Athlai
Not Terrible
Thunderstorms forecast.It's suppose to rain tommorow isn't it?
Thunderstorms forecast.It's suppose to rain tommorow isn't it?
Nagpur (3rd test) pitch offers quite a bit of spin IIRC. Jason Kreja got like several wickets on day 1 and 2 in 2008.Swing and plenty of it makes this very very interesting.
Bet we'll take a few wickets and look on top only to be foiled by the rain. Making this match another easy draw.
Final match India bring it and we get thrashed.
Zaheer is quality.. And they bat awfully well.pitch not doing a lot and india's bowling looks friendly. how they can be number one rated test team with that attack beats me.
Know it's early but so far this series:-To further show how **** we are apart from Zaheer:-
Indian bowling figures in 2010:
Zaheer Khan - 34 wickets in 6 games @ 22.7
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H'jan Singh - 25 wickets in 7 games @ 43.24
Ishant Sharma - 22 wickets in 8 games @ 44.72
Pragyan Ojha - 27 wickets in 6 games @ 47.14
Amit Mishra - 15 wickets in 4 games @ 42.2
Abhimanyu Mithun - 6 wickets in 3 games @ 62
Sreesanth - 4 wickets in 2 games @ 58.75
That's how sad our bowling is, atm.
Has a lot to do with the captaincy too, when you don't have the balls to keep the fielders in after being hit for a boundary, the pressure is non existent and you end up with such figures.Know it's early but so far this series:-
Zaheer Khan - 5 wickets @ 23.6
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Pragyan Ojha - 5 wickets @ 33.6
Sreesanth - 3 wickets @ 50.66
H'jan Singh - 1 wicket @ 178
To be fair there's not much difference between Hopkins and Southee except that Southee is much more aggressive. They wanted someone to block for a few overs and Hopkins is much more qualified for that.Most teams use their number 9 batsman as a night watchman. Maybe they figure Tim isn't up to the job...Not sure why we would risk our number 8 batsman.
And as a corollary, Bangladesh > Australia.NZ > Australia, clearly.
TBF once he hit 20 he didn't really look like he was going to get out, played beutifully imoGar! Again with the losing of a wicket at the end of the day! Great for McIntosh though, keeping that average happily floating around the 30 mark. And good for Guptill too, even if he was living the most charmed life imaginable.
Need 500 on this pitch, so there's still plenty for Ryder, Vettori, Williamson, Southee and ****kins to do.