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**Official** Australia in India Thread

twctopcat

International Regular
All this series is going to show is that india aren't close to being no.1 and are questionable with regards to the "best of the rest" claim. They prospered against a poor aussie attack in australia and now they're finding out what proper bowling is all about.
 

biased indian

International Coach
twctopcat said:
All this series is going to show is that india aren't close to being no.1 and are questionable with regards to the "best of the rest" claim. They prospered against a poor aussie attack in australia and now they're finding out what proper bowling is all about.
the fact that india had lost so many plyers who played in the last test series that we played hasnt got nothing to do with

we missed sachin,ganguly,balaji,pathan,harbhajan at some stage or other

and what about the nagpur pitch it was so sporting a pitch that it had more grass on it than all the pithces put together had when india toured australia.

and our batsmen are in great form arent they 8-)
 

Sanz

Hall of Fame Member
Common now, Let's not give excuses. Many of us had predicted results in Australia's favor before the tour even started that this Aussie team is different from the one that toured India in 2001.
 

Slow Love™

International Captain
There was a really insightful comment made on this game in the "shoutbox" at cricbuzz.com:

"india sucks!!!!!1 lol"

Pathetic effort by India today. It felt like a team on the fifth day set 500 with three full sessions to play. Barring a Laxman/Dravid miracle in the second innings (perhaps I shouldn't say that!), it seems like the Indians have already surrendered. What were they doing out there? Dravid's innings was Gillespiesque.

Great bowling by the Aussies, though, particularly McGrath. Might be ready to stick a fork in this series tomorrow, unless India pull out something special.
 

twctopcat

International Regular
But consistency is the key here. Sure Pathan, Khan etc are all capable of great things but to be the best you've got to produce the best on a consistent basis. I don't think the supposedly inferior australian batting line up has such a crisis that none of them perform, there is always a few who pop up to rescue situations (like Kaif did on his own today).
Up against quality bowlers the indians struggle as do all batsmen sure, but they lack resilience apart from Dravid and Kaif. Tendulkar was unlucky also.
The point is the Indian team relies too much on Kumble or singh to have an extraordinary series, much like 2001 or last year. If that doesn't happen there is little to fall back on.
 

marc71178

Eyes not spreadsheets
JASON said:
Provided Kaif with Patel, AA, Kumble can manage to avoid the follow on, then the second innings could well be another game altogether. (that would only leave a deficit of around 150 odd or less on the first innings.)
At this run rate, it'll take about 25-30 overs to avoid the follow on and about the same again to get within 150.

I can't see Australia's bowlers taking that long to remove this tail.
 

marc71178

Eyes not spreadsheets
biased indian said:
the fact that india had lost so many plyers who played in the last test series that we played hasnt got nothing to do with
Remind us of course who Australia were missing in the last series, and how we were told that these absentees couldn't be given as an excuse?
 

telsor

U19 12th Man
Before the test started, Gilchrist said something like this pitch looking like the pitch at Adelaide. Do I need to remind people of the turnaround that happened there?

My point is, it isn't over yet however favorable it might look to Australia at the moment.

Cricket isn't completely predictable ( thankfully ), and just as we can never be sure what would have happened had the second test been played out, we can but wait and see what happens here.

I would also point out that for all the comments about India's deficiencies that I've read in the past however many pages, perhaps there should be a little more credit given for the increadibly accurate bowling of the Australians.
 

biased indian

International Coach
if australia win this test by an inngs they should also thank the grounds man :D :D :D

there is a talk going in the paper rounds here that ganguly sat down due to differnece with the grounds man because he was not given the pitch he wanted any one belive that??? :blink: :blink:
 

telsor

U19 12th Man
Slow Love™ said:
Might be ready to stick a fork in this series tomorrow, unless India pull out something special.
I wouldn't think so.

If I were the Aussies, I wouldn't be enforcing the follow-on...I'd aim to put together a lead of 500+ and give the Indians ~5 sessions to chase it with the pitch at it's worst, bad memories of the first innings and the need to win the test if they are to have any chance to win the series.
 

biased indian

International Coach
marc71178 said:
Remind us of course who Australia were missing in the last series, and how we were told that these absentees couldn't be given as an excuse?
aus missed macgrath when india last toured there but not warne
india missing ganguly can be treated the same way but what about harbhajan and sachin and pathan ??

and any way we might have lost but atleast there is some thing for us to say about like u all said when india drew aus in jan :p :p :p :p
 

biased indian

International Coach
tooextracool said:
hes not the only indian fast bowler with a high average......
the reason for others having big avg is not because that they bowl
looseners like him because thay dont get the sporting pitch like the one at nagpur often :p :p :p
 

tooextracool

International Coach
biased indian said:
if australia win this test by an inngs they should also thank the grounds man :D :D :D

there is a talk going in the paper rounds here that ganguly sat down due to differnece with the grounds man because he was not given the pitch he wanted any one belive that??? :blink: :blink:
oh yes, not long ago there were suggestions that india can play well everywhere in the world, now there are people blaming the groundsmen for creating pitches that dont suit them.
 

tooextracool

International Coach
biased indian said:
the reason for others having big avg is not because that they bowl
looseners like him because thay dont get the sporting pitch like the one at nagpur often :p :p :p
certainly nehra and zaheer khan bowl just about as many looseners as he does.
 

marc71178

Eyes not spreadsheets
biased indian said:
the reason for others having big avg is not because that they bowl
looseners like him because thay dont get the sporting pitch like the one at nagpur often :p :p :p
So what's the excuses for this game then? 8-)
 

telsor

U19 12th Man
biased indian said:
aus missed macgrath when india last toured there but not warne
india missing ganguly can be treated the same way but what about harbhajan and sachin and pathan ??

and any way we might have lost but atleast there is some thing for us to say about like u all said when india drew aus in jan :p :p :p :p

McGrath missed the whole series, as did Warne..Gillespie and Lee were out for some, and obviously not fully fit for others. I think you'll find that Aus lost more players from it's first choice XI on a 'matches lost' basis. ( of course, we don't know what the next match will bring ).
 

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