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

[Spark]

what the **** was that?!

 

[Cevno]

FFS stop being looney.

 

[Spark]

Pretty sure Dean Elgar has that wrapped up, unless the really bad innings was the second innings

that was second innings

 

[Johnners]

A weird situation for a current captain to be commentating, he can't really mean what he said about Dhoni.

And wtf was that shot.

 

[Antihippy]

BTW is smith behind on over-rates again?

 

[viriya]

This is where someone like Rahane has to learn from batsmen like Mahela/Sanga when it comes to playing long innings.. They were going so well and needed to grind Aus out and push for quick runs tomorrow.. instead he got carried away and now 700 seems far away.

 

[Burgey]

Jesus. What is Dhoni doing? That was crazy

 

[Daemon]

****ing lol at Dhoni coming down the track. Seems like he gave Rahul the instructions to go after the bowling? Only logical explanation for someone on debut to do that on his 7th and 8th deliveries.

 

[The_Bunny]

Easy to forget that despite a few Brilliant Batsmen, India will be India

 

[Cabinet96]

India needs an all-rounder, specialist #6 bats suck overseas

Strangely that innings is a good example of why you don't want an all-rounder there.

 

[Dan]

Worse than Rob Quiney's best 9 of all time?

 

[Cevno]

Rahul being stupid on debut doesn't justify Rohit Sharma's previous incompetence btw.

Though Dhawan for me should have been dropped instead but oh well.

 

[dfrinku]

Hitting the stumps and I'm fairly sure Dhoni wasn't playing a shot there. At least not a shot that makes any sense for the scenario. Out.

 

[Dan]

BTW is smith behind on over-rates again?

He was fine in the first session. No idea now.

 

[OverratedSanity]

This is where someone like Rahane has to learn from batsmen like Mahela/Sanga when it comes to playing long innings.. They were going so well and needed to grind Aus out and push for quick runs tomorrow.. instead he got carried away and now 700 seems far away.

Mahela couldn't in his wildest dreams play an innings like this against an attack of this quality in Australia.

 

[Cevno]

Strangely that innings is a good example of why you don't want an all-rounder there.

Need a batting all rounder who can bowl decently and ideally seam. Don't seem any deserving around.

Rishi Dhawan deserves a go at some stage but he is more a bowler who can bat like Ashwin/Bhuvi.

 

[Contra]

Strangely that innings is a good example of why you don't want an all-rounder there.

How exactly? As far as I'm concerned a 30/40 odd from all rounder is more than enough (no number 6 bat since Ganguly has made the spot their own), this Indian team batting wise (if you exclude the last 2 england test) is absolutely fine. India's problem isn't their batting, it's their bowling and they need all the support bowling wise they can get.

 

[Spark]

Strangely that innings is a good example of why you don't want an all-rounder there.

Yeah that innings was exactly how I would have expected Jadeja to play.

 

[viriya]

Rahul being stupid on debut doesn't justify Rohit Sharma's previous incompetence btw.

Rohit has played a grand total of 9 test matches.. India are too quick to hit the drop button with new players.. If a talent like him was say in SL he would get at least 10-15 matches in a row to prove himself - but he rarely gets more than 2 matches in a row.

 

[cnerd123]

Need a batting all rounder who can bowl decently and ideally seam. Don't seem any deserving around.

Rishi Dhawan deserves a go at some stage but he is more a bowler who can bat like Ashwin/Bhuvi.

Binny wasn't given a fair run IMO.

We also have Nayar and Irfan kicking about.