**Official** Australia in India Thread

[Sanz]

My Indian friends are reacting as if India was certain to win test match. At best India has a 50 % chance of winning this one.

 

[ReallyCrazy]

oh well I wanted india to beat australia to lose in my home city but it wasn't to be.

I guess thats the way the cookie crumbles and im off to sleep!

 

[FRAZ]

My Indian friends are reacting as if India was certain to win test match. At best India has a 50 % chance of winning this one.

Nope 60-40 . Indians were favourite ... For sure ...

 

[TendulkarFan]

My Indian friends are reacting as if India was certain to win test match. At best India has a 50 % chance of winning this one.

If you asked your Aussie buddies, they would have told you that the Aussies were certain to win.

And that's what it's a tragedy to lose this game to the weather.

 

[Sanz]

Take it easy pal, There are many aussies on this board and I dont think most of them would say that Australia are certain to win this one. I would like India to win but I know that it is not as easy as it looks especially when 90% of the Indian batsmen are out of form and Shane Warne is at his best on India soil

 

[TendulkarFan]

Take it easy pal, There are many aussies on this board and I dont think most of them would say that Australia are certain to win this one. I would like India to win but I know that it is not as easy as it looks especially when 90% of the Indian batsmen are out of form and Shane Warne is at his best on India soil

I was talking about the die-hard ones on both sides

 

[JustTool]

Take it easy pal, There are many aussies on this board and I dont think most of them would say that Australia are certain to win this one. I would like India to win but I know that it is not as easy as it looks especially when 90% of the Indian batsmen are out of form and Shane Warne is at his best on India soil

Well, if you want hear different perspectives here's one that will hold water (no pun intended):

Ganguly cannot be faulted if he is thinking that in Bangalore, the two umpires did India in and here in Chennai, the weather is calling the shots.

Quite a few Indian supporters were waiting patiently at the M.A. Chidambaram stadium today. Like all Indian fans, they too were convinced of the Indian victory. "Just 5O overs, sir, and Sehwag will do it," some of them said.

Others looked resigned to their fate. "We have been robbed, first at Bangalore by the umpires and now here by rain. It is not fair."

 

[TendulkarFan]

"Just 5O overs, sir, and Sehwag will do it,"

30 is more like it

 

[Mr Casson]

I think the rain is sort of cool in a way, if this match peters out to a draw. The momentum has swung so much that this match can be the ultimate mystery: who would have won? One of those things we might be better off not knowing.

I know most of you probably don't agree one way or the other, but I kind of like the uncertainty behind it all; it is perfect in its own way.

I don't think that if it turns into a draw that any shine should be taken off the match. There's been so much; so many brilliant individual performances and so much swinging fortune. It's been a really great match regardless of the outcome.

Having said that, I was never confident about Australia's chances in the match, and I would snap up a draw faster than you could offer it.

 

[Mr Casson]

TGUPT....(Thank God You Posted This)

I'll second that.

Scallywag has a serious case of pre-emptive sore loser syndrome. It's no good making excuses after the match, but if you get in beforehand you aren't making excuses so much as making up excuses to use later.

Scallywag, you know how whenever you play a game and there's some loony on the losing side who pipes up with 'yeah, but you cheated'? At the moment, that's you.

 

[JustTool]

I think the rain is sort of cool in a way, if this match peters out to a draw. The momentum has swung so much that this match can be the ultimate mystery: who would have won? One of those things we might be better off not knowing.

I know most of you probably don't agree one way or the other, but I kind of like the uncertainty behind it all; it is perfect in its own way.

I don't think that if it turns into a draw that any shine should be taken off the match. There's been so much; so many brilliant individual performances and so much swinging fortune. It's been a really great match regardless of the outcome.

Having said that, I was never confident about Australia's chances in the match, and I would snap up a draw faster than you could offer it.

That's a good perspective. However from the Indian point of view, with them down 1-0 in the seris and nothing to lose (except being down 2-0 which is as bad as 1-0) they would have preferred to play it out Especially because Nagpur is a flat wicket (no chance for India to win) and Mumbai has favored the Aussies.

 

[Scallywag]

I'll second that.

Scallywag has a serious case of pre-emptive sore loser syndrome. It's no good making excuses after the match, but if you get in beforehand you aren't making excuses so much as making up excuses to use later.

Scallywag, you know how whenever you play a game and there's some loony on the losing side who pipes up with 'yeah, but you cheated'? At the moment, that's you.

Others looked resigned to their fate. "We have been robbed, first at Bangalore by the umpires and now here by rain. It is not fair."

Really.

 

[Dydl]

Ganguly didn't want to bat yesterday and was trying to slow down the over rate. Imagine how he will be feeling with this rain delay.

 

[Mr Casson]

Really.

Selective hearing, ad hoc quoting; call it whatever you want. All you're doing is finding a p!$$-weak quote to suit yourself.

 

[Dydl]

The match is probobly going to be a draw. I read somewhere that it would take 2 and a half hours after the rain had stopped for the covers to come off or to have the covers off 2 and a half hours later.

 

[Dydl]

Is that true. Can anyone back it up for me?

 

[SJS]

My Indian friends are reacting as if India was certain to win test match. At best India has a 50 % chance of winning this one.

No my friend. This rain is terrible not because it has deprived India of victory but because it has deprived all of uf of what was promising to be a great days test cricket. Whoever won, it would have been great to watch. This match and the way it has played out is a great advertisement for the longer version of the game and to be deprived of the climax is obviously being taken as a calamity.

If you are an Australian (or from any other cricketing country) and not equally terribly disappointed, it would be very surprising. No ??

 

[marc71178]

Here's a question for all of you in favor of walking as an alternative to introducing technology:

I'm not talking about technology, and the only reason you keep bringing it up is because India had a couple more rough calls than Australia did.

Had it been the other way round, you wouldn't have said a thing.

 

[Dydl]

No my friend. This rain is terrible not because it has deprived India of victory but because it has deprived all of uf of what was promising to be a great days test cricket. Whoever won, it would have been great to watch. This match and the way it has played out is a great advertisement for the longer version of the game and to be deprived of the climax is obviously being taken as a calamity.

If you are an Australian (or from any other cricketing country) and not equally terribly disappointed, it would be very surprising. No ??

Spot on. Really disappointing that the match is going to be a draw. But that is how it is.

 

[marc71178]

The draw may be a possibility. I hear that its been raining in Chennai this morning.

I was only joking when I posted that!

Didn't expect it to happen!