*Official* Australia in India 2010

[robelinda]

Come on Punter, get through mate.

 

[marc71178]

Better than North fwiw.

And with the ball?

 

[Ruckus]

Here we go, both openers gone. Perfect situation for Ponting and Clarke to prove their worth.

 

[Edged&Taken]

dhoni caught one

 

[Cevno]

Dhoni has some serious bad luck when it comes to tosses.

I think it is 10 straight tosses he has lost now in a row.

 

[Cevno]

hmm i'd be tempted to try mukund over vijay to open with sehwag. i'm not completely sold on vijay yet and mukund should've been picked ideally (initially). he's not that great anyways lol. plus left/right combination might be better.

Agreed.

Would have preferred Mukund to Vijay myself.

Not at all sold on Vijay except in IPL matches on flat tracks. Looks good but gives his wicket away.

 

[Top_Cat]

Clarke in a bit of a trough here with that out. Haven't seen him look comfortable at the crease for some time. Weirdly, he's been getting out to spinners quite a bit of late.

 

[Cevno]

Clarke in a bit of a trough here with that out. Haven't seen him look comfortable at the crease for some time. Weirdly, he's been getting out to spinners quite a bit of late.

Agreed.

He used to be a very good player of spin and now he looks so dodgy.
Just keeps unneccesarily either pushing at the ball or charging down the pitch.

 

[Xuhaib]

Clarke in a bit of a trough here with that out. Haven't seen him look comfortable at the crease for some time. Weirdly, he's been getting out to spinners quite a bit of late.

thought he was a better spin player when he was more free flowing have never seen such a drastic turn around for any player use to wait for his batting now he's dull as a card board.

 

[NUFAN]

But more realistically we'll be 6/264 at stumps.

Haha, exactly half way currently - 3/132..

 

[Xuhaib]

the pitch looks an ideal track for spinners shame Aus has no one who can bowl it.

 

[aussie tragic]

Damn, one more wkt and they're into our tail

 

[Xuhaib]

Haha, exactly half way currently - 3/132..

you will be lucky to get to 264/6

 

[Xuhaib]

Damn, one more wkt and they're into our tail

nah Paine will bat still too early to send a night watchman imo.

 

[Ruckus]

As long as Ponting is in, we are still ok. If he goes though, we are ****ed big time.

 

[biased indian]

nice come back... would be good if we can get one more quickly....

 

[Spark]

Come back and see Clarke is out?

****. Anyone want to describe the dismissal for me? Am now convinced he is actually quite out of touch, which is unusual, and definitely not what I was thinking just last week.

Bets on a par score anyone?

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Ponting does look good today. Great straight drive.

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Oh, just saw the Clarke dismissal. Hmm, didn't play that well at all. Nervous little prod.

 

[bagapath]

****. Anyone want to describe the dismissal for me? Am now convinced he is actually quite out of touch, which is unusual, and definitely not what I was thinking just last week.

Cricinfo says: 41.4 84.2 kph, That typical Harbhajan mode of dismissal. A batsman lunges forward. The ball turns and it goes off bat and pad to a close-in fielder. This one too was similar. Clarke leaned forward to defend; the ball dipped and turned, got the inside edge, fell on the pad and popped up towards backward short-leg. Raina dived forward to grab it with both hands. Good catch. It was dying on him.Clarke is gone, Australia wobbling a touch. 132/3

 

[Spark]

Fielders are too deep. Not protecting the boundaries but not stopping singles either.

 

[kingjulian]

Hussey has made a confident start!