Australia A & NZ A Tour of India

[manee]

Team logistics, purely. Too many flash players, etc etc.

And I'm simply not a fan

Yusuf Pathan has the potential to be a match winner. The balance of a future batting side is fine:

1. Sehwag (flash player)
2. Gambhir (solid)
3. Yuvraj (consistent)
4. Rohit Sharma (must develop into consistent player)
5. Badrinath (ditto)
6. Dhoni (ridiculously consistent)
7. Yusuf Pathan (flash player)
8. Irfan Pathan (consistent, solid batsman)

Yusuf Pathan is not the potential problem with a team balance, it merely seems so until Badrinath (or whoever bats five) and Rohit Sharma become consistent batsman who can average 35-40. The OD strike rate of 111.92 and average of 30.72 is an Australia-esque touch if 2-6 can reach the consistency of Dravid, Ganguly, Tendulkar, or Ponting, Symonds, Hussey and Clarke.

Oh dear, that doesn't read too well; guess I haven't posted in a while

 

[aussie1st]

White grabbed a 4 fer Too bad cricinfo isn't doing commentary as would have been interesting seeing what type of wickets they were. Still decent effort. Doherty is continuing his good form with a 2 fer and Noffke looks to be getting his accuracy back as has Tait.

NZ bowling no where near as good as their first game, Hughes again played the anchor knock while Hussey showed he can score at much better than a run a ball.

 

[angryangy]

Fulton to Hussey seems like it would be in the ring, maybe midwicket, while the standard caught and bowled is an early drive or poke, which wouldn't be surprising considering Broom came in at an ugly time where they needed runs but were also collapsing. The other two were tailenders, but they didn't get bat to ball, so that's still a pleasing way to get rid of the tail.

Doherty and White both going well, keeping the selectors happy. In fact, the whole bowling attack has been good. I'd like to see Bollinger get another game, but it seems like he and Siddle are on Test squad orders now. In the batting, all of the top order have had a go now, but question marks are hovering over the remainders of the batting lineup.

For NZ A, well it didn't pan out very good at all. Fulton maintained his form, but it seems they really needed a century from him to win any more games. It's interesting to look at what has changed and what has remained the same across the series. NZ A's bowling attack took 9 wickets in the first game, then 5 in each game against India A and then only 2 in the last. Overall it doesn't seem like they had enough artillery. Gillespie bowled well in Hyderabad, but terribly in Chennai. He bowled two no-balls in the first two, then 8 in the second leg. Whatever the difference is, it clearly forces additional mistakes out of him.

India A's bowlers took 17 wickets against NZ A, but so far only one against Aus A. In fact, Aus A have only lost 3 wickets since that dreadful first game. Does that mean that the weakness of the New Zealand batting has flattered both teams or that they have simply improved since their first matches? We shall see on Wednesday. Also a problem for India A is the poor showing by the upper order. 6/67, 4/60 and 5/66 do not reveal a side that has actually won two out of three games. The openers have two more matches to fire and on form, it will be tough going against the invigorated Shaun Tait. Yusuf Pathan has been their star batsman, but if he fails now, it may all have been in vain.

 

[aussie1st]

It looks like the Aussie A batting has risen another level with Hughes feeling more at home in India and with the A side. Ronchi is his usual hit and miss self. Having David Hussey back to his usual form gives our batting lineup more stability than it had in the 1st game. Anyway India v us should be a cracker since a lot of their international players didn't fire against us in the previous match.

North was in such good form during the FC part of this tour but now he can't even get a bat. Voges is the same and Bailey and Forrest have bearly seen any time if any. Don't know our the selectors are going to give those guys mentioned a go while also letting the others maintain their form.

 

[KBC]

Yusuf Pathan has the potential to be a match winner. The balance of a future batting side is fine:

1. Sehwag (flash player)
2. Gambhir (solid)
3. Yuvraj (consistent)
4. Rohit Sharma (must develop into consistent player)
5. Badrinath (ditto)
6. Dhoni (ridiculously consistent)
7. Yusuf Pathan (flash player)
8. Irfan Pathan (consistent, solid batsman)

Yusuf Pathan is not the potential problem with a team balance, it merely seems so until Badrinath (or whoever bats five) and Rohit Sharma become consistent batsman who can average 35-40. The OD strike rate of 111.92 and average of 30.72 is an Australia-esque touch if 2-6 can reach the consistency of Dravid, Ganguly, Tendulkar, or Ponting, Symonds, Hussey and Clarke.

Oh dear, that doesn't read too well; guess I haven't posted in a while

It couldn't be worded better atm.. Dhoni's always a stunning player, he takes singles and two's as the match progresses and woah! you see he's got his fifty! But, it's really amazing, people still under-estimate him in his new mode..hehe................

 

[metallics2006]

If Yusuf Pathan becomes consistent when batting and if he can also become a better bowler, we have an indian version of Symonds minus the fishing rod.

 

[irottev]

Where's the scorecard for the latest AUS-A vs NZ-A game?

 

[Mr.Cricket]

White 4 fer :hpraise

I actually think if he spends more time focusing on his bowling and get more overs under his belt he can develop in to a decent ODI spinner. He got enough talent but he not bowling enough in domestic cricket(because hes the captain). Add his power hitting and brilliant fielding to that and you get a pretty good ODI player.

Anyway Aus A looking allrite so far in the tour. WHite , Hussey , Ronchi , Tait fair bit of talent in that team. Cmon boys take down India.

Oh and great to see the 'wild thing' Shaun Tait back

 

[angryangy]

http://content-www.cricinfo.com/india/engine/match/365650.html

 

[aussie1st]

White 4 fer :hpraise

I actually think if he spends more time focusing on his bowling and get more overs under his belt he can develop in to a decent ODI spinner. He got enough talent but he not bowling enough in domestic cricket(because hes the captain). Add his power hitting and brilliant fielding to that and you get a pretty good ODI player.

Yea I reckon he could be a handy spinner for the ODI arena. Just needs to improve his accuracy since he doesn't get much turn.

 

[Cricketman]

Yusuf Pathan has the potential to be a match winner. The balance of a future batting side is fine:

1. Sehwag (flash player)
2. Gambhir (solid)
3. Yuvraj (consistent)
4. Rohit Sharma (must develop into consistent player)
5. Badrinath (ditto)
6. Dhoni (ridiculously consistent)
7. Yusuf Pathan (flash player)
8. Irfan Pathan (consistent, solid batsman)

Yusuf Pathan is not the potential problem with a team balance, it merely seems so until Badrinath (or whoever bats five) and Rohit Sharma become consistent batsman who can average 35-40. The OD strike rate of 111.92 and average of 30.72 is an Australia-esque touch if 2-6 can reach the consistency of Dravid, Ganguly, Tendulkar, or Ponting, Symonds, Hussey and Clarke.

Oh dear, that doesn't read too well; guess I haven't posted in a while

Obviously there are question marks, at this stage at least, over Yuvraj and Rohit Sharma. Sharma surely isn't a solid player by any means, I just can't see him coming in at 11/2 against the quickest bowlers in the world with the new ball and batting through the innings.

Yuvraj has become ridiculously prone to spin bowling, can't face pace that well either. Stop giving this guy so much rope. People will pull up his stats over the last 2 years, but he's averaged in the low 30's (boosted by those flat tracks in the asia cup) through this year.

And Irfan shouldn't be in the team period.

 

[Gilly Fan]

Is Aus A vs Ind A today? I can't find anything on cricinfo.

 

[aussie1st]

I remember someone saying it was today. Cricinfo doesn't look to be covering the matches anymore.

 

[angryangy]

Matches from Hyderabad were covered; I get the impression that Cricinfo's staff in India felt wasn't worth doing scores from Chennai while covering the big Delhi vs the Rest game at Vadodara and of course the Australian tour matches in Jaipur and Hyderabad.

Good batting today by Aus A, in a bit of a reverse batting order, they got what they wanted from North and Bailey, though Voges again failed to get off the ground. David Hussey continued his run of brutality, while Hughes was again stable even batting out of position at six, while Noffke played a late cameo. Raina bowled career best figures in the last match, but not even a single over today. Praveen Kumar again the pick of the bowlers and Yusuf Pathan gave a good account.

In return, it's a question of whether India A have the batsmen to make a good chase. Badrinath is the absentee, currently representing the Rest of India; Shah coming in for him, while the under-performing Karthik and Asnodkar are replaced by Saha and Ravi Teja. However, Tait is also rested from Aus A, Mark Cameron playing his first match of the series. Both teams have taken the last opportunity to rotate their squads before the final, but whose reserves are stronger?

 

[aussie1st]

Wonder why they didn't play Forrest. Voges was batting out of position so always going to be hard for him although his form ain't great lately. Good to see North is still in good form and Hughes consistently scoring runs now. I suspect he will crack the 50 in the final maybe even the 100 like he did in the Pura cup.

Cameron in the team, certainly interesting seeing he wasn't originally in the team.