India vs Australia 2010

I can't see Ponting being around in 4 years time Kiran.   Easy in the end for India , but you'd have to think 200+ on the 5th day would test any side against one of the top 4 rated countries.  Not to be though and all those critics of the Aussie attack will be nodding their heads right now.  Not only haven't they the strike power , but they lack control as well and India exploited that to the full. 
             Tendulkar was sublime in this match and was a joy to watch - any aspiring youngster can do no better than sit through this test and watch just how a test innings should be put together. - simply brilliant.
               Three losses on the trot in tests for Australia is something that hasn't happened since 1989 (i think) and will give rise to some serious soul searching when the side to face England at the Gabba is discussed.   As an Englishman I'm not sure that this 2-0 scoreline is a good thing - one of two things can happen , either Australia will bounce back with a vengeance or they'll just get worse !
             


Edited by Sledger - 13 October 2010 at 1:20pm

Now if India belt 'em 3-0 in the one dayers................... 

Originally posted by Sledger Now if India belt 'em 3-0 in the one dayers...................

That may not happen Sledge. No Sachin, no Sehwag, no Ghambir...I haven't seen the team, but heard that, all the major players have been rested.

Hmmm. Just goes to show how bad a captain Ponting is.

Captains are over rated, only a few persons can inspire men to achieve a bit more and that's why I don't buy much into players like Clive Lloyd, Ponting's win record as captain - for the sides they had, it didn't matter who was the captain, they would still win the same!  You had to headache, just choose one of your main bowlers and things good.

Question mark will be over either Yuvraj/Raina or Dravid's spot in the side to make way for Pujara.  All I can seem to hear for sometime now is that he's going to be the next big thing in India.  I feel Dravid will get an axing soon.  Usually, the oldie gets thrown out when the young cupboard seems very bright.

Originally posted by Clobber yeah I am sure they were blushing like mad with the embarassment of it as they cracked open another bottle of victory champagne

Not likely!
I really underperformed when my team one the finals a couple of years back, got myself out to a pathetic ball, but I completely forgot about it when we won, it was only looking at the scorecard that I realised I hadn't done ANYTHING much for the whole game!

Maybe wrong choice of word from me bladey. I mean hes usually not very ecstatic following victories

Edited by abubakar52 - 14 October 2010 at 1:44pm

Yes. Australia also have rested the major players. So the series may not be that interesting. It is more of testing the bench strength rather than the best 11 from each country playing against each other.

Which seems to me like a great shame. This is supposed to be the 2 top ODI nations facing each other, but yet they are both resting key players!

Is this the price of too much cricket? Is this what we should expect in the future, the best teams fielding weaker sides due to rotation policies?! I'm afraid the ICC needs to think long and hard about this...

But I'm not going to hold my breath...

No, it wont happen Kiran, because the lure of the money will always bend the views of the people who run it!

India over do it most of the time, sachin hasn't played an ODI since scoring that double hundred and that was back in FEB, India have played just 5 tests since so he was not a part of any other International assignment.

Players like Dhoni, Zaheer, Harbhajan, Gambhir were all rested for ZIM tour and also for some ODI tournaments, still they play every IPL game, every CLT20 game and complain about too much cricket??? Rubbish!

Ok I agree on gambhir but resting some of those players was not at all required, esp when they are happily playing in the IPl and CLT20. I don't even remember when was the last time that IND fielded their first choice eleven in an ODI.... ever since they got that No.1 position in tests their main focus has only been test matches.

what they do not realize is that if they do poorly in the upcoming WC which is in the subcontinent, it won't take long for the fans to forget all the good things happening now!

Originally posted by abubakar52 Maybe wrong choice of word from me bladey. I mean hes usually not very ecstatic following victories

Ah, well you're right there!

This Aussie bowling line is second string. What is Smith's role in the team? Is he a batting all rounder or a bowling one? He just bowled three overs which is absurd.