Australia Tour Of India 2012/13

[Satan666]

Was India's day, good to see Kholi coming to form and MSD scoring a double century, his rich form continues, still the best man at the helm. The consolation is Tendulkar was unable to achieve a century, scoring only 81, good effort by him though however his luck ran out.

Seems a draw is on the horizon since the pitch has petered out to everyday road with which we've grown fond of seeing on offer at in India.

 

[Gurjot95]

I don't think we can call any pitch dead where a bowler can take 7 wickets in single innings.

 

[Satan666]

I don't think we can call any pitch dead where a bowler can take 7 wickets in single innings.

When you have an inept bowling attack as India do at present you can!

Furhtermore I say the pitch is dead!

 

[greymatter776]

Sachin half century+31 runs , century for Kohli , Double century for Dhoni , Just the performance I have been waiting too long from India's middle order.

 

[Aalay]

What an inning from MSD! He has dominated the Aussie bowling lineup.We already have a good lead of 135 but should try to get as much as we can.

 

[StinkyBoHoon]

a lot of people seemed to overlook that dhoni was one of india's best batsmen last year (admittedly the competition wasn't exactly fierce), nice to see him hit a marquee knock that should earn him a little cred.

 

[Satan666]

What an inning from MSD! He has dominated the Aussie bowling lineup.We already have a good lead of 135 but should try to get as much as we can.

Dhoni seems imovable if the tail bats well with him, which should be easy on this road, when you think the Indian declaration should come, that is if they are interested in winning the match?

 

[greymatter776]

Indian declaration would be better if its before the drinks break or else the game would be a tie and the first innings lead of India would come to of no use .But there is less chance for the tail enders to last too long

 

[Aalay]

Dhoni seems imovable if the tail bats well with him, which should be easy on this road, when you think the Indian declaration should come, that is if they are interested in winning the match?

I am really not sure because you never know with MS Dhoni's game plan. My opinion is If they can get a lead around 200, I think it will be very tough for Australia to come back.

 

[aditya123]

I am really not sure because you never know with MS Dhoni's game plan. My opinion is If they can get a lead around 200, I think it will be very tough for Australia to come back.

India cannot lose from here. The pressure is on Australia to somehow salvage this now. The best thing for us would be to get bowled out with a lead of around 150-175.

 

[SaiSrini]

Mind blowing stuff from Dhoni! From the moment he started the innings, he looked a totally different player. He was trying to be aggressive most of the time, which is style of gameplay and it suits him best. Been wanting him to shed his "in the shell" approach and be back to dominating bowlers... I was expecting him to get out to the new ball, but he tore into the new ball which totally surprised me. His best innings in test cricket!

But the foundation was laid by Sachin and Pujara, and then by Kohli. If India can get 50-60 runs quickly tomorrow and put Australia into bat, we should have some really exciting times.

 

[sifter132]

I don't think we can call any pitch dead where a bowler can take 7 wickets in single innings.

Dead does not equal wickets, though. I call a pitch dead when most of the 140+kph bouncers bowled yesterday didn't reach the keeper on the full. Dead pitches can still spin a lot though

From an Aussie point of view, I'm disappointed Clarke kept Lyon going vs Dhoni and basically just hoping for an error or a Tendulkar-ball. The obvious plan B for me was to use Clarke himself against Dhoni, bowl over the wicket into the footmarks outside leg stump and see if Dhoni wants to mow those into the leg side as well. Should have been a harder propostion with that angle and away spin, but that didn't happen...just more Lyon. Plan C might have been to go back to the quick bowlers, but that didn't really happen either. At least Pattinson bowled more yesterday, but it seemed to be at the expense of Starc and Siddle. eg. Dhoni has scored only 18 runs of his 206 runs from the bowling of Siddle...Siddle is supposed to be Australia's best bowler.

Calls in the media this morning wondering what an extra Aussie spinner might have done. Well Maxwell would have been treated the same - or worse. He's too similar to Lyon. Doherty maybe? But gosh it's a big call saying that Doherty would be Australia's saviour. Probably worth a try though if Australia go down here, and the wicket looks dead again for the 2nd Test.

One positive. Really enjoyed the start of yesterday, with Siddle and Pattinson drying up Tendulkar and Kohli. But then MSD came out and just changed the game completely - great batting from Indian captain.

 

[MUFC1987]

Good to see Dhoni taking responsibility by batting at 6, rather than at 7. Something Michael Clarke could learn from in my opinion.

 

[Sedition]

The first half of Dhoni's innings was good, until he was dead shouldering arms on 98, but obviously the umpire felt sorry for him after running himself out for 99 against England. Who would've known he'd actually kick on with it I guess.

Kohli just mimicked Tendulkar, doing nothing, then Dhoni, throwing the bat at everything on a predictable pitch. At least he didn't rely on umpire error though, so some credit there.

 

[puddleduck]

Dead does not equal wickets, though. I call a pitch dead when most of the 140+kph bouncers bowled yesterday didn't reach the keeper on the full. Dead pitches can still spin a lot though

Good luck getting Indian fans to admit a pitch is dead when a seamer can't get the ball to carry to the keeper when bowling 85mph+

To be fair to them though, they have no idea that the ball is meant to carry at that speed, as all their bowlers who can bowl above 70mph spend most of their career injured after getting flogged into the dead graveyard like pitches that India love to produce