Australia Tour Of India 2012/13

[Sedition]

Good stuff Lyon Saved me from dying of boredom with the two wickets of Kohli and Tendulkar. Such a painfully lifeless pitch as we've come to expect in India.

 

[Aalay]

That was a good inning by Kohli. Dhoni is playing a brilliant inning here.

 

[Cricketman]

Good stuff Lyon Saved me from dying of boredom with the two wickets of Kohli and Tendulkar. Such a painfully lifeless pitch as we've come to expect in India.

Are you kidding? This is one of the most sporting pitches i've seen in a while in the sub continent. Got lots of variable bounce, turn, bite, and its only day 3. Can't wait to see what happens when aussies are back in!

 

[Aalay]

Can't wait to see what happens when aussies are back in!

The ball might start turning.

 

[SaiSrini]

Good stuff Lyon Saved me from dying of boredom with the two wickets of Kohli and Tendulkar. Such a painfully lifeless pitch as we've come to expect in India.

R.U.B.B.I.S.H comment this! There has been enough turn on offer for Lyon. If India can attack your spinners well and score runs more easily, is that the pitch's mistake? And you don't have any other decent spinner to make things interesting.

A pitch with life is not always one who gives fast bowlers help.

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Are you kidding? This is one of the most sporting pitches i've seen in a while in the sub continent. Got lots of variable bounce, turn, bite, and its only day 3. Can't wait to see what happens when aussies are back in!

True that!! Days 2 and 3 were expected to be good for batting, and they predictably are. Clarke didn't use his bowlers well yesterday, and it seems the pitch is to blame for that too. Who asked him to bowl Pattinson for less?

 

[Sedition]

If this is the most sporting pitch in India, then things are only going to get worse I guess Tendulkar, Kohli, Dhoni, all struggling to make runs but give them a dead pitch and they come to life.

 

[ricky87]

Jadeja

Luck is with Pattinson for now.

 

[VC the slogger]

Now even cricinfo has started trolling Sir Ravindra Jadeja. Their commentary on the ball he lost his wicket :-

102.6 132.8 kph, and Jadeja falls 284 runs short of what would have been a fourth first-class triple-century. Pattinson bowls short of a length, not too far outside off, Jadeja leaves it alone in a premeditated fashion, and he hits the top of off. Pattinson's big effort continues 365/6

 

[Sedition]

Lol at these umpires. Just gonna have to keep bowling them out, since they obviously have no idea what an LBW is.

 

[cerande]

Really impressed with Bhuvaneshvar's temperament.Infinitely better than Harbhajan's.

 

[Left_Hander]

This is drifting away from us now

 

[cerande]

This has been a superlative effort from Dhoni.

 

[aditya123]

Good stuff Lyon Saved me from dying of boredom with the two wickets of Kohli and Tendulkar. Such a painfully lifeless pitch as we've come to expect in India.

Its similar to what you see when say, India tour Australia. SCG and Adelaide seem so dead and lifeless when we bowl but turn out to be exactly the opposite when we bat. Would you only call a wicket sporting if helps seamers? It still has something in it for the spinners and not dead by any stretch of imagination. I don`t think England had any such complaints since they had world class spinners in Monty and Swann. I`m sorry, you lack a quality spinner and thus your remark. Swann and Panesar in the opposition and this game would have seemed a lot more even.

Where were the `wicket is dead` comments when we were struggling at 12/2 and even in a tricky position at 100/3? Lets give the devil its due. Its been a fair recovery by India against odds, first by Tendulkar with Pujara and Kohli and then by Dhoni. Let us wait and watch if Lyon can throw up anything better than this in the next few games or if Doherty/Maxwell can do a Monty coming into the side for the future games.

 

[Adarsh]

Day 3 pitch in Chennai - unreal!
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Scoring 200 here at a SR of 80+ was no mean feat.

 

[aditya123]

Does anyone allow us room to whine that green wickets or seamer supportive wickets are unsporting just because we do not have the bowlers to exploit them? Is`nt it very similar here. The Aussie spinners are making it look like a batting paradise because they have been mediocre so far.

This is where England were exceptional in this tour. They did not complain one bit about dead wickets or anything. They showed how much could be extracted from the wickets with skillful bowlers. Lets face it. Australia lack the quality in the spin attack that England had to supplement their seamers (or the other way round). Plus, everyone expected the Indian batsmen to just fold up against the Aussie pace attack which they did not, especially with Tendulkar coming to the party at 12/2.