**Official** Australia in India Thread

[SJS]

You and I are perilously close to becoming a mutual admiration society, but every single thing you said here is absolutely true, IMO.

Thanks.

But I must correct myself on onething. Whenever I talked of Australia's, very steady but not spectacular bowling , I was always talking of McGrath and Warne and have also mentioned them both (and only them) by name. Gillespie, however, has provided the most penetrative bowling for Australi as far as I am concerned. He is the one who hasnt relied on waiting for the batsmen to make a mistake. He has bowled some real beauties in the entire series. For me he is Australia,s premier pace bowler today.

 

[Mr Mxyzptlk]

He is still the worst Indian player atm

Surely not! He outscored Sachin!

 

[Mr Mxyzptlk]

he isnt there for his batting he is there for his bowling and with a test average of 44 he would struggle to make any side.

And Tendulkar, Dravid, Chopra and Laxman aren't there for their bowling. Give the man credit for doing something more than the majority could manage!

 

[Jnr.]

Both Agarkar and Zaheer were a bit unlucky with the new ball. But surely, there must be better seam options than Agarkar in India domestic cricket, even with Pathan and Balaji injured.

 

[Jnr.]

The batting averages for the Indians are quite interesting. Agarkar, Kaif, Pathan, Patel, Zaheer are averaging more than Dravid, Ganguly as well as Laxman, Tendulkar and Chopra (who have the lowest average so far).

Only Sehwag has done well with 286 at 57.20, although Agarkar has 59 runs for once dismissed!

 

[masterblaster]

Both Agarkar and Zaheer were a bit unlucky with the new ball. But surely, there must be better seam options than Agarkar in India domestic cricket, even with Pathan and Balaji injured.

Well there's Irfan Pathan.........

Oh wait you already said his name.

Well there's Irfan Pathan........

oops, sorry, can't think of hardly anyone to face these Australian's!

 

[FaaipDeOiad]

I was thinking more of the poor guys in the scorebox having to put all those no-balls, wides and runs into those little boxes.

Better get them putting down the wickets too, with a first class strike rate of 41.9.

Hopefully his control can improve a bit, but he's certainly a talent as it is.

And, if you are going to throw out scorecards where he got hit for 10 an over, may as well look at his start to the Pura Cup season as well, where he took 9-73 in the match at around 2 an over without bowling a single noball.

 

[SJS]

The batting averages for the Indians are quite interesting. Agarkar, Kaif, Pathan, Patel, Zaheer are averaging more than Dravid, Ganguly as well as Laxman, Tendulkar and Chopra (who have the lowest average so far).

Only Sehwag has done well with 286 at 57.20, although Agarkar has 59 runs for once dismissed!

Team for the next test in batting order

Sehwag(opener)
Patel(opener)
Pathan
Kaif
Agarkar
Zaheer(all rounder)
Dravid (wicket keeper)
Kumble
karthik
Harbhajan
Ganguly(medium pacer)

Chopra (12th man for short leg duties

 

[V Reddy]

Well there's Irfan Pathan.........

Oh wait you already said his name.

Well there's Irfan Pathan........

oops, sorry, can't think of hardly anyone to face these Australian's!

We thought hardly anyone too before the tour to downunder where we had Balaji and Pathan. I think it's time to give Amit Bhandari a go. He gets 5 wicket hauls at regular intervals for the A team . The only chance he got in the last 4 yrs was against Zim in Aus and his figures were 3-33 off 10. I think he deserves another go.

 

[V Reddy]

The Indian public should start supporting hockey. They need the fans more than these over-rated cricketers. Fifty lakhs for doing what? The hockey players don't live the high life as much!

Do you write articles on Indian Hockey. A while back i was searching for Indian Hockey , found an article written by Arjun, Engineering Student, Mumbai on the European and Indian style of play

 

[V Reddy]

You missed the sarcasm.

Even BRS missed it

 

[V Reddy]

It's good to see the young Hyderabadi tennis player improve. Really, it's about time other sports in India got their due.

She got a wildcard to the Australian Open now and also with Shikha Uberoi applying to play for India, atlast we could have a decent FED Cup team which could qualify to the World Group qualifiers. In Golf too we are doing well and could have about 5 golfers playing on the USPGA Tour within the next 5 years . But the thing is these two are not mass sports while only Soccer and Hockey and our performances in that are shabby to say the least

 

[SquidAU]

At last, the Aussies finally win in India. And it's not as if we have had enough chances to do it. I think it has been 4 Tours there in the last 8 years.

We won in India after 35 years and I was able to see it happen. On TV at least.

 

[bugssy]

And Tendulkar, Dravid, Chopra and Laxman aren't there for their bowling. Give the man credit for doing something more than the majority could manage!

i will give credit when credit is due but this series none of the indians derserve credit esp not aa, i dont like him anyway

very overrated in my opinion......(thats my opinion which i am allowed to have)

 

[Linda]

Bugger me, that was bloody good. So, so awesome.

I can feel a DVD coming on...

 

[masterblaster]

Team for the next test in batting order

Sehwag(opener)
Patel(opener)
Pathan
Kaif
Agarkar
Zaheer(all rounder)
Dravid (wicket keeper)
Kumble
karthik
Harbhajan
Ganguly(medium pacer)

Chopra (12th man for short leg duties

You've dropped Tendulkar?! Im sure he can slot in for Kartik at number 9

 

[masterblaster]

Thinking of India's pace bowlers, its a real threadbare cupboard unfortunately.

Their's Ajit Agarkar who we all know about.

There's SS Paul, who is rated highly, but against Australia would likely get slaughtered, There's Aavishkar Salvi who once again is highly rated but has been struggling for fitness for most of his career.

There's Amit Bhandari who's only claim to fame was a 3/30 against a 2003 strength Zimbabwean side (Carlisle, Ervine, Blignaut, Grant Flower, Streak).

There's a Siddharth Trivedi who the Australian's would eat up, and there's Munaf Patel with alleged pace but no direction and Australia are bound to cream him all over the park.

Other than Zaheer, Agarkar, Nehra and Pathan who do we pick?
Especially now since Balaji is injured, but even the Australian's would've spanked Balaji all over the park.

Things aren't looking too good, well things never look good in terms of the fast bowling department.

Irfan Pathan is the only exceptional talent in this Indian Side and even he is averaging 40 with the ball in test matches.

It's worrying.

 

[Sudeep]

You've dropped Tendulkar?! Im sure he can slot in for Kartik at number 9

And Laxman's out of the squad, obviously...

 

[KennyD]

Team for the next test in batting order

Sehwag(opener)
Patel(opener)
Pathan
Kaif
Agarkar
Zaheer(all rounder)
Dravid (wicket keeper)
Kumble
karthik
Harbhajan
Ganguly(medium pacer)

Chopra (12th man for short leg duties

hahaha, thats a bloody awesome team!

 

[Sehwag309]

hahaha, thats a bloody awesome team!

What so funny? (Thats the new team)