Australia vs. India (in Australia)

It's going to be a fantastic summer of cricket, with India touring Australia this summer!

The make up of the Indian side has been made clear, and the fast bowling attack is very worrying, while the Indians will be missing the expertise of Anil Kumble - who has always been a handful!

Watson and Marsh will be welcome inclusions for Boxing Day, while we might see Harris and Cummins back. Thus , India may be facing a full strength Australian side.

Australia's far superior pace attack, and the emergence of Lyon will prove to be a challenge to the ageing Indian batting line up. And I think with Watson and Marsh back the Australian batting line up will be able to combat the mediocre fast bowlers of India. I also think Ashwin's finger spin, as with most overseas offies, will not be particularly useful.

Edited by Mikey - 11 December 2011 at 9:38am

The key for India is for Zaheer and Ishant to hit their straps. If they play close to their best, then India are a very good shot at taking out the series. I'll be interested to see how Laxman and Gambhir perform, I think those two guys haven't performed as well of late as they normally do.

James' parents came to Australia from England 5 years before he was born. But I don't think he has played any cricket in England or anything like that. Not sure what you mean by 'English connection'. If someone spoke about English connection with regard to fast bowlers 5 years ago they would have laughed. England have come a long way with their fast bowlers and I reckon Australia is catching up, fast.

Pattinson's pace is very promising too, hitting 150kph on occasion and I think he's actually faster than Cummins. Should be a dangerous combination and Harris, when fit, almost always gets wickets. Siddle has also been a great spearhead this series and he has impressed be immensely! Bollinger is also in the wings, Cutting and Starc aren't far off and Copeland is still around. What about Hilfenhaus? Can't complain at the moment with fast bowling stocks.

I agree with Raj, India's batting, especially in England, has been many pegs below what they're capable of. Gambhir, Laxman have good records against Australia and so do Dravid and Sachin. Should be an interesting series. I think India will either capitulate or win. Have a feeling it won't be a close series and one team with dominate most of the games.

5 years is a poor comment, more like 10. Sorry.

Most of the Australian team probably have some English origins. Besides Jason Gillespie and Dan Christian (who are both only partly Aboriginal), basically everyone in the Australian side is not indigenous to Australia.

Spin I agree to an extent, but only if the Indian batsmen bat to their potential, not like they did in England.

India must be spewing Praveen Kumar is injured. His medium pace swing is what has been undoing Australia of late, just ask Bracewell and Philander....

after Australia's defeat to NZL today I must say India will fancy their chances, however I think given the Australian conditions the NZL attack was better than India's although India's batting will be far more superior to that of the Kiwi's. 

Another reason is India's aged batting line up BP, we saw that in ENG that they failed to cross 300 even once, now that to me was quite shocking. Against WI at Home it was covered up to some extent but even in the WI series India's batting collapsed on more than one occasion.

Sehwag and Sachi bhai wasn't in the caribbean Sam.  Aussies will be much more easier territory for the Indians.

Simply put, I just fancy any team to beat this current Aussie side.  Luckily they found Warner, so someone else to help score runs.

Now I sign off as a good omen till the end of Aussie tour , so that above wish comes true!

Smoking? Has to be something else for sure. Although, 4-0 could still become a reality to be honest

Originally posted by MalhotraRaj84 The fight that India face is injuries to key players & form of batsman , that is the only worry.

Key players? which key player is injured? apart from Zaheer Khan everyone else is fit and if any team that has injuries problem its Australia not INDIA!!


Edited by mystery - 13 December 2011 at 10:20am

Originally posted by BackwardPoint If anyone wins 4-0, it will be Australia. I just can't see how you guys are neglecting India's terrible bowling attack. Australia may be in a bad run of form but they couldn't come across an easier attack to score off unless they were playing Bangladesh. If India are to win the series, they will have to pile on some massive scores to give their bowlers adequate runs to play with.

I agree BP and this is the perfect time for Ponting to get back in form against this attack.

Milky are you sure Cummins is fit? i saw in the news that he is out till Feb i might be wrong.

That's why I added Siddle to the list, you'll see I mentioned 4 fast bowlers and Lyon.

I was more referring to the 4th innings in the last test when Australia won, Steyn was basically useless and I think Australia was able to dent his effectiveness. Except for that wicket he got near the end, he almost ended the innings wicketless, which would have been rather rare for him.

Originally posted by spin wizard Sehwag and Sachi bhai wasn't in the caribbean Sam.  Aussies will be much more easier territory for the Indians. Simply put, I just fancy any team to beat this current Aussie side.  Luckily they found Warner, so someone else to help score runs.