Australia in India

[.Mob]

Sree deserves it, hard to understand why he insists on being a clown when he does well.

 

[Hooper]

Lol I love this picture:

No offense to any touchy fans, but it's gotta bring a smile to your face.

:o Holy Shite!

 

[SaiSrini]

Funny. The guy is was sending off like that, deserves that face more in my opinion. With the hair that he has, would fit him well than Sree

Again, no offence to the touchy fans..... same words!

Edit: thanks in advance for the bad rep (sure to come from some id's)

 

[playkid12]

How many hours till game time, does anyone know?

 

[pal]

How many hours till game time, does anyone know?

Around 2 hrs and 20 minutes.

http://content-usa.cricinfo.com/ci/content/match/fixtures/live.html

That site will be of use, in case you need to know in the future.

 

[playkid12]

Around 2 hrs and 20 minutes.

http://content-usa.cricinfo.com/ci/content/match/fixtures/live.html

That site will be of use, in case you need to know in the future.

Thanks a lot. Good rep'd

 

[mattfb]

Lol I love this picture:

No offense to any touchy fans, but it's gotta bring a smile to your face.

LOL!!
Nice pic. He deserves is for being so immature. Why cant he just celebrate with his team mates, yes you have a right to be extra happy when you get your man but no need for it. Ofcourse im gonna get nep repped for saying that and i bet your gonna get a lot of neg rep for posting that but meh

And yes, no offence to touch fans :

 

[sohum]

I don't think it's hunger that the senior players are missing. They are being put under needless pressure ever since we returned victors from the T20 world cup. I mean, the same yard sticks should be used to measure both seniors and juniors. Players like Dravid are really feeling the pressure and maybe a bit hurt by the lack of respect shown to them. It's like when the junior players under perform they are excused but not the senior guys. They are expected to perform in every match and criticized every time they fail. It's not so for the junior players. Maybe they feel it should be the opposite. The same applies for Ganguly and Tendulkar.

I personally don't think it's needless pressure. To be honest, I think we may have been over-saturated with our senior players playing. They've been around pretty much since I was born and it is getting a little boring, especially when we see them make similar mistakes over and over again. What was great about the Twenty20 line-up was that it was completely fresh. No one was a liability in the field, for one.

I don't know. We will eventually have to let go of them. So it's best that we do it slowly rather than in one big push.

In a similar way, I don't think many bowling attacks in the world allow teams to recover like that consistently. India clearly have a problem in their bowling in the middle overs, which allows this to happen pretty often.

That's a little unfair. Australia have posted over 300 batting first consistently over the last year or so. This shows that India do not belong to an elite group of weak teams. You will also notice that the England team that we lost to won a series abroad in Sri Lanka in ODI's. The same Sri Lanka which got to the final of the World Cup. So losing the series in England wasn't bad either, especially coming back from a deficit to take it to the last game.

 

[Gilly Fan]

Aussie Aussie Aussie.

Batting Batting Batting.

Giiiiillllllyyyy!


Haddin and Gilly at the top. What a sight we're about to see!

2 teams.

Australia: 1 Adam Gilchrist, 2 Brad Haddin, 3 Ricky Ponting, 4 Michael Clarke, 5 Brad Hodge, 6 Andrew Symonds, 7 Brad Hogg, 8 James Hopes, 9 Brett Lee, 10 Nathan Bracken, 11 Mitchell Johnson

India: 1 Sourav Ganguly, 2 Sachin Tendulkar, 3 Rahul Dravid, 4 Yuvraj Singh, 5 Mahandra Singh Dhoni, 6 Robin Uthappa, 7 Irfan Pathan, 8 Murali Kartik, 9 Harbhajan Singh, 10 Zaheer Khan, 11 Sreesanth

 

[Cricketman]

Hayden out, Haddin in.
Clarke opening with Gilly.
Atmosphere is awesome.

Chak de INDIA!

 

[Gilly Fan]

Err.... Haddin out. Shows he isn't the best opener.

Right off the face of the bat. That doesnt do him any good.

:O It wasn't Haddin, it was Clarke! My bad. :S

Wow, is it just me, or are the crowd really loud today? Maybe I have my speakers too loud.

 

[Cricketman]

Crowd is loud today.
And have a reason, too! Clarke, the man in form, gone first ball! :happy!
Sree bowling real quick too-149 once!

 

[Gilly Fan]

Punter Ponting Picks His Pickle with a six. Bang! Over square leg for six. Superb hook.

 

[Cricketman]

Punter Ponting Picks His Pickle with a six. Bang! Over square leg for six. Superb hook.

Dang!
My stupid online stream is a couple balls slow
I havn't seen a six yet.

Edit: There it is. Great shot!

Aussie batters are taking control rapidly.
Taking attack to attack. Gilly doesn't look like he's controlling all his shots, but hey, runs are runs.

 

[Gilly Fan]

That wouldve been an awesome catch! Gilly dropped! Now make em pay!