***Official*** India in Australia

[pasag]

Well it's very possible that you were swayed by Indian posters here who didn't stop whinging at anything that was even remotely close to a questionable decision (Their rage was swayed by the shocker Symonds got in his favour and the fact that he punished the Indians for dropping their heads and bowling crap after that point). Most fans who weren't on the internet loved every minute of it and saw nothing wrong with it (as your mate, my mates and my brothers indicated by their reaction).

You and I are different though. You would rather see a good, tight cricket match than Australia win, so...whatever.

Well, I'd rather see a good tight cricket match that Australia win. And I haven't been swayed by the stuff on racism, some of the criticism on the Australian behaviour, the catches rubbish so I don't see why you'd insinuate that this should be any different.

 

[Johnners]

SST must surely be on a wind-up. Otherwise he takes being blinkered to a whole new level.

B, lock it in Eddie.

 

[Ikki]

Obviously people don't want to hear or talk about this anymore (as Laurrz indicated) but I agree, India were poor at the end. That's besides the point. At vital times throughout the whole match they were robbed, the timing of the decisions was insane and had a huge impact on which direction the match would take. Test cricket has lots of little ebbs and flows, the direction can change quick smart and one side can get on top of the other pretty quickly, here we were seeing the umpires dictating that in front of our own eyes. Now I'm not going as far as to say India should have won, I disagree with that. But it should have been a draw at the very least and the only reason it wasn't was because of the poor umpiring.

This isn't anything sentimental and I hate the fact it happened but when properly trying to analyse the series and looking deeper into things, for mine at least, it's pretty clear that the result would have been different if even India had the standard poor umpiring (2-3) go against them.

All this is besides the initial point made, that I wanted Australia to win this to eliminate the doubt remains in the minds of most semi-impartial cricket watchers, not staunch Australian supporters.

I have to agree with SST. When it was all said and done, India STILL should have drawn that match at the end and in the 2nd innings the win had nothing to do with the let-offs. Although they overall played a part, in the end it was Clarke's miracle spell that got the Aussie win.

 

[Craig]

This is so frustrating, India play 5 bowlers and the tail wags! Their gamble pays of spectacularly and they haven't even gone out to bowl yet!

Impressed by the call from Matt79 or iamdavid in that Pathan would open. I bet somewhere they have the results to win the Lottery.

 

[Craig]

I don't want to follow the footsteps of my hero Craig.

Girl.

 

[Craig]

I don't think there's anyone playing in this match who would've taken that one.

Symonds?

 

[sideshowtim]

Symonds?

Don't rate him highly behind the wicket.

 

[Craig]

Jaques will get out this session, bet your house on it.

Are you posting this from the homeless shelter now?

 

[sideshowtim]

Are you posting this from the homeless shelter now?

I've lost my house about 29 times on this forum now Surpsied no one has knocked at my door asking for the deed yet.

 

[Captain Cricket]

I bet my house that Tendulkar will not take 3 wickets in this Aussie innings.

 

[Craig]

I've lost my house about 29 times on this forum now Surpsied no one has knocked at my door asking for the deed yet.

Well you should definatly be careful in what you wish for. In this case what you post

 

[Nate]

I've lost my house about 29 times on this forum now Surpsied no one has knocked at my door asking for the deed yet.

We don't need your house. Just means your word is worth nothing.

 

[Jono]

Do not remind me of sydney again.

HAHAHAHAHA!

It seriously took me a second look to realise it was cropped.

 

[LongHopCassidy]

We don't need your house. Just means your word is worth nothing.

Don't know how you meant it, but I read that as very provocative and more than a little uncalled-for.

 

[Matt79]

Yeah, we're stuffed. I don't think we'll win this test match from here, which means that we'll (morally at least) lose this series. Losing McGrath and especially Warne obviously has significantly weakened the team.

 

[Matt79]

Impressed by the call from Matt79 or iamdavid in that Pathan would open. I bet somewhere they have the results to win the Lottery.

All iamdavid's work - I just said it sounded like a really good idea.

 

[The Sean]

Yeah, we're stuffed. I don't think we'll win this test match from here, which means that we'll (morally at least) lose this series. Losing McGrath and especially Warne obviously has significantly weakened the team.

Unusually reactionary from you mate. Not that I particularly disagree with you (aside from the moral series defeat - that's just ammo to the trolls right there), but it's rare to see you quite so defeatist.

 

[LongHopCassidy]

Unusually reactionary from you mate. Not that I particularly disagree with you (aside from the moral series defeat - that's just ammo to the trolls right there), but it's rare to see you quite so defeatist.

Agreed. Remember the last few times a 500+ score was racked up in the first innings of the Adelaide Test?

(With the honourable exception of NZ. )

 

[Nate]

Don't know how you meant it, but I read that as very provocative and more than a little uncalled-for.

True though, isn't it? If people are going to make outrageous claims, they should bare the consequences. Not like it's a one-off either.

 

[Debris]

Yeah, we're stuffed. I don't think we'll win this test match from here, which means that we'll (morally at least) lose this series. Losing McGrath and especially Warne obviously has significantly weakened the team.

Draw is still the most likely result looking at the pitch. So unless you are saying India would have won the second test (which is drawing a long bow) series will be a moral draw.