India Vs Australia Vs Sri Lanka - 2011... Discuss Here
Australia series beckons Team India now. Its a very important away series after they were beaten 4-0 in England. What should be the
- team selection
- pre match strategies
- who should play, who dropped
- live scores, commentary
- results discussion, etc..
We have been whitewashed again, really has been a pathetic performance by team India.
Will the ODI's give something to cheer about??
Discuss:)
Reason: :)
Congratulations Clark 313 seems to be going strong, i hope he does not trouble Indians in future games, now he will start getting benefit of doubt for LBW from umpires like Ponting the punter.
Wow , net practising continues . Now Australia knows if their batsmen are struggling for form , call India for a series , Rest we are witnessing . We are good at giving Catch practise and Net practise .
Finally declared End of net practise ,now catch practise begins . Now pitch will automatically turn into bowlers pitch .
I think Dhoni did a serious mistake by choosing to bat on day 1. Now wickets will fall due to the devil in their minds rather than the devil on the pitch. The players should give up thoughts of saving match and bat freely without pressure- Sachin should complete his century, Laxman should save his place in the team with a century and just take things as they come. No will blame them for losing the match from this stage.
Agree with Fool . Yes even i meant same . Hope for the best .
I think Kolhi should do more with his bat rather than his Finger .
Perfect @ DS . Good atleast next match we will see Rohit in . Hope he does something with his bat .
Hard luck , he is only fined and no match ban .
1st catch of the day
Dravid saves us .
catch practise boss , we are supposed to give catches i believe .
Best thing what i like about clarke is not being selfish and playing for records , with still 2 and half days left in the test match , he could have easily made 400 runs . Good he want to win not pile up records , like most of our players do, play for records don't even care for about winning .
Not much , not following SA vs SL
have good day at office .
Decent start . Hope they resume the same way after tea . Pitch is good for batting . This the best chance to pile up runs and get into form . Come guys .
Gambir scores Half century , Long way to go my friend
I hope the Australians are not doing some funny business with the pitch. On the first day, both Australians and Indians lost wickets. Today, except for Sehwag, both Australians and Indians are batting. Tomorrow if suddenly wickets start tumbling, I would suspect foul play.
one more wicket tumble , Dravid gone . 100/2
well well :) Clarke could've very well broken Lara's record of 400 if he kept playing :)
now we leave it upto Sachin n Gambhir to save the match for us , winning is impossible , even the chances of a draw are slim :)
all the best to them :)
Hope Sachin can get it BIG this time and Gambhir makes it to his ton as well!!
Thought even though India looses match, Sachin will get his hundredth hundred and be done with it once and for all. But no! Again he falls short. This wait is going to be as boring as Kapil's 434th wicket.
Again a shameful defeat! At least folding up some time after lunch tomorrow would have been respectful. This is disgraceful.
Instead of continuing this nonsense, can't India give walkover and move on?
Alas .., India touched 350 . Hope for better performance in next two matches .
Indian tail only wags when it is not needed. Who the heck wants to see Zaheer and Ishant bat in a loosing match?
At least some thing to cheer for India touched 400 and dusted . An innings defeat .
Rohit Sharma instead of Virat Kohli , Get in fourth pacer instead of Ashwin (though we will miss him with the Bat) .
In SCG match we failed in all dept . At MCG, blowing was decent .
A loud message should be sent to those who take their place granted in the Indian side, i feel Rohit Sharma should come in place of Dravid, Yousuf Pathan should come in place of V V S Laxman, who can bowl too, Sreesanth should come in place of Ishant, this would definitely send the message loud and clear that once selected team can always be changed in the interest of the country. Virat Kohli should be treated on final leg for proving himself. My conviction with the prevailing test rules is that it is an opportunity for a batsmen out of form to come back into form because there is no pressure of run rate. Another angle which needs to be probed is whether Gaddar Greg has leaked all the weakness of the players whom he coached. Lolz
Why have you left Tendulkar and Gambhir their performance also was not match winning one .
Hello DS i feel India requires 3 different teams for 3 different format in the long run, now the current team feels that they have played too much cricket and they want a break. In the midst of tour they are going for a picnic, whereas Australian team is practising. I feel it is a ruse to get away from Media glare.
@ DS , i too hate IPl , though i don't consider it as evil , but would relate it to WWF (fun and money) .
I support RCB in IPL of course. Being a Bangalorean, I watch them play and cheer them. But to blame IPL for the demise of the Indian team down under (or in the England tour for that matter) is hardly a solution to the ignominy that has befallen the World champions. It happens once a year, a month at max, and it has been now 9 months since the event last happened. It is a money hounder, and the way BCCI ravishes it and blackmails other boards to let their main players feature is wrong, and that can be omitted I feel.
well all for the money :) seems Indians have lost interest in winning matches now , maybe the series win over England at home was cause they couldn't cope up with Indian conditions. What ever happened to the so called best team in the world? If this happened a few years ago , you could've said Austrailia was almost invincible then , but now ...., shameful .....
I don't understand the logic. The team fails, on the whole, and though the "magic figure" (and I use that term loosely) of 400 was reached, there was a "for 10" that succeeded it which goes sort of unnoticed by a lot. Again, the scapegoat is Virat Kohli, and though he didnt perform at all in the match as required, save a finger to God-knows-who in the crowd, I think even Gambhir didn't play well. At the end of the third day's play, there was not a run scored from the bat for nearly 9 or 10 overs. People were wondering what was going on, why they're not scoring... the best part of those ten overs was that a top-form pace battery of the Aussies were denied a wicket. If the same thing continued for the next day too, even if the world record for least runs in a test-match day was to be taken by India, the test match could have been saved right? Dravid and VVS did bat a whole day without giving their wickets in Indian conditions, even the remotest possibility should have been taken into consideration....
I dont like this pace battery of ours too now, when it comes to that. I say axe Ishant, get in Irfan Pathan. Aussie conditions are helping swing, and I do believe Irfan Pathan was one of the best swing exponents in the pace battery earlier.. I'd say Pravin, but he's not fully fit and I dont like to see him get further injured. Irfan would give a batting option too, and Ashwin can be the lone spinner again. With batting, I think both Gambhir and Kohli should be axed. A fifty does not say I'm back in form, dont ignore me. The way he was batting on start of 2nd innings, I thought that India was determined to make it a three day test and take a two day picnic at the Opera House. I think it needs to be put as a message that Indian team comes first and no player is an automatic selection.
Team: Rahane, Sehwag, Dravid, Tendulkar, VVS Laxman, MS Dhoni, Rohit Sharma, Ashwin, Zaheer, Yadav, (Irfan or Sreesanth or Pravin if fit or Vinay Kumar)
i don't know much, but I salute clarke on his performance, the zeal, the zing, kudos to him, and his team. three cheers to him.
i know ds will be hyper on me, but one has to appreciate the appreciable.
I agree Virat is in woeful form and needs to be changed.. but, DS, I raise the question directly, why this "regular player" partiality? Isn't it team first and then the player? if the player's form is hindering the team, put him out.. send the message to him that u keep ur form, then u keep ur place. If you go hyper on me also, I am not mindful, but I say even if it is the legendary Mr. Tendulkar itself out of form, give him a rest.. There are players who are talented with the ball and the blade both in Indian domestic cricket.. Give them the chance.. if you keep putting the same players in every time, even if they're in or out of form, then what was the need to replace Jaffer and Aakash Chopra etc when they were playing? They were "regular players" too that time..
Regards the bowling, still its not late.. its only Tuesday.. fly Irfan Pathan and Munaf there, get rid of who needs to be given off.. put the TEAM before a player, be it regular or debutant..
PL, I agree.. it was a masterful knock and I stand to give him an ovation that he deserves.. I was expecting Clarke to go to 400 too, and Hussey to 200.. They could have done it and still defeated a lacklustre India in 4 days.. but he put the team's winning chances before his personal milestone and I applaud him for that too.
Meanwhile Pattinson is out of the rest of the series with injury.
But Harris and Starc will be a handful too!!!
If this is India's form, then Steve Waugh's pace is more than enough on Perth pitch to skittle them out. 
Agree with Leo
Where are touring my friend .
Good they have bought the 4th pacer in , but no RS .
Enjoy , Dravid blowed again .
i think its going to be 0-4 now. no prizes for predicting the SURE EVENT i guess :P
Whatta performance...
Sehwag got a good ball. Dravid was bowled again. Tendulkar played across the line. Gambhir pushed away from his body (yet again!). Kohli threw it away. Laxman got a good ball. Dhoni gave catch practice. That is the summary of the Indian batting performance. Yes, it is the WACA. Yes, there was grass. But this was still a good wicket to bat on.
Awful 
Pathetic
Whitewash... 
India 161 in 60 overs odd.. Australia 148 without loss in 20 overs.. Dismal, shameful, uncoordinated.. Idiotic.. Shocking.. and its no use blaming the pitch.. if Aussie pacers can get India all out, why cant our pacers do the same? Gutted. If India survive 3 days at this form, I think the likeliness of the world as we know it to end would only increase. Why wasn't more changes made? Rohit and Rahane have been put in team to play when the others are out of form and need a break. They should have been used. It was anyhow an unwinnable series. I support MSD's decision to retire from tests.. but I urge him to do it after this test and not wait till 2013.
I too support that Dhoni should retire from this series onwards so that he paves for someone who has passion for test cricket. Let the selectors take the hint and ensure that a new captain for test team is picked for next two years.
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