***Official*** India in Australia

[Pratters]

This match is a farce by the way. So many bad decisions and I am complaining as cricket fan, not an Indian fan - it is irritating to see so many bad decisions, whichever side they go for. Even if they even out in the end or have been even throughout the game, it becomes irritating that umpiring errors were such a big highlight. I remember this test in West Indies in 1997. The umpires wouldn't give an LBW whatever happened. So the batsmen were just putting the leg in front of the wicket and the match was dire. They were being equally wrong to both teams and it meant that the cricket match was a joke.

 

[silentstriker]

LOL @ Yuvraj - this is our next Test hope? I knew he would never become a Test player. Time for him to prove me right.

 

[Perm]

Ian Healy - so awful. Hate having to listen to him.

 

[Perm]

Only a matter of time before India lose another wicket one feels, they're starting to look shaky.

 

[Beleg]

What's wrong wityh Healy?

 

[Pratters]

Only a matter of time before India lose another wicket one feels, they're starting to look shaky.

Yuvraj has no idea about the pace of the wicket so far. His timing has been terrible. Also, hasn't been comfortable against the spin.

Tendulkar is overly cautious, particularly versus Clarke, perhaps not wanting to take unnecessary risks before he is more confident about the pace of the wicket.

Intirguing stuff to watch.

 

[Pratters]

New ball has been taken btw. Good timing - try and get the batsmen while they are finding it difficult.

 

[ozone]

New ball will probably provide some relief. The ball will come onto the bat a bit more and might give Yuvraj a chance to get in.

 

[Pratters]

Oooh. That would have hurt really hard.

 

[Beleg]

This is the first time I am watching Mitchel Johnson, and boy is he an ugly bowler to watch.

Don't think he's gonna last long in test cricket with this sorta run-up and action.

 

[TT Boy]

This is the first time I am watching Mitchel Johnson, and boy is he an ugly bowler to watch.

Don't think he's gonna last long in test cricket with this sorta run-up and action.

His face isn't much as well.

 

[silentstriker]

Argh! We won't even it up now.

 

[Laurrz]

quite an average delivery...didn't swing

i'll take it tho

Yuvraj looks uncomfortable playing against Lee...really does

 

[Pratters]

Lee takes Yuvraj. So the decision to take the new ball pays off for Ponting. A very poor inning from Yuvraj. The big mistake on his part was that he looked at playing attacking strokes when he should have defended it and fought it out there in the middle - he played far too attacking strokes for my liking right through the inning given how he was batting (even the wicket was off a stroke attempt). Every one is not Dravid or Tendulkar though - two players who are willing to grind it in the middle even when the going is tough.

 

[Perm]

What's wrong wityh Healy?

Everything he says seems to be either an idiotic comment offering no insight (unless it's about wicket-keeping), or just generally talking rubbish. Can't stand him at all.

 

[Pup_23]

Yuvraj gone

LBW to Lee for 12

 

[Beleg]

Umm, Yuvraj's mindset was correct - unfortunately his execution wasn't.

 

[TT Boy]

Can't get much plumber than that, even Leon Jackson would have given that.

 

[Beleg]

Everything he says seems to be either an idiotic comment offering no insight (unless it's about wicket-keeping), or just generally talking rubbish. Can't stand him at all.

He's talking a lot of sense.

Edit: Okay, I take it back. He does talk some nonsense from time to time. But the guy commentating alongside him is worse. MUCH worse.

 

[silentstriker]

I can't believe we shuffled up the lineup for this guy. I want him to play the rest of the series - and then be dropped for good so we don't have people constantly clamoring for him.