India's tour of Australia - December/January 2015

Aalay said:
I know where you are coming from but we saw what happened when we went with 5 bowlers. Binny hardly bowled any overs but again, that was under Dhoni's captaincy. Kohli might go with 5 bowler strategy but I don't see Dhoni doing the same. I actually was very impressed with the way Dhawan played in New Zealand but then again, he didn't do well in England. Yes, he does not have the greatest technique against the moving ball but ball there won't be much lateral movement in Australia. If he can cope with the pace and bounce, he will be successful. I am a big fan of Rohit and that is probably the only reason i have included him in the line-up. He just looks so good when he is in full flow and I just wish he gets that consistency in his batting.



LOL Shravi, you said the same thing when they went to England and he was horrible there. I hope he performs well in Australia.
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I agree with you, Binny hardly bowled any overs. I'm just saying that it would be better if they went in with 5 bowlers so we don't have to see the Indian team in the field for over 2 days like we saw in the last Australia test series in 2012 as the bowling was pathetic and lazy. I am still not happy with Rohit because his technique has some flaws, he struggles with serious pace and there's no doubt the Australians will come hard at him. A lot of people might agree with me on this and there is an apparent difference between Rohit's technique and Kohli's technique. Also, there is a difference in the whole Indian team's batting technique compared to Kohli's, this might sound biased but it's true and I think you would also agree with me on this and that Rohit does have problems against serious pace. Dale Steyn even troubled him in the test series last year and I don't remember Kohli struggling at all against that pace against South Africa in fact he was incorrectly given out to Steyn on the last day of the second test.
 
India had a great day 1 in the first warm up match. They Aus Practice side was dismissed for 219. Bhuvi Shami and Karn S. all picked up 2 wickets each, Ashwin had 1 and Varun Aaron led the side with 3 wickets. In reply Dhawan has fallen for 10, as India look to push through with Vijay on 32 and Pujara at the crease.
 
PokerAce said:
India had a great day 1 in the first warm up match. They Aus Practice side was dismissed for 219. Bhuvi Shami and Karn S. all picked up 2 wickets each, Ashwin had 1 and Varun Aaron led the side with 3 wickets. In reply Dhawan has fallen for 10, as India look to push through with Vijay on 32 and Pujara at the crease.
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grkrama said:
lol even if its a club team we like letting the tail wag, 16yr old sam unknown nielson is smashing it.
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Is this match telecasted on any channel ?
 
Oh Yeah! The Aussie squad announced earlier Today :
Warner , Rogers , Watto , Clarke , Smith , Marsh , Haddin , Johnson , Siddle , Harris , Lyon , Hazlewood.
Hazlewood is the 12th man but I would rather play him in in place of Siddle.
 
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Its very glad to see 19 members squad of India.It will surely make an easy work for selector to send a perfect 15 men squad for world cup.But slightly confused to see, whom does Dhoni give a chance in Playing XI ?. But good step taken by selectors to send 19 members squad. Hope to see Best 15 among them for World Cup
 
The practice match finished in a draw with Indian batsmen finding form in Aus. There were plenty of 50s on offer as Kohli, Saha, Pujara, Vijay and interestingly even Karn Sharma got in on the act. Raina got a fine 44. While it would be foolish not to acknowledge that the Aus side hardly featured any top of the line players, and that it was an easy match by all accounts, but the fact that the team did well on its first outing itself was great news indeed. Its important to start off feeling good and confident, and the team should be feeling rather confident.

No doubt a tougher schedule lies ahead, but the team should be fine as long as they keep building on this.
 
The same thing happened to us during the Ashes. The warm up matches were filled with players who would struggle to get in their respective state sides and we all know what followed after that...
 
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