So much ignorance. Ponting in 2004 was at his peak, and the best player in the world. Trying to predict his value based on 2001 Ponting, or 2008 Ponting is braindeadYes Ponting with average of 26 in IND was a big loss for AUS .
Mumbai was the perfect dust bowl. Blame the pitch for inability to play spin.
Expect better of you OS
And Prithvi Shaw. Imagine if Prithvi Shaw played all 4 games.
Most of the time it's in response to TJB claiming that Smith/Warner/tosses would have altered the series result. Whatever.
Just like Bhuvi/tosses would alter the results in England. You get what you get. That's life. Australia have certain got a lot in Ind/Aus encounters as much as they deny - Nagpur greentop, Chennai rain, Sydney bucknor, mid 1980s series rain (which we should have won) etc.
No you don't.
Nah, he did fine on spinning wickets in Sri Lanka in 2004, against Murali no less. 2004 India wouldn't have been an issue for him. 2008 he was well on the decline, 2010 even more a shadow of himself. 2001 he wasn't even half the player he became. This is why Ponting's stats in India are largely irrelevant to almost any discussion on the topic.
He averaged 33 in sl in 2004 when supposedly at his peak. I don't think this helps your case.
There was no Nagpur green top. That pitch was brown and sprays of dirt were coming off it on the first day.
≠ a greentop. There was enough spin there and plenty of dirt visible, the pace and bounce would have had more to do with the way it was rolled and watered. The fastest pitches like Perth in the seventies and Sabina Park from the sixties to the nineties had practically no grass at all.
Just semantics tbh. Whether it was a 'greentop' in the strictest sense or not is irrelevant. Point was, it was heavily in favor of Australia. Bit like how Southampton was in favor of India this year. Difference being India didn't take advantage.
Indian cricket fans that I come across (online) really are the worst. Add in that a number of the Indian cricket team behave like spoilt children when they take a wicket or score a hundy - I quietly revel when the Indian cricket team get beat or Kohli misses out.
Indeed. It’s why I’m always thankful for Sydney 08, because it was the first time I really got a taste of what a pack of brain dead ****wits a lot of Indian supporters are. Before that matxh they were one of my favourite sides and I’d often want them to win against England, NZ, SA etc. since that match and the ridiculous response to it though, I’d support the Ebola XI vs the Indian National Victim Conplex XI.
Literally only just kohli