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

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GarlicWoodBat

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its time for the indians to move on.sachin might want to focus on playing a meaningful test knock than worrying about a fictitious landmark.vvs and rahul are shadows of their former selves...the indian team for the future should be vijay,rahane,rohit,kohli,mukund,saha,irfan,ashwin,ojah,yadav,praveen.
 
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sreeku7

School Boy/Girl Captain
The only thing that has gone right for the Indian team is the failure of its senior aging batmen and the emergence of Kohli as the top scorer in the last three innings.The same cannot be said for the Australian team which is still relying on its older players for whose ouster every Australian fan was calling for before the start of the series.
 
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sreeku7

School Boy/Girl Captain
The way Sachin,Dravid,Sewag and Laxman shaped up against Ravi Rampaul and Kemar Roach in the WI series definitely proved their slowing reflexes.If the series were played on Australian-type pitches WI would have won 3-0.The Australians reaped rewards for the folly of Indian selectors who turned a blind eye to deterioration of the so-called ATG Indian batsmen and refused to introduce new faces even against an inexperienced WI team
 
Furball

Furball

Evil Scotsman
sreeku7 said:
The way Sachin,Dravid,Sewag and Laxman shaped up against Ravi Rampaul and Kemar Roach in the WI series definitely proved their slowing reflexes.If the series were played on Australian-type pitches WI would have won 3-0.The Australians reaped rewards for the folly of Indian selectors who turned a blind eye to deterioration of the so-called ATG Indian batsmen and refused to introduce new faces even against an inexperienced WI team
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They weren't and they wouldn't have.
 
Burgey

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Kohli is carrying on like a spoiled child in that presser, talking about the players having a go at each other. Disappointing as it detracts from his own fine performance.
 
Cruxdude

Cruxdude

International Debutant
At last we have a centurion. Well played Kohli. Time for Laxman and Dravid to move on. Get Rohit and Pujara in and let them learn. Sachin not scoring is getting ridiculous. Wasting away all his good form searching for that 100th hundred. I feel he is not sure what to do against this attack which is never giving up. Either too attacking or too defensive.
 
Burgey

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Cruxdude said:
At last we have a centurion. Well played Kohli. Time for Laxman and Dravid to move on. Get Rohit and Pujara in and let them learn. Sachin not scoring is getting ridiculous. Wasting away all his good form searching for that 100th hundred. I feel he is not sure what to do against this attack which is never giving up. Either too attacking or too defensive.
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In seriousness, do you think the match situation here, which will be purely survival, might help him with that? I know it won't be easy as the wicket wears, but he seems to be seeing them well enough to make it if he gets a little luck and one doesn't roll on the ground.
 
Cruxdude

Cruxdude

International Debutant
Burgey said:
In seriousness, do you think the match situation here, which will be purely survival, might help him with that? I know it won't be easy as the wicket wears, but he seems to be seeing them well enough to make it if he gets a little luck and one doesn't roll on the ground.
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I believe that Tendulkar when he plays for survival is a real poor batsman. Goes too much into a shell and lets bowlers dictate too much. The way he went about batting in the first test IIRC was awesome to watch. Was positive all through. Didn't seem to be attacking overly. As you say, he needs a bit of luck and with one century behind him should be back to consistent runs.
 
howardj

howardj

International Coach
Subhadeep said:
Australia need to sort out the top order problems in their batting. Warner and Watson, once he comes back to the side, are okay, but it's the other spot that is not decided yet. Marsh, Cowan, Khawaja _ none of them look convincing enough.
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Yep, it's a pretty poor top three. If you put any one of those guys (Marsh, Warner, Cowan) in a recent Australian top three (around guys like Hayden, Langer, Watson, Katich, Ponting) it'd be fine. But to group all three in them first up in the one line-up...well, it's just got no authority to it; no long term-ness about it.
 
Son Of Coco

Son Of Coco

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Spikey said:
if the point Kohli was making is that adl fans are stupid drunk bogans who should be thrown into sea it is kinda hard to disagree with him
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This could be a fair point. Actually, there are a number of fans like that here in Brisbane too.
 
Son Of Coco

Son Of Coco

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Burgey said:
Kohli is carrying on like a spoiled child in that presser, talking about the players having a go at each other. Disappointing as it detracts from his own fine performance.
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The players talking to each other and his own performance were pretty much all he managed to talk about in 4 minutes. I think he's just guaranteed he cops it more as he's shown it affects him.
 
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