Well, it's always rainy in Brisbane in summer, in fact the driest month of their year is July. Moving the ODI series forward has hurt Sydney, which does not get drier as summer rolls on.
Sydney and Brisbane are both prone to intense storms, rather than the 20 day drizzle that makes Englishmen go mad.
Canberra on the other hand is about half as wet and has dry summers. Today's rain would not come close to the storms at Brisbane, but Manuka Oval is not a prestigious ground with top class drainage. This one is a pretty unlucky event.
The brighter news is in the games to come. Two games at Adelaide and a potential final. Adelaide is intensely dry in summer, on average only seeing nine wet days in the entire season and the total rain is the equivalent of two weeks in Sydney.
One game in Perth. Perth is even drier; they only get about half of Adelaide's wet weather.
Two more games at the MCG. Melbourne is much wetter than Adelaide and Perth, but maybe only half as wet as Sydney and driest in summer. We'll get two more games in Melbourne. There's also one game at Hobart, which offers similar weather to Melbourne; moist, but driest in February.
The finals are a mixed bag. Chances of rain at the Gabba decrease as the weather cools down, but chances of rain in Sydney will peak in March. The third final at Adelaide delivers a fail-safe, but it would be a little awful to win the finals 1-0.
Good pics..Indian fans-you will find them everywhere where ever you go.
Just 21 overs game now. Need to get Jayasuriya out quickly.
Edit: Sreesanth showing his true colors. He is modern day version of Ajit Agarkar. This match is gone.
Cricket Australia do realise this and generally the ODI series is held in January, but India were not prepared to commence their tour earlier than mid-December.If you know this much about weather then how come AUS CRICKET BOARD do not know that...And if they do then why the hell they made this timetable..This rain interval can cost a lost to any team which we saw today...
If AUS will beat INDIA in next match and SRILANKA do same against AUS...REMAINING all MATCHES GET WASH OUT if then Will you say india won't deserve place in final??I am using if and i know this is a big word if!!!!
But think IF world number1 team's number one cricket board had think about It,then we would have enjoy all games and 50 overs.....As ODI means 50 overs..not 21...![]()
Brisbane is actually wetter than Manchester. I felt very excited earlier when I found that out. It's just Brisbane has shorter showers apparently, however in Manchester, once it rains, it's raining for a long time. And Brisbane dries quicker, obviously.
At the rate he's going it will take a while.I think he should play till he gets 500 wickets and be the leader in the ODI's too..
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Its weird how everyone says Australia can't play spin. Yet Murali said today that Australia is the best team he has come up against when playing spin....:confused: