I think Dhoni's position as a player will come under immense scrutiny if he continues to fail with the bat for the rest of the series. His keeping is good, but I'm sure there are others in India who can match him for that, and his batting is ordinary/poor. In a sense, it's really good on him that he's lasted so long and became the Indian captain given that he's always had a god awful technique.
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I dont see a difference between Dhoni and Sehwag. Its just that Sehwag plays a lot more at the top of the order where the luck factor when it comes to scoring runs is higher with the new ball and also because Sehwag gets to play for longer periods of time in subcontinental pitches because he is an opener and so his numbers are pretty big. And Dhoni is trying to adapt a different game which doesnt suit him in tests. Both are FTB's, Dhoni just wastes his opportunity of scoring good runs in subcontinent by tinkering with his natural game.
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Stop the Dhoni talk and lets see how India performs in Australia. If they good and win or draw I have hopes if they lose here and if the batting does not step up them I am sorry we are here in for a flashback of England series 2 back to back 4-0 white wash 
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New Year?s Test preview
Article by Sylvester -
Welcome to he first day of 2012, this can only mean one thing ? 2 days until the New Year?s Day Test match.
Australia ended a topsy-turvy year by beating the second ranked Indian side that still features the legendary trio of Dravid, Tendulkar and Laxman. The Aussie bowlers covered up the fragility of the Australian batting for one match with their excellent spell of bowling coupled with some valuable lower order runs.
We head into the 2nd Test of this four match series with pressure on India to bounce back while Australia will be looking for some much awaited consistency.
Tendulkar and Laxman appear to love a New Year in Sydney, Tendulkar has a ridiculous average of 221.33 that includes 3 hundreds from 4 test and 4 not outs from 7 innings while Laxman goes one better with 3 hundreds from 3 test without the not outs to boost his average, he still can claim an almost Bradman average of 96.20 at the SCG.
This represents the greatest test this new look pace attack has faced thus far. In their favour is the reports suggest the SCG pitch will be similar to the past two seasons which has seen low scores of 280 and 127 both made by the home side. Out of their favour is the fact England made 644 run on that same pitch which suggests the pitch still has runs in it.
Australia named their squad on what should have been the 5th day of the Boxing Day test, with Ryan Harris taking the place of Mitchell Starc and Daniel Christian dropping right out. Michael Clarke, one of the selectors has suggested the four man pace attack is a possibility.
?Ryan has had a lot of success for us and he?s a quality bowler, so we need to look at the conditions. If it is going to spin or if it is a bit dry we can talk about two spinners, we can talk about an allrounder, but if it has got grass on it like it did last year there is a chance we could play four fast bowlers.?
Mickey Arthur, coach and Australia selector has indicated he prefers going into a match with a spinner.
?I?m pretty loath to go into any Test match without a spinner,? Arthur said.
?Obviously conditions will determine that but the SCG has normally got a history of favouring spin down the line.?
It is always a risky business going into a match without a spinner, in particular at the SCG known as the home of spin in Australia. In the last test of the Ashes, the spinners took a combined 2/291 from 95 overs, however it must be remembered two of these spinners were Michael Beer and Steven Smith. The world?s best spinner took a wicket in each innings and maintained an economy of under 3 bowling 46 overs in total. In the match before where two teams were dismissed for under 150, Nathan Hauritz and Danish Kaneria both took a 5 wicket haul in the 3rd and 4th innings of the match. This suggests the spinner still has a valuable role to play.
Quite clearly the key to this match lies in removing Tendulkar and Laxman, they alone have 300 runs in them if they continue their streak at the SCG. Australia fragile batting lineup will be tested in particular if they are sent in first. The spin of Ashwin will also come into play, the Australian batters struggled with him at the MCG and he will be more of a handful at the SCG.
It is unthinkable that India would go into an SCG test with only one spinner but the emergence of Yadav has changed India?s way of thinking. This along with suggestions of a pace friendly pitch should mean the only spot in question is Kohil.
The last point which will decide this match is the lower order batting. Australia bowlers not only won the match with their bowling, they also added 211 valuable runs compared to the lower order of India who made just 132 runs including 88 of them when the match was lost.
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Article by Sylvester -
Welcome to he first day of 2012, this can only mean one thing ? 2 days until the New Year?s Day Test match.
Australia ended a topsy-turvy year by beating the second ranked Indian side that still features the legendary trio of Dravid, Tendulkar and Laxman. The Aussie bowlers covered up the fragility of the Australian batting for one match with their excellent spell of bowling coupled with some valuable lower order runs.
We head into the 2nd Test of this four match series with pressure on India to bounce back while Australia will be looking for some much awaited consistency.
Tendulkar and Laxman appear to love a New Year in Sydney, Tendulkar has a ridiculous average of 221.33 that includes 3 hundreds from 4 test and 4 not outs from 7 innings while Laxman goes one better with 3 hundreds from 3 test without the not outs to boost his average, he still can claim an almost Bradman average of 96.20 at the SCG.
This represents the greatest test this new look pace attack has faced thus far. In their favour is the reports suggest the SCG pitch will be similar to the past two seasons which has seen low scores of 280 and 127 both made by the home side. Out of their favour is the fact England made 644 run on that same pitch which suggests the pitch still has runs in it.
Australia named their squad on what should have been the 5th day of the Boxing Day test, with Ryan Harris taking the place of Mitchell Starc and Daniel Christian dropping right out. Michael Clarke, one of the selectors has suggested the four man pace attack is a possibility.
?Ryan has had a lot of success for us and he?s a quality bowler, so we need to look at the conditions. If it is going to spin or if it is a bit dry we can talk about two spinners, we can talk about an allrounder, but if it has got grass on it like it did last year there is a chance we could play four fast bowlers.?
Mickey Arthur, coach and Australia selector has indicated he prefers going into a match with a spinner.
?I?m pretty loath to go into any Test match without a spinner,? Arthur said.
?Obviously conditions will determine that but the SCG has normally got a history of favouring spin down the line.?
It is always a risky business going into a match without a spinner, in particular at the SCG known as the home of spin in Australia. In the last test of the Ashes, the spinners took a combined 2/291 from 95 overs, however it must be remembered two of these spinners were Michael Beer and Steven Smith. The world?s best spinner took a wicket in each innings and maintained an economy of under 3 bowling 46 overs in total. In the match before where two teams were dismissed for under 150, Nathan Hauritz and Danish Kaneria both took a 5 wicket haul in the 3rd and 4th innings of the match. This suggests the spinner still has a valuable role to play.
Quite clearly the key to this match lies in removing Tendulkar and Laxman, they alone have 300 runs in them if they continue their streak at the SCG. Australia fragile batting lineup will be tested in particular if they are sent in first. The spin of Ashwin will also come into play, the Australian batters struggled with him at the MCG and he will be more of a handful at the SCG.
It is unthinkable that India would go into an SCG test with only one spinner but the emergence of Yadav has changed India?s way of thinking. This along with suggestions of a pace friendly pitch should mean the only spot in question is Kohil.
The last point which will decide this match is the lower order batting. Australia bowlers not only won the match with their bowling, they also added 211 valuable runs compared to the lower order of India who made just 132 runs including 88 of them when the match was lost.
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Who is this Harshal Patel? In today's Ranji game against Karnataka he took 8/40 
destroyed our batting....
I wouldnt be surprised if he gets a India call up now...
Haryana 41/0 (10.0 ov, N Saini 10*, R Dewan 29*, STR Binny 0/0) - Tea | Live Scorecard | ESPN Cricinfo
destroyed our batting....I wouldnt be surprised if he gets a India call up now...
Haryana 41/0 (10.0 ov, N Saini 10*, R Dewan 29*, STR Binny 0/0) - Tea | Live Scorecard | ESPN Cricinfo
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Injuries or not the batting has looked weak for a while against top teams. This next match will be interesting as Laxman, Tendulkar and Dravid will all try to prove the doubters wrong against a pretty decent pace attack fielded by Australia.
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Well said and also good to seeing more of the erudite Indian supports admitting that Sehwag is a FTB.
I have always seen Sehwag as an FTB. Just that you might not have seen him go around talking about it. But the thing with Sehwag is, he can at times get away with his FTB's if the bowlers dont bowl properly to him even in tough conditions. But with Dhoni, he could still get himself out even if the bowlers dont bowl that great to him. Basically the margin for error against Sehwag is small, while its a little bigger with Dhoni.
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