South Africa the only real impressive one out of those. Australia and England happened ages ago, hard to talk about those.Not defending what bun said at all, but just to clear up, India weren't crap away from the subcontinent. Won in England in 07, 1-2 loss to Australia in 07/08, beat NZ in 09 and drew in SA in 10/11.
No not great, but not crap either.
Then how does one judge India to be crap away then? If you don't include England in 07 and Australia in 07/08, SA and NZ are the only times they played away from the subcontinent whilst number 1 (along with the West Indies which I forgot to add). They didn't lose any of those series.South Africa the only real impressive one out of those. Australia and England happened ages ago, hard to talk about those.
Yes they do if it's 3-0 Pakistan and 3-0 SA.So, someone to do the math and tell whether the no.1 ranking is indeed at stake if they lose the next match or if SA win their next few matches?
New Zealand.Who are RSA playing next?
Cevno WAG. Ron Paul FTWThe battle for number 1. right now is like the Republican presidential race in USA right now.
South Africa are like Mitt Romney who though has his own flaws, will eventually rise to the top once everyone has their chance and sunk by being relatively consistent everywhere.
England is like Newt Gingrich who goes up and down again and again,screwing his chances to stay at no. 1 for a good duration himself. Quite unlikable too.
India is like Rick Perry. Had everything going for him and was on top but somehow has managed to self destruct completely due to dumbness.
Pakistan are loke Ron Paul with enthusiastic support and lot of cynics, who is a Wildcard factor which may take others down.
Australia are like Rick Santorum who thought he was down and out after taking beatings, but realized later all others were equally **** and then that he had actually not done too badly himself. Now wants to take Gingrich on after slugging it out with Romney for a while.
The rest while not in race are relative spoilers for others with Newzealand(Herman Cain), West Indies(John Huntsman),Srilanka(Michele Bachman) leading the pack.....
Look at this ****, one 4-0 series win against India and suddenly he's full of it.You're all just warming our seat. You can tell by the way the fans yap it up and the England and Indian players strut around - being number one sits poorly with anyone but Australia, because the rest of the test playing countries are more comfortable in their natural state of mediocrity.
You only have to read the posts of the Indian then English supporters of the past year to 18 months. "We (india) can't be beaten at home"; "that team are good, but not England good".
Ffs it's hilarious. Give the title back to the nation with whom it rightly rests most comfortably, Australia. Between the two of you, there's been one "dynasty" since WW2 - England in the 50s (no coincidence the era regarded as the most tedious in test history).
Seriously, all these comments about these countries being great for years and years. It's laughable.
Just hand it back to its rightful owner and save yourselves all this angst.
The battle for number 1. right now is like the Republican presidential race in USA right now.
South Africa are like Mitt Romney who though has his own flaws, will eventually rise to the top once everyone has their chance and sunk by being relatively consistent everywhere.
England is like Newt Gingrich who goes up and down again and again,screwing his chances to stay at no. 1 for a good duration himself. Quite unlikable too.
India is like Rick Perry. Had everything going for him and was on top but somehow has managed to self destruct completely due to dumbness.
Pakistan are loke Ron Paul with enthusiastic support and lot of cynics, who is a Wildcard factor which may take others down.
Australia are like Rick Santorum who thought he was down and out after taking beatings, but realized later all others were equally **** and then that he had actually not done too badly himself. Now wants to take Gingrich on after slugging it out with Romney for a while.
The rest while not in race are relative spoilers for others with Newzealand(Herman Cain), West Indies(John Huntsman),Srilanka(Michele Bachman) leading the pack.....