Commonwealth Bank Series Feb-Mar 2011/12

[6ry4nj]

Just watched the replay of the match. India's fielding was electrifying and brilliant. Jadeja, Raina, Kohli and Rohit absolutely fired up the effort with their brilliant fielding. And boy, MSD looks a completely different player in coloured clothing. That stumping and that dived catch was excellent. It was our fielding that won us this game and Dhoni is right when he said this effort can be hard to beat. But I hope we keep it up for the ODI series.

I hope you do too. It all depends on which team turns up to play - the team that played in England or the team from the rest of last year (talking about ODI teams of course).

There was such energy in that performance, I hope it puts pressure on some of the oldies to stay out of the team for a while.

 

[macintosh]

Australia lost and so they are losers, it's a normal English word.

In simple English words, we have lost the test series by 4-0,
we need to accept that Australia played much better and give them credit for the way they have played instead of being rude and offensive.

 

[sifter132]

Just watched the replay of the match. India's fielding was electrifying and brilliant. Jadeja, Raina, Kohli and Rohit absolutely fired up the effort with their brilliant fielding. And boy, MSD looks a completely different player in coloured clothing. That stumping and that dived catch was excellent. It was our fielding that won us this game and Dhoni is right when he said this effort can be hard to beat. But I hope we keep it up for the ODI series.

Fielding was good, but I don't think any better than in Sydney. The difference was Australians running themselves out (although obviously Rohit had to hit the stumps). I dunno, I guess that sounds a bit bitter and I don't want it to be. But I thought India's bowling was the improvement. Fielding was as good as Sydney and stifled Australia once they were a few wickets down. But I thought Australia lost the game more than India won it. Australia were quite poor - in all facets, and I've just finished my critique of George Bailey's captaincy, and it's not good (http://www.planetcricket.org/forums/cricket-discussion/george-what-just-happened-77787.html#post2266740)

 

[midgetwars]

I hardly think India played better. It was Australia playing MUCH worse.

The 4 runouts, seriously?
Marsh? Not only was that 0 runs but IT COST 2balls of space where 2 fours could of been hit. That would mean 140 runs.

 

[harishankar]

A win in the T20 game is hardly a morale booster for a team that has been whitewashed 4-0 in the Test series.

Hard for me to cheer this victory. If the Indians win the ODI series, then there might be something to cheer about, but even then the Test series fiasco will continue to hurt true Cricket fans in India.

We all know that the ODI team is in much better shape than the Test squad anyway. After all they did win the World Cup last year.

 

[Sedition]

harishankar, you must not be passionate enough to be so realistic and logical about the situation. No offensive remarks? No falling to your knees crying with joy? These things epitomise passion according to some.

 

[Prithvi]

I hardly think India played better. It was Australia playing MUCH worse.

The 4 runouts, seriously?
Marsh? Not only was that 0 runs but IT COST 2balls of space where 2 fours could of been hit. That would mean 140 runs.

Indian fielding was a delight to watch, a 30 yard direct hit speaks.
Aussies played just like what they played earlier. Earlier Indian fielding was not upto mark,but they gave their best in fielding yesterday.

 

[Aalay]

A win in the T20 game is hardly a morale booster for a team that has been whitewashed 4-0 in the Test series.

If you don't win last 16 matches on foreign soil, and than suddenly a win pops up, I can't understand how it can not boost anyone's confidence.

 

[Prithvi]

A win in the T20 game is hardly a morale booster for a team that has been whitewashed 4-0 in the Test series.

Disagree! The players do get fair amount of confidence among themselves! If India would have won the only T20i at England, they would have played lot better in the ODi series.

 

[angryangy]

The thing about Marsh being predictably bad is that I don't like to see David Hussey come in early either, because he plays exactly the way he did. He becomes a nervy starter, but he's often too good to just get out like Marsh did. You need him to just bat to his strengths. Obviously there were more aims to achieve than winning, which is why they swapped the side around so much after the first game, but in an ideal situation, you probably just get 3 top-form openers and start from there.

 

[Sedition]

Anyone able to justify Doherty's selection yet? The sole reason I can come up with, is a bit of game time before the ODIs, where he is actually a handy bowler. That seems like a pretty stupid move considering how long the ODI series is though and how few T20's between now and WC are. Surely Christian or Faulkner deserved another game over the guy who had a pretty crap BBL and shouldn't be anywhere near the T20 squad.

Well Faulkner is playing domestic cricket today, but still, there's about a hundred other bowlers with better stats than Doherty.

 

[midgetwars]

Doherty's in the team for destroying Sri Lanka some time ago. Also, don't forget that the selectors have some weird thing for weird and bad spinners.

BEER?? DOHERTY?? That's why we lost ashes.

 

[Sedition]

Yeah, somehow I had forgotten about that nightmare after the decent showings by Lyon. Can't believe they'd waste a spot when there's guys who can bat, bowl and field better in T20's though

 

[SLICKR392]

Anyone able to justify Doherty's selection yet? The sole reason I can come up with, is a bit of game time before the ODIs, where he is actually a handy bowler. That seems like a pretty stupid move considering how long the ODI series is though and how few T20's between now and WC are. Surely Christian or Faulkner deserved another game over the guy who had a pretty crap BBL and shouldn't be anywhere near the T20 squad.

Well Faulkner is playing domestic cricket today, but still, there's about a hundred other bowlers with better stats than Doherty.

Why isn't Hodge or Smith there? Isn't Hodge the highest T20 run getter? Smith is a much better choice than Doherty, I watched him in the SL vs Aus T20. He bats quiet well too.

 

[Sedition]

Hodge has always been overlooked for some reason. He's pretty much retired from domestic cricket now and has joined the traveling circus. The selectors could and probably should still pick him for T20i, hard to use the age argument when Hogg is being picked, but who knows?

baffled-hodge-limits-his-cricket-to-t20 | The Australian

Smith's T20 batting isn't great, but he's still better in every facet than Doherty, hell he even captained the winning BBL side.