Australian Tour of India, October 2010/11

[WubbaLubbaDubDub]

These two are batting beautifully and this shows that First Innings collapse was nothing to worry about.

Pujara and Rahane.. Both batting nicely

rahulkhush added 14 Minutes and 15 Seconds later...

Beautiful Half century by Rahane

rahulkhush added 8 Minutes and 21 Seconds later...

Rahane is batting like a champion.. Really nice to see this guy pull up this inning

 

[LongLegs?]

Rahane. WAG. Gun average, gun batsman.

 

[WubbaLubbaDubDub]

That Ton was really nice... That will boost his confidence. Also we should not forget Pujara.

But one thing I think Gambhir needed some time in middle

 

[AkshayS]

sound day for India, picked up wickets and batted out nicely.

Rahane finally proving his calibre, a 100 with SR 100+. His average crossed 65+ with this, great batsman.

Well another positive was Pujara's innings, trypical Dravid like innings.

It felt like Sehwag playing at one end and Dravid at the other.

 

[StinkyBoHoon]

i think this match is a hint at australia's problem.

1st innings, they are every bit india's equal. better bowling, good enough batting to post big scores. Second innings though and the gulf inbetween the two emerges, they are some way behind, they can't play spin very well, their bowlers can't get much out the conditions and indians like batting on those surfaces.

I still think 1-0 to india, one bore draw and an indian win.

 

[Gurjot95]

Looking at the scorecard of whole match, I say Broad president was equal to Australia if not better. Board president got owned in 1st innings but they owned Australia in the 2nd.

 

[Aditya]

It was a good day for Board President XI today. Although Watson smashed century but still Board President XI bowlers were able to take 6 Australia wickets. With the bat Rahane was brilliant as he smashed a century and Puajara played well too as he smashed a fifty. Pujara will be high on confidence after making a unbeaten fifity. It he gets a chance to play for India in this series then it would be interesting to see how he goes.

 

[pcfan123]

Hauritz is going to get his ass ***** this tour

 

[sohum]

They may not even pick him and go with 4 pacers.

Haven't followed the proceedings here at all. When are the matches set to begin? I predict Sehwag being injured just days before the first Test, as has been the case of late.

 

[SaiSrini]

They may not even pick him and go with 4 pacers.

Haven't followed the proceedings here at all. When are the matches set to begin? I predict Sehwag being injured just days before the first Test, as has been the case of late.

Sehwag being injured before a test match would be a huge blow for us than Gambhir being injured. Sehwag can make or break test matches for us. Hope it does not come to that. The physio said both Sehwag and Harbhajan (who also had some minor issues during practice) are doing fine.

 

[sifter132]

Looking at the scorecard of whole match, I say Broad president was equal to Australia if not better. Board president got owned in 1st innings but they owned Australia in the 2nd.

I think that may be a tad optimistic. The only Aussies who didn't get anything out of this match were the 2 spinners: and Hauritz wasn't THAT bad. The others will be pleased to have spent some time in the middle - even Ponting and Clarke who didn't get big scores, but spent almost 100 balls each in the first dig.

But it still baffles me, why the hell did we bat again?? North, Katich and Watson didn't need a hit, only Ponting and Clarke did really - maybe Smith and Paine too. Fair enough I guess to give those guys a go, but why bother with more when they got out? Smith got out in the 24th over, yet we batted on for another 17...

I think it was much more important to give our bowlers more overs. I think 80-odd overs of bowling is NOT enough. Here's what each bowler ended up bowling over the 2 days:
Hilfenhaus - 18 overs, 5/71
Johnson - 16.5 overs, 2/78
George - 8 overs, 2/34
Watson - 5 overs, 0/6
Hauritz - 24 overs, 1/93
Smith - 10 overs, 0/55
Only Hauritz got close to the type of workload I was hoping.

I fear that just like last series our bowlers will look rusty. And in a 2 Test series against a great batting side I think it's a ridiculous preparation. I realise they may not have been able to schedule anything extra, but at least USE what you've been given guys.

 

[angryangy]

Hopefully Hussey and Bollinger come up okay. They may have match-fitness on their side, but it's a big change in conditions, especially from Jo'burg where they finished up.

Australia's tour of Bangladesh happened like that, less than a week after wrapping up at The Wanderers, they were playing at Fatullah. The first couple of days didn't exactly go to plan.

 

[War]

Hopefully Hussey and Bollinger come up okay. They may have match-fitness on their side, but it's a big change in conditions, especially from Jo'burg where they finished up.

Australia's tour of Bangladesh happened like that, less than a week after wrapping up at The Wanderers, they were playing at Fatullah. The first couple of days didn't exactly go to plan.

Ahhh good observation my friend.

 

[sohum]

I think the idea is that bowlers have a far higher risk of injury the longer they bowl and they also wanted to preserve their fitness for what will undoubtedly turn out to be pretty flat wickets for at least the first few days.

Our batting line-up should be a bit circumspect, as well. Sehwag/Gambhir haven't played in a while and have had injury issues in the recent past, Dravid and Tendulkar just played T20, Laxman should be okay and Yuvraj/Raina/whoever we choose is either gonna be crap (Yuvi) or in T20 mode (Raina). Dhoni's never been a dependable Test bat. Glad GG got a hit out (albeit just 8 balls) but the Indian batting line-up is probably going to be less prepared for Test cricket than the Aussie one.

 

[angryangy]

The rush to squeeze this tour in certainly affects both sides.