***Official*** India in Australia 2011/12

[R_D]

Keep bowling either short or on leg stump Yadav... That's the way to go.

 

[Noble One]

Dhoni surely trollling?

Some terrible pace bowling to be fair.

 

[Spark]

I'm an Aus fan but this is just disgraceful stuff.

 

[Vroomfondel]

yeah ashwin, it's the ball that's the problem.

 

[Spark]

Dhoni surely trollling?

Some terrible pace bowling to be fair.

IMO as soon as you take out all the slips on a deck like this when the opp are still sub-200, you forfeit any right to complain about your bowlers.

 

[NasserFan207]

Which they're doing exceptionally badly with a steady feed of leg stump trash. The field settings aren't exaclty helping them though.

Yep, no confidence being shown in them either which doesn't help matters.

 

[L Trumper]

I'm an Aus fan but this is just disgraceful stuff.

Declaration bowling like.. need zaheer to have one of those out of the blue reverse swing spell or else the game is gone for india

 

[wellAlbidarned]

yeah ashwin, it's the ball that's the problem.

It's got "hit me" written all over it.

 

[Pothas]

Assumed Ponting would be gone for his standard 60 when by the time I got home but obviously not. Assume India have been bowling and fielding like they did in England?

 

[R_D]

I'm an Aus fan but this is just disgraceful stuff.

As an Indian fan this is infuriating stuff.... What the **** no slips..
Yadav and Ishant's bowling

Even Zaheer has looked below par today

 

[Scaly piscine]

Anyone figured out what Dhoni is trying to do yet?

Yadav is a raw, somewhat random quick. He is what he is, setting weird defensive fields is pointless - it just nullifies his threat whilst he's still going to leak runs all over the place.

 

[Vroomfondel]

Dhoni surely trollling?

Some terrible pace bowling to be fair.

You know who's trolling? The guys shouting 'catch it' when it's hit in the air.

 

[L Trumper]

pattinson like a boss :: top of both charts i think

 

[wellAlbidarned]

Yep, no confidence being shown in them either which doesn't help matters.

Definitely agree, but sometimes you've got to gain the captain's confidence by bowling more than three balls in a row in the same spot, which these guys aren't doing. Just to be clear though - I am definitely not defending Dhoni.

 

[flibbertyjibber]

Who was it saying this was a good attack in the making for India?

Me thinks they were wrong anyway.

This has been pathetic today by the Indians, no other word for it.

 

[NasserFan207]

Declaration bowling like.. need zaheer to have one of those out of the blue reverse swing spell or else the game is gone for india

Dhoni did this plenty of times in England, in fact things got waaaaay worse than this (declaration bowling wise). Happened whenever a large partnership formed.

 

[Vroomfondel]

finally, a real field. and the ball swings.

 

[Spark]

Definitely agree, but sometimes you've got to gain the captain's confidence by bowling more than three balls in a row in the same spot, which these guys aren't doing. Just to be clear though - I am definitely not defending Dhoni.

Well. He has a reasonable field for this over, and guess what, he's bowled a few decent balls.

That's a top shot though, that was outside off.

 

[flibbertyjibber]

Assumed Ponting would be gone for his standard 60 when by the time I got home but obviously not. Assume India have been bowling and fielding like they did in England?

Worse, if that is actually possible.

 

[Furball]

Who was it saying this was a good attack in the making for India?

Me thinks they were wrong anyway.

This has been pathetic today by the Indians, no other word for it.

Yadav is rubbish.

I'll qualify this by saying it's quite conceivable that I've missed his good spells as the only full day I've watched was day 4 at Melbourne, but he's been absolute piss any time I've watched him. He's a 5mph faster version of Sreesanth.