*Official* Road to India in Australia 2011/12

[uvelocity]

4-0 aussies. plenty of chin music.

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[Furball]

3-1 Australia. India will win a Test because at some point in the series some random Indian "fast" bowler will be annointed the saviour of Indian pace bowling by inducing a collapse and winning a Test, before 5 years of spectacular rubbishness (see also Ajit Agarkar at Adelaide in 2003 and Irfan Pathan in 2008 at Perth). Nothing surer about an Australia-Indian series.

Really can't believe the Australian pessimism. India's bowling is seriously crap. Australia's bowling is much better than England made it look in the Ashes. You'll win this series easily.

Barring the 'Australia's batting will cost them a Test' (which was a close call in Melbourne), I'm quite pleased with this prediction.

 

[Doctor]

Some very interesting posts throughout this thread, in hindsight.

 

[Daemon]

rob to upload **EPIC FAIL LACK OF DRS COMPILATION*** video post series

yes please

 

[Doctor]

On the plus side, I reckon guys like Mick Clarke are due to bust out some good scores.

Best unpredictable prediction itt.

 

[Spark]

Barring the 'Australia's batting will cost them a Test' (which was a close call in Melbourne), I'm quite pleased with this prediction.

You did say that they would lose in Adelaide tbf, which does look silly if you think deeper given that you'd predicted that we'd be 3-0 up at that point (which granted puts you up on everyone else) and the records of our middle order at Adelaide bordered on the absurd even before this match (I'd like to see Clarke's average at Adelaide now... fair to say it'd be quite high). Otherwise a good call.

Doubt we will win any of the tests tbh. Sachin to completely dine out on the worst Aussie attack he has faced EVER. Should be a cakewalk for the Indians to score piles of runs, but their bowlers may struggle. Could be a 0-0 job. Johnson to play his last series hopefully. All our pitches are so flat, I don't see our bowlers getting more wickets than what we managed against England last season, and Sachin, Laxman, Dravid, Sehwag are all mightily experienced now in Australian conditions and will be ready.

Sorry Rob but this is an early nomination for the Griegy II.

Don't worry, Pup will bat at 4 and score a double while Punting will have a second wind...

Best underestimation ever.

 

[benchmark00]

Sorry Rob but this is an early nomination for the Griegy II.

Haha, everything he said turned out to be wrong. Quality stuff.

 

[Spark]

Lot of quality hindsight chuckles and I'm only on page 3 (40ppp)

 

[Spark]

The main thing is though everyone bar none got the bowling attack completely and utterly wrong, so that would've thrown a lot of predictions out. Not something that could have been predicted given the injuries though.

 

[Furball]

You did say that they would lose in Adelaide tbf, which does look silly if you think deeper given that you'd predicted that we'd be 3-0 up at that point (which granted puts you up on everyone else) and the records of our middle order at Adelaide bordered on the absurd even before this match (I'd like to see Clarke's average at Adelaide now... fair to say it'd be quite high). Otherwise a good call.

Did I?

The only Adelaide prediction I remember making was that Ponting would score 3,000* to retire as the top runscorer of all time after batting for 5 days solid (which might have been a little tongue in cheek.)

 

[Spark]

Definitely struggling to see a result at Adelaide, tbh.

That's where India will win.

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[Furball]

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Ah ok.

Prediction was on the basis of a batting collapse hurting the most there, because if you collapse first innings, it's going to be difficult to stop the opposition scoring 500.

 

[Spark]

And we had that, twice, in part.

But we also had a middle order that read

Ponting
Clarke
Hussey

Freak incidents aside (ie. last summer), that's a lot of runs at Adelaide. Clarke still managed to make 80 in the middle of the worst Test form of his life there.

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Having said all that, the most amusingly off-target posting had to be ret's insistence that Yadav's ability to bowl 140kmh bouncers would make all the difference. Indeed, haven't ever seen Clarke/Ponting play the pull/hook with such authority in years.