Funny at it sounds, the Aussies aren't too far off my Plan A scenario. If they can get to 250 in front (only 65 more) and have about 70 overs at the Indians, I think that's a pretty juicy target. Hard to defend at that runrate, but after a couple of wickets it mightn't be so bad. Either way, we need to be aggressive and try and win this match. A win here and suddenly the series has been Australia's really, given the insanely close first Test. In fact, take out Tendulkar and maybe Zaheer and an innings each from Vijay and Laxman, that's why India's in front.
Just looking at the numbers for the series thus far and gosh we've had some disappointing batsmen. Katich, Clarke and Hussey have a highest score of 43 between them (plus North's 3 other scores combined for 13 runs). And my preseries combined XI had Katich and Clarke in it, so it's extra disappointing from those 2. But at least Ponting's looked good. He often does after a rest, so in that way he's the opposite of Mitch Johnson.
