*Official* India Tour of Australia 2018/19

[Burgey]

If I was to compare Australia as a cricket nation with a soccer country it would be australia - both currently laughing stocks despite great facilities and lot of money poured into them, and both lost to Asian countries in the last 24 hours.

 

[sunilz]

Is this that weird mentality where if a team that someone supports has a subjectively inferior record to the team they have fair criticism for, then their opinion is irrelevant

Read my post again. I said IND are competitive team overseas since 2000. Being competetive doesn't mean being dominant . AUS were competitive side on their last tour to IND and ENG .

 

[ishqiya]

I'd think India would be more the Brazil of cricket. Country with a lot of poverty, yet very competitive internationally due to country's obsession with the sport over all else

Brazil way richer than India though. Their per capita income is way more than India's ( 3 times as much). With India's economic rise since 1991 though (due to market liberalizations) India will become the new Brazil of cricket though and maybe in the next 20-30 years what the US is in basketball.

India has always had an insane cricket crazy population but has been extremely poor. Now it is less poor increasing the effective pool of players. For a kid with some talent to become an international level player requires a certain level of infrastructure and money. Earlier that was only present in the cities like Mumbai, Bangalore etc so if you look at old Indian players who were good/great they were all from the big six cities of India (Sachin, Sunny G, Dravid, Laxman, Srinath, Kumble, Azhar, Bedi, Vengsarkar etc). But now with better FC salaries, more modern training regimes, IPL salaries etc the pool of kids with potential going into cricket is larger and larger and also coming from smaller towns/less fancy Ranji teams. Indian cricket mainstays since 2000 who are not from the big six cities (and their respective Ranji teams) include Bhajji, Yuvi, Dhoni, Umesh, Bumrah, Pujara, Jadeja, Kuldeep, Bhuvi etc.

This has led to India becoming the best team in the last 5 years (highest W/L ratio in all three formats + only team to rank top 2 in all three formats). You can see this change manifesting also in Indian bowling which never was the best but now we have multiple spinners and pacers averaging below 30 in test cricket (and a few below 25) while still having two 50+ averaging batsmen (only team to have two).

Good news is that India's economy still hasn't reached full potential and will be growing at 6-8% till mid century at least if not beyond which will manifest in cricket also.

Good days are here.

 

[TheJediBrah]

The Orange (Dutch) maybe? Similar population. Had their glory days, struggling a bit now.

Nah pretty sure soccer is huge in Holland, compared to cricket in Australia

 

[Senile Sentry]

If I was to compare Australia as a cricket nation with a soccer country it would be australia - both currently laughing stocks despite great facilities and lot of money poured into them, and both lost to Asian countries in the last 24 hours.

Good postm

 

[vicleggie]

If I was to compare Australia as a cricket nation with a soccer country it would be australia - both currently laughing stocks despite great facilities and lot of money poured into them, and both lost to Asian countries in the last 24 hours.

Not really relevant considering 'Asian' cricketing teams have been far more successful than Asian soccer teams

 

[Starfighter]

Your series predictions assessed

Originally Posted by howardj
Result: Australia 2-1 - No
Top Runs: Australia: Harris - Yes
Top Runs: India: Kohli - No
Top Wickets: Australia: Starc - No
Top Wickets: India: Ashwin - No
Dropped Players: MMarsh, Head, Sharma - Yes, No, No
Weird Stuff: Tim Paine to not reach double figures - No
1.33/7 rubbish

Originally Posted by Starfighter
Result: India 2-1 - Yes
Runs Aus: Finch - lol **** no
Runs Ind: Kohli - thankfully not
Wickets Aus: Cummins - no
Wickets Ind: Shami - no
Dropped players: Head, Rahul - no, yes
Weird: Haze to take under 10 wickets - wasn't that bad
MotS: Kohli - no
1.5/8 also rubbish

Originally Posted by Burgey
Result: Australia 2-1 - no
Runs Aus: Khawaja - yeah, you're not the only one disappointed there
Runs Ind: Kohli - no
Wickets Aus: Haze/ Lyon - sorta yes
Wickets Ind: Shami - no
Dropped players: Head, Rahul, Vijay, Pujara, Rahane, Ashwin, Jadeja, Shami, Ishant, Bumrah, Kumar - 2/11
Weird: Cummins will make a ton from number eight which will win Australia a test. - I wish he had at Melbourne
MotS: Cummins - no
0.68/8 dire

Originally Posted by OverratedSanity
Result: Australia 3-1 - like you knew nothing abut our batting
Runs Aus: S Marsh - very funny
Runs Ind: Kohli - no
Wickets Aus: Haze - no
Wickets Ind: Ishant - no
Dropped players: Rahul - yes
Weird: Ashwin to average worse than Yasir Shah in 2016/17 - wish we had Smith to knock the bugger where he deserves
MotS: Haze - no
1/8 very rubbish

Originally Posted by Daemon
Result: Australia 3-0 - can Indian fans stop making dire predictions now?
Runs Aus: A Finch - lol you weren't the only one fooled
Runs Ind: Kohli - no
Wickets Aus: Cummins - no
Wickets Ind: Shami - no
Dropped players: Rahul - yes
Weird: Lyon to run through us a couple of times - brilliantly done
MotS: Cummins - no
2/8 the best of a bad lot

Originally Posted by morgieb
Result: Australia 2-1 - no
Runs Aus: Khawaja - *wince*
Runs Ind: Kohli - no
Wickets Aus: Cummins - no
Wickets Ind: Bumrah - yes, well done
Dropped players: Rahul, Rahane, Head - yes, no, no
Weird: India's one Test win to be by an innings - no
MotS: Cummins - no
1.33/8 rubbish

Originally Posted by Shri
Result: 1-1 - no
Runs Aus: Finch - lol
Runs Ind: Kohli - no
Wickets Aus: Starc/Lyon - your prevarication earn you half
Wickets Ind: Shami/Bumrah - ditto
Dropped players: Smarsh, Rahul, Rahane, Pujara, Ashwin, Bhuvi - no, yes, no, , no, not selected
Weird: Head will win a test with the ball for Aus - what were you on?
MotS: Starc/Kohli - no
1.167/8 also rubbish

Originally Posted by SillyCowCorner1
Result: 2-1 IND - yes
Runs Aus: Paine - no
Runs Ind: Rahane - no
Wickets Aus: Starc - no
Wickets Ind: Shami - no
Dropped players: Rahul Pujara, Ashwin, Bhuvi - yes (seems to have been a popular choice), , no, not picked
Weird: Steve Smith's ban will be shorten and Australia will include him in the squad after 0-2 in the series - I wish the first sentence was true
MotS: Hanuman Vihari - nah
1.25/8 rubbish

Originally Posted by fredfertang
Result: India 3-0 - no, not bad though
Runs Aus: Khawaja - no
Runs Ind: Kohli - no
Wickets Aus: Starc - no
Wickets Ind: Shami - no
Dropped players: No Australian batsmen will play in all the Tests - no
Weird: Crims to get caught ball tampering, again - GAGF
MotS: Kohli - no
0/8 perfect failure

Originally Posted by Pup Clarke
Result: 3-0 AUS - no
Runs Aus: Khawaja - no
Runs Ind: Virat- no
Wickets Aus : Lyon - yes
Wickets Ind : Ishant - no
Dropped players : Pujara, Ashwin - Yeah maybe not, no
Weird: Virat to retire hurt in one innings and then resume to hit a double hundred - no
MotS : Lyon - no
1/8 very rubbish


Originally Posted by NotMcKenzie
Result: 1-2 India - yes
Runs Aus: Finch, Khawaja - double no
Runs Ind: Kohli - no
Wickets Aus: Hazelwood - no
Wickets Ind: Sharma - no
Dropped players: Harris - no
Weird: Jadeja plays, picks up wickets - yes
MotS: Kohli - no
2/8 also best of bad lot

Originally Posted by Gnske
Result: 3 - 0 Ind - no
Runs Aus: Khawaja - no
Runs Ind: Kohli - no
Wickets Aus: Cummins - no
Wickets Ind: Shami - no
Dropped players: Rahul, Harris, Handscomb, Head, Finch, Paine, both Marshes, Renshaw, - 3.5/9
Weird: Ashwin gets his wickets at under an average of 40 - yes
MotS: Cummins - no
1.389/8 rubbish

Overall Conclusions:
No one saw Pujara doing what he did, everyone except the two least informed went for the easy dropping of Rahul, and other than that we're pretty rubbish at this.

P.S. I make no apologies for marking the dropped players like I did. The further you stick your neck out the more likely it is to get chopped off.

 

[vicleggie]

A steamming pile of dung dished up by Sydney this test. It really is a pathetic sporting city.

 

[sunilz]

Test series victory bigger than ODI World Cup for Kohli
https://www.news18.com/cricketnext/...1-world-cup-triumph-for-me-kohli-1993739.html

 

[Starfighter]

Is this that weird mentality where if a team that someone supports has a subjectively inferior record to the team they have fair criticism for, then their opinion is irrelevant

That mentality is known as 'being an idiot and a troll'.

 

[Burgey]

Not really relevant considering 'Asian' cricketing teams have been far more successful than Asian soccer teams

Australia should not be losing to either

 

[sunilz]

Extremely happy for Pujara. He is the least paid member of the current Indian team . Even Unadkat earns thrice as compared to him due to IPL contract .

 

[Borges]

Extremely happy for Pujara. He is the least paid member of the current Indian team . Even Unadkat earns thrice as compared to him due to IPL contract .

Pujara is now going to make a fortune from endorsements.

 

[vicleggie]

Extremely happy for Pujara. He is the least paid member of the current Indian team . Even Unadkat earns thrice as compared to him due to IPL contract .

Does he not play IPL by choice, or because franchises don't want him?

 

[Borges]

Franchises don't want him.

 

[Chrish]

Does he not play IPL by choice, or because franchises don't want him?

https://indianexpress.com/article/s...tch-ipl-on-tv-says-cheteshwar-pujara-4635531/

 

[stephen]

Disappointing that Australia won't host the West Indies again in tests until 2022. And that we're only playing 5 tests per summer for the foreseeable future. Really disappointing that Pakistan only get two tests next summer.

 

[stephen]

Ugh and in 2020 Australia only get two away tests! That's they're against Bangladesh. That's awful for a non-WC year. 2022 is a huge year with an ashes summer and then 9 away tests!

Who is in charge of this ridiculous schedule?

 

[vicleggie]

Disappointing that Australia won't host the West Indies again in tests until 2022. And that we're only playing 5 tests per summer for the foreseeable future. Really disappointing that Pakistan only get two tests next summer.

Think they said India will be back in 2 years. Wtf

 

[Starfighter]

Disappointing that Australia won't host the West Indies again in tests until 2022. And that we're only playing 5 tests per summer for the foreseeable future. Really disappointing that Pakistan only get two tests next summer.

Well we can say goodbye to any matches on the actually interesting wicket at Hobart then. Cricket administrators need to go **** themselves, the death of test cricket will be entirely their fault.