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

[Rasimione]

Not at all convinced by this, but i will take it.

Sharma at over 150 clicks? Wow. Gotta say pace is back..

 

[Ausfanintoronto]

Not for those of us in Australia.

I always thought Aus was the country with the best Cricketing Culture overall....quite frankly sporting events all over the world (Been to numerous ones in North America) do take a little longer to let people in because of the security issues.....its a price im willing to pay.

 

[wellAlbidarned]

How satisfying...

Do not buy that for one second. Speed guns are becoming a joke.

 

[Sylvester]

Didn't know Pattinson clicked 153km/h yesterday, commentators didn't harp on about it at all.

 

[TumTum]

I don't see why there is so little confidence on speed guns. Yadav was clocking in the high 140s in India too...

 

[Jono]

Yeah it's annoying how long they take to sell one bloody.... I had wait on the line for more than 40 minutes and the line wasn't even that bloody big. Just the people working at the ticket counter are slow at everything they do.

Taking the e-tickets this time around.... Should be a great match today

Yeah its ridiculous.

Good thing you don't live in India

But if I was in India I would know how long it would take to get in and get there earlier. On day 2 I figured it took long because it was a public holiday as well but to see it happen on day 3 was a total shock. I have been going to the Boxing Day test for over a decade and never seen anything like this. The MCG was never like this until recently (perhaps even this year).

It was proper general admission after day 1 of any test not involving England. Absolutely no reason to have allocated seating in a 100,000 seat stadium when it's only half-full. No reason at all.

General admission where you can sit anywhere has worked for decades. Ridiculous to change it now.

 

[Agent Nationaux]

I also don't buy it. Never seen Siddle being that fast.

 

[Manee]

How satisfying...

Indeed.

I don't really buy that they did this Test match either.

None of the readings were anomalies. Positing that the speed gun was reading high for a whole game doesn't have much of a basis in science, does it?

Not bad. It's also not from Indian speed guns which I suspect add a bit of pace (based on the fact that Munaf cracked 145 during the World Cup)

Perfectly plausible that Munaf can slip himself for the odd delivery.

Should be noted that India's best seamer is still the bloke who tops out at 135kmh tho. His opening spell was a craftsman at his best. Was unrewarded wicket wise, but there's little doubt in my mind his tight lines and nagging accuracy (think his first 4 overs went for something like 6 runs) helped create the pressure that lead to the rash shots from Warner and Marsh in particular

Definitely earns the odd wicket for his partners but not all of them. Reckon Warner would have played that shot anyway. Marsh though, yeah, the shot seemed pressure induced.

 

[Manee]

Do not buy that for one second. Speed guns are becoming a joke.

What are you basing that on?

 

[marc71178]

Sorry mate... but that is a pretty poor theory to not to pick a guy who has been doing pretty well

Right, so how do you marry that theory with the theory against picking Cowan and Marsh?

 

[Burgey]

I also don't buy it. Never seen Siddle being that fast.

Yeah he's recorded 150 or thereabouts quite a few times over a few seasons mate.

 

[iamdavid]

I believe the speedo. Siddle has hit 150 before on occasion, the Boxing Day test v South Africa at this ground in 2008 is the example which stands out in my mind, was regularly touching 150. Sharma clocked 154kph on his last tour of Australia too so his readings in this match aren't that unbelievable.

 

[silentstriker]

Indeed.



None of the readings were anomalies. Positing that the speed gun was reading high for a whole game doesn't have much of a basis in science, does it?

Actually it's much more likely that the speed gun is consistently high due to miscalibration or another problem than an intermittent problem that only affects Indian bowlers.

 

[Redbacks]

If Australia bowl anything like they bowled today morning then they are gonna take this one.

Well we haven't bowled as well as we did in that session too often with Siddle and Hilf in the team so it will be a plus just to see them perform to a similar standard.

 

[Jarquis]

michael klinger, ben rohrer and peter forrest wouldn't've played that shot

wag.

 

[Furball]

**** me, if you guys are satisfied with Ishant and Yadav because they were clocked at 150 then you have some abysmally low standards when it comes to seam bowling.

 

[Redbacks]

 

[Cruxdude]

**** me, if you guys are satisfied with Ishant and Yadav because they were clocked at 150 then you have some abysmally low standards when it comes to seam bowling.

Now where did you understand that from?

 

[Turbinator]

**** me, if you guys are satisfied with Ishant and Yadav because they were clocked at 150 then you have some abysmally low standards when it comes to seam bowling.

No one's saying that. And I'm sure Ankit's post was partly in jest, mocking the fact that we've finally gotten to see two Indian bowlers clocking 150+ in the same match.

 

[silentstriker]

**** me, if you guys are satisfied with Ishant and Yadav because they were clocked at 150 then you have some abysmally low standards when it comes to seam bowling.

You don't know much about Indian cricket do you?