Story Team India- Men in Blue's Diary||Indian Tour to New Zealand-//Australia VS India, First Innings//-

[Prithvi]

There was a small discussion among some of commentators and Gary123 aka Gaurav Agarwal, a great cricket analyst of planetcricket.
Gary quoted:-

India A didn't get the right batting order tbh.
Manish Pandey was way down the order.
Ambati Rayudu though performed well but should have been at no. 4
The Aussies did well.
KIU

where as our commentator of PC TV quoted:-

Rayudu is a natural opener...
If he'd have stayed at crease for some more time, India A would have win the game.

meal while Hedger quoted:-

It looked good at the start for India A Goswami and Rayudu building a good partnership before Johnson got the breakthrough of Goswami for 56. The middle order just couldn't get going though and capatilize on the good start with Hauritz and Siddle bowling very well. Johnson didn't bowl too badly taking 2 very important wickets, especially the wicket of Rayudu who made a great century but it wasn't enough to give India A a victory. A fine bowling performance from Australia and they will want to keep it going into the actual series against India.

Australian Team moved to Chennai Airport and left for Hyderabad.
When they arrived at Hyderabad, the fans of Australian Cricket Team just broke out on them for which there was a small police ride at Rajiv Gandhi International Airport.
Australian Cricket team, along with India A side were invited by Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh to come along with them in inauguration of a brand new Fly over which was longest in India with a distance of nearly 12 Kilometers.
Before going to hotel, they just went along the Chief Minister who invited some great people from Australian team like Adam Gilchrist, Ricky Ponting, Michael Clarke, Michael Hussey, Andrew Symonds, Brett Lee for cutting a ribbon along with the Chief Guests.
After they cut the ribbon, it was CM's bus which went on the fly over first and then it was Australian Bus, which went on the longest fly over of India.
Then, they went to their team hotel from where they were scheduled to take rest that total day. Then, the next day of them was to practice at Rajiv Gandhi International Cricket Stadium.
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To Be Continued....​

 

[Sartaj]

So,how's Siddle today?

bcvstheworld added 0 Minutes and 35 Seconds later...

Will Dhoni miss the entire series?

 

[Prithvi]

So,how's Siddle today?

bcvstheworld added 0 Minutes and 35 Seconds later...

Will Dhoni miss the entire series?

Oh sorry, forgot to update Siddle's Injury.
It'd be done in next update. And Dhoni will surely miss first 4 One Days, There is no doubt as I mentioned it already.

 

[Sartaj]

Can you let us manage the teams?
One match per member.

 

[Prithvi]

No mate, I've set averages as per their current status, not their original.
So, I can't let anyone manage.

 

[Prithvi]

The Australians were found severely practicing at RGICS on the next day.
Ricky Ponting said that he's waiting for the first ODI which would decide the series result where as the Indian Team was looking good with the return of Yuvraj and Sehwag.
Indian Team was on a camp at Bengaluru for the upcoming Hero Honda Cup and Skipper Kohli said that winning the first two one days will fetch him up a lot of confidence.
Everyone was practicing severely (Both the sides) and were on fire to clinch the series.
Wicketkeeper of Australia, Tim Paine was found playing to a local club of Hyderabad (State Bank of Hyderabad team) which was to play three games against TV9 team.
Adam Gilchrist was busy in coaching Paine and Watto as they their openers.

Mean While, Indian Team was even practicing at their best.

Australians said that they were to continue with the same side for the second practice game and India A captain said that they'd be sending out Shadab Jakati and getting in Munaf Patel in place of him.
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To Be Continued....​

 

[Sartaj]

What is Rahul Dravid doing here when he's not a part of the Indian squad???

 

[Prithvi]

What is Rahul Dravid doing here when he's not a part of the Indian squad???

lol, he was part of Camp as it was his home town

 

[Sartaj]

And what the hell is Ganguly doing with them??? :rtfl

 

[Prithvi]

And what the hell is Ganguly doing with them??? :rtfl

He is practicing now for his next IPL

 

[Sartaj]

May be he'll give some fielding tips to the younger lads as well.

 

[Prithvi]

Hyderabad was all set for an important battle between India A and Australia, especially for rookie Australian bowlers like Hauritz as it was a bowlers pitch arranged at RGICS, Hyderabad.
It was a cloudy sky and it was a poor pitch.
It was India A who won the toss and he decided to bat first on bowling surface.
As expected, bowlers did well and restricted the opposition to a average total of 204. It was Sudeep Tyagi, who contributed 41 for India A.
The Batting card looked something like this:-

Player              Status                        Runs  Blls  4s   6s    S/R
Sreevats Goswami    c. Symonds     b. Lee           6    12    1    0   50.0%
Ambati Rayudu       lbw            b. Johnson      24    34    2    0   70.6%
Sub. Badrinath      lbw            b. Johnson       8     8    1    0  100.0%
Tirumalsetti Suman                 b. Siddle        1     3    0    0   33.3%
Stuart Binny        c. Siddle      b. Hopes         9    23    0    0   39.1%
Reetender Sodhi     lbw            b. Lee          26    55    1    0   47.3%
Manish Pandey       c. Lee         b. Hauritz      32    45    3    0   71.1%
Laxmipati Balaji    c. Paine       b. Hauritz      17    37    0    0   45.9%
Sudeep Tyagi        not out                        41    53    3    0   77.4%
Ashoke Dinda        lbw            b. Johnson      15    19    1    0   78.9%
Munaf Patel         c. Paine       b. Lee          15    10    1    1  150.0%
Total:  204/10      Overs:  50.0          Run Rate:  4.08      Extras:  10

If we move to bowling department, it was Lee and Johnson who took 3 wickets each. Hopes, Symonds and Hauritz bowled pretty economically.
Peter Siddle, recovered from an injury, was too costly giving away 61 off his allotted 60 balls.
Bowling card looked in this way:-

Player               Overs   Mdns    Runs   Wkts      E/R    Wds    NBs
Peter Siddle         10.0      0      61      1      6.10     1      2 
Brett Lee             8.0      0      29      3      3.63     0      1 
Mitchell Johnson     10.0      1      43      3      4.30     0      0 
Andrew Symonds        7.0      0      23      0      3.29     0      0 
Nathan Hauritz        5.0      0      17      2      3.40     0      0 
James Hopes          10.0      0      25      1      2.50     0      0 
 EXTRAS           Wides: 1      No Balls: 3      Leg Byes: 4      Byes: 2

Even, there was a respectable crowd of 500 members (Its too much for a practice match)

Indian Bowlers were pretty confident of restricting the total whereas Australian Batting line up was bit strong.
The after the second innings.....


It was India A, who took away the match from Australia.
Batting card was looking in this way:-

Player              Status                        Runs  Blls  4s   6s    S/R
David Warner        c. Dinda       b. Tyagi         3     5    0    0   60.0%
Shane Watson        c. Badrinath   b. Tyagi        15    13    1    0  115.4%
Michael Hussey      lbw            b. Binny        45    86    1    1   52.3%
Ben Rohrer                         b. Binny        19    20    1    0   95.0%
Andrew Symonds      lbw            b. Balaji       10    17    1    0   58.8%
Tim Paine           run out (Rayudu)               21    39    2    0   53.8%
James Hopes         lbw            b. Binny        12    24    0    0   50.0%
Mitchell Johnson                   b. Balaji       28    43    1    1   65.1%
Brett Lee           lbw            b. Dinda         3    13    0    0   23.1%
Nathan Hauritz      c. Goswami     b. Sodhi        10    14    1    0   71.4%
Peter Siddle        not out
Total:  182/10      Overs:  45.3          Run Rate:  3.64      Extras:  16

Good contribution from Hussey.and it was Timmy Paine and Rohrer, who tried to hold nerve and it was Johnson, who once again proved that "A Light, before getting off, will glow brighter than it was at the start"
Coming to bowling, Binny picked up 3 where as Tyagi and Balaji took 2 each.
Bowling card was looking like this:-

Player               Overs   Mdns    Runs   Wkts      E/R    Wds    NBs
Munaf Patel          10.0      2      35      0      3.50     0      1 
Sudeep Tyagi          6.0      0      27      2      4.50     1      0 
Stuart Binny          7.0      1      24      3      3.43     1      1 
Reetender Sodhi       6.3      0      24      1      3.69     0      0 
Ashoke Dinda          6.0      1      20      1      3.33     0      0 
Laxmipati Balaji      9.0      1      36      2      4.00     0      1 
Tirumalsetti Suman    1.0      0       7      0      7.00     2      0 
 
 
EXTRAS           Wides: 4      No Balls: 3      Leg Byes: 3      Byes: 6

At Post match presentation, Michael Hussey quoted

Excellent play by Indians. It was Tyagi's 41 which made the difference in India A and Australia. Hopefully, if we could clinch the next game, we'll have some confidence over us to start on the tour against India.

India A skppier Badri quoted:-

Great game for all the youngsters in the team. No one knew who'll win today as Johnson was looking as if he himself could win this match for them.

Man of the match was awarded to Tyagi for his contribution of 41 and getting rid of both the openers.
And when India was practicing at Bengaluru, India did get a surprise by.......
OMG..!! What is this?? Is it real or dream..??
WTF is this??






How could DHONI join the squad even for the first two ODI's??

Dhoni quoted:-

Actually, there was no injury for me but I wanted to check the team situation without my presence. That was the main reason I pretended to be injured.

Selection Committee said that he'd be replacing Dinesh Karthik in the squad.

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To Be Continued (with some shocks like this)....​

 

[Sartaj]

But what are the final scores?

bcvstheworld added 1 Minutes and 42 Seconds later...

Actually, there was no injury for me but I wanted to check the team situation without my presence. That was the main reason I pretended to be injured.

What the??? :confused:

 

[Prithvi]

But what are the final scores?

Can't you add??



BTW, I'll do it for you in the post

What the??? :confused:

Actually, there was no injury for me but I wanted to check the team situation without my presence. That was the main reason I pretended to be injured.

 

[Sartaj]

Can't you add??

I'm here to have fun,not to add