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***Official*** India in Australia 2014-5

cnerd123

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If Ashwin and Jadeja aren't your preferred choice for Indian spinners...then why Karn? Ojha, Mishra and Chawla are all more experienced and accomplished at FC level.

Karn's selection as India's new lead spinner is pretty strange tbh. Definitely out of the blue and I don't see what he offers apart from being a leggie.
 
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Teja. said:
I'd have picked Ashwin but I see it as a blessing in disguise that he wasn't picked for Adelaide with two bowlers leaking 5 rpo. Ashwin's a massive momentum bowler, he pretty much never starts series badly and then recovers to bowl well and he was going to start badly here.
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Strated badly in England but was decent in the 2nd game he played.
 
anil1405

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Cevno said:
Jadeja has outperformed Ashwin both home and away for last 1 and half to 2 years if i am not wrong. Was certainly the case before England series.
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India hasn't played test matches outside sub-continent between Jan 2012 - Nov 2013. Before England series they toured South Africa and New Zealand and in whatever chances Jadeja got he performed well in only one innings if am right.

I don't see how that counts as outperforming Ashwin away from home.
 
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Picking a leggie for Adelaide can be a good idea but I think Karn's the wrong sort. At Adelaide, the square boundaries are always tempting so there's a tension in batting there whether to try to smash anything short or play the longer game. Guys who bowl with big turn and loop increase that tension, guys like Karn just go the distance.
 
Cevno

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If Ashwin and Jadeja aren't your preferred choice for Indian spinners...then why Karn? Ojha, Mishra and Chawla are all more experienced and accomplished at FC level.

Karn's selection as India's new lead spinner is pretty strange tbh. Definitely out of the blue and I don't see what he offers apart from being a leggie.
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Ojha yeah, but definitely not Mishra and especially Chawla.

He is a leggie and been doing well recently hence selected. Was risky but paid off in tour matches where there was help and they took a attacking gamble.

I certainly don't think he has looked that out of place either. Bowling first here was always upto the seamers barring at most 3/4 wickets he could take which he really should have with more luck. Defensive spinner would have kept it more tight but RR has been high this whole innings starting from seamers.
 
Cevno

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anil1405 said:
India hasn't played test matches outside sub-continent between Jan 2012 - Nov 2013. Before England series they toured South Africa and New Zealand and in whatever chances Jadeja got he performed well in only one innings if am right.

I don't see how that counts as outperforming Ashwin away from home.
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He has actually also outperfomed him at home. And NZ and SA he did well comparitive to Ashwin's previous Soujourns as well and also kept it tighter.
 
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dognutz

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Spewin I didn't take the $3.45 on offer with Betfair at the start of the match about the draw. I wuz gunna but yeah, yeah, I know, if my auntie had balls she'd be my uncle.... :(
 
GotSpin

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India are just awful at Tests.

I don't get how a cricket mad nation of 800 million people can be so ****. How hard is it to produce 3 decent fast bowlers FFS. England, Australia, South Africa, New Zealand, Pakistan are all smaller than us and still have better attacks, and cricket isn't even the main sport in four of those countries!
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Cricket is the number one sport in Australia.
 
dfrinku

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Cricket probably beats out AFL in the sense that it is supported nation wide and not just heavily in a few states. The lack of an international presence in AFL also works against it. And I suppose you could argue that cricket is a year-round sport (it definitely is, but the majority only follow it in our summer) and not just a seasonal thing. Hard to know, though, since they don't really compete with each other
 
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also to be totally honest i was a bit disappointed that India missed those chances late on 'cause really, their fielding was pretty damn solid for the first 450 runs. from what i saw anyway
 
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