the former being the most annoying and disliked player on my cricketing planet.

 

[Captain Cricket]

He's scored 63 twice this series...

 

[Jono]

Harbhajan > Ponting

I'm not even talking about being a bunny, but about batting in this series

 

[Johnners]

Hmm - Billy Bowden didn't intervene to rule not out.

The umpiring standard in this series has not improved a jot.

Anyway, well batted Harbhajan and Kumble, despite the former being the most annoying and disliked player on my cricketing planet.

I tend to agree, it's just that the bad decisions have been evenly spread, that we haven't heard all about it imo.

 

[Captain Cricket]

RP Singh out now..

 

[Burgey]

Harbhajan > Ponting

I'm not even talking about being a bunny, but about batting in this series

Glad you weren't talking about the human being side of things either.

A pox on both their houses imo.

Cheers for the heads up on the outlawing leg byes thread too. Appreciate it.

 

[silentstriker]

Blah. 500 would have been nice

 

[Burgey]

He's scored 63 twice this series...

And Jardine scored a hundred in a test match in 1932-33, doesn't mean he's my favourite human being on earth.

 

[Captain Cricket]

Ohh close call again by Billy...

 

[Laurrz]

Billy isnt LBW friendly is he

 

[Top_Cat]

Irrelevant IMO

Seriously, even if guaranteed free entrance, I would not walk across the road to watch the first 3 days of an Adelaide test because deck is totally stacked against the bowler

Seriously, why moan about it? It's no different than Adelaide has always been. Adelaide decks in general are like that. It's why the SA batsmen seem to lose control of their bowels when they face bowlers interstate who can swing the ball; they're brought up on roads.

 

[Burgey]

I tend to agree, it's just that the bad decisions have been evenly spread, that we haven't heard all about it imo.

Those runs Harbhajan scored were very very valuable. Can't see what Bowden will ever give out if he didn't give the one before lunch, tbh. It's just weird to see them give, say Tendulkar and Hussey out in Perth, yet Dravid and HBS not out here - same with Symonds in Sydney.
It's been going on for ever of course, it just doesn't make it any less frustrating.

 

[Captain Cricket]

I've been concerned with the catching standard for the last 5 years. It's just that it hasn't really had an impact to date (aside from maybe 2005), as Australia just created so many chances. If you’re going to lose two of the greatest bowlers of all time, you can really afford to drop 3 sitters in a single innings and expect to win games against strong opponents.

It’s been going downhill since the Simpson coaching era players have retired (e.g. Tubby, Waugh and Warne in the slips). Back in the mid to late 90’s, it was a massive shock if Australia dropped a couple of sitters in a whole series, now they’re dropping 2-3 every game.

 

[Captain Cricket]

Kumble's gonna slaughter Sharma here, doesn't matter if how well you bowled or how many times you got Ponting, how dare you become the 12th fieldsman when your captain hits down the ground

 

[Burgey]

I've been concerned with the catching standard for the last 5 years. It's just that it hasn't really had an impact to date (aside from maybe 2005), as Australia just created so many chances. If you’re going to lose two of the greatest bowlers of all time, you can really afford to drop 3 sitters in a single innings and expect to win games against strong opponents.

It’s been going downhill since the Simpson coaching era players have retired (e.g. Tubby, Waugh and Warne in the slips). Back in the mid to late 90’s, it was a massive shock if Australia dropped a couple of sitters in a whole series, now they’re dropping 2-3 every game.

Good point I reckon. The standard has been poor this summer. I think as the decks flatten out as they have th elast few years, you notice it more coz chances are harder to come by as well.

 

[biased indian]

is it always the third inng which setup the game here???

how many teams have lost chasing a decent score in the fourth inngs