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

ajdude

ajdude

International Coach
Spark said:
That's what Ashwin calls it.
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ah yep just did some reading, apparently 'sodukku' means snapping of fingers in Tamil, I just figured it was some name the channel 9 commentators **** out, as in they did the sudoku in the newspaper and decided not to call it the carrom ball because of that etc

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Anil

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Son Of Coco said:
It's part of India's protest against the decision review system.

In other news, Gambhir can't handle a short ball on a flat deck...but you just wait until we get to the subcontinent.
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yeah he would get to eat some of his stupid comments too...probably savoring the taste already...
 
Debris

Debris

International 12th Man
ajdude said:
fmd, if I hear 'sudoku ball' one more time im gonna snap, where did they pull that name from? Isn't it the carrom ball because it's based on the game of carrom?
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Spinners have this need to invent names for deliveries, fast bowlers just describe what the ball does. Feelings of inadequacy perhaps?
 
Son Of Coco

Son Of Coco

Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Top_Cat said:
Defending batters now? You used to be cool.

Yeah no doubt the bowling's hardly been awesome but where the motivation to really get stuck in when you're defending a paltry total and your main striker may take 5/****-all or ****-all/1000?

Biggest mistake they made was anointing Johnson the attack leader, despite never possessing the requisite qualities, (at least have to be consistent as well as potentially lethal.
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I've obviously got to go back and have a read of what I just wrote. I blame auto-text, it obviously misrepresented what I wanted to say.

Johnson getting injured and not being able to play was possibly the happiest day of my cricket-watching life.
 
ajdude

ajdude

International Coach
Debris said:
Spinners have this need to invent names for deliveries, fast bowlers just describe what the ball does. Feelings of inadequacy perhaps?
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as much as I agree with this, I was more referring to why it's not called the carrom ball, I was unaware ashwin named it that haha...but seriously the teesra looks like it does **** all
 
adub

adub

International Captain
GingerFurball said:
Like I said, cbf checking, but I'd be pretty confident in betting that from 1st Test in South Africa 2009 up until the end of the 1st innings in Brisbane in 2010, the number of times Australia gave up more than 350 would be less than the amount of times they got rid of teams for less than 350.
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In the 1st innings that's true but that was mostly due to Pakistan and NZ never making 350 and WI only doing it once. Against the actual quality sides (India, England, SA) it is far less healthy with 9 times conceding 350+ in the first innings (3 x 600, 1 x 500), and only 6 sub- 350 1st innings. We didn't win a single test against a top 3 side where we conceded 250+ on the first dig. I know that is also a batting problem, but we conceded far too many runs far too often to win against the good sides. The soft wins against WI, Pak and NZ just hid the problems with the attack.
 
Spikey

Spikey

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it's not even the scores against them. it's that from 2009 to this series almost every time we landed in seam friendly conditions we ****ed them up
 
ajdude

ajdude

International Coach
the ICC should give 'ravi' ashwin's century to tendulkar, kills two birds with one stone
 
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Furball

Furball

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adub said:
In the 1st innings that's true but that was mostly due to Pakistan and NZ never making 350 and WI only doing it once. Against the actual quality sides (India, England, SA) it is far less healthy with 9 times conceding 350+ in the first innings (3 x 600, 1 x 500), and only 6 sub- 350 1st innings. We didn't win a single test against a top 3 side where we conceded 250+ on the first dig. I know that is also a batting problem, but we conceded far too many runs far too often to win against the good sides. The soft wins against WI, Pak and NZ just hid the problems with the attack.
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I'm not counting the Ashes post 1st innings at Brisbane; the bowling quite obviously went to **** last year.

Australia got themselves a 1st innings lead in the 1st Test in India didn't they?
 
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