*Official* India in Australia Thread

[Adamc]

Ok - Steve Waugh's dream scenario.
Bowl India out tomorrow morning @700
Australia bats - fails to reach the follow on and is sent in again.
Australia bats again - sets India a moderate total to win and bowls them out and wins the Border-Gavaskar trophy. Steve Waugh is a hero by taking 8 wickets on a cracking pitch which stays low (after he scores a hundred in each innings)

We can all dream can't we? :P

Alternatively:
India knocked over for 700, waugh takes 5 catches.
Hayden and Ponting get golden ducks, waugh comes in at 3/5.
Scores a double ton, but can't avoid follow on. Waugh controls the second innings, but an innings defeat is inevitable with Australia 50 short of India's total at the fall of the 9th wicket. Waugh scores a triple ton in a 174 run last wicket stand, in which Macgill faces one ball and gets bowled by Chopra.
A massive injury crisis leaves Waugh and Hayden sharing the new ball, with Gilchrist bowling first change. Stuart MacGill fakes an injury after dropping Tendulkar 11 times, and John Buchanan comes on as 17th man. India are cruising at 4/123, before Waugh takes 6 wickets in an over, all caught and bowled, giving Australia a memorable victory by one run. It could happen :P

 

[krkode]

To Krkode, sachintendulkar, and all you other American and Norweigan fans of cricket,

Here is a fantastic online highlights package of Sachin Tendulkar and VVS Laxman, which is a online streaming video from the ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation).

Thank you greatly for that, Masterblaster. That was a treat for my poor deprived eyes :P

 

[NikhilN]

To Krkode, sachintendulkar, and all you other American and Norweigan fans of cricket,

Here is a fantastic online highlights package of Sachin Tendulkar and VVS Laxman, which is a online streaming video from the ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation).

Below are four links, one for Dial Up Windows Media users, one for Broadband Windows Media users, one for Real Player Dial Up Users and one for Broadband Real Player Users.

ENJOY!!!

Windows Media Broadband:
http://www.abc.net.au/reslib/200401/r14050_34181.asx

Windows Media Dial Up:

http://www.abc.net.au/reslib/200401/r14050_34185.asx

Real Player Broadband:

http://www.abc.net.au/reslib/200401/r14050_34183.ram

Real Player Dial Up:

http://www.abc.net.au/reslib/200401/r14050_34187.ram

Thanks...even though the audio worked fine but the video was stuck on one frame through the whole video

 

[IsuraE]

sachintendulkar: try installing windows media player 9.

 

[NikhilN]

nm...its working with real player

 

[aussie_beater]

Alternatively:
India knocked over for 700, waugh takes 5 catches.
Hayden and Ponting get golden ducks, waugh comes in at 3/5.
Scores a double ton, but can't avoid follow on. Waugh controls the second innings, but an innings defeat is inevitable with Australia 50 short of India's total at the fall of the 9th wicket. Waugh scores a triple ton in a 174 run last wicket stand, in which Macgill faces one ball and gets bowled by Chopra.
A massive injury crisis leaves Waugh and Hayden sharing the new ball, with Gilchrist bowling first change. Stuart MacGill fakes an injury after dropping Tendulkar 11 times, and John Buchanan comes on as 17th man. India are cruising at 4/123, before Waugh takes 6 wickets in an over, all caught and bowled, giving Australia a memorable victory by one run. It could happen :P

Nice script, mate..... I am not sure what they call the Hollywood equivalent in Australia....but I am sure you can get a chance in Bollywood for that script.... But more realistically I would say you start listening to Aerosmith's "Dream On"...

 

[Anil]

To Krkode, sachintendulkar, and all you other American and Norweigan fans of cricket,

Here is a fantastic online highlights package of Sachin Tendulkar and VVS Laxman, which is a online streaming video from the ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation).

Below are four links, one for Dial Up Windows Media users, one for Broadband Windows Media users, one for Real Player Dial Up Users and one for Broadband Real Player Users.

ENJOY!!!

Windows Media Broadband:
http://www.abc.net.au/reslib/200401/r14050_34181.asx

Windows Media Dial Up:

http://www.abc.net.au/reslib/200401/r14050_34185.asx

Real Player Broadband:

http://www.abc.net.au/reslib/200401/r14050_34183.ram

Real Player Dial Up:

http://www.abc.net.au/reslib/200401/r14050_34187.ram

Thanks a lot for that! I really appreciate it.

 

[age_master]

dunno what ganguly is doing, he should have declared yesterday, i would have thought he wanted to win the series, not just draw it, sure a drawn series out here is good, but surely he should give his bowlers as much chance as possible to bowl Australia out.

looks like a draw for mine, and a drawn series, very dissapointing that a good series looks like pettering out to a boring draw

 

[krkode]

It's not really a boring draw. It's interesting that you call it that. This has been quite a sensational series.

Either way, I think he's doing the right thing. Not just going for the win - but the follow on!

I'm sure he expect Australia to make an easy 450-500, which I too would expect. For a follow on to still be enforcable, India will need atleast 700.

Personally, I think India should go for 700+ and then look to enforce the follow on, because that's their best hope of winning.

 

[age_master]

nah, Australia should pass the followon mark whereever it is set, however Australia could well declare at that stage, meaning that if india declared at 600, than Australia may delrake at 450 or 500, meaning india would have more time to take less wickets, whereas if india go to 700 it will take Australia nearly 2 days to get near that, by which stage, the match will be almost certainly over (judginug by Gangulys attitudes thus for on tour)

 

[krkode]

I don't think Australia could make 550 if they needed to avoid the follow on. I think Ganguly agrees with me.

Either way, to risk another hour or so and go for the follow-on gives a much better chance of winning than if Australia batted, and India again, and then Australia again.

 

[age_master]

I don't think Australia could make 550 if they needed to avoid the follow on. I think Ganguly agrees with me.

Either way, to risk another hour or so and go for the follow-on gives a much better chance of winning than if Australia batted, and India again, and then Australia again.

BUT:

he would have got a good crack at a couple of tired Aussie players - now they have had a noghts sleep, so they will be fresher - well for at leats a couple of sessions

and he would have had 2 cracks at them when they were not set


so he probably would have had a better shot at taking wickets.


also the pitch was still perfect yesterday arvo, so it wont turn as much as it has in the past i dont think, it will remain pretty good for batting, but time will tell

 

[luckyeddie]

dunno what ganguly is doing, he should have declared yesterday, i would have thought he wanted to win the series, not just draw it, sure a drawn series out here is good, but surely he should give his bowlers as much chance as possible to bowl Australia out.

looks like a draw for mine, and a drawn series, very dissapointing that a good series looks like pettering out to a boring draw

BORING DRAW?

Disappointing?

Sorry, age, you just can't understand what 'proper' cricket is about. This series has had everything, twists and turns, fabulous batting, great comebacks, Sachin returning from the slough of despond, even a sixfer from AA.

Now where was that 'sour grapes' URL again?

 

[age_master]

This series has had everything, twists and turns, fabulous batting, great comebacks, Sachin returning from the slough of despond, even a sixfer from AA.

if this match is a draw the series will have had everything - except a winner, which would probably be a fair way to leave it, both sides have batted exceptionally well and bolwed like crap, but for me the series needs a winner, i think there is still a shot maybe due to the Australian team trying to going absolutley crazy, and either getting loads of runs, or getting out, but india have not made a result for either team as easy as it should have been.

 

[Mr Mxyzptlk]

BUT:

he would have got a good crack at a couple of tired Aussie players - now they have had a noghts sleep, so they will be fresher - well for at leats a couple of sessions

and he would have had 2 cracks at them when they were not set


so he probably would have had a better shot at taking wickets.


also the pitch was still perfect yesterday arvo, so it wont turn as much as it has in the past i dont think, it will remain pretty good for batting, but time will tell

India are squarely in control. The batsmen can go out and smack a few more runs on the board (or collapse) for around 700-720 all out within the first hour/hour and a half. That would leave Australia perhaps to bat the better part of 2 days to save the game.

 

[krkode]

but india have not made a result for either team as easy as it should have been.

They have not done that because that is not their duty to do so. It is the Indians' job to not lose, which is what was likely before this tour and even before this match.

They're doing just that. Not losing.

Now that losing is out of the way, win is the next goal.

When playing Australia, that's the thing to remember. 1) Don't lose, 2) Try to win.

:P

 

[luckyeddie]

if this match is a draw the series will have had everything - except a winner, which would probably be a fair way to leave it, both sides have batted exceptionally well and bolwed like crap, but for me the series needs a winner, i think there is still a shot maybe due to the Australian team trying to going absolutley crazy, and either getting loads of runs, or getting out, but india have not made a result for either team as easy as it should have been.

Hang about.

The only unlikely result out of the three (excluding a tie) is an Australia win.

There are still 9 sessions - 270 overs - to go in this game. Australia are going to have to battle like crazy to save this game. OK, they might bat like demons, pass the Indian total with a day to go and 'kill' the match that way, but there's at least two days to go before anyone could say that scenario is anything other than a remote possibility.

I'd like to see India declare 20 minutes before lunch with as near to 800 on the board as they can muster and say to the Aussies 'right. Now battle for the next 5 sessions just to save the follow-on'.

 

[Tim]

For those who didn't watch the 2nd innings in the Wellington test...Shoaib was bowling 155 km deliveries, yorker length & they were reverse swinging...now if he bowls those often enough then its odds on he's going to get one through the gate.

I haven't actually seen him bowl better & he's now at the point where he's got NZ at his mercy.

 

[NikhilN]

good inning by patel,too bad he didnt make 100

 

[Tim]

A good innings indeed....looks like he's going to be a tough fella to bowl to.
Has John Wright done it again & found a diamond in the rough?