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Post by Aj_June on Feb 24, 2017 6:38:05 GMT
Wow. The match looks completely balanced and India has to bat 4th. Great bowling by Aussie pacers. Pitch has been kind to pacers as well. let's hope for a nail bitter.
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Post by Aj_June on Feb 24, 2017 7:15:00 GMT
Australia in complete command here! O'Keefe can silence his critics for the moment.
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Post by weststigersbob on Feb 24, 2017 7:55:47 GMT
I can't believe what I'm seeing. India lost 7 for 11. That's an Australia on a green top like collapse!! All out 105. Wow. KL Rahul - looked in total control, and threw it away. Only Ashwin can have an excuse, very very unlucky.
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Post by Aj_June on Feb 24, 2017 7:59:14 GMT
I can't believe what I'm seeing. India lost 7 for 11. That's an Australia on a green top like collapse!! All out 105. Wow. KL Rahul - looked in total control, and threw it away. Only Ashwin can have an excuse, very very unlucky. Well. I had said it before that Aussie spinners are not English spinners. And in this case, Aussie pacers did their work too! So how about my pick? Australia +2.5 @ 1.8 odds is a good value for money and I am going to pick that
Already won
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Post by pimpinainteasy on Feb 24, 2017 10:36:18 GMT
where is salter-pt?
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Post by hoskotafe3 on Feb 24, 2017 19:59:55 GMT
Remarkable collapse from India. Barring rain or some national disaster, Australia are going 1-0 up. Didn't see that coming at all.
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Post by Aj_June on Feb 24, 2017 20:04:34 GMT
India are done and it looks like the situation India was in against England in 2012. They won't come back to win the series. Their confidence is shattered and there is every chance India might lose it 2-1.
Gambhir even though a mediocre batsman knew how to play spin. The current Indian batsmen don't (except Kohli). England should have won 1 or 2 game if not for extremely incompetent spin bowling.
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Post by Aj_June on Feb 25, 2017 11:49:05 GMT
Congrats Aussie fans. Victory is always good but when not expected it is even better. Australia were good in every department and there is a feeling that it would continue. Looking forward to better contest in the next match. Indians were humiliated in this match.
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Post by hoskotafe3 on Feb 25, 2017 12:17:05 GMT
I think there's still a worryingly frail look to Australia's batting, 4 out, all out, but India can take little solace from that given how amateurish their own batting looked. Lyon bowled a lot of biting balls that bounced awkwardly or skidded through low and the Indians looked completely clueless as of how to combat it. I think O'Keefe benefited from Lyon's work. Lyon would be the one having the batsmen worried every ball, and then O'Keefe would draw the miscalculation.
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Post by weststigersbob on Feb 25, 2017 12:38:48 GMT
I'm completely stunned. I just don't know what to say. I haven't seen an Indian batting performance like that, well, ever. There were some very ordinary shots in there, and even worse reviews. KL Rahul played a dodgy shot in the 1st innnings, and the dodgiest review in the second. Unless he thought he hit it ( which he didn't by a long way) I don't know what he, nor Pujara were thinking. There was no fight at all - Renshaw showed that even in really foreign conditions, a bit of application goes a long way. Steve Smith played a great innings, but no player should ever get dropped three times, let alone the #1 batsman in the world.
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Post by misstique on Feb 25, 2017 12:50:23 GMT
I wonder how Indian cricketers like the taste of their own medicine. I bet they found it bitter. VERY bitter!!!
LOL at Manjrekar for blaming the pitch. Seriously? Now Indians are blaming their own pitches which they have carefully prepared to give their own players advantage?
Well done Aussies! You truly deserve this.
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Post by pimpinainteasy on Feb 25, 2017 12:58:13 GMT
i heard salter pt jumped off the top of his building after checking the score.
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Post by weststigersbob on Feb 25, 2017 13:27:19 GMT
Salts has probably gone Randy Marsh over Behrendorffs 9/37 in the Shield for WA......
The pitch wasn't great, but it wasn't any different to the 4 dished up against England, and Australia didn't score a mountain of runs either (260 & 285). It was Indias batting that was so bad - It doesn't matter how bad the fielding was, or the lack of bowling input from Sharma and J.Yadav, nobody is winning Tests scoring 105 and 107.
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Post by hoskotafe3 on Feb 25, 2017 21:17:43 GMT
Anyway there were a couple of other results from a few days ago I wanted to mention. First, the Aussie women slumping to 5-9 on the way to being rolled for 66 chasing 114 in a T20 against NZ. Second one was Afghanistan (an official ODI team) reaching 5-121 chasing 131 against Zimbabwe and then losing 5-5 to go down.
And yesterday NZ became the latest team made to look rather silly by the quite frankly limitless stock of Saffer pacemen, getting rolled for a 112 In an ODI.
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Post by hamsterman11 on Feb 25, 2017 22:25:15 GMT
Aussie women haven't lost the rose bowl since 99/00, the year NZ won the world cup as well. Must be a chance this year.
That pitch was incredibly slow yesterday. AB made it look very easy, but it wasn't easy to time your shots. The quality of the Saffa paceman is unbelievable. I'm starting to think that even the increase in the quota system won't slow them down, only knock out tornies can do that...... I hope they drop Latham and make him play a couple of first class games, he needs confident going into the tests. Ferguson isn't quite ready to play against the top sides in the world yet, hopefully Sodhi or Patel plays the last two games.
Oh and this isn't cricket, but Ali Williams and James O'Connor arrested trying to buy coke? Mush for brains.
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Post by hoskotafe3 on Feb 25, 2017 23:57:04 GMT
I was thinking the same thing re: Williams and O'Connor. Ass hats both.
Quotas will slow the saffers down in not being able to pick their best 6 batsmen. The 2 Black African rule could be a downright killer without someone of Bavuma's quality around. Rabada would be first choice regardless.
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Post by weststigersbob on Feb 26, 2017 0:45:10 GMT
The quota system - reverse racism at its insane best. You'd think after the "Ontong-Rudolph" affair all those years ago RSA would've learnt something, but nope. Given the sizeable majority "blacks" have in RSA, simply getting them more involved in cricket will see more of them in the team based purely on merit. By now, this should have occurred - but outside Rabada it hasn't seemed to.
I'm really looking forward to the RSA-NZ tests. Two good evenly matched sides in conditions they both enjoy. The key men in both sides will be the spinner - do RSA pick Maharaj or Shamzi and NZ Santner or Sodhi ? The rest of the sides both line up pretty closely IMHO on best form.
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Post by weststigersbob on Feb 26, 2017 1:09:23 GMT
Footballers - not the sharpest tools. O'Connor especially.
I'm not overly surprised at AFG v ZIM. We all know pressure in cricket does funny things to players. But losing 5/5 needing 10 is a spectacular effort. Must have a few jacks and rabbits in their tail The Afghanis.
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Post by pimpinainteasy on Feb 26, 2017 1:45:58 GMT
this is one of the biggest upsets in recent history. one of the weakest aussie teams upsetting an indian team that hasnt lost at home in 5 years and on an unbeaten streak of nearly 20 tests.
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Post by hamsterman11 on Feb 26, 2017 9:07:20 GMT
Yes I would agree it's a pretty big upset.
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