Are tons really that impressive in this era?

[Blocky]

uh, i can. which is why my recollection of the bowling in that series matches the recollection of everyone else.

Yet the same bowlers went and beat Sri Lanka in Sri Lanka without much issue.... wonder if it had anything to do with the, I dunno, FIVE ALL TIME GREAT BATSMAN -cough- in the Indian line up at the time?

 

[cnerd123]

Yet the same bowlers went and beat Sri Lanka in Sri Lanka without much issue.... wonder if it had anything to do with the, I dunno, FIVE ALL TIME GREAT BATSMAN -cough- in the Indian line up at the time?

omfg are you really doing this again.

 

[OverratedSanity]

By the way, another stat for you.

Before this series, never had both sides scored 400+ in their first innings in every test

Here's another stat :
No. of people saying these pitches aren't flat = 0

 

[Blocky]

Here's another stat :
No. of people saying these pitches aren't flat = 0

No. of people trying to say that the centuries scored by Smith and Kohli are due to the batsman and not how bad the bowlers are and pitch conditions > 10

 

[OverratedSanity]

Yet the same bowlers went and beat Sri Lanka in Sri Lanka without much issue.... wonder if it had anything to do with the, I dunno, FIVE ALL TIME GREAT BATSMAN -cough- in the Indian line up at the time?

bah gawd. Let it end.

 

[cnerd123]

This is such an incredible display of stubbornness and wrongness and omg if you were ever a real life cricketer I can totally see how you got nowhere in your career and have ended up a sad bitter cynical man trying to prove he is right all the time on a cricket forum.

Amazing performance this.

 

[Spark]

Yet the same bowlers went and beat Sri Lanka in Sri Lanka without much issue.... wonder if it had anything to do with the, I dunno, FIVE ALL TIME GREAT BATSMAN -cough- in the Indian line up at the time?

except it wasn't the same bowlers at all, and that was a completely different series in different conditions so the relevance is zero.

you do know how you spot bad bowling, yes? has to do with stuff like half-volleys and long-hops, inability to build pressure, inability to stick to a plan. kind of stuff that you can spot with, y'know, eyes.

 

[OverratedSanity]

No. of people trying to say that the centuries scored by Smith and Kohli are due to the batsman and not how bad the bowlers are and pitch conditions > 10

It's both ffs. Please let it end now. Please.

 

[cnerd123]

No. of people trying to say that the centuries scored by Smith and Kohli are due to the batsman and not how bad the bowlers are and pitch conditions > 10

Now u are just making **** up.

No. of people trying to say that the centuries scored by Kohli are due to the batsman and not how bad the bowlers are and pitch conditions = everyone
No. of people trying to say that the centuries scored by Smith are due to the batsman and not how bad the bowlers are and pitch conditions = no one
No. of people sick of you posting here = everyone

 

[Blocky]

except it wasn't the same bowlers at all, and that was a completely different series in different conditions so the relevance is zero.

you do know how you spot bad bowling, yes? has to do with stuff like half-volleys and long-hops, inability to build pressure, inability to stick to a plan. kind of stuff that you can spot with, y'know, eyes.

IIRC - Warne was the only addition, McGrath was still out, Gillespie played, MacGill played and they took a chunk of wickets too.

 

[cnerd123]

except it wasn't the same bowlers at all, and that was a completely different series in different conditions so the relevance is zero.

you do know how you spot bad bowling, yes? has to do with stuff like half-volleys and long-hops, inability to build pressure, inability to stick to a plan. kind of stuff that you can spot with, y'know, eyes.

Hey man, Blocky has more FC wickets than Murphy Su'a or smth like that. I'm sure he knows what good bowling is.

 

[Spark]

IIRC - Warne was the only addition, McGrath was still out, Gillespie played, MacGill played and they took a chunk of wickets too.

yes, small change, the addition of shane warne on turning decks.

 

[Blocky]

except it wasn't the same bowlers at all, and that was a completely different series in different conditions so the relevance is zero.

you do know how you spot bad bowling, yes? has to do with stuff like half-volleys and long-hops, inability to build pressure, inability to stick to a plan. kind of stuff that you can spot with, y'know, eyes.

Last point I'll bother making, because watching the cheer leaders constantly feign disbelief, malcontent and such obviously means I'll be blamed for how **** their posting is getting.

Because batsmen never have anything to do with pressure on bowlers, using their feet and shot making to change a bowlers plans and make it hard for them to build pressure, right?

 

[Spark]

Last point I'll bother making, because watching the cheer leaders constantly feign disbelief, malcontent and such obviously means I'll be blamed for how **** their posting is getting.

Because batsmen never have anything to do with pressure on bowlers, using their feet and shot making to change a bowlers plans and make it hard for them to build pressure, right?

they can yes, and rest assured that all the experienced cricket watchers who have all said to the man that the bowling was rubbish have taken that into account and nonetheless concluded that the bowling was, indeed, rubbish.

 

[OverratedSanity]

Like how he says there were five all time great batsmen in the Indian side if 03/04, when actually back then only Sachin could be called an ATG. Noneoof Laxman, Dravid, Sehwag, etc had that sort of reputation at the time

Could be funny to come back to this thread in 10 years if Rahane, Kohli, Pujara , Vijay, Dhawan, Rahul all somehow end up as ATGs. Suddenly this same crap Australian attack will become good because they were in for a pasting anyway. #BlockyLogic

 

[cnerd123]

Like how he says there were five all time great batsmen in the Indian side if 03/04, when actually back then only Sachin could be called an ATG. Noneoof Laxman, Dravid, Sehwag, etc had that sort of reputation at the time

Could be funny to come back to this thread in 10 years if Rahane, Kohli, Pujara , Vijay, Dhawan, Rahul all somehow end up as ATGs. Suddenly this same crap Australian attack will become good because they were in for a pasting anyway. #BlockyLogic

Yea made the same point a few pages back.

Revisionist bull**** is what it is.

 

[Blocky]

"Dravid had no reputation in 2004" - OverratedSanity 2015.

 

[cnerd123]

Last point I'll bother making

Beaten, bruised, and nursing some sore figures, Blocky limps out of the attack and off the field.

 

[Spark]

only Sachin could be called an ATG. Noneoof Laxman, Dravid, Sehwag, etc had that sort of reputation at the time

"Dravid had no reputation in 2004" - OverratedSanity 2015.

spot the difference.

 

[OverratedSanity]

"Dravid had no reputation in 2004" - OverratedSanity 2015.

Yes I said that.

Another good idea for a sig .