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

Satyanash89

Banned
Series Ratings:

Australia:

Warner: One decent innings, was usless as an opener otherwise. A prime candidate for **** of the series. 2/10
Cowan: Must have been frustrating for him that he couldnt manage to convert all those starts into a big one, but still showed more application, grit, fight and any other Langer-Waugh-ish cliche you can name. 6/10
Hughes: Was completely out of his depth in the first 2 tests and couldnt cope with the alien conditions quickly enough. Footwork gradually improved after he started controlling his urge to sweep everything and made some decent runs in the final two tests. 2.5/10
Watson: Absolutely useless as a cricketer now that the thing which kept him in the team, his bowling is no longer a factor (for now). Scored the same amount of runs in the series than Starc did in one innings, didnt do his homework,was his usual drama-queen self and . took his boneheadedness to new levels by making some inexplicable decisions as captain 0/10
He now averages 35 after 41 tests with just 2 (!) hundreds. that is an almost Ishant Sharma like record
Clarke: Was his usual superb self in the first two tests and was several classes above his teammates. Failed when he needed to move up the order,though 7.5/10
Smith: Batted very well and showed real promise against spin, especially in the third test. Couldnt have done too much more7/10/10
Henriques: Strange series, which started off with two superb fifties in the first test, but then fell away quickly. Bowling was a complete non-factor 5/10
Wade: Abominable is the word to describe his keeping. Cost his bowlers, who needed all the help they could get, numerous wickets. Needs to be dropped for the good of the team
1/10
Maxwell: Terrible with both bat and ball. Has no right to be near a test squad. Somehow ended up with the best average for any Australian bowler (27), which shows just how **** stats can be1/10
Starc: Completely ineffective with the ball, and too one-dimensional in his approach to succeed in places like the subcontinent. Like the rest of the bowlers, was good with the bat 4/10
Pattinson: Was superb in the first test and even though he couldnt replicate that again, looked the most likely to get wickets, and never bowled consistent drivel like the rest.
7.5/10
Siddle: Bowled a heap of leg-side pies and other varieties of filth. Superb with the bat in the last test 4/10
Doherty: Not a test cricketer 0.5/10
Haddin: Though its not saying much, he's better than Wade 4/10

India:

Sehwag: Thanks for the entertainment, but career over :( 1/10 Deserves 0, but 1 for being SehWAG
Vijay: Not a fan, and i think he'll struggle overseas, but cannot begrudge him praise for a magnificent comeback series. 9/10
Dhawan: Godlike in the one innings he played, which almost single-handedly set up the game for the team. Promptly got injured just when everyone wanted him to prove it wasnt a fluke. 8/10
Pujara: Could not have done any more. WAG :wub: 9.5/10 Opposing attack was as poor as you can get though, which is why its not a 10
Tendulkar: Yet another mediocre series. Scored an underrated and quite vital 81, but struggled thereafter. His average has now dipped below Kambli's, which must have made him very happy, which makes me very angry :censored:3.5/10
Kohli: Hundred in the first test was extremely important and played a couple of other useful innings. If only he wasnt such a **** I'd like him more.... and i want to 7.5/10
Dhoni: Mostly quite poor behind the stumps but played an absolute blinder in the first test which swung the momentum dramatically. 8/10
Ashwin: Brilliant with the ball and picked up loads of crucial wickets. Man of the series. Bad with the bat, surprisingly 9.5/10
Jadeja: Superb performance by the man we all love to hate. Has shut his critics up, atleast with the ball. Can be a huge asset if he improves with the bat 8.5/10
Ishant Sharma: Drop this **** already. 2/10
Bhuvneshwar: Only picked up wickets in two innings but when he did, they were the top three batsmen, which speaks volumes of his potential with the new ball. Has loads of room for improvement but I'm excited to see him bowl overseas, especially in England, where he could be very good 4.5/10
Harbhajan: Useless 0.5/10
Ojha: Slightly disappointing but dropping him for Harbhajan was a boneheaded move which must have done his confidence no good 4/10
 
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Daemon

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Nah, Bhuvi's role is get rid of the top order with jaffas on the occasion of him getting the new ball to swing every 2-3 games or so and be a fairly inoffensive side-liner otherwise and to hold the bat a bit.

He did his 'role' perfectly well. Both times he took wickets, they were the first three wickets of the innings and the opposition were in deep **** for the innings at SFA - 3.

If he consistently has occasional spells like that and averages early-mid 30s with the ball and contributes with the bat, he holds his place in the side.

As regards to Sharma, I will refrain from beating the long dead and currently decaying Sarah Jessica Parker about his wicket distribution.
Fair enough.

Ignoring his 'score' based on the series for a while, I disagree on his 'role' slightly. Picking up 0 wickets in two of the tests is not good viewing for a bowler. It's all well and good when things go our way, but if Australia didn't bat so poorly against spin and Ashwin and Jadeja didn't bowl so well, it would have looked a lot worse imo and his value to the side would be in question. The two spells were excellent and definitely put India in a great position (especially the one in the 2nd test) but the other times he went for plenty, and often ended up with an economy of 4.5ish.

He's gotta be of a bit more value with the ball to hang around in the side than just bowling a good opening spell every 2-3 test matches. He'll be fine though, expect him to get better over time and Dhoni to trust him more with subsequent spells as he goes along. We'll need him to bowl with the old ball overseas.
 

Jono

Virat Kohli (c)
**** Sachin's love for the game is amazing. The fact he's still so enthusiastic about it after all those years. Wtf else is he going to do when he retires? Has as much money as anyone can dream of but I can't help but think that on the first day after his retirement he's going to go have a net.
 

Cruxdude

International Debutant
A 4-0 win is just so awesome. Such a good change watching these result oriented pitches ather than the boreathons we were rolling out in the 2000s.

Watching Pujara bat is such a pleasure. His batting helped blunt the edge off watching Sachin struggle against Lyon in this test. Sachin looks totally out of his depth against spin and as some one else mentioned maybe he will be better against bounce and pace.

Rahane looked totally out of place in this test and I hope it is just first test blues. Would hate it if we end up with the same old names playing musical chairs at number 6.

What a champ, Ashwin. Fastest to 100 wickets in the last 50 years would be such a brilliant accomplishment. Never believed he had it in him to be a test quality spinner and was so against him playing tests at the beginning. Quality indeed.
 

Jono

Virat Kohli (c)
Fair enough.

Ignoring his 'score' based on the series for a while, I disagree on his 'role' slightly. Picking up 0 wickets in two of the tests is not good viewing for a bowler. It's all well and good when things go our way, but if Australia didn't bat so poorly against spin and Ashwin and Jadeja didn't bowl so well, it would have looked a lot worse imo and his value to the side would be in question. The two spells were excellent and definitely put India in a great position (especially the one in the 2nd test) but the other times he went for plenty, and often ended up with an economy of 4.5ish.

He's gotta be of a bit more value with the ball to hang around in the side than just bowling a good opening spell every 2-3 test matches. He'll be fine though, expect him to get better over time and Dhoni to trust him more with subsequent spells as he goes along. We'll need him to bowl with the old ball overseas.
Yeah agree if we were playing England instead of Australia we'd have been damn worried about Bhuv.

But then again he's probably the best we've got right now.
 

NUFAN

Y no Afghanistan flag
Combined XI

1 Vijay
2 Dhawan
3 Pujara
4 Clarke
5 Kohli
6 Dhoni
7 Jadeja
8 Siddle
9 Pattinson
10 Ashwin
11 Kumar
 

NUFAN

Y no Afghanistan flag
Combined XI

1 Vijay
2 Dhawan
3 Pujara
4 Clarke
5 Kohli
6 Dhoni
7 Jadeja
8 Siddle
9 Pattinson
10 Ashwin
11 Kumar
Vs. worst XI

1 Sehwag
2 Warner
3 Hughes
4 Watson
5 Rahane
6 Wade
7 Maxwell
8 Johnson
9 Harbajhan
10 Doherty
11 Sharma

Yuck
 

uvelocity

International Coach
the best

Mickeys Arthur:-13 // Failed to prepare team together or adequately. Presided over many bizarre selections and tactics. In charge during the most ridiculous shambles of a tour including multiple food poisoning incidents, lack of discipline, suspensions and incoherent ramblings in the press.
 

social

Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
the best

Mickeys Arthur:-13 // Failed to prepare team together or adequately. Presided over many bizarre selections and tactics. In charge during the most ridiculous shambles of a tour including multiple food poisoning incidents, lack of discipline, suspensions and incoherent ramblings in the press.
Really should be sacked but has already been confirmed as coach for the next 2 Ashes series
 

Spikey

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i think this series really showed that you don't need 4 openers when playing test cricket in India
 

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