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Wow, that's a real knee slapper...
Yes, and the scorecard doesnt do justice to Uthappa's little cameo today. As it is, he went to a magnificient catch His shuffling across to every ball still makes me squirm but he certainly did his job today.
By making a run-a-ball 80?Loved it, ONCE AGAIN, was jumping around the house at 4 in the morning.
Hayden should've kept his mouth shut. Now look what he did, sealed a series loss for his team
I Know, thats why i said the worst tri-series batting performance since 2001/02.
That's so, though in this instance he certainly wasn't the only bowler letting waist high or above fullies go in the second innings - iirc Hopes bowled one, as did Johnson.
Loved it, ONCE AGAIN, was jumping around the house at 4 in the morning.
Hayden should've kept his mouth shut. Now look what he did, sealed a series loss for his team
What I am saying is, you can see by the way Australia are playing, they haven't been allowed to play their natural game. With all this controversy they've gone on the defensive, it's quite obvious. To now come back and win this series, will be tough, especially the way Australia are playing. I'll be honest they don't look threatening at all, I am not one bit scared as an Indian fan atm. India should easily be able to seal this series if things remain as they are. Now if Hayden hadn't opened his mouth, there is little doubt in my mind that the result would've been different. Very honestly, all this controversy, has put Australia's game on the backfoot... they looked pretty ordinary last night. His comments have only made India a stronger unit and given them the fire needed to win this series. So all I have to say is, thank you and come again Mr. Hayden.Seriously what are you talking about ???
Hayden's run a ball 80 keeps being mentioned, but I am not commenting on Hayden's individual performance. I am talking about the Australians as a unit. And more than just "incredible" fielding and "extreme" focus (to which I disagree, but that's another matter) is needed to win. And even if I agree with you, just for the sake of it, about them being extremely focused, than why did India win? Because of only Tendy and Sharma? No. It was a collective effort on India's behalf. Superb team work, each individual played his part. Whether it was Sharma, Kumar, and Bhajji's good bowling, Uthappa's little cameo, etc etc. And what inspired this fire/collective effort? A lot of things, including Hayden's comments.
Well, you'd hope the chance of winning a final series would be enough to fire them up, tbh. I personally don't like the thought that it takes this stuff to get teams (and a good team, India, at that) going. They should be giving everything automatically, especially for important games like this.
Whilst this is true, your opposition giving you the wind-up does help a lot. It could be said that one reason the Aussies were always playing catch-up in Ashes 05 was because England's camp gave them nothing to unite against because they kept their mouths firmly shut throughout. A common enemy unites like little else.
Doesn't expalin the post Warne/McGrath comment though, which was a load of dribble tstl.
But, the first 2 wickets fell in the first 10 overs to cross-bat shots, followed by a run-a-ball 100 run partnership from a scoreline of 3/24.
I disagree about the cross bat shots. Gilly plays a lot of those shots and this time he mis-timed his shot. same is true for Ponting's dismissal. I thought early in the innings the ball wasn't coming onto bat really well and both Gilly and Ponting mis-read the speed of the ball and were a little too early in playing their shots.
