***Official Australia in India***

[pasag]

as I said ppl with substance don't get annoyed that easily. looking at some of those who got annoyed will tell you that they are the ones who probably thought that Ponting has finally done justice to his record in India with one 100 .... Fact: you don't improve your record with one 100 in a series. he has to do well in the series consistently for that

then this guy with a string of low scores in India goes on Zak saying that it was an unusual performance by him and then we have ppl suggesting that was a gem of a comment .... Fact: Ponting's 100 was an unsual perfor in India!!! those comments by him are idiotic

i guess, it's is annoying to those who think that one 100 improves your record, with 1 unusual perfo you think you have the right to say stuff to other team's players on his so-called unusual perfo

if we had the substance, we would know that one 100 doesn't change things, you don't go picking on the other team's player for an unusual perfo when you haven't done anything of note in India and then you are back to your normal ways in the very next test .... when I read such comments, it usually appears a case of empty vessels making some noise and not surprisingly these are the ppl who get annoyed

People were laughing at the bitchiness of it, not at the substance of it.

 

[pasag]

Because it's not just an isolated incident, it's a rather prominent trend in his career and it shouldn't happen so often. The fact that multiple people were predicting it before it happened shows it's just as much in his head as it is his opponents.

I saw it called on another site as well after I made the comment.

 

[Uppercut]

Is the pitch still good for batting? Read that Mishy turned one a foot and a half at Hussey.

 

[duffer]

Is the pitch still good for batting? Read that Mishy turned one a foot and a half at Hussey.

Still very easy paced, even with a couple holding up. Although the Mish has got a couple to spit. Still think it'll need quality bowling rather than reliance on the wicket to get good batsmen out.

 

[Uppercut]

Oz bat down to ten, and they could well need to.

 

[Lambu]

Is the pitch still good for batting? Read that Mishy turned one a foot and a half at Hussey.

Not this again mate..when a guy like DHONI bats like that you know the pitch is good(Aus having below avg spinner considered).I undrstand this is India but please...pitch doesn't deteriorate as soon as Indian line-up finishes batting.This performance by the Aus batsmen can't be due to the pitch.Its their own lack of skill/form(in some cases).

Oh and the delivery that u mentioned landed on the rough(which are still small btw).

 

[Uppercut]

Forgot to mention- when i ask whether the pitch of a match i can't watch is in good condition, what i really mean is that team India are **** and all ought to be shot in their respective faces.

 

[SJS]

Gavaskar has to be the biggest bull****ter on the planet from amongst the community of good to great cricketers.

When Dhoni failed to take the snick of Hussey off the bowling of Harbhajan (Dhoni had similarly missed Hussey off Kumble very early in his century innings at Bangalore) Mr former Chairman of the ICC Cricket Committee came out with a gem claiming that the reaction time was something like 0.20 seconds and this was not enough for Dhoni to adjust the position of his hands and get behind the snick and hold it - PHEW !!!

The snicks (not the balooned ones) when a keeper is standing right up are not held by the keeper having time to adjust his hand position and get them behind the ball and hold it. There never is enough time for that Mr Gavaskar. These are held by good wicket keepers by having there hands in the best possible position which gives them the best possible chance of having the ball go into their gloves. They do it by staying low till the ball hits the ground and then rising with the ball as it comes off the ground. Alongwith rising upwards, they also move sideways depending upon which way the ball is turning. Thus for Harbhajan (an off spinner) bowling to Hussey (a left hander) Dhoni should have risen alongwith the ball and simultaneously moved to his (Dhoni's) left since it was an off break and not a doosra, This would have meant that he would have had his hands behind the line of the ball as it was snicked. This would give Dhoni the best chance of getting the ball into his gloves. The instinct of the keeper on the snick does help and the gloves (in an already leftward moving keeper) would close over the ball as it hit the gloves since an off break is more likely to take the outside edge. That is why the inner edges are more difficult to take or the bottom edges since these take the ball in the direction different from what the keeper expects taking his hands further away from where the ball is heading.

The fact that Dhoni was hit on his left pad and not his glove and that his gloves were well above the height at which the ball hit him (it was not an under edge) shows that Dhoni got up too fast and his footwork for sideways movement is not good enough. This is not a new problem with Dhoni. It has been their from the very beginning. It was much worse earlier but it still is an issue.

If Gavaskar does not understand wicket keeping, thats okay but for God's sake spare us this bovine excreta.

 

[pasag]

Not this again mate..when a guy like DHONI bats like that you know the pitch is good(Aus having below avg spinner considered).I undrstand this is India but please...pitch doesn't deteriorate as soon as Indian line-up finishes batting.This performance by the Aus batsmen can't be due to the pitch.Its their own lack of skill/form(in some cases).

Oh and the delivery that u mentioned landed on the rough(which are still small btw).

It's a mixture of things - form, quality and inspired bowling and just coming off a hard grind in the field. Wouldn't put it down to one thing more than another, although the pitch is certainly still flat as a tack.

 

[honestbharani]

That pitch was was not as good for batting as this one - tough to bowl on but batting would be different. That one was slow and tended to have uneven bounce. This one is pretty straight-forward really. The ball gets up high enough and at a proper pace for batsmen to get proper strokes off and the bounce is predictable.

In that first test Australia's 1st innings was the most that anyone was going to get. In this one, as it is going, I am willing to bet Australia will score more - a higher RR.

jeez, Kaz.........


mind you, you could still end up being right.. Have seen too many Aussie fightbacks to crow about this now..

 

[honestbharani]

Haha, and to think, when Lara got the record in Adelaide, all he got was a polite round of applause.

not really... I think there was a bigger crowd and the Aussies all applauded him as one too. Shane Warne's reaction remains esp. etched in my mind...




Real bad that such a sparse crowd was there to witness what is perhaps the crowning achievement for Sachin though.. I mean, how many times have people written him off, esp. in the last 3 or 4 years...

 

[Lambu]

Forgot to mention- when i ask whether the pitch of a match i can't watch is in good condition, what i really mean is that team India are **** and all ought to be shot in their respective faces.

Pretty funny.I didn't mean to offend.had no idea you couldn't watch the match.

 

[Uppercut]

No bother.

 

[Johnners]

Stage is set for a Watto special.

 

[Pratters]

India on top. I am a happy man.

 

[dontcloseyoureyes]

Stage is set for a Watto special.

Nah, bet Punter's still got him bowling in the nets AWS.

 

[Sanz]

Aussie media's tribute to Ganguly :-

http://www.smh.com.au/news/sport/cr...d-and-conquered/2008/10/18/1223750399179.html

 

[Top_Cat]

not really... I think there was a bigger crowd and the Aussies all applauded him as one too. Shane Warne's reaction remains esp. etched in my mind...

I was there, was a clouded-over Adelaide day and the place wasn't full by any stretch. People stood up and applauded, sure, but it wasn't wild cheering. Typical Adelaide crowd.

 

[Nate]

Stage is set for a Watto special.

Haha, so true. Will overtake Sachin's Test Runs mark by the end of the series.

 

[Pratters]

I was there, was a clouded-over Adelaide day and the place wasn't full by any stretch. People stood up and applauded, sure, but it wasn't wild cheering. Typical Adelaide crowd.

I saw it on video and the people were throwing water and stuff. They were pretty excited all right.