Australia in India

[mattfb]

That was great bowling by Kartick.
What was the final result for India's innings? Did they bat bad?

 

[Animator!]

Don't be so silly. It's not about who does it more, don't turn it into a competition. That's absolutely deplaurable. The fact it even goes on is bad enough. Stop turning this into a grudge with the Aussie's over whose more racist and whose less, and therefore is better. It happens everywhere, it's a simple, horrible fact about human nature. Instead of baying for it, stfu and move on.

 

[.Mob]

Top order with the exception of Sachin was blown away, and we got to 65-6 or something along the lines.

From there, Bhajji batted sensibly and Uthappa was class, they put on 50, after that Uthappa got LBWed and Bhajji fell. From there Zaheer and Kartik (with some luck) took us home.

Including an awesome six by Zaheer after some words and face to face with Lee, straight over his head.

 

[Gilly Fan]

How the hell did we lose?

6/64 with only 1 bat left, I went to be thinking "Oh we've got this in the bag". Then come on today to find out we've lost by 2 wickets!

How did we lose with Uthappa gone and 70 runs still needed to win?

Disgraceful.

 

[angryangy]

Yeah there's some guy named Vettori who seems to be pretty good at that. Dunno if you've heard of him.

I don't get this concept, its said a lot, but I've never seen him really dominate a series of ODIs against Aus. I think it must just be because Aus play NZ frequently and people remember when he takes 3/30 or something. Vettori has average stats against Australia, mid thirties in both games. He ties them down a bit, but he does that and more against plenty of others.

Kartik definitely owes his captain a few drinks. Under normal circumstances, he would not have had the slips and close catchers that Dhoni gave him.

Still, it was alarming to see how dangerous he looked compared to Harbhajan. Even when the ball was spinning away and the opponents were under pressure, Harbhajan rarely flighted the ball and did not look like getting wickets. The frustration for Kartik is that he doesn't look threatening on the flatter wickets, which is largely what Harbhajan has geared his gameplan for.

 

[aussie1st]

The selectors made this dead rubber more dead by not playing Hilfy. Clarke's opening record has really gone down hill now, should have left him at 4 this might stuff his confidence for the summer.

 

[mattfb]

I dearly hope this doesn't ruin his confidence for the summer. It shouldn't because we are playing a different type of cricket but you never know.

 

[Left_Hander]

Close game. That Hogg dismissal was rubbish. His bat was no where near that. Almost as bad when an England batsmen inside-edged a ball onto his pads in the CB series against NZ this early this year.

It seems some Australian photographer had captured the indian fans enacting monkey chants to disturb symonds.

A tip to the Indian media who are going to cover the series in Australia this year end: Get your microphones enabled Ipods or voice recorders ready and have some people sitting in the crowd and be ready to tape. Got to show that there are worse than this in countries who are complaining about racism now that they are at the receiving end (and whats been displayed here is not actually racist to start with).

That's called invading privacy. Taking photos is different. I been to the cricket twice and there has been some taunts to players fielding on the boundaries but NEVER have I seen spectators make monkey gestures or something like that. I am sure you wouldn't like it if people called you a monkey and made monkey noises towards you.

 

[smssia0112]

Close game. That Hogg dismissal was rubbish. His bat was no where near that. Almost as bad when an England batsmen inside-edged a ball onto his pads in the CB series against NZ this early this year.



That's called invading privacy. Taking photos is different. I been to the cricket twice and there has been some taunts to players fielding on the boundaries but NEVER have I seen spectators make monkey gestures or something like that. I am sure you wouldn't like it if people called you a monkey and made monkey noises towards you.

Yes, because the photographer has a media pass he is allowed to take the photos.

You can't sit in the crowd and record people without their permission, certainly not in Australia.

 

[WORLD CHAMPIONS]

Close game. That Hogg dismissal was rubbish. His bat was no where near that. Almost as bad when an England batsmen inside-edged a ball onto his pads in the CB series against NZ this early this year..

That was the horrible decission i have seen if Hogg could have been there he could have added 15-20 runs easily but that Umpire (****)

 

[aditya123]

I was there at the Wankhede North Stand yesterday.
A fabulous game.
The noise was deafening but some of the chants cannot be mentioned here.
Every time Sachin hit a boundary, the stadium errupted.

I was seated four or 5 rows back from the mid-off/thrid-man boundary, a good viewing spot.

What was`nt so great was that we could not find a glass of water to drink when we were dying of thirst in the hot October heat.

I left the stadium when the score was 62/6 only to reach home and find out that we had missed the bestpart of the match.

 

[aussie_ben91]

Mitchell Johnson is an idiot. I don't think I've ever seen a bowler take that sorta crap from a batsman before. He has no aggression whatsoever.

 

[aditya123]

Wtf. Only 5 down and they're already leaving. They really love to support their team. :


Make that 6. I can understand now!

I was one of them who left the ground yesterday when we were 6 down, but not because I do not like to support my side but because catching local trains from Mumbai-CST to the mainline during the evenings can be quite a task (read Mumbai trains).

 

[irottev]

I don't get this concept, its said a lot, but I've never seen him really dominate a series of ODIs against Aus. I think it must just be because Aus play NZ frequently and people remember when he takes 3/30 or something. Vettori has average stats against Australia, mid thirties in both games. He ties them down a bit, but he does that and more against plenty of others.

It's not usually for wickets. It's because while the rest of our bowlers are getting thrashed arund for 5 and 6 rpo, he bowls at about 3 - 4 max.

It's not just him. Rafique did it as well.

 

[WORLD CHAMPIONS]

I was one of them who left the ground yesterday when we were 6 down, but not because I do not like to support my side but because catching local trains from Mumbai-CST to the mainline during the evenings can be quite a task (read Mumbai trains).

Yes, its true, trains are the main life line in Mumbai services are quite good than Kolkata . I bet if u once travel in local train at Kolkata, that will be the last time u will travell in a train