India vs Australia

There's no justice when a knock of such brilliance still sees the man on the losing side. A sad way to get out too - it seemed so tame.  350 was always an uphill task , but they should have done it with 8 or so overs to go.  The best one dayer I've seen for some time , congrats to both sides.
           Oh as an aside , am I the only one who thinks that Yuvrah is the worst bowler on the planet ? So many half trackers should have bombarded the fans , that they didn't still mystifies me.  You can almost smell the man's arrogance !


Edited by Sledger - 06 November 2009 at 5:10am

I have tremendious respect for sachin and the knock that he played... but still he should have finished it, that is what champions are expected to do.

Sorry India fans, I have to take the blame for this one.

All afternoon I had been following the card, and was biding my time before going through to watch the end of the game on TV - in the hope of seeing Sachin set a world record. Unfortunately for all concerned, I decided that when he was on 175 it would be a good moment, and literally the first thing I saw was the ball looping up off the toe of his bat.

I once did something similar to Lara. He was smashing Australia all over the ground, I thought I would grab a cup of tea and watch the maestro, and by the time I got back from switching on the kettle he was gone.

Still, that Tendulkar's rubbish guys - doesn't make great hundreds, and never made 500 runs in a series you know.....

Pontings rubbish mate, cant bat for nothing.

Now that mitchel johnson, THERES an opener we can use!

(im joking by the way)


Edited by DontGoogleMe - 06 November 2009 at 10:57am

Brilliant is all I can say. Fantastic exhibition from Australia's openers, Marsh making his maiden ton and Watson deserving one too. Ponting and Hussey have made scores in every single game, they are both in tremendous form which is great news for the Aussie summer, but also shows the 2 most experienced guys stepping up to the plate.

Now let me get to Sachin. What can I say. That punterrulz bloke has now been made to look like an absolute fool. I have not seen a better batsman in my lifetime, he is a legend of our game. He's absolutely inspiration and it's a privilege to watch such a master of the game.
This game has to be up there with some of the best, probably one of the best between these 2 sides. With India's batting line up and this extremely flat wicket and inexperienced bowling opposition they always had a chance. Unfortunately (for India, not my team ) only 1 man made runs.

I don't blame Sachin one bit for not winning the game. he did what no one else in the Indian could have done. he has made India proud on numerous occasions - others should hang around him and hand him support rather than relying on him to finish the game just like the Indian team of late 90s.

Originally posted by Sledger am I the only one who thinks that Yuvrah is the worst bowler on the planet

Very , very poor effort from India. The 'lucky' and 'rubbish' Johnson grabs 2 wickets in the first over to destroy the top order. India are lucky to get above 150 here, but now that it's later in the day and the sun will be out it should dry up the pitch and make it an easy chase against an average attack. An Australia loss here would be a disgrace.

Bollinger gets ANOTHER 5-for. He got one only recently against Pakistan in only his 2nd ODI. Now he gets another in his 7th ODI. Previous to these ODIs he had never got a 5 for in One Day domestic cricket, just 4-fors.

I think he's an absolute gem. A solid replacement for Bracken? What do you all reckon?

Gambhir was okay in the first 2 games, getting injured sort of lost his momentum. Dhoni was put under a lot of pressure and failed. Perhaps he isn't built for batting earlier on in the innings like we thought. The tail has saved India  here but Australia's batting line up as we saw is capable of making 350 despite only 2 real regulars in the top 7. 

You can't balme them sam, current Indian team is like that, lot of stroke makers so we can never rely on them, these kind of low score will be often.However one good thing is their winning percentage will be high.That's why they more often score 300 and leak 300, and many times come close chasing it down.

certainly not two but we could say five... Watson, White, Ponting, Hussey and Johnson.

Anyways IND should have played better and they lost to a depleted Aussie team which makes matters worse... SLN will be coming here full strength and it'll be interesting to see how IND go against them... the likes of Jayawardene, Sangakkara, Murali, Mendis, Kulasekara and Malinga against this Indian team should be an exciting contest... important that IND do well at least against them.

The better team has won.

Bollinger is going from no. 6 fast bowler to probably no 3. He's gone above Siddle in ODI cricket. Lee, Johnson, Bollinger, Hauritz, Watson looks a good attack.  I'm very impressed and I'm sure the India followers would have been astounded to see a guy they probably haven't heard of clean up 5 wickets in a game. Hussey has renewed confidence which is promising, Ponting and Watson have made a shedload of runs and Johnson actually swung the ball for the first time in a long time.

For India, Sachin is as good as ever and Dhoni has looked wickedly dangerous. Nehra has done quite well, while PK has been okay but done more with bat than ball in my opinion. I also think Harbhajan could see himself on the sidelines if he keeps playing like he is. He's been decent with the ball, but I reckon Ojha and Mishra have a really, really good chance of coming into the side in his place.

Ok, no body will like me for saying this but actually I read a comment of Rediff today and it said "Who is the greatest choker ever, Southafrican team OR Sachin Tendulkar???". I must say I don't have an answer for this!

Quite a surprise that India fell apart , first up. Australia were always getting 171 , the match was over at halftime. Bollinger made the most of his chances and will take some shifting now , Johnson just did what he does , knock over top batters.
         India need to address their bowling inadequacies - the sonner Khan returns , the better.