Australia's Tour of India - 7 ODI's

[aussie1st]

Nehra almost pulls off a ripper, one of those cases where he would have been better off on the rope.

 

[SciD]

Nehra almost pulls off a ripper, one of those cases where he would have been better off on the rope.

He is Nehra. He would have dropped that if he was on rope also.

 

[SaiSrini]

So far India's bowling and fielding are pathetic.Looks like another 1st round exit ,if this is our team for WC.Dravid,Sreesanth,Saheer, miss u people.Our so called "future proof" youth team just look like crap.

This is just the first game of a new series after a decent break for the players. The pitch is a belter. As someone said here, the run rate of 5.2 odd means that a few wickets here could dent into Australia. We havent let Australia run away here.

Please wait and dont jump the gun at the first game of a new series (after a break).

 

[Howsie]

This is just the first game of a new series after a decent break for the players. The pitch is a belter. As someone said here, the run rate of 5.2 odd means that a few wickets here could dent into Australia. We havent let Australia run away here.

Please wait and dont jump the gun at the first game of a new series (after a break).

That doesn't really excuse the fielding though.

 

[jkartik]

YOUTH FTW !!!! :banana2:happy:hpraise


:sarcasm

 

[Spinksy]

With the fifth ball from Sharma, Ricky Ponting has now faced 15,000 balls in one day internationals. Out of all the batsmen who have passed that milestone, only Sachin Tendulkar has a higher strike rate.

One for the record books there.

 

[srikarr12]

That doesn't really excuse the fielding though.

Was it ever like that?

 

[SaiSrini]

That doesn't really excuse the fielding though.

Yeah, I never meant that

 

[aditya123]

Iam disappointed that we do not have the guts to drop Harbhajan. This is not out of frustration but he is the most overrated spinner in the world. He does not even get the basics of offspin right. He is an off spinner for heavens` sake. Why does he keep bowling on middle and leg all the time! An off-spinner should bowl on and around off stump. Don`t jump on me for saying this. He has been mediocre in ODIs. When you could drop Dravid, why not this highly overrated bowler. His average stats in ODIs are about the 1/55 kind of stats. Most of our part time spinners would manage that. Don`t point to one-off 5ers like in the Sri Lanka final. In fact, the only team he seems to do well against is Sri Lanka. If you remember, even in 2007 in the game at Mumbai when Murali Karthik was ripping the Aussies apart, he failed to get a wicket. Its high time we drop him and give someone like Mishra or Ojha a chance to be our specialist spinner. They`d at least provide better attacking options to the side.

As I post, he keeps feeding batsmen on middle and leg. Someone remind him that he is`nt a leg spinner.

 

[Dare]

is this being played in India or what, whats wrong with the crowds. Dont seem like the usual Indian cricket crowd.

 

[Howsie]

Agree with Aditya, Mishra would be a far better option at the moment.

Edit: Ponting gone, shame really. Really thought he'd pile on a big score.

 

[SaiSrini]

is this being played in India or what, whats wrong with the crowds. Dont seem like the usual Indian cricket crowd.

Whats wrong with the crowd? I see a lot of them, and they are their usual lively stuff.

Jadeja picks Punter!!! Thats a great wicket for Jadeja, well done!

 

[jkartik]

Iam disappointed that we do not have the guts to drop Harbhajan. This is not out of frustration but he is the most overrated spinner in the world. He does not even get the basics of offspin right. He is an off spinner for heavens` sake. Why does he keep bowling on middle and leg all the time! An off-spinner should bowl on and around off stump. Don`t jump on me for saying this. He has been mediocre in ODIs. When you could drop Dravid, why not this highly overrated bowler. His average stats in ODIs are about the 1/55 kind of stats. Most of our part time spinners would manage that. Don`t point to one-off 5ers like in the Sri Lanka final. In fact, the only team he seems to do well against is Sri Lanka. If you remember, even in 2007 in the game at Mumbai when Murali Karthik was ripping the Aussies apart, he failed to get a wicket. Its high time we drop him and give someone like Mishra or Ojha a chance to be our specialist spinner. They`d at least provide better attacking options to the side.

As I post, he keeps feeding batsmen on middle and leg. Someone remind him that he is`nt a leg spinner.

harbhajan blows hot and cold ! he always thinks he can outsmart the batsman and in the process tries too many things....
an off spinner needs to flight the delivery, tease the batsman outside
off stump and bring it in with the occasional top spinner or doosra !

hes bowling fast and flat on middle and leg.......easy pickings !

 

[SaiSrini]

Iam disappointed that we do not have the guts to drop Harbhajan. This is not out of frustration but he is the most overrated spinner in the world. He does not even get the basics of offspin right. He is an off spinner for heavens` sake. Why does he keep bowling on middle and leg all the time! An off-spinner should bowl on and around off stump. Don`t jump on me for saying this. He has been mediocre in ODIs. When you could drop Dravid, why not this highly overrated bowler. His average stats in ODIs are about the 1/55 kind of stats. Most of our part time spinners would manage that. Don`t point to one-off 5ers like in the Sri Lanka final. In fact, the only team he seems to do well against is Sri Lanka. If you remember, even in 2007 in the game at Mumbai when Murali Karthik was ripping the Aussies apart, he failed to get a wicket. Its high time we drop him and give someone like Mishra or Ojha a chance to be our specialist spinner. They`d at least provide better attacking options to the side.

As I post, he keeps feeding batsmen on middle and leg. Someone remind him that he is`nt a leg spinner.

If he continues like this for the first 2-4 games, he might be dropped during this series itself.

Edit: Oh no! Sivaramakrishnan in the box? Damn! Till now, we had good ones like Ravi and Gavaskar commenting. I thought maybe Lal and Shiva wont be here.

 

[aditya123]

is this being played in India or what, whats wrong with the crowds. Dont seem like the usual Indian cricket crowd.

This is`nt the typical Indian stadium with huge a capacity. Its one of our non-regular centers. The real fun would begin when we get into the bigger venues in Delhi, Hyderabad, Nagpur, Mohali and Mumbai.