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

uvelocity

uvelocity

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Burgey said:
I think our crowds can be as bad as any tbh, but this series seems to have been played in good spirit.
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Yep. But even some people who live here and don't got to the cricket are ****s. If you get 7000 people to watch the final 4 wickets fall, chances are they are proper cricket lovers. Was just good to see, that's all. Hope some of the ****s on both sides were paying attention.
 
Burgey

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uvelocity said:
Yep. But even some people who live here and don't got to the cricket are ****s. If you get 7000 people to watch the final 4 wickets fall, chances are they are proper cricket lovers. Was just good to see, that's all. Hope some of the ****s on both sides were paying attention.
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Yeah that's a good shout.
 
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Midwinter

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benchmark00 said:
Hey, remember how everyone wanted to drop a guy who averaged over 100 with the bat for the series??
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Someone was averaging 20 and someone else was averaging 12 over their last 8 test innings

By this logic Laxman, Dravid and Sehwag should be perservered with.

On the other hand, we have tried out 2 new batsmen this series, both of whom have done well.
 
Spark

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Burgey said:
Ok, here's a serious question (in case the mods think its a **** stir, it isn't).

This morning I heard Sourav Ganguly give a radio interview. He was great. Reasoned views, mentioned the problems for both teams moving ahead etc.

One thing he mentioned was he enjoyed touring, including here. That he could get out among people and move around as he pleased.

After the game, abc radio journo Peter Walsh mentioned how hard it is to get senior blokes from the Indian set up for a chat. Said they've asked time and again for Tendulkar, Fletcher, Dravid; any of them.
But he was rebuffed all the time.

Before the Sydney test I mentioned going to the ground with Burgeinho and no one even being allowed to watch India practice - had to vacate the ground (tbf it was the same with Australia on one day).

So, this siege mentality and shutting yourself off. Anyone think it works? Honestly don't see how it's in any way a healthy outlook tbh. Australian teams used to have a similar outlook about touring the SC until Taylor's "No whinge, no wine" tour of Pakistan in 94.

Thoughts on this?
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Was reading Gilchrist's book a few weeks back and he definitely notes how that sort of mentality, inspired by Border in '89, was counterproductive for touring teams here (esp Hussain's England and the Windies) - if they'd been more open, they'd have seen that their opposition was indeed human and hence fallible. Not sure how applicable that is today though.
 
James

James

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For those of you interested, this is how CW Fantasy Cricket sure each player score over the 4 Tests:

Position Player Name Points
1. Michael Clarke 981
2. Ben Hilfenhaus 914
3. Ricky Ponting 779
4. Peter Siddle 722
5. Umesh Yadav 458
6. Michael Hussey 428
7. Zaheer Khan 424
8. James Pattinson 400
9. David Warner 376
10. Ravichandran Ashwin 368
11. Virat Kohli 365
12. Sachin Tendulkar 347
13. Ed Cowan 316
14. Virender Sehwag 273
15. Brad Haddin 230
16. VVS Laxman 220
17. Nathan Lyon 216
18. Rahul Dravid 209
19. Gautam Gambhir 206
20. Ryan Harris 199
21. MS Dhoni 186
22. Ishant Sharma 129
23. Mitchell Starc 120
24. Wriddhiman Saha 54
25. Vinay Kumar 36
26. Shaun Marsh 22
 
Nate

Nate

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No one plans to retire.Don't know what it will take to bring in changes.
No Indians are retiring: Sehwag | Cricket | Fox Sports


Virender Sehwag has quashed rumours that veteran batsman Rahul Dravid is set to retire from Test cricket, saying there is no need for any players in the current India team to pull stumps on their careers.

Sehwag told a media conference at Adelaide Oval that no senior player in the squad will be retiring in the wake of the 4-0 series whitewash against Australia.

"I'll clarify that I don't think there is the need for retirement from anybody in this team," Sehwag said.

"And they'll take the call when they need it. And when they think that their time is up."

Sehwag was forced to deny rumours of Dravid's impending departure from Test cricket after reports emerged earlier on Saturday the veteran batsman had told teammates he was set to retire.

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A BCCI official told Indian newspaper Times of India, "Dravid has always played cricket on his own merit and terms. If he decides to retire tomorrow, we will not be in a position to change his decision. He is, after all, Rahul Dravid."

But speaking before the start of play on Saturday, the 164-Test veteran said he had no plans of giving the game away just yet.

"I'm not going to be making any decisions now, we don't play another Test match for seven to eight months," Dravid told Channel Nine.

"So we'll see, we'll see how it pans out. At this stage of my career it's always about taking it a series at a time and not looking too far ahead.

The 39-year-old is Test cricket's second leading runscorer, but made only 194 runs at 24.25 in the four Tests against Australia.
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