4-0 on the cards..
Aus v India Test series
- Thread starter Flying Fox
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Our batting lineup is over-rated. It might sound kneejerk but there's too many who are just sitting on their asses and doing nothing. Our very own indian captain is included in that. The likes of Pujara and Rohit should be given the chance.
Ponting & Clarke look very comfortable. Dhoni's field placings are once again strange.
Excellent session for the Aussies, 236/3 at lunch.
A century for Clarke, Ponting should get his 100 after the lunch break. It's been almost 2 years since Ponting made a 100, he seems to be back in form after calls for him to retire.
A century for Clarke, Ponting should get his 100 after the lunch break. It's been almost 2 years since Ponting made a 100, he seems to be back in form after calls for him to retire.
Form temporary, class permanent! Get the feck in!!!
Says alot that Sehwag is the most economical of the Indian bowlers...
What a well fought day, this test match hangs in balance.
India getting absolutely pasted here. I can't believe how quickly Clarke and Hussey have put together this partnership - and are they actually scoring quicker than the previous partnership?
Won't be happy with anything short of a Clarke 300 and Hussey century tomorrow 
Forecast for Sydney is:
Should get a full five days play, so a draw should be out of the question unless the Indian batsmen finally grow a pair and stick around.
Forecast for Sydney is:
Thursday - Max 26, partly cloudy, 30% chance of late shower
- Friday - Max 24, cloudy with isolated showers until afternoon
- Saturday - Max 28, partly cloudy
Should get a full five days play, so a draw should be out of the question unless the Indian batsmen finally grow a pair and stick around.
Are India just replaying everything they did wrong in England all over again?
I thought this Aussie side was crap, and England were fortunate to play them and India when they did??
I thought this Aussie side was crap, and England were fortunate to play them and India when they did??
Our "legendary" batting line up has done feck all for a year now in test matches. Starting to look a bit worrying for the older players.
Are India just replaying everything they did wrong in England all over again?
I thought this Aussie side was crap, and England were fortunate to play them and India when they did??
Nobody said that England were fortunate to play India and Nobody really rates India that much, but still you're here talking nonsense about how India is over-rated etc etc.
You got worked up when the non english posters said that "Now the English will win the Euro 2012" after they defeated Spain in that Eng-Spain match thread but yet you're sprouting the same level of crap in this thread.
Clarke and Hussey both looking sublime first session today.
Can see Hussey get 200+ and Clark breaking the 380 world record before Australia declare an hour before the end of play today.
Too late to watch anymore now now which is a real shame as i think Im going to miss a bit of monumental cricket history.
India's bowling in general and performances outside India are SHOCKING.
Can see Hussey get 200+ and Clark breaking the 380 world record before Australia declare an hour before the end of play today.
Too late to watch anymore now now which is a real shame as i think Im going to miss a bit of monumental cricket history.
India's bowling in general and performances outside India are SHOCKING.
World record is 400, 380 is the record score by an Aussie.
Agree that India are shocking outside their own conditions, the Aussies have played well but it's as if Dhoni gave up on the game once the Aussies took a 50 run lead.
Agree that India are shocking outside their own conditions, the Aussies have played well but it's as if Dhoni gave up on the game once the Aussies took a 50 run lead.
I want to pork Clarkes missus
AND HE GETS 300
AND HE GETS 300
She is tasty.
Congrats to MC for his 300 though.
Congrats to MC for his 300 though.
Declared on 329. Could've become the 2nd highest Aussie if he got 334.
think it was out of respect to bradman. very classy gesture if thats the case. would have gone on beyond 400 had he kept going....
ooops forgot laras score. my bad.
Held back for long enough... Brad Haddin can feck right off, I've had enough of his mediocre keeping, not least being a walking wicket. Inverarity better have the smarts to blood in Wade or Nevill because both are superior with the gloves and the bat and the better part of a decade younger. Too bad it's unlikely to happen since Haddin's the stand-in vice captain and we've had some recent success.
The only thing keeping me sane at the moment is the fact we're still 354 runs ahead.
The only thing keeping me sane at the moment is the fact we're still 354 runs ahead.
Nah Jez, Haddins fecked. He knows it aswell. His failures have not gone unnoticed.
He's done it every single time, but is still lauded for being The Greatest Captain Ever.
fecking annoying.
He's a shit test captain and a shitter batsman.
centuries by hussey and ponting probably mean they'll now be good for another year or so....hopefully denying the rebuilding long enough so that England can stroll to another ashes success.
Sorry mate if it offends you, good comparison with the football thread to be fair.
Going to have to admit to just being a bit of a dick in here as England being decent still has me in a state of shock
What's going on with Sehwag?
Are the lazy pundits right in saying this swishing at everything with width has got him that great test record?
Because i find it hard to believe, he looks like a pub player, and as said above, his record is fantastic
Atleast Dravid just looks out of nick...
(Sachin will get his hundred in a losing cause tonight).
fecking haddin again! Just feck off you useless cnut!
Difficult chance but Haddin has struggled a bit today giving away byes.
Sachin looks in good touch, could be his big day today.
Sachin looks in good touch, could be his big day today.
Good session for India. Sachin is getting closer to the 100th 100. It's the only interesting thing remaining in this match, hope he gets it.
Could you imagine if whilst he was getting closer India was losing wickets. And India were down to 9 wickets, he stuck on non strikers end on 99 or something and his partner gets out to end the innings.
GONE!..... YES! THAT's feckED HIS AVERAGE TONY!
Tendulka on his way and India are 4 for 271!
Tendulka on his way and India are 4 for 271!
Dammit Sachin! I wanted to see him get his 100.
feck! Another chance is missed. Im so pissed.
centuries by hussey and ponting probably mean they'll now be good for another year or so....hopefully denying the rebuilding long enough so that England can stroll to another ashes success.
On the other hand, without the captaincy and increased form, it could see Ponting have a late career push like Tendulka, and batter the shit out of England and everybody else for the next two years.
Meanwhile in other news, India's power grid has gone into overload as 1 billion tv sets are turned of simultaneously
VVS
VVS
I'm not waking up for this shit anymore. Its like I'm back in the 90s.
All series I've just checked the end of day scores. I stayed awake last night in the hope Sachin would get his century.
Pathetic stuff from us against an okay Australian team, which tells you just how poor a team we are right now. We've looked a team completely devoid of confidence and intensity ever since the English tour began. Personally, I think this could be an extremely prolonged spell unless we move on past our 'golden generation'. Some of them are absolutely legends of the game forget Indian cricket, but this team needs a freshness of ideas and an intensity that only youth can bring.
I can see one of them having a pretty good series abroad like Dravid did last series or Sachin seems to this time (without converting into big scores), but as a whole I think they've not that much left in the tank anymore. In fact, I'd personally like us to rotate them much like one would in football with the likes of Giggs and Scholes (up till recently), depending on who is in form. So for this series I would have played Sachin and maybe not Dravid and Laxman going by their form. Maybe in England, only Dravid could have played. Fact is, it is time to allow another Dravid or Tendulkar to make their mistakes and grow stronger from them.
And their presence means we have about 5-7 guys in the field who are slow and laborious leading to a lot intensity fielding unit that's never really 'buzzing' on the field.
Another problem is that our captain is absolutely useless away from home. I reckon it might not be such a bad idea to lose him as a test captain. He's an absolutely liability down the order right now.
And finally, it's clear as day that us as a cricketing nation has gotten a but too drenched in the ways of T20/modern one day cricket that we've almost unlearnt the great game that test cricket is.
So yeah, lots of problems and I think we should get used to it for awhile as it's a problem that will only be solved in the long term.
I can see one of them having a pretty good series abroad like Dravid did last series or Sachin seems to this time (without converting into big scores), but as a whole I think they've not that much left in the tank anymore. In fact, I'd personally like us to rotate them much like one would in football with the likes of Giggs and Scholes (up till recently), depending on who is in form. So for this series I would have played Sachin and maybe not Dravid and Laxman going by their form. Maybe in England, only Dravid could have played. Fact is, it is time to allow another Dravid or Tendulkar to make their mistakes and grow stronger from them.
And their presence means we have about 5-7 guys in the field who are slow and laborious leading to a lot intensity fielding unit that's never really 'buzzing' on the field.
Another problem is that our captain is absolutely useless away from home. I reckon it might not be such a bad idea to lose him as a test captain. He's an absolutely liability down the order right now.
And finally, it's clear as day that us as a cricketing nation has gotten a but too drenched in the ways of T20/modern one day cricket that we've almost unlearnt the great game that test cricket is.
So yeah, lots of problems and I think we should get used to it for awhile as it's a problem that will only be solved in the long term.
Absolutely!
The selectors should have started to blood in a few more youngsters whilst the like of Sachin and Rahul are still around and make use of their experience. India of all the nations not having a couple of world class spinners in their ranks is a travesty.
I'm not sure about changing MS as captain. There's not a decent candidate around at this moment in time.
The selectors should have started to blood in a few more youngsters whilst the like of Sachin and Rahul are still around and make use of their experience. India of all the nations not having a couple of world class spinners in their ranks is a travesty.
I'm not sure about changing MS as captain. There's not a decent candidate around at this moment in time.