India vs Australia

I guess Haddin and Clarke faced MacGill a lot in the nets, which would have helped.  Massive spinner of the ball plus an excellent googly.

Think he's coming at the end. Last 3 games.

That is certainly not on and he will never open for an Australian team. I hope he does not want to turn into an Irfan Pathan. He is very talented with the bat but his core is bowling and that is where he should focus.

In addition to Irfan pathan we have examples of James Franklin.Allrounder are developed right from their pre-teens.These kind of players can become useful batsman lower down the order.Not that they can not become batsman , but they will end up like Irfan.Which is a pity.

Edited by MalhotraRaj84 - 23 October 2009 at 10:09am

There are many, many examples. Klusener was a raw and fast bowler who batted right at the bottom. He is probably now a batting all rounder and his bowling is basically fast off cutters now due to injury. Watson was a bowling all rounder now a batting all rounder while Flintoff was the other way around.
Brad Hogg started out as a batsman , as did Nicky Boje. Johan Botha was a medium bowler and should have stuck that way.
There are heaps of examples of it.
Harbhajan is kidding himself by saying he wants an ODI 100. Maybe he should start by getting one in 1st class cricket!!

Johnson will never open for Australia. He opens in club cricket (the level below first class cricket) which is why he probably had the idea. He's a very talented batsman, but if you're a left armer who can bowl 150kph then you have an even more special talent. Australia will never bat him above 8 in tests, no way, not unless they find 2 really excellent spinners out of no where which they won't. In ODI cricket he could bat at 7, but the balance doesn't need that because we have Watson, Hopes and the like who can bat and bowl.

I'm sure if he opened in 2020 he could be effective, no doubt. How is he any worse than those keepers who come out and open, but are normally lower order batsmen? Kaluwitharana comes to mind. However, he shouldn't open, I don't endorse it and he should only be used at 7/8/9 in the order or as a pinch hitter (as they used Warne for).

oh he really wants to open. I think he should focus on his bowling this is what Australia want's.

They should have put him to open on that Johannesburg pitch against the Windies when Roach pounded a few of the batters, his mind surely wouldn't have been on that anymore.

I think the best thing will be to let him bat with Rohit Sharma for few days than he will forget how to bat than he will never say he wants to open.

Originally posted by mystery I think the best thing will be to let him bat with Rohit Sharma for few days than he will forget how to bat than he will never say he wants to open.

Your cricketing knoweledge is so supreme.

You are absolutely right about Jhonson when he is not on radar.

Edited by MalhotraRaj84 - 24 October 2009 at 6:35am

Yuvi will miss out on tomorrows game due to injury, I mean it's very likely that he'll miss out. Dhoni is also carrying a minor injury after being hit on his knee by a Munaf delivery, but will play tomorrow.

If IND win this series, no matter by what margin, then they'll be the No.1 ODI team in the world. If AUS beat them 6-1 or 7-0 then IND will drop down to 4th!

Karthik's not in the squad, milks, but it wouldn't be difficult for India to call up a wicket-keeper if they had to.

Can Kohli keep? I think I read somewhere that he can

When did you hack Milk's account Raj?