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*Official* Australia in India - ODIs

Manee

Manee

Cricketer Of The Year
Pratters said:
It is very difficult to do what Vaas and Pollock did. A LOT of bowlers bowl at lower speeds. Most of them don't end up playing tests. I don't think Balaji can do it. If you talked about Munaf Patel doing it, I would think that might be possible but not Balaji.
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Most bowlers under 130kph do not end up playing Test matches. Very few are given the chance due to the narrow minded attitude of international selectors, imo. If more were given the chance, then it would be less of a taboo to pick a bowler who operates at 125kph. Munaf Patel operates at 130-140kph in Test matches, so he cannot be used as an example. However, going back to Vaas and Pollock, in their final years, with the old ball, they were not magicians or masters - they merely placed the ball in a very good area and I do not believe that this is beyond Balaji to do.
 
Manee

Manee

Cricketer Of The Year
four_or_six said:
Well... as a neutral, of course, I would like to see the strongest teams possible.
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I am a huge fan of fast bowling (especially this new incarnation of Brett Lee) and usually like to see Australia do well. However, it all seems to go out of the window when teams come up against India.
 
Manee

Manee

Cricketer Of The Year
inbox24 said:
Munaf McGrath should play the rest of the series.
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I'm not sure it would be the most successful move. Munaf isn't all too special an ODI bowler these days and I do not think he has done much to disprove that. Even his Challenger Trophy showing was overall quite poor, cashing in on middle-lower order wickets in the final.
 
kingkallis

kingkallis

International Coach
Manee said:
I'm not sure it would be the most successful move. Munaf isn't all too special an ODI bowler these days and I do not think he has done much to disprove that. Even his Challenger Trophy showing was overall quite poor, cashing in on middle-lower order wickets in the final.
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Munaf bowled really well in recently concluded domestic tourney and we dont have any other better option. Do we?
 
Manee

Manee

Cricketer Of The Year
kingkallis said:
Munaf bowled really well in recently concluded domestic tourney and we dont have any other better option. Do we?
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I didn't see the Challenger Trophy, but my thoughts on it are in the quoted post - the figures are not that impressive, if you look at each game. First two games, he was expensive and in the final game, he merely picked up some wickets of a team who had already been decimated by Tyagi. However, if you watched the series, I'd love to know in more detail how he bowled.

Personally, I think we should play two frontline spinners, so that removes one pace bowlers spot. Nehra should get one of the two remaining pace bowlers slots and I'd rather Ishant (who, after watching him bowl in the highlights, it seemed he bowled quite well, pace wasn't terrible either) or Tyagi or even giving Praveen another shot, he is a bit on and off, but when he is on, he is very good. If he can get the ball swinging from or into Watson from a straightish line, I think he could have him in trouble.
 
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kingkallis

kingkallis

International Coach
I prefer Indian bowling on current form to be as this :

Ashish Nehra
Munaf Patel
Ishant Sharma
Harbhajan Singh
Amit Mishra

Sehwag, Raina, Yuvraj, Sachin can easily bowl too if any main stream bowler goes for several!
 
honestbharani

honestbharani

Whatever it takes!!!
Streetwise said:
I did a search on you with Ponting posts and you are allways quick to critisize him and have allways looked to tarnish anything about him so I kinda guessed that there was no substance to you putting shyte on him again.
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Shows how thorough your search was.. But then again, I should know what to expect from a guy who puts averages as the only way to rate batsmen... 8-)
 
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Streetwise

Banned
honestbharani said:
Shows how thorough your search was.. But then again, I should know what to expect from a guy who puts averages as the only way to rate batsmen... 8-)
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I must admit I do put more emphasis on the player that scores more runs per innings than his nationality but that is just a flaw in my analysis of batsmen.:laugh:
 
honestbharani

honestbharani

Whatever it takes!!!
Streetwise said:
I must admit I do put more emphasis on the player that scores more runs per innings than his nationality but that is just a flaw in my analysis of batsmen.:laugh:
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I am afraid I do look at the quality of the bowlers faced when rating a batsman than just runs per innings or the nationality (I am not West Indian btw, and you do seem to be Australian... So let people work it out on the bias thing) but hey, why let facts get in the way of some pleasing misconceptions... 8-)
 
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