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    Posted: 06 February 2010 at 11:43am
I laughed when i read that. I do not expect Australia to lose 1 game against West Indies
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WI are most unpredictable team, they can fold within 100 or score 300+, all depends on which side of the bed they wake up Smile.
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I have a feeling that WI will win the series. Australia is fearing only 2sides and that are WI and India. Both sides are agressiv against Australia.
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My Prediction for the series is 5-0 Australia. Sorry SW Unhappy



Edited by mystery - 06 February 2010 at 5:47pm
Rohit Sharma - What the world has seen is gear 1, gear speed 2,3,4,5,7,8,9 to be witnessed in IPL only.   
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3-2 for WI
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Australia only fear of this West Indies team is that they have a batting line up that if it gets going, they're gonna go pass 300 with ease.
 
Gayle, Smith and Pollard especially can blitz around at a rapid rate while the likes of Simmons, Sammy can belt it around too.  The one thing in Aussie favour is Smith doesn't bat with a brain and the rest aren't as good as staying around with the exception of Gayle.
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Maybe gayle knew that they are going to lose first match , that's why he said 4-1 Wink.
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I wasted some good hours of sleep for this huh.  The Windies bowling effort was good, Pollard was brilliant!  Luckily for me, I went to bed in the 11th over of the Windies batting innings, that was enough torture.
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The West Indies aren't terrible, it's just that Australia's miles ahead of other countries in one day cricket.
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Australia is playing good odi cricket but they will have a lot of problems in the world cup in subcontinent. They dont have any good spinner. Hauritz is crap. Michael Clarke is much better spinner than Hauritz. Their fast bowlers will leak runs on these tracks. They will be very lucky to reach the semis.
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Crownmethod, the West Indies are terrible.  They've faced McGrath and Warnie before and made much more runs than this.  As good as the Aussie pacers are bowling, they're not as good as McGrath.  A lot of the West Indies dismissal this series has been very poor.
 
Gayle simply played all around that ball, Dowlin got a horrible looking way to be dismissed, Simmons foot was stuck and trying to drive an angling ball straight.  Morton got a good delivery I'd admit but he made it look much more than a good ball, technique was quite poor for it.
 
As I said somewhere above, for West Indies to win, they will need Gayle and the middle order to just stay there to set up a late order assault from Pollard, Smith.
 
Next time I'm watching, as soon as Gayle goes, i'm off to bed - luckily I only hang around for a half hour last night!
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Originally posted by MalhotraRaj84

WI are most unpredictable team, they can fold within 100 or score 300+, all depends on which side of the bed they wake up Smile.

When was the last time WI passed 300? (not including tour games)

Originally posted by kahmad

They dont have any good spinner. Hauritz is crap. Michael Clarke is much better spinner than Hauritz. 

That is not true any more. It was a year ago, but Hauritz is a much better bowler now

As for the world cup my prediction is that we will make the final, weather or not we win it i don't know.
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It would certainly be a surprise if Australia didn't make the final of the World Cup - don't forget they won the last global tournament to be staged in India when they won the Champions Trophy in 2006.
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India, Sri Lanka or South Africa will play the final. Australia wont get into the finals, i think so
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I'd swap Australia for South Africa there, kahmad. We'll see how they go in the upcoming ODIs.
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Even before the Ind-SA series , I had told that SA's strength is in ODI rather than Tests.I feel they have the strongest ODI line up which bats till the end.They have Duminy,Merwe,Smith to back Botha on spin dept if condiitons needs slow bolwers which is case in Indian pitches.
 
Still don't know why they make mess out of it in every global tournament.
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If they are so strong in ODIs, how did they contrive to lose at home to England?!

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this time they will win the world cup.
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South Africa got beaten home and away by England in ODI's and not many teams have had that done to them by a shockingly inconsistent English ODI side (albeit it is improving). South Africa are a decent ODI side but i always feel they are very beatable by pretty much all of the nations.

Forget Sri Lanka, South Africa, India or Australia, the 2011 World Cup trophy is heading to England Big%20smile
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you must be joking Smile
It is just a dream for England to reach the semis. Ithink Bangladesh have more chances to win it:-)
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Yep, he was joking ofcourse.  I'd put more money on West Indies winning it than England, just to show how much chance I think England have of winning it.
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Another seemingly boring game, with the only excitement being the last four balls of Australia's innings, which half of the audience missed it, because Channel Nine puts the news as higher priority than the cricket. ODI's are really becoming tedious.

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If they are so strong in ODIs, how did they contrive to lose at home to England?!Wink
 
Exactly , I feel they pick up the likes of Botha,Parnell,Merrwe and Ablie Morkel in the side as they lend some respectability to the lower down the order.I don't say they are bad bowlers , they are good, I still think there are much better bowlers in store.ex CJ Devillers, I feel he is very good.
 
Now if you make and analysis of Windies of 80's,Aussies of late 90's to 2007, how many of them were won by tailenders winning the match with the bat.Very less.
Yes there would be few matches where tailenders/lower order wins the match with the bat,but it does not happen consistently.
 
Maybe SA's team selection is influenced by picking squad that bats till the end , that could be one reason why they have not won a major tournament.
 
 
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I hardly remember rain helping India anytime.While some teams always get away with rain when they perform badly, I wish the same thing happens to other teams aswell in major tournaments when they have performed good in first half of the match.
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West Indies restrict Aussies to 222 but yet were saved by the rain (the Windies ofcourse).  The batting was definitely strengthened but I still feel with a tumbling top and middle order that Nash should be used to bat at 3 and not sit on the bench.  He's not a flamboyant player but they're badly in need of someone to bat through the innings, nevermind if it's with a strike rate of 65!
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Aussies are well ahead of all other teams in ODI format, rankings and point difference  just underlines the fact more ... Cry
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Hows this:
Australia Have 3 bowlers with averages under 20: Mckay, Harris, Bollinger
Plus Johnson.
The allround skills of Watson and Hopes
The experience of Ponting and Hussey
The hitting power of White and Voges.
Plus theres Haddin, Clarke, Marsh and Paine.
That isn't a bad crop of players I'd say.
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They also have so many players like Siddle,Bracken,Lee,D.Hussey,Ferguson and many more who are not even playing.
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I always use to say (when the great Aussies were still around) that when they go, they will still have a very good ODI side and I was right - I did say however that they won't be the force they were in Test, which is correct too.  I'm good! Big%20smile
 
Anyhow, shame on West Indies.  The only players on the team that can go back home with some pride left is the all-rounders in Sammy, Pollard and Smith.  Miller to an extent wasn't that bad, just that he couldn't get a wicket.  He's a tight bowler but I'm afraid he won't out anyone that easily.
 
Well done Aussie, classic bowling is the biggest factor why they have demolished Pakistan and West Indies so easily in the ODI format.  They kept the ball full and just outside off stump.  It still bamboozles me as to why Rampaul was bowling straight - the bounce in Aussie puts lbw out of the equation to an extent so you're safer off looking for an edge with the bounce. 


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Hows this:
Australia Have 3 bowlers with averages under 20: Mckay, Harris, Bollinger
Plus Johnson.
The allround skills of Watson and Hopes
The experience of Ponting and Hussey
The hitting power of White and Voges.
Plus theres Haddin, Clarke, Marsh and Paine.
That isn't a bad crop of players I'd say.
Good side , no denying that but against SA and India they have to play well to win.I don't think they can dominate a series against IND and SA atleast.
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