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*Official* - Road to India in South Africa - 2010-11

taipan1

U19 12th Man
Humor is a good way of hiding **** in one's pants. You are doing a fine job of it.:)

Er? What humour. I said India is going to get a hiding in SA. Maybe you find it funny. I suggest you look at my earlier post where I noted that none of India's batsmen bar Laxman average over 40 in SA. I would further suggest that the Wing Commander's average will drop even further.
 

Shri

Mr. Glass
Er? What humour. I said India is going to get a hiding in SA. Maybe you find it funny. I suggest you look at my earlier post where I noted that none of India's batsmen bar Laxman average over 40 in SA. I would further suggest that the Wing Commander's average will drop even further.
**** opinion.
 

Sir Alex

Banned
Er? What humour. I said India is going to get a hiding in SA. Maybe you find it funny. I suggest you look at my earlier post where I noted that none of India's batsmen bar Laxman average over 40 in SA. I would further suggest that the Wing Commander's average will drop even further.
Would've agreed to it had SA had bowlers like Donald and Pollock and Ntini at their peak. Atm they are relying very heavily on Steyn. If you see off Steyn, Morkel and the likes are tackleable by our team.
 

taipan1

U19 12th Man
Would've agreed to it had SA had bowlers like Donald and Pollock and Ntini at their peak. Atm they are relying very heavily on Steyn. If you see off Steyn, Morkel and the likes are tackleable by our team.

The point is that you couldn't see off Donald and Pollock.

What makes you think that the likes of Tendulkar, Laxman and Dravid will do any better now that they are older and their reflexes shot.
 

honestbharani

Whatever it takes!!!
The point is that you couldn't see off Donald and Pollock.

What makes you think that the likes of Tendulkar, Laxman and Dravid will do any better now that they are older and their reflexes shot.
Reasonable enough. Hope you are around during and after the series though.. :)
 

Sir Alex

Banned
The point is that you couldn't see off Donald and Pollock.

What makes you think that the likes of Tendulkar, Laxman and Dravid will do any better now that they are older and their reflexes shot.
Because they've done it well over the last 2-3 years?? And they've seen enough Steyn and Morkel?? Agreed maybe on Indian surfaces, but nevertheless you don't exactly describe someone who scored 200* in a session and half against Steyn and the likes as "old and lacking reflexes" do you? ;)

Gambhir - Largely unproven but definitely a class above Wasim Jaffer
Sehwag - Has come a long way, is in his peak, as compared to Sehwag of 2006
Dravid - Weak link. Has gone down as a batsman as compared to 06, although iirc he wasn't exactly setting the pitch on fire in that series too
Tendulkar - Much much better than what he was in 06
Laxman - Underrated, can go either way, but present form suggests it has to more upways
Dhoni - Don't have much hope in him, although can be expected to do a better job than in 06.

So overall Indian batting now looks definitely a notch above what it was in 2006.
 

taipan1

U19 12th Man
Because they've done it well over the last 2-3 years?? And they've seen enough Steyn and Morkel?? Agreed maybe on Indian surfaces, but nevertheless you don't exactly describe someone who scored 200* in a session and half against Steyn and the likes as "old and lacking reflexes" do you? ;)

Gambhir - Largely unproven but definitely a class above Wasim Jaffer
Sehwag - Has come a long way, is in his peak, as compared to Sehwag of 2006
Dravid - Weak link. Has gone down as a batsman as compared to 06, although iirc he wasn't exactly setting the pitch on fire in that series too
Tendulkar - Much much better than what he was in 06
Laxman - Underrated, can go either way, but present form suggests it has to more upways
Dhoni - Don't have much hope in him, although can be expected to do a better job than in 06.

So overall Indian batting now looks definitely a notch above what it was in 2006.
See now you are arguing against yourself. Thet saw plenty of Donald and Pollock and that didn't help them much. Steyn is better than both and Morkel has improved markedly.

200 on a highway? We don't do those in SA.

And how exactly is India's popgun attack going to take 20 wickets?
 

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On an unrelated note, it always amuses me how Graeme Smith goes into every series against Australia shooting his mouth off about how SA are going to beat them. Apart from 2008, they invariably get walloped.
 

Sir Alex

Banned
Also to be noted here is that in the last 2006 series, only 3 batsmen from either side managed an average of over 40.

A Prince - 61
S Ganguly - 43
D Karthick- 101

Strange how people are overeager to depreciate our efforts in that series with the ball.
 

R_D

International Debutant
See now you are arguing against yourself. Thet saw plenty of Donald and Pollock and that didn't help them much. Steyn is better than both and Morkel has improved markedly.

200 on a highway? We don't do those in SA.

And how exactly is India's popgun attack going to take 20 wickets?
lol... if they can take 20 South African wickets on those Highways in India... I'm sure it won't be such a big deal taking 20 wickets in South Africa.


Steyn and Morkel higher than Donald and Pollock...... I'd think the latter is better attack.
 

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