*Official* Australia in India 2010

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****ing hell..is it just me or does Clarke have an infatuation with mimicking Ponting's failings? I swear everytime of late, whatever Ponting does Clarke will follow suite.

I've had enough of this ****, the Oz team needs a massive overhaul. Kick out all the has beens like Ponting, Hussey and North and replace them with younger people. I'm sick of this inconsistency and the top orders failure to put together one solid innings.


I mean Ishant Sharma for ****s sake? ***Incoherent ramblings....***

To make matters worse, I'd like to remind people that in our last test we were bowled out for 77

How did our selectors respond?

They dropped our top scorer for the match

****ing brilliant

 

[Daemon]

Come the **** on, another wicket pleeease.....

Doubt Ishant will get anymore wickets now that the Aussies won't be playing reckless pull shots. Time for Bhajji to shine

 

[isaacnewton1]

Don't worry guys, North will save us .

North is already on a plane back to Australia.

 

[Spark]

Ponting got a pull shot lowish on the bar though didn't he? I've only seen it once. Haven't seen Watson's at all either

Watson's was a dragged on pull which by rights should've gone to the cover boundary. Ponting mis-hit his pull.

Thinking it through I have no idea what Clarke was doing.

Ridiculous stuff.

 

[Kylez]

North is already on a plane back to Australia.

 

[Sanz]

Never heard Bevan so I wondered.

It is Bevan with Ravi

 

[vcs]

Meh.. waste. Anyway, can't ask for much more I guess.

 

[GotSpin]

Watson's was a dragged on pull which by rights should've gone to the cover boundary. Ponting mis-hit his pull.

Thinking it through I have no idea what Clarke was doing.

Ridiculous stuff.

Clarke looked like a scared little girl

Thankfully that last over was standard sharma

 

[Daemon]

Meh.. waste. Anyway, can't ask for much more I guess.

We got more than we deserved actually

 

[Burgey]

Good session that 3-100. Pretty good for day four I'd say. This next session will be interesting with neither Katich (ever) or Hussey (of late) likely to really score quickly.

I'd like to see us push on anyway, frankly. No point just hanging around IMO, get on with it ffs.

 

[Burgey]

Am seriously annoyed at Clarke walking there.

 

[isaacnewton1]

To make matters worse, I'd like to remind people that in our last test we were bowled out for 77

How did our selectors respond?

They dropped our top scorer for the match

****ing brilliant

Yeah, it is absolutely ludicrous. I completely understand that a country can't produce immense talent every decade, but at least get in players who are CONSISTENT. I don't give a **** if the whole top order only average 40, as long as they can perform when needed. I think Ponting is the key problem here. Sure he has been a great batsman, but his time is seriously up (no matter how much he tries to deny it). Yet again he gets out on a pull shot. His same stubborn mentality in batting and overall conservatism is probably translating to team selection (which I'm sure he must have a large role in).

 

[alternative]

Am seriously annoyed at Clarke walking there.

 

[Jono]

Love the Indian team under Dhoni. Just keep on coming!

 

[honestbharani]

I highly doubt that.

It's the captains call most of the time ,unless the batsmen is desperate to go out .

Besides Sending Ishant in in the second last over is a good move. As if he sticks around tomorrow morning,he is more likely to contribute from here than he is at the end of the innings.

I never said it was a bad move. And almost ALL the captains in the world leave it to the batsmen.. You just need to listen to interviews to understand that. And face it.. Dhoni is never gonna walk to Sachin and say "sorry mate, you stay here.. I am sending in a nightwatchman.. " Sorry, it is just not gonna happen. Sachin (AND Dravid, and Dhoni and Laxman) have always preferred sending in a nightwatchman if only a few overs are left and there is nothing wrong with that... Given what happened afterwards, that was a very good call.. It iis also a nice strategy to annoy the hell out of the opposition, which Ishant accomplished.

 

[benchmark00]

Love the Indian team under Dhoni. Just keep on coming!

 

[Cricket_God]

I mean, I'm in no way trying to suggest that Sreesanth isn't all the things people criticise him for. He seems to be a bit mentally unstable, his cricket is very erratic and his attitude to practice seems to be pretty poor as well. However, I think this cloud's people's judgement of his bowling a little - despite all the above, he does manage to take cheap wickets regularly enough to be a very useful bowler. He's neither consistent nor reliable but he does get the job done often enough to be a Test bowler. He's taken 58 wickets in 17 Tests against top-eight Test teams at an average of less than 32; that puts him in a different league to the Sharmas and Prassads of the world, regarldess of whether his weaknesses seem more obvious and regardless of whether he reminds you of another bowler when he bowls (lol).

Regarding his inconistency, too, these are his series averages:

England in India 	9	25.66
India in West Indies 	10	33.50
India in South Afria	18	21.94
India in England	9	37.55
South Africa in India	4	68.50
Sri Lanka in India	8	30.00

He's had one shocker of a series and one pretty poor one - the rest of them have actually very pretty consistent, and his last series contained his best innings of bowling to date (which I incidently think was one of the best innings of bowling of the decade if you look at the context - if it was anyone other than Sree people would speak a lot more highly of it). He may seem inconsistent in his accuracy and his plans but he's consistent enough in his contribution from series to series.

World beater he isn't - yet - but he's a got a lot more to him than Sharma, Mithun, Prassad and various other bowlers that he's been compared to in this thread and despite what people say he actually does get results.

Indian captains have not used him well ,he is a attacking bowler who will go for runs but he is very creative and is always looking for wickets also he is most gifted of indian pacers,his seam position is best in the world along with steyn.

 

[chicane]

Haha

 

[vcs]

Love the Indian team under Dhoni. Just keep on coming!

TBF, this isn't the best example of that. That was just a bizarre patch of cricket.

I'd say the win against England in '08, the wins against SL and SA earlier this year and the Test we managed to draw in NZ illustrate your point better.

 

[honestbharani]

Yeah, in accordance with the agreement he and Kumble had to take the word of fielders.
Happy to enter into it, not so happy when it bit them on the arse.. But I wonder if Ponting could be an umpire..

LOLing at the prospect of how he would react if a player blew up at him. Be hilarious tbh.

Mate.. you are the one who called for a sane thread and then you post this? What do you expect? The truth in reply?