***Official Australia in India***

[Anil]

congrats india! don't let your guard down for the rest of the series...

 

[Sanz]

Once again Aussie media is so generous in the praise

http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,24531402-2882,00.html

"....But the behaviour of some of the Indian players was a disgrace. And stand-in skipper M. S. Dhoni is at the top of the pile. How wicketkeeper Dhoni could appeal yesterday for an edge off Mitchell Johnson that clearly bounced before his gloves was bewildering.
Umpire Rudi Koertzen immediately rejected Zaheer Khan's appeal and should have had a stern talk with Dhoni...."

 

[SJS]

Harbhajan goes into the next Test needing just 1 more wicket to reach 300 Test wickets.

He will be the first player in the game to reach that mark with an average above 30.

The three players with the highest average as they approached the innings in which they got their 300th wicket are :-

• Kumble : 27.9 (65 Tests)
• Gibbs : 28.4 (74)
• Vaas : 28.8 (90)
• Kapil : 29.0 (83)
• Harbhajan : 30.0 (71)

Interesting to see all the three Indians who got 300 wickets in that list.

The best figures for a bowler at the doorstep of his 300th wicket are

• Pollock : 20.5 (73)
• Marshall : 20.9 (60)
• Trueman : 21.2 (64)
• McGrath 21.8 (63)

 

[Precambrian]

Before you sleep. you have to answer that

Probably that he wanted to keep the LHB RHB combo going.

 

[Uppercut]

Harbhajan goes into the next Test needing just 1 more wicket to reach 300 Test wickets.

He will be the first player in the game to reach that mark with an average above 30.

The three players with the highest average as they approached the innings in which they got their 300th wicket are :-

• Kumble : 27.9 (65 Tests)
• Gibbs : 28.4 (74)
• Vaas : 28.8 (90)
• Kapil : 29.0 (83)
• Harbhajan : 30.0 (71)

Interesting to see all the three Indians who got 300 wickets in that list.

The best figures for a bowler at the doorstep of his 300th wicket are

• Pollock : 20.5 (73)
• Marshall : 20.9 (60)
• Trueman : 21.2 (64)
• McGrath 21.8 (63)

Very interesting indeed, particularly that Kumble took a significantly lower amount of matches than Pollock but at a far worse average. Shocked to see Pollock up there too in fact, was he really THAT good for the first 300 of his career?

 

[Precambrian]

Once again Aussie media is so generous in the praise

http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,24531402-2882,00.html

"....But the behaviour of some of the Indian players was a disgrace. And stand-in skipper M. S. Dhoni is at the top of the pile. How wicketkeeper Dhoni could appeal yesterday for an edge off Mitchell Johnson that clearly bounced before his gloves was bewildering.
Umpire Rudi Koertzen immediately rejected Zaheer Khan's appeal and should have had a stern talk with Dhoni...."

Hah ol' Aussie media on work again. Dhoni was signalling to third umpire than appealing the catch. Bull**** reporting from the media, but oh, by their standards this is pretty generous.

PS: Who cares really? Look at the scorecard, India won by 320 runs and completely outplayed Aussies in every dept.

 

[honestbharani]

Once again Aussie media is so generous in the praise

http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,24531402-2882,00.html

"....But the behaviour of some of the Indian players was a disgrace. And stand-in skipper M. S. Dhoni is at the top of the pile. How wicketkeeper Dhoni could appeal yesterday for an edge off Mitchell Johnson that clearly bounced before his gloves was bewildering.
Umpire Rudi Koertzen immediately rejected Zaheer Khan's appeal and should have had a stern talk with Dhoni...."

height of absurdity.

 

[Prince EWS]

Once again Aussie media is so generous in the praise

http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,24531402-2882,00.html

"....But the behaviour of some of the Indian players was a disgrace. And stand-in skipper M. S. Dhoni is at the top of the pile. How wicketkeeper Dhoni could appeal yesterday for an edge off Mitchell Johnson that clearly bounced before his gloves was bewildering.
Umpire Rudi Koertzen immediately rejected Zaheer Khan's appeal and should have had a stern talk with Dhoni...."

Haha I've defended the little media snippets you've posted before, but that one really is poor and pretty damn bitter.

 

[ret]

I wouldn't care about the Aussie media but for a few laughs

 

[Prince EWS]

height of absurdity.

Yeah, indeed.

 

[Precambrian]

Very interesting indeed, particularly that Kumble took a significantly lower amount of matches than Pollock but at a far worse average. Shocked to see Pollock up there too in fact, was he really THAT good for the first 300 of his career?

Yeah. It really surprises me. All the more reason to think that had Polly retired just after 2004, he'd be hailed one of the greatest fast bowlers ever. (Of course, it wont happen, but just a thought). And his batting record also was god damn impressive then.

 

[silentstriker]

Very interesting indeed, particularly that Kumble took a significantly lower amount of matches than Pollock but at a far worse average. Shocked to see Pollock up there too in fact, was he really THAT good for the first 300 of his career?

Pollock was criminally underrated for the majority of his career, in my opinion.

 

[Precambrian]

A good "tongue-in-cheek" article in The Australian by Jack the Insider.

When the Indians had the pads on it was a docile batsmen’s paradise, but as Hayden and Katich strolled to the middle, the track suddenly turned into a ‘Gabba green top and a vicious, spitting, spinning Old Trafford deck all at once, before calming down again when the Indian batsmen returned to the crease.

The Indians get the ball reversing around the 15 over mark. Just as the conventional swing from the new ball stops, the ball starts reversing around like mad.

It’s hardly fair, given that the Australians shun these crude tactics. When Australia is in the field the only time you see the ball move off the straight is during its gentle, curving trajectory on its way over the boundary.

Surely that kind of precocious talent needs a good, hard examination and there’s no better man for the job than Daryl Hair. If there’s a problem with Mishra’s action - and his figures in this test say there’s got to be - Hair will find it and have him dispatched to Perth, for a battery of tests before he’s allowed to return to the game with a strict warning if he ****s that elbow one more time, he’ll be on the first plane back to Perth to do it all over again.

http://blogs.theaustralian.news.com...an/comments/indians_dish_up_curry_to_aussies/

 

[Woodster]

This is shaping to be one cracker of a series. Possibly better than Ashes 05. I hope we win the next test to force a showdown.

Incomparable in drama, excitement, cloeseness of the contest, personnel on show, etc. Still promises to be a very intriguing one mind.

 

[SJS]

Kotla is a good ground for India. They have wone each and everyone of their last seven Test matches - over 16 years !! And almost all by a big margin.

1992-1993 IND v ZIM	 IND v ZIM	 1st Test 	 13/03/1993	 India Won by an Innings and 13 Runs
1996-1997 IND v AUS	 IND v AUS	 1st Test 	 10/10/1996	 India Won by 7 Wickets
1998-1999 IND v PAK	 IND v PAK	 2nd Test 	 04/02/1999	 India Won by 212 Runs
2000-2001 IND v ZIM	 IND v ZIM	 1st Test 	 18/11/2000	 India Won by 7 Wickets
2001-2002 IND v ZIM	 IND v ZIM	 2nd Test 	 28/02/2002	 India Won by 4 Wickets
2005-2006 IND v SRL	 IND v SRL	 2nd Test 	 10/12/2005	 India Won by 188 Runs
2007-2008 IND v PAK	 IND v PAK	 1st Test 	 22/11/2007	 India Won by 6 Wickets

Spinners have taken 225 out of the 325 wickets that have fallen to bowlers on this ground to the top performers. But some visiting pace men have done beter than anyone on this ground. These are

• Arnold : 9 wkts at 10.1
• Lever : 12 wkts at 14.5
• Bakht : 10 wkts at 17.3

But all these bowlers swung the ball although it is a bit early (October) for the heavy cold atmosphere of the Delhi winter mornings.

Kumble has a great record in Delhi with 55 wkts (in just six Tests) at 15.42 with his famous ten wicket haul in an innings also coming here. He has four five wicket hauls in Delhi.

There is no way India are going to leave out Kumble and he may contimue with his fabulous record here.

He has over 9 wickets per test at Kotla and has never taken less tan 3 wickets in an innings or less than 7 wickets in a Test here. That must as good as any bowlers record in any ground in the world.

 

[SJS]

Probably that he wanted to keep the LHB RHB combo going.

How is that? A right hander (Sehwag) got out and another right hander (Dhoni) came in. To the best of my knowledge Sachin still bats right handed. Why couldn't he have come in place of Dhoni ?

 

[SJS]

Very interesting indeed, particularly that Kumble took a significantly lower amount of matches than Pollock but at a far worse average. Shocked to see Pollock up there too in fact, was he really THAT good for the first 300 of his career?

Pollock is one of the finest and certainly the most under rated among the top-most pacers of the modern era.

 

[Furball]

Pollock is criminally under-rated.

The gulf in quality between Pollock and McGrath is nowhere as wide as I reckon most people would perceive it to be.

 

[G.I.Joe]

How is that? A right hander (Sehwag) got out and another right hander (Dhoni) came in. To the best of my knowledge Sachin still bats right handed. Why couldn't he have come in place of Dhoni ?

I fail to see the point in your pushing this point. Dhoni has a better SR than Sachin, right?

 

[Precambrian]

How is that? A right hander (Sehwag) got out and another right hander (Dhoni) came in. To the best of my knowledge Sachin still bats right handed. Why couldn't he have come in place of Dhoni ?

Oh yeah, I am yet to get from the hangover of a 10-hr blissful sleep.

I think Dhoni backed himself to slog if needed and keep the momentum going post Sehwag. It was also a "shock" strategy to the Aussies, who were perhaps expecting Dravid or Sachin to come out. Being the fanatic fan of Sachin I am, I back Dhoni to score at a bigger SR than SRT at such a juncture.