Re: 4th Test: Australia vs. India at Adelaide, Jan. 24-28, 2008
Ok...all you Pak fans..........Taylor just said Pathan's bowling style resembled Akram's.
There u go.
Re: 4th Test: Australia vs. India at Adelaide, Jan. 24-28, 2008
Ok...all you Pak fans..........Taylor just said Pathan's bowling style resembled Akram's.
There u go.
Theoretically speaking, combination of Akram and Ambrose as a part of the same bowling attack should have been able to diffuse the situation by now.
Re: 4th Test: Australia vs. India at Adelaide, Jan. 24-28, 2008
B O R I N G
No wickets being taken.
No runs being scored.
Both teams struggling.
Re: 4th Test: Australia vs. India at Adelaide, Jan. 24-28, 2008
Harbhajan better be careful in what he says to Ponting.
Asad Rauf understands "Maa Ki...."
Re: 4th Test: Australia vs. India at Adelaide, Jan. 24-28, 2008
Last 10 ovs 19/0 RR 1.90 
Re: 4th Test: Australia vs. India at Adelaide, Jan. 24-28, 2008
Post-day humor. Question put to Farokh Engineer: Should India be able to put Australia into bat again?
Engineer: Yes, you just need 10 balls to get a side out.
Re: 4th Test: Australia vs. India at Adelaide, Jan. 24-28, 2008
Post-day humor. Question put to Farokh Engineer: Should India be able to put Australia into bat again?
Engineer: Yes, you just need 10 balls to get a side out.
make it 20 balls, and they are out at 0, ... ;-)
This match is going twords a series 2-1 win by Austrailia, india would have declared after 400+, they wasted time, and now ausies will play for a draw!
Good :-D
Re: 4th Test: Australia vs. India at Adelaide, Jan. 24-28, 2008
This match looks anything but a draw. With good bounce and turn, and india playing two top class spinners, and Australia batting last, with already a big Indian total in the first innings, India on top.
You were saying...?
Re: 4th Test: Australia vs. India at Adelaide, Jan. 24-28, 2008
Good ol' flat sub-continent like track means draw in the end. Aussies should be happy with a draw. No wonder Harbhajan and Kumble batted so well.
Re: 4th Test: Australia vs. India at Adelaide, Jan. 24-28, 2008
In my opinion, there are only TWO results possible now :
(1) DRAW* (most likely)*
(2) AUSTRALIA WINS --- Aussies score around 550 by Tea tomorrow and put India to bat - India folds for less than 200 between lunch and Tea on the 5th day -- Aussies successfuly chase down a target of 150-200 runs in the remaing 40-50 overs.
(ps> 2nd innings collapses have been a regular feature at Adelaide)
Re: 4th Test: Australia vs. India at Adelaide, Jan. 24-28, 2008
And Sehwag says that the Aussies are scared :
*“They’re not going to win, they’re scared,” Sehwag said on a day when Australia managed 260 runs for the loss of three wickets. “They are playing so defensively. They just got 260 in a day on a flat track; that’s not like Australia. Last time they scored more than 400 in a day at Adelaide. I think they’re scared of defeat.” *
http://content-usa.cricinfo.com/ausvind/content/current/story/333498.html
I think there is something to what Sehwag is saying…a team that has lost only 3 wickets - to score at a run rate of 2.8 on a flat track certainly makes one wonder if the Aussies were trying to adopt the “avoid defeat first” policy. I did not think India bowled that negatively.
Re: 4th Test: Australia vs. India at Adelaide, Jan. 24-28, 2008
aussies were batting like it was a 5th day pitch and they were trying to save a game
they left anything that was not going to hit the stumps
About the bowling: That was disciplined bowling on a flat pitch, if they call that negative then same goes for their own bowling from which Indias batsmen and tailenders scored faster than them
Re: 4th Test: Australia vs. India at Adelaide, Jan. 24-28, 2008
B I N G O
Aussies are dead scared to take any risks in this match because they know Indians can beat them and that would be bigger than actually losing the series because everone knows how they won the 2nd test.
Re: 4th Test: Australia vs. India at Adelaide, Jan. 24-28, 2008
Australia: 425/3 (Lunch - Day 4)
Trail by 101 runs
Record partnership of 184 for 4th wicket.
Re: 4th Test: Australia vs. India at Adelaide, Jan. 24-28, 2008
Ishant Sharma has been a huge revelation from this tour - didnt have a high opinion of him based on his Bangladesh tour, but he has improved tremendously.
In fact, continuing our obsession with Pakistani pacers, I hereby deem him our Mohd. Asif :)
Re: 4th Test: Australia vs. India at Adelaide, Jan. 24-28, 2008
AUS 491/5.
If aussies take around 275 to 300 run lead from here and then they can make a match out of it.
Re: 4th Test: Australia vs. India at Adelaide, Jan. 24-28, 2008
Nahin, not enough time to accumulate that much of a lead. Only chance of a result is if they declare sooner and look to bowl India out, OR if they are bowled out and India collapse.
Re: 4th Test: Australia vs. India at Adelaide, Jan. 24-28, 2008
Ishant Sharma has been a huge revelation from this tour - didnt have a high opinion of him based on his Bangladesh tour, but he has improved tremendously.
In fact, continuing our obsession with Pakistani pacers, I hereby deem him our Mohd. Asif :)
absolutely....maybe too early to speak but based on these two test matches I can see a vastly improved bowler.
He has been swinging both ways , bowling fast ( last spell saw him bowling 135-145 even though it was his 8th over on trot)
Re: 4th Test: Australia vs. India at Adelaide, Jan. 24-28, 2008
he hit 146 several times. has symonds in all sorts of trouble.
Re: 4th Test: Australia vs. India at Adelaide, Jan. 24-28, 2008
Symonds GONE, bowled SHarma - well deserved !