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

[Shri]

Two quick runners. Yay!

Ran back to the pavilion real quick indeed.

 

[Prince EWS]

Onions plays for Durham and Martin doesnt - that's the end of it as far as Scaly is concerned

To be fair I'd probably take Onions *just* ahead of Martin if he was fully fit. The fact that Martin's always fully fit and Onions only is about 65% of the time though certainly tips the scales.

 

[Athlai]

Valuable captain's knock there.

 

[NasserFan207]

LET'S DO THIS VINAY

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[Prince EWS]

Almost bored of Dhoni being ****, almost.

Nah; never gets old. I've really thought he was crap for quite some time; quite excited at the prospect of him averaging < 35 eventually.

 

[Pothas]

It's ok though I have been informed Ashwin can hold a bat...oh wait.

 

[Jacknife]

Sehwag and Dhoni this tour have been quite frankly embarrassing this tour.

 

[Spikey]

It's ok though I have been informed Ashwin can hold a bat...oh wait.

He has a test centu...oh

 

[social]

It's exactly the same technical fault I spoke about ages ago in the India-in-South-Africa thread. His technique just isn't very good at the moment and if it wasn't for his long-standing reputation it'd be getting a lot more attention; even given his England tour.

The weird thing is, it only happens about 70% of the time, but I can tell in the first over or two what's going on with him when he's "off". I've actually made a fair bit of money on it. Looked a lot better yesterday than he did today.

Dravid is a superb player but it has always been a bit of a myth that he is/was technically perfect

He has had the same technical glitch forever (McGrath & Gillespie used to render him basically shotless by focusing on dragging him forward to off-cutters), it's just that he's missing a few more these days

Called age, I'd say

 

[Jacknife]

Nah; never gets old. I've really thought he was crap for quite some time; quite excited at the prospect of him averaging < 35 eventually.

ha ha yes, doesn't seem that long ago when people were saying he was the best keeper batman around.

 

[Contra]

Virat going for a 100 now lol..

 

[Burgey]

did your son do anything yesterday burgeys, or just happy to field? sorry if already posted.

He bowled one over and went for about 10, had a direct hit in the field and didn't miss a ball. Batted 11 and blocked about about 8 balls for 0 not out, came off and said the other bloke robbed him of a ton.

Cheers for asking mate. He walked off 10 feet tall.

 

[social]

To be fair I'd probably take Onions *just* ahead of Martin if he was fully fit. The fact that Martin's always fully fit and Onions only is about 65% of the time though certainly tips the scales.

Onions is a poor man's Harris - pretty good operator but no durability

 

[Spikey]

showed a better temperate than MS ever has iirc

 

[uvelocity]

He bowled one over and went for about 10, had a direct hit in the field and didn't miss a ball. Batted 11 and blocked about about 8 balls for 0 not out, came off and said the other bloke robbed him of a ton.

hahah good lad

 

[uvelocity]

kohli sweep more interesting imo

 

[NUFAN]

My Indian XI for Adelaide:
1. Rahane 2 Gambhir 3 Dravid 4 Tendulkar 5 Kohli 6 Sharma 7 Ashwin 8 Dhoni 9 Ojha 10 Zaheer 11 Yadav.

Hard to drop the vice-captain Sehwag, but meh.

 

[uvelocity]

or india lead by (negative figures) sweep

 

[uvelocity]

My Indian XI for Adelaide:
1. Rahane 2 Gambhir 3 Dravid 4 Tendulkar 5 Kohli 6 Sharma 7 Ashwin 8 Dhoni 9 Ojha 10 Zaheer 11 Yadav.

Hard to drop the vice-captain Sehwag, but meh.

what will happen:

Ashwin back in for Kumar.

 

[Contra]

still pissed about Irfan Pathan not being in our squad for this tour.