Australia vs. India (in Australia)

It is indeed the precise problem, a complete apathy to losing. I think it's okay to not fear defeat, but to actually be apathetic towards is plain unprofessional and no one in that Indian side deserves a penny for their efforts.

a really good performance by India today. They showed why they are the World Champions. Only India can chase such target in this style. If they reach the finals then they will definetly win the finals.

Sam's statement is true, they didn't even realise they were still it and just wanted to go home. This last ditch effort by Kohli was purely a masterclass, and it was really a situation of 'let's throw everything we've got at it, and hopefully it comes off'. Indeed it did, and Kohli played his 2nd awesome innings of the summer - shame he doesn't play them more consistently, he's quite a gem to watch.

What do you mean he doesn't play them consistently, Mikey? He averages around 48 after 80 odd ODI matches with 9 ODI hundreds. The one at Hobart was easily his best but he is a very consistent and talented ODI batsman. 

It's the worst I have ever seen Malinga bowl. It was really poor captaincy from Jayawardene to keep persisting with him when guys like Herath were proving to be economical. I'll be surprised if SLN can recover from this and defeat AUS. 

 SLN actually go through, they beat Australia for the third time in 4 games... the finals should be interesting because in the last 7 matches between the teams in AUS,  SLN have beaten Australia 6 times!

WOW! what an innings that was from David Warner, 163... on his maiden ODI ton, that was one of the best knocks I've ever seen! terrific batting! AUS go 1-0 despite a late SLN surge lead by Kulasekara and Tharanga. 

Win or lose should not matter for SL they already gone too far they are the real winners. This just shows how much difference captain makes.

Australians are starting to look weary, but a fantastic effort from Warner in the finals series, with 2 tons and 48, including 163 in which he batted to the last ball of the match. I thought McKay proved himself to be a good ODI alternative to some of the other options, and it's not a bad thing to have a guy like him around for ODIs, to keep the likes of Pattinson, Harris, Hilfenhaus, Siddle and Cummins fresh for test cricket. Dan Christian was very useful in this series for Australia with the ball and the occasional batting knock, while Michael Clarke's absence will be missed in the ODI leg of the WI series.

In other news, Ponting and Cowan have both come off hundreds for Tasmanian, this is Punter's second ton in a row - he's still in awesome nick, sometimes things don't go your way in limited overs cricket and it's probably a blessing in disguise that he's no longer in the reckoning for ODI cricket. I think Cowan and Ponting will both tour WI, with Cowan opening with Warner, Watson at 3, Ponting at 4, Clarke at 5, Hussey at 6 and Wade at 7. Haddin will possibly be dropped, while Forrest, Bailey (I really don't know why...) and David Hussey will be in the reckoning as well.

Originally posted by BackwardPoint I don't even think India care anymore. Mikey's assessment of Dhoni as apathetic to losing seems to be correct, the entire team just hardly seem to care. Hopeless run-outs, no determination in converting ones into twos, sloppy fielding. It's just embarrassing. At least look at ENG when they got smashed 3-0 recently. You could tell they were hurting. You could tell they cared and you could tell they were working hard to improve their game. It's the least you expect from any cricket team, let alone one that is the current world champions and represents a nation of over 1 billion people. One of the most disgraceful performances from any team in a long, long while. I can never see IND challenging AUS, ENG and RSA for an extremely long time. The mentality and passion is not there anymore. It's actually rather sad.