*Official* India Tour of Australia 2018/19

[TheJediBrah]

And Australia have participated in the Kabaddi World Cup (at least the last one in 2016)..
What is more, if wiki is to be believed, 'all matches were streamed in 360-degree video with stereoscopic 3D options' by Fox Sports in Australia.

quick google search tells me that Australia's kabaddi team consisted of 3 professional players from India (Jasvir Singh, Nishant Sangwan and Kuldeep Singh), and a bunch of Australian footballers who had never heard of the sport 2 weeks before the tournament

Don't really get why we are comparing kabaddi world cup to an AFL world cup that doesn't involve Australia

Fair point. Tendulkar is worth as much to batting as Smith Warner and Bancroft, and as big a cheat too.

Nah in a team that also had Laxman, Dravid & Sehwag, Tendulkar is nowhere near as a big a loss as either one of Smith or Warner would be to this Australian side, let alone both. Also missing games through injury is a very different scenario, and one that happens quite often. There's no comparison.

 

[sunilz]

Yes Warner and Bancroft would have certainly made a huge difference in this series as they are famous for their batting in bowling friendly conditions

 

[TheJediBrah]

Yes Warner and Bancroft would have certainly made a huge difference in this series as they are famous for their batting in bowling friendly conditions

Debatable whether Bancroft would have, but Warner would have undoubtedly made a huge difference. He's dominant in Australia and these have hardly been consistently "bowling friendly conditions"

 

[Borges]

Yes Warner and Bancroft would have certainly made a huge difference in this series as they are famous for their batting in bowling friendly conditions

How do you know that the conditions would have been bowling friendly if the cheats were playing?

 

[Victor Ian]

quick google search tells me that Australia's kabaddi team consisted of 3 professional players from India (Jasvir Singh, Nishant Sangwan and Kuldeep Singh), and a bunch of Australian footballers who had never heard of the sport 2 weeks before the tournament

Don't really get why we are comparing kabaddi world cup to an AFL world cup that doesn't involve Australia



Nah in a team that also had Laxman, Dravid & Sehwag, Tendulkar is nowhere near as a big a loss as either one of Smith or Warner would be to this Australian side, let alone both. Also missing games through injury is a very different scenario, and one that happens quite often. There's no comparison.

first part was the sarcasm. second part was the truth

 

[sunilz]

Considering that Warner was outscored by Murali Vijay in 2014-15 tour and seeing how much Vijay has struggled on this tour , I have my doubts regarding Warner.

 

[nagraj85]

tbf Rugby is relatively well spread international sport, not many people outside India would have even heard of kabbadi

Australia participating in the kabaddi world cup would be like if India participated in the AFL with a team of 10 players and 8 other randoms off the street who don't know what AFL is but were required to make up the numbers

interested to learn that there is a kabaddi world cup though, seems kind of pointless when only 1 country seriously plays it doesn't it? Or do Pakistan play it as well? That could get interesting

It seems you are ignorant. Some more google search may help you. Kabaddi is one of the oldest sport in the world. As many as 12 countries participated in the world cup last year. Rugby is only played in 3 odd countries. For your info, iran has a good history of playing kabaddi too. South korea is a decent team too. Even poland participated in the world cup last year. Yes the sport originated in india and India has won all the kabaddi world cups so far. But people are now taking the sport seriously. It is mainly played in rural part of india that's why it did not attract much attention. Now with the kabaddi league, it is getting the exposure.

 

[nagraj85]

More like pushes gently to mid off to be out for 2.

Did the definition of funny change while I was away? Why has this place been so dire recently?

is o'coffee funny according to u?

 

[TheJediBrah]

I don't get why some of you guys are getting so triggered by some accurate and moderate observations. I'm not being particularly harsh on the Indian team or it's players, but the way you guys are responding as if it's a competition and I'm **** talking India is bizarre.

Try to keep an open mind and be less sensitive. If someone says that "Australia's batting sucks" or "Australia would have done better with Smith and Warner", the first thing that jumps into your mind shouldn't be "hey this guy's saying that India suck and don't deserve to win". Maybe they are just saying what they are saying.

You don't need to be so sensitive and paranoid, it makes mature discussion impossible.

 

[jimmy101]

That's a bit different, Australia don't compete in the "Australian Football world cup"

True.

And Australia have participated in the Kabaddi World Cup (at least the last one in 2016)..
What is more, if wiki is to be believed, 'all matches were streamed in 360-degree video with stereoscopic 3D options' by Fox Sports in Australia.

Sadly I don't have Foxtel, otherwise I probably would have tuned in to a couple of matches.

Interestingly Pakistan didn't seem to be in the 2016 World Cup, did they refuse to travel to India or something?

 

[TheJediBrah]

It seems you are ignorant . . . As many as 12 countries participated in the world cup last year. Rugby is only played in 3 odd countries.

come on man at least try to be sensible. We've already established that at least 1 of the countries that participated in the kabaddi world cup was full of players that had only just heard of it, and a few Indian professionals.

And the last rugby world cup had 20 teams, and they are only the ones that made the final cut, and they are full of professional players from the country they are representing, and that's just Rugby union. It's very disingenuous to try to imply that kabaddi is a more widespread sport than Rugby.

 

[jimmy101]

Australia vs Argentina at KWC 2016.

 

[sunilz]

And let's check record of Kohli and second best after Bradman Smith in SENA countries . I have removed runs scored by Smith in AUS as Kohli never got chance to face Anderson on Adelaide,Sydney, MCG wickets.
Batting records | Test matches | Cricinfo Statsguru | ESPNcricinfo

Since Kohli has a very quiet tour so far by his standards , I doubt Smith would have been averaging more than 50 on this tour. .

 

[Borges]

Interestingly Pakistan didn't seem to be in the 2016 World Cup, did they refuse to travel to India or something?

This is what wiki says: "Pakistan was originally scheduled to participate in the tournament, but was removed due to increased tensions between India and Pakistan. The International Kabaddi Federation argued that it was "not the right time to engage with Pakistan". The Pakistani team criticized the move, arguing that it was comparable to holding a FIFA World Cup without Brazil"

 

[TheJediBrah]

And let's check record of Kohli and second best after Bradman Smith in SENA countries . I have removed runs scored by Smith in AUS as Kohli never got chance to face Anderson on Adelaide,Sydney, MCG wickets.
Batting records | Test matches | Cricinfo Statsguru | ESPNcricinfo

Since Kohli has a very quiet tour so far by his standards , I doubt Smith would have been averaging more than 50 on this tour. .

You've tried to predict how Smith would have performed in a series in Australia, by looking at his past averages in series away from Australia? wow

Predicting that he would average 50 would be pretty conservative if anything. Heck, even if he only averaged 40 (which is unlikely, 60 or 70 would be realistic) he still would have a huge difference. That is not really debatable afaic. Aus would have almost certainly won in Adelaide and likely at least drawn in Melbourne (or even won if they had batted first).

 

[jimmy101]

come on man at least try to be sensible. We've already established that at least 1 of the countries that participated in the kabaddi world cup was full of players that had only just heard of it, and a few Indian professionals.

And the last rugby world cup had 20 teams, and they are only the ones that made the final cut, and they are full of professional players from the country they are representing, and that's just Rugby union. It's very disingenuous to try to imply that kabaddi is a more widespread sport than Rugby.

Yeah. Rugby (Union at least) is pretty widespread. Fully professional in roughly 12 countries.

 

[Victor Ian]

You've tried to predict how Smith would have performed in a series in Australia, by looking at his past averages in series away from Australia? wow

Predicting that he would average 50 would be pretty conservative if anything. Heck, even if he only averaged 40 (which is unlikely, 60 or 70 would be realistic) he still would have a huge difference. That is not really debatable afaic. Aus would have almost certainly won in Adelaide and likely at least drawn in Melbourne (or even won if they had batted first).

Don't forget the brainy, 'since Kohli is ****, Smith would be ****' pearl.

 

[nagraj85]

come on man at least try to be sensible. We've already established that at least 1 of the countries that participated in the kabaddi world cup was full of players that had only just heard of it, and a few Indian professionals.

And the last rugby world cup had 20 teams, and they are only the ones that made the final cut, and they are full of professional players from the country they are representing, and that's just Rugby union. It's very disingenuous to try to imply that kabaddi is a more widespread sport than Rugby.

AFAIK, rugby is mostly played in 4 countries, australia, newzealand and england, SA. Those other 16 countries would have been there just to fill the numbers.People in india preferred cricket then hockey. Because of which kabaddi was ignored despite of the old history. Now people are waking up and kabaddi league started. It has became the second most watched sport in india now. In coming years, you will see more international exposure to it if they do right marketing.

 

[Borges]

Yeah. Rugby (Union at least) is pretty widespread. Fully professional in roughly 12 countries.

Is Rugby Union the same game that Australians call Football?

 

[sunilz]

Ind would also have won Perth test had umpire given correct decision regarding Kohli's dismissal in 2nd test . Let's keep moving in circles.

And if the banned trio would be playing this series I am 99% certain AUS would have produced wickets like last year Ashes and Kohli would have another 500+ runs series and series result would have been 0-0.