***Official*** India in Australia 2011/12

[Burgey]

Not a bad total at all and it gives them a good chance but I reckon 400 would be about par, no maybe it's not too far off thinking about it, looks a good pitch for batting to me.

If Australia bowls full they'll cause problems. There's enough in the pitch to encourage the bowlers.

 

[social]

Australia to lead by 62 on first innings - more if clouds roll in

 

[Furball]

Also sky really into advertising red hot the last couple of days...

"Why are you up at 1am watching cricket when you could be watching porn instead?"

 

[Viscount Tom]

Aus on the Gooch

 

[Ausage]

Yeah the ch 9 guys were talking up the total. A fair bit behind par for mine.

 

[GIMH]

My recent history of watching India suggests Australia have at least 33 too many

 

[Jacknife]

If Australia bowls full they'll cause problems. There's enough in the pitch to encourage the bowlers.

That's the thing, it's hard to tell what's par till both bowling sides have a crack on it.

 

[Agent Nationaux]

Vote: Sehwag vs. Pattinson

a. Exciting
b. Boring because Sehwag will be out quickly.

 

[Uppercut]

"Why are you up at 1am watching cricket when you could be watching porn instead?"

Haha, those ads are pretty cringe even by porno standards.

 

[Jacknife]

My recent history of watching India suggests Australia have at least 33 too many

 

[Turbinator]

My recent history of watching India suggests Australia have at least 33 too many

This. There's no chance India will manage 300.

 

[Uppercut]

Vote: Sehwag vs. Pattinson

a. Exciting
b. Boring because Sehwag will be out quickly.

Sehwag getting out quickly won't be boring

 

[Furball]

If Australia bowls full they'll cause problems. There's enough in the pitch to encourage the bowlers.

Will be interesting to see what sort of effect McDermott is having in the camp. Read an article on cricinfo a month or so ago and apparently he's been mucking around with pitch maps in an attempt to encourage his bowlers to bowl fuller - so that while on TV it might show that a bowler has landed X amount of deliveries in a "good" area, when they're analysing it in training the same deliveries will show up as being "short."

 

[Viscount Tom]

ITs a better total than what they got first innings last year.

 

[Burgey]

Yeah. Pepper this ****.

 

[Jacknife]

it hurts just watching that replay.

 

[vic_orthdox]

I look at this and think what Johnson could have been with the bat had he dialed it in a bit instead of always batting the same way.

Think MJ was a bit more manufactured than Pattinson, had very limited footwork range which allowed him to swing through the line of the ball, but it was never really "tight". What it did allow him to do what others, including Patto, couldn't do as well, and that's take bowlers downtown when he's with 10 and 11.

 

[Agent Nationaux]

Lyon injured.

 

[Burgey]

See the hotspot on Lyon there? Spaghetti arms.

 

[Furball]

That blow to the knee has obviously affected Gambhir - he seems to think he's poking some sort of fire.