***Official*** India in Australia 2014-5

[Spark]

Lol warne

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[GotSpin]

say what you want about his batting but haddins keeping has been quality* this match, combine that with his leadership role in the side and reckon he'll be around for a while yet





*unless riggins says otherwise obvs

Good celebration as well

 

[Gnske]

Raj: "@hughesey.. Forcing one to use technology is like forcing users of Facebook to reveal personal data"

This has to be the most stupid thing i've seen on the cricinfo comments in at least a week or two.

 

[Swingpanzee]

say what you want about his batting but haddins keeping has been quality* this match, combine that with his leadership role in the side and reckon he'll be around for a while yet

Yeah I don't think he should be dropped at this point. His keeping's pretty good plus plays a good role as VC, reckon the Ashes next year will be his last series anyway.

 

[Pup Clarke]

Interesting theory from Chappell. Du Plessis wouldn't be physically exhausted from batting for however many hours to save the test?

 

[Prince EWS]

say what you want about his batting but haddins keeping has been quality* this match, combine that with his leadership role in the side and reckon he'll be around for a while yet

Haddin will always be fine for as long as he can avoid getting dropped over the winter. Awesome player in home conditions. Needs to get some credit in the bank in this series though obviously to get him through the inevitable poor season of away tours that follows.

 

[Pratters]

Lyon gets his wicket off fuller balls but bowls most of his balls as shorter ones. Then slides the full one in. Super stuff.

And Manjrekar is just a poor commentator.

 

[anil1405]

And Manjrekar is just a poor commentator.

Glad am not the only one here.

 

[Niall]

Haddin will always be fine for as long as he can avoid getting dropped over the winter. Awesome player in home conditions. Needs to get some credit in the bank in this series though obviously to get him through the inevitable poor season of away tours that follows.

Has done well in England previously, so unless he is toilet here and against the West Indies, he is a banker for The Ashes.

Not to sure about him in the ODI side though, Wade looked decent against the South Africans last month.

 

[Contra]

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He said there's gonna be a wicket soon and Pujara gets out next ball. I typed it in caps but it turned into normal font for some reason.

 

[Pratters]

Haddin will always be fine for as long as he can avoid getting dropped over the winter.

Is this a theory over last couple of sseasons or so or over Haddin's career?

 

[Johnners]

Geez that's a good shot. Hope he can make this go the full day

 

[Prince EWS]

Is this a theory over last couple of sseasons or so or over Haddin's career?

Haddin's entire career. Obviously early on I was willing to write it off as somewhat of a coincidence because of the small sample sizes, but Haddin is a markedly better player in home conditions than he is away. He starts every Australian summer under some sort of pressure from certain sectors based on his poor overseas tours, then "proves his doubters wrong" by scoring a truckload of runs and keeping well, only to follow that up with a poor to average away season again.

I don't think this is really a bad thing personally. Having someone batting seven who is as good as a top order batsman half the time is still a big luxury, and I don't think Australia has had any better options across his career barring perhaps (and only perhaps) Nevill in the last couple of seasons. In many ways he's very comparable to Dhoni as a batsman despite being so different technically.

 

[Jono]

Probably going to jinx India here saying this, but is it me or is $1.50 for an Australian win extremely short?

 

[Pratters]

Pacers bowling a bit slower. I know it is Adelaide but go for the kill, hey.

 

[Niall]

Probably going to jinx India here saying this, but is it me or is $1.50 for an Australian win extremely short?

Would you trust Rohit and the 4 bowlers to bat a long length of time?

 

[Pratters]

Vijay has lost his concentration a bit since Pujara got out. A few poor shots.

 

[Jono]

Would you trust Rohit and the 4 bowlers to bat a long length of time?

It comes down to percentages though. I am not saying Australia shouldn't be favourites necessarily. But are they a 67% chance? Maybe. But it seems a little short.

 

[Pratters]

I think Australia has an 80% chance of winning this now.

 

[Prince EWS]

I absolutely loaded up on the draw at 3.75 ages ago which is the only reason I'm not having another bet on it now. It's good value Jono.