This really is an abysmal performance. None of their batsmen have shown any sort of application...dark days if you're an Aussie supporter. They need Ponting and Hussey back if they're hoping to even draw the Ashes.
India v Australia 2013
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In the last 10 overs, Mighty Australia scored 1 run. 
Drop Sehwag or continue with a winning combination?
Don't think we'll make any other changes. Though a good leg spinner instead of Harbhajan will be a welcome addition in the squad.
Don't think we'll make any other changes. Though a good leg spinner instead of Harbhajan will be a welcome addition in the squad.
A huge big heap of steaming elephant dung.
That is all.
That is all.
Inverarity has some good ideas, but he over complicates shit I think rotation is a great idea, but the way they go about it is bizarre.
I remember in the last 5 ODI series vs Sri Lanka, Khawaja was run out in the first match for like 2 and was dropped. Their justification for that was that Khawaja was already told he'd get only 1 match.
Lots of cock ups like that.
Too many limited overs players in the test squad. And premeditated selections. Like the obsession with Hughes, with Quiney used as the sacrificial lamb. They should get Bailey in. He's got proper technique.
Trying new things is okay, but trying them for the sake of trying them is a little stupid.
I remember in the last 5 ODI series vs Sri Lanka, Khawaja was run out in the first match for like 2 and was dropped. Their justification for that was that Khawaja was already told he'd get only 1 match.
Lots of cock ups like that.
Too many limited overs players in the test squad. And premeditated selections. Like the obsession with Hughes, with Quiney used as the sacrificial lamb. They should get Bailey in. He's got proper technique.
Trying new things is okay, but trying them for the sake of trying them is a little stupid.
I am not sure you can call it an obsession with Hughes. Quiney was given a chance against SA and failed miserably, Hughes was then then given a chance and he grasped it. Can't blame the selectors there
They should drop Warner to middle order and promote Watson up. Clarke should play at no.4 position. Maxwell looks handy as a bowler on these pitches so I'd keep him. Also they should bring back Haddin. He's better than Wade.
Bit harsh on Wade after his effort in the first innings.
I hope we drop Sehwag and Harbhajan and play Dhawan and Ojha.
After Quiney failed against SA, Inverarity came out and said that the reason Hughes was not picked to play against SA was that they didn't want Hughes to be mentally scarred by potential failures against Steyn and co. They said Quiney was picked as a stop-gap solution to re-introduce Hughes into test cricket against lighter opposition.
That's plain ridiculous.
Australia should line-up like this:
Watson, Katich, Khawaja, Clarke, Bailey, Haddin, Henriques, Hauritz/O'keefe, Starc, Pattinson, Siddle
Very knee-jerk, but Bailey is a must in that team. Katich's still a better player than Cowan, who seems mediocre at best and a better novelist than a cricketer. Matthew Wade is another pet project of Inverarity.
Khawaja is their Rohit Sharma and for that reason I like him.
Wade is the worst keeper in international cricket bar none. If they can't find a better keeper than him they are really fecked as a cricket playing nation - even Haddin would do a better job ffs.
Isn't Khawaja meant to be a solid player? They should give him a chance in India, can't get any worse for them.
Watson should be opening as well.
Watson should be opening as well.
We won't. Harbhajan sill has a reputation of being a match winner despite doing nothing of note in the last two years or so.
Not convinced by Dhawan, I'd like them to fast track Chand or play Rahane as Sehwags time is up.
Good team. When Cummins is fit again, Australia's pace bowling attack with look ridiculous.
Btw I'd look to gloat after Jadejas performances. He has looked quality in the two test matches, has the talent for batting to do well and that will improve.
His accuracy is absolutely brilliant.
His accuracy is absolutely brilliant.
But everyone here has an issue with him as #6. No one's questioned his role as a #8, which is what he seems to be playing as right now, given his batting returns.
At the moment, it's a question of Ojha versus Jadeja. I haven't seen the last 2 tests for different reasons(first test I saw live, can't really judge bowling live). But before this series, I'd have definitely gone for Ojha over Jadeja.
If Jadeja can bowl close to as well as Ojha, I'd drop Harbhajan and bring a batsman in.
It shouldn't be Ojha vs Jadeja IMO. They both play completely different roles. It should be Ojha vs Harbhajan, given they are both front line spinners. I'm not convinced if Dhoni rates Harbhajan that much and I suspect he's just playing him due to the large no. of lefties present in Australia's batting lineup.
Jadeja hasn't batted well so far in this series but his batting will come good, he has two triple centuries and while the pitches are flat, it still takes immense application to build up an innings like that. His fielding is also superb.
Also Dhoni seems pumped up for this series. Playing and Captaining aggressively.
Jadeja hasn't batted well so far in this series but his batting will come good, he has two triple centuries and while the pitches are flat, it still takes immense application to build up an innings like that. His fielding is also superb.
Also Dhoni seems pumped up for this series. Playing and Captaining aggressively.
This is a very amusing result to wake up too 
Can't wait for the Ashes, although as mentioned a few days back, you'd expect them to be more of a threat on seaming wickets.
They're batting line up really is brittle though. Phil Hughes FFS
Can't wait for the Ashes, although as mentioned a few days back, you'd expect them to be more of a threat on seaming wickets.
They're batting line up really is brittle though. Phil Hughes FFS
But we need to develop openers for the SA tour. I genuinely don't think Dhawans good enough. Rahane looked troubled by Finn in the ODI's. Chand is a class prospect, probably a better batter than Virat when Virat was at his age.
Rahane is always in the squad, he is the official water carrier.
I don't know why though, he is a top order batsman, there is no place in the middle order for him, we don't want to play him at the top of the order. But he gets picked without fail. Let's see what they do when they pick the team for the next two tests today.
I don't know why though, he is a top order batsman, there is no place in the middle order for him, we don't want to play him at the top of the order. But he gets picked without fail. Let's see what they do when they pick the team for the next two tests today.
Yeah spot on. Ojha vs Jadeja thing was only brought up by people in order to justify Harbhajan's selection for the first test. Apparently having two off spinners is all right but having two left arm spinners isn't
I think we should play only 2 spinners.
The way Harbhajan is bowling, wouldn't be that harsh to say the we are only playing two spinners.
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Lol, Hughes got given a chance on flat pitches in Australia to slap shite half volleys outside off stump that SL delivered up.
If you look at him for just two seconds and not say 'wow that is some awful technique.. He's going to really struggle in India..' then I commend you. Or whoever says that.
It was coming a mile away. The guy is a fecking gumby against spin.
But the whole encompassing point is that nobody is valuing their wicket at the moment except Clarke.
Cowan tried, failed. Ok he did well in that second innings but that high backlift and huge stride isn't always going to help him. He also has a habit of playing outside to in when the ball is moving which means he gets a lot of balls ocme back through the gate or squared up.
Warner is a flat track chopper, he probably isn't the right selection here but has been carrying delhi belly, I honestly like him but he's not really the right choice here.
Hughes can go and get fecked, should never have come back into the team. Wrong technique for anything other than roads and offside short rubbish.
Clarke is a genius.
Watson is fragile on anything that he can't just plant his front stool and drive through the line or pull. Probably a bit to attacking for the pitches in India and for me even when opening has never been a top order batsman. Should have been groomed years ago (but injuries of course) as the all-roudner to replace Symonds.
Wade at 6? WHY? Keepers for me should always bat 7 regardless. I'm anal abotu that. Keeper then 4 bowlers, all-rounder at 6.
Henriques - baptism of fire. First game was a bit of a flash in the pan for me, I think he's a bit of a thick cnut who doesn't have control of what he's doing hence getting out in the second test. Hope he does well though, bit vanilla and bowling machine with the ball.
Bowling combinations have been fecked over for years. Centering the attack around Siddle with strike weapons is ok on tough tracks but on these it should be centered around the spinner... BUT we don't have a good enough spinner.
tldr - ACA a fecking shambles at the moment.
Cummins will never be fit. He's injury prone and his action is horrendous. My old man umpires at state level here and has had numerous conversations with Cummins' parents and the coaches and they all say he's injury prone and that he'll more than likely tweak his action and hold back until he's about 24-25 and more developed around the body.
He'd have been great in India though, low, quick and skiddy. We've for some reason just picked tall 'hit the deck' bowlers and nobody with real variation in the pace department. No low skiddy darty bowlers.
Sehwag dropped. Good riddance.
Is that official? Nothing on the usual websites. Should have been done at the start of this series.
Who's been named as replacement?
Who's been named as replacement?
All I do was google "sehwag"
http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/story/623876.html
Don't know how you miss that.
http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/story/623876.html
Don't know how you miss that.
Excellent decision. We need to groom someone to play in the tests in SA later in the year. Sehwag wasn't the man to open in those conditions. Let's see who they play in the opening slot now. I would like Rahane as I am not convinced Dhawan is the answer, especially in alien conditions.
It's interesting how Dhoni has seen off Sehwag and Gambhir, two of his biggest detractors, if the press is to be believed.
It's interesting how Dhoni has seen off Sehwag and Gambhir, two of his biggest detractors, if the press is to be believed.
News wasn't out online when KM posted.
Btw, glad to see that this set of selectors have some balls on them. Yuvraj, Gambhir and Sehwag have all been dropped. Well done.
Srikanth did a grand job of fecking up Indian Cricket.
Srikanth did a grand job of fecking up Indian Cricket.
Great stuff. Two places that were being really wasted in the team are open. Ojha for Harbhajan seems likely though I'm not sure if we will go with three spinners, counting Jadeja of course, at Mohali which usually has a lot for the quicks to exploit. I'm not quite sure if Dinda deserves to be in a test team even in seeming conditions. Someone like Sreesanth would have been good. Looking forward to see what Bhuvneshwar does in these conditions. He deserved a wicket in his first spell in the second innings in the last game, had a couple of dropped catches from his bowling so hopefully he will bag a few wickets this time.
There are times in Australian cricket which are bad,
there are times in Australian cricket which are really bad,
there are times in Australian cricket which are Hyderabad.
there are times in Australian cricket which are really bad,
there are times in Australian cricket which are Hyderabad.
Apparently they were dropped for failing to give presentation to the coach on what needed to improve. What the feck?
How many test do we still have to play :S Can't see us getting a draw over there at the moment let alone a win