***Official*** Australia in India 2012/13

[Spikey]

spark pls (transfer my posts)

 

[uvelocity]

 

[Spark]

you're all ****s

 

[Tangles]

Any word on how big the touring party will be?

Our fast bowling is our strength so it will be interesting to see if they can get regular wickets on Indian pitches. They prepared turners for England didn't they? Hopefully Warner and Hughes can help Clarke prop up the batting.

 

[uvelocity]

should be regular size youd think

 

[benchmark00]

Probably ranging from 5'8'' to 6'7''.

 

[Jono]

Not talking about your waist size you fat ****

 

[smash84]

should be regular size youd think

 

[Spikey]

Any word on how big the touring party will be?

16 the latest word, so they can fit in Henriques and Maxwell. would mean haddin as the reserve bat/keeper, and one seamer (MJ i guess)

 

[uvelocity]

that would be madness. firstly neither of those two should go, secondly one seamer in reserve is not enough with 3 young guys in the squad they need to rest/rotate

 

[Cevno]

Any thoughts on the Indian squad ? Pretty much every position barring 2/3 including the Captaincy is up in the air or should be at least.

 

[Howe_zat]

Pick Rahane, Jadeja, Praveen and Parthiv Patel

 

[Cabinet96]

Look, in all honesty, my young bloke was batting in the nets this morning and his back foot trigger-moved to the leg side once, a la D Hussey. I chased him around the park with a stump til he got the message not to do it. How can blokes get to the top level with a technique like that? It's ****ing criminal.

Haha, indeed. Used to do it myself, but had to stop aged 12 to spare my stumps from getting hammered every time I batted.

 

[Cevno]

Squad for Nagpur Test: Mahendra Singh Dhoni (c), Virender Sehwag, Gautam Gambhir, Sachin Tendulkar, Virat Kohli, Cheteshwar Pujara, Ravindra Jadeja, R Ashwin, Piyush Chawla, Ishant Sharma, Ajinkya Rahane, Ashok Dinda, M Vijay, Parvinder Awana.


So taking squad for Final test as starting point, i would drop -

Sehwag for poor form
Gambhir for poor form
Chawla for being **** and undeserved selection anyway.
Dinda for same reason as Chawla.
Ishant for being poor for a while and not still knowing how to get test wickets.
Vijay for same as Dinda and Chawla (though less ****).

Sachin won't be dropped and Dhoni won't either probably as he seems likely to remain as Captain with only other option being Kohli.


So Changes for me keeping that in mind would look like -

Abhinav Mukund (in for Virendra Sehwag)
Unmukt Chand/Jiwanjot Singh (In for Vijay)
Wasim Jaffer (In for Gautam Gambhir)
Umesh Yadav for Chawla (If not fit then Sidarth Kaul/Ishwar Pandey/Bhuvneshwar/Mohit/Warrier comes in)
Pankaj Singh for Dinda
Shami Ahmed for Ishant


Which makes the 14 man squad look something like this -

Mahendra Singh Dhoni (c), Abhinav Mukund, Jiwanjot/Unmukt, Sachin Tendulkar, Virat Kohli, Cheteshwar Pujara, Ravindra Jadeja, R Ashwin, Umesh Yadav, Shami Ahmed, Ajinkya Rahane, Pankaj Singh, Wasim Jaffer, Rohit Sharma


Awana unlucky to be cut for squad balance's sake, but he was lucky to get the call up in front of other options anyway. Also, i'd personally remove Dhoni from the Captaincy and make Kohli captain but that seems unlikely, so he stays in the team. Otherwise if he is to be dropped then Saha or Gautam come in.



Edit - Ashwin should be in the last chance saloon after the first test too with Rasool/Nadeem/Ladda being potential replacements. And Jadeja should not play as a all rounder at 6/7.

 

[Daemon]

Wtf dinda

 

[Cabinet96]

Why don't Australia have even one tour match? That's terrible for a big four match series in the most alien conditions they can play in.

 

[Cevno]

Wtf dinda

Wut ?

 

[Daemon]

Wut ?

In the squad for nagpur. Thought bhuv would get a look in surely.

 

[Prince EWS]

In the squad for nagpur. Thought bhuv would get a look in surely.

Read his post again.

 

[Daemon]

digging a hole to bury my head in aws

In my defence my dinda rage got the better of me