Australia vs India prediction thread

[JackPot]

series pediction :

2-1 Australia :smoke:

Most Runs -- Sehwag
Most Wickets -- S. Clark
Man of the Series : S Clark

 

[Uppercut]

best prediction so far !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Haha, didn't even get a sweat on it.

 

[Johnners]

Winner - Australia
Series scoreline - 2-1
Most runs - Hussey
Most wickets - Lee
Man of the series - Hussey
First Australian player to get dropped from the side - White/Krejza
First Indian player to get dropped from the side - Ganguly
First player to get booked by the match referee - HB Singh

 

[Nate]

Winner - Australia, India, Draw
Series scoreline - 1-0, 2-0, 3-0, 4-0, 0-1, etc


Deadset, it's a predictions thread. Pick one.

 

[JackPot]

Winner - Australia, India, Draw
Series scoreline - 1-0, 2-0, 3-0, 4-0, 0-1, etc


Deadset, it's a predictions thread. Pick one.

Australia win 2-1

 

[pasag]

No one got Siddle as the first Australian dropped nor Zaheer as the first player booked.

 

[Johnners]

Will take a miracle for Lee to get most wickets in the series.

 

[Precambrian]

Yeah sure they might want to make the decks spin but there's a pretty important factor which won't be in favour of that; the weather. It's not a hot time of year, the pitches won't be dust-bowls. As you said, if they don't want a lively deck, they'll just shave them to negate the Aussie quicks and make them slow and low because that's really all they'll have available to them. One thing the pitches just won't do is spin. Not in the first couple of Tests, anyway.

The problem then will be Lee and Clark; they've proven themselves quite capable of taking wickets on flat pitches whereas none of the Indian pacers have so they'd better win the toss or the Indian batters will be facing some big, big totals. Every tactic has a downside if certain things don't go your way and making the decks flatter than flat also gives the Aussies a fairly hefty head-start if they bat first and a much easier time of it if they bat second.

 

[Richard]

No one got Siddle as the first Australian dropped nor Zaheer as the first player booked.

I just can't see how you can be dropped if you only played specifically as an injury replacement TBH.

 

[neutralguy]

Winner - India
Series scoreline - 1-0
Most runs - Gambhir
Most wickets - Harbhajan
Man of the series - Gambhir
First Australian player to get dropped from the side - Johnson
First Indian player to get dropped from the side - Piyush
First player to get booked by the match referee - Ponting

Almost got spoton with your prediction mate.

 

[pasag]

Will tally up the points soon.

 

[pasag]

Winner - India
Series scoreline - 2-0
Most runs - Gambhir, 463
Most wickets - Harbjhan/Sharma, 15
Man of the series - Sharma
First Australian player to get dropped from the side - Siddle
First Indian player to get dropped from the side - None
First player to get booked by the match referee - Zaheer Khan, link.

Each correct call equals one point, if you gave two tips you get the first one. Out of a total of eight:

inbox24 - 4
Precambrian - 3
anoop4real - 3
NUFAN - 2
FaaipDeOiad - 2
Nnanden - 2
Julian87 - 2
morgieb - 2
vic_orthdox - 1
Samuel_Vimes - 1
duffer - 1
Uppercut - 1
four_or_six - 1
Richard - 1
irfan - 1
silentstriker - 1
andruid - 1
Somerset - 1
howardj - 1
Rickripper - 1
BoyBrumby - 1
Laurrz - 1
biased indian - 1
G.I.Joe - 1
Speersy - 1
andyc - 0
GeraintIsMyHero - 0
pup11 - 0
Jakester1288 - 0
Simon - 0
pskov - 0
Burgey - 0
Top_Cat - 0
honestbharani - 0
pasag - 0
Pup Clarke - 0
Ikki - 0
JackPot - 0
Clapo - 0

Apologies for any mistakes.

 

[pasag]

First player to get booked by the match referee - Ricky Ponting for slow over rates.

Haha, not bad.

 

[dontcloseyoureyes]

Winner - Watto
Series scoreline - 2-1
Most runs - Watto
Most wickets - Watto
Man of the series - Watto
First Australian player to get dropped from the side - Not Watto
First Indian player to get dropped from the side - Harby
First player to get booked by the match referee - Bill Ponsford
Number of new signups to CW to get banned during the series - 43

That's a point, IMO.

 

[Richard]

In anticipation of what will hopefully be a great series:

To an extent.

Winner - India

Yep.

Series scoreline - umm, 3-1 if weather doesn't intervene. Not valid if it does.

Two full-game draws, most unexpected.

Most runs - Hayden for Aus, Tendulkar for Ind

Not even close on the first, should have said Hussey really, not that far away on the second.

Most wickets - Lee for Aus, Harbhajan Singh for Ind

Not even close on the first (was almost Krejza who played 1 game ), good on the latter, even if it did end-up a tie.

Man of the series - Sehwag

Nope.

First Australian player to get dropped from the side - no-one, I hope

Who would have thought it'd be Stuart Clark.

First Indian player to get dropped from the side - Gambhir

Not even close.

First player to get booked by the match referee - Harbhajan Singh

Nope.

 

[irfan]

In anticipation of what will hopefully be a great series:

Winner - India
Series scoreline - 2-1
Most runs - Ponting for Aus, Sehwag for Ind
Most wickets - Lee for Aus, Harbhajan Singh for Ind
Man of the series - Sehwag
First Australian player to get dropped from the side - Johnson
First Indian player to get dropped from the side - Dravid
Surprise Package - M. Kaif for India, S. Katich for Australia

2 pts IMO

 

[Jono]

Richard, Clark wasn't the first dropped, Siddle was. Whilst he was only played in the first place to replace Clark, its still an omission, i.e. being dropped from the team. If you're not injured, and aren't selected, you were dropped.

Just like Symonds was dropped from the Australian line-up, even though it wasn't form related.

 

[pasag]

2 pts IMO

Nah, didn't answer the question.

 

[Richard]

Richard, Clark wasn't the first dropped, Siddle was. Whilst he was only played in the first place to replace Clark, its still an omission, i.e. being dropped from the team. If you're not injured, and aren't selected, you were dropped.

Just like Symonds was dropped from the Australian line-up, even though it wasn't form related.

He was dropped for a disciplinary breach. It's not the same as being dropped for failure to do the job on-field, but it's still going from first-choice to not first-choice.

For mine, you have to be in the side as a first-choice to be dropped. When I talk about someone being dropped, I mean they went from being a first-choice to not being.

An injury replacement cannot be dropped, IMO. Hence, when I talk about someone being dropped, that's what I mean. Someone else can mean something else if they want to, but what other people mean by "dropped" doesn't mean what I mean has to be the same.

And I am flabbergasted that Clark was dropped at all. Siddle, however, only played because Clark had been injured, so could not be dropped.

 

[Johnners]

Haha Jono, didn't you know Richard is never wrong