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

[adub]

go fetch that someone will ya.

or maybe just leave someone down there...

 

[Jayzamann]

So all Pooty Tang needs to do now is double this and he can go past Dravid! !! !!! !!!!

 

[Jono]

Ishant really needs to be dropped next series. Just has to happen really.

 

[Prince EWS]

Ishant really needs to be dropped next series. Just has to happen really.

Yeah, he's at the point Sreesanth was at after the England tour. Gotta go.

 

[Burgey]

I think this could be the greatest post ever.

You should read more I reckon.

 

[adub]

"ok boys, we're just gonna bowl for the declaration. Should come sometime after tea, when they get to 600."

[/sehwagmorningpeptalk]

 

[Jono]

No team has bowled more for declarations in recent times than India. They'll know what to do.

 

[Burgey]

This is a bit early for such carnage. really turning it on here.

Haddin to make a duck if required to bat.

 

[Spark]

Haha Clarke is already bored

 

[HeathDavisSpeed]

Partners 				Runs  Team Opposition Ground 	Match Date 		Scorecard 
DPMD Jayawardene, TT Samaraweera 	437 	Sri Lanka v Pakistan 	Karachi 21 Feb 2009 	Test # 1909 
PBH May, MC Cowdrey 			411 	England v West Indies 	Birmingham 30 May 1957 	Test # 439 
GS Sobers, FMM Worrell 			399  	West Indies v England 	Bridgetown 6 Jan 1960 	Test # 485 
WH Ponsford, DG Bradman 		388  	Australia v England 	Leeds 20 Jul 1934 	Test # 236 
SR Tendulkar, VVS Laxman 		353  	India v Australia 	Sydney 2 Jan 2004 	Test # 1680 
[B]RT Ponting, MJ Clarke 			352  	Australia v Pakistan 	Hobart 14 Jan 2010 	Test # 1947 [/B]
Mushtaq Mohammad, Asif Iqbal 		350  	Pakistan v New Zealand 	Dunedin 7 Feb 1973 	Test # 712 
WM Lawry, KD Walters 			336  	Australia v West Indies Sydney 14 Feb 1969 	Test # 646 
Javed Miandad, Saleem Malik 		322  	Pakistan v England 	Birmingham 4 Jun 1992 	Test # 1189 
JN Gillespie, MEK Hussey 		320  	Australia v Bangladesh 	Chittagong 16 Apr 2006 	Test # 1799 
PD Collingwood, KP Pietersen 		310  	England v Australia 	Adelaide 1 Dec 2006 	Test # 1819 
N Hussain, GP Thorpe 			288  	England v Australia 	Birmingham 5 Jun 1997 	Test # 1368 
[B]RT Ponting, MJ Clarke 			288  	Australia v India 	Sydney 3 Jan 2012	Test # 2027 
RT Ponting, MJ Clarke 			287*  	Australia v India 	Adelaide 24 Jan 2012 	Test # 2031 [/B]

Pretty successful 4th wicket pairing, aye?

Ponting and Clarke also have one other 4th wicket partnership of > 200 runs. 210 vs. India at Adelaide in 2008.

 

[Cruxdude]

It was painful when we lost the first test, second test was humiliating and after day 1 of Perth I have just stopped keeping any hopes.

 

[Spark]

That for the 5th wicket?

437 doesn't look all that far away...

Let's be honest though. I don't know how to get them out right now - good balls are disappearing through cover with alarming regularity.

 

[HeathDavisSpeed]

That for the 5th wicket?

437 doesn't look all that far away...

4th wicket, mate. The way they're going... Well, I won't curse them.

 

[Spark]

Haha, don't know why I said 5th.

 

[Burgey]

Someone asked about two or more 200 plus partnerships by the same players in a series. I think Ponsford and Bradman put on successive 300 plus partnerships in the 34 Ashes series.

 

[TumTum]

Clarke really does make batting look easy when he is in this frame of mind.

 

[Spark]

McGrath 46 wickets @ 23 at Adelaide is just ridiculous

 

[BeeGee]

Not a bad partnership, this.

 

[Spark]

I would so love one to go through at chest height through wide 1st slip again.

 

[Top_Cat]

McGrath 46 wickets @ 23 at Adelaide is just ridiculous

No 5-fers from memory too. Or, at least, not many. Either way, ridiculously consistent.