Re: India in Australia 2011-12
I think they have mostly given up. They are just waiting for Aus to tour India then watch these players score.
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I was afraid that senior player may deliver in the last innings and make it difficult for selectors for the next series.
Now is the time to say thanks & goodbye..most players don't learn though.
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I also hope they let go of Duncan Fletcher. His appointment has been a disaster. Two whitewashes.
what in the world VIrat Kohli was doing? Can someone please explain the concept of nightwatch man to him?
Re: India in Australia 2011-12
Its curtains for India now.... 174/8
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Well played Aussies. They played hard throughout - fielding, bowling, batting. 4-0
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Dry cleaning complete, please pick up laundry 
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Got to give credit to Phoenixdesi - before this series started, he mentioned Tendulkar should retire and make way for youngsters. I disagreed then - he was right!
Re: India in Australia 2011-12
Last 12 months
Dravid 14 matches, 1225 runs, avg 51
Tendulkar 11 matches , 778 runs , avg 37
Laxman 14 matches , 878 runs , avg 36.5
sehvag 9 matches , 484 runs , avg 28
gambhir 10 matches , 478 runs , avg 25
To me dravid and tendulkar r still in , while the most vulnerable ones are gambhir and sehwag specially sehwag when he gets out with his attitude of this is the way I play
Laxman a great batter shud think by himself to say goodbye
Re: India in Australia 2011-12
I have no words :(
Have not followed the live action. Don't feel like watching the highlights!
The only positive this tour has been Kohli I'd say. He should be given a proper stint in the test team now. Time to get Pujara in too (is he still injured?).
I'd say Laxman's time has come to retire.
Salla Punter back in form after years of misery!
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Now There is a Tri Series coming up Between Aus,India and Srilanka
Re: India in Australia 2011-12
Tendulkar's thirst for records has ensured that he cannot properly retire now. Whole India is now waiting for this 100th 100. He has even said that he would consider the next WC. He should follow the footsteps of the legends of the game and announce his retirement on a certain set date irrespective of his century.
See for example Murali. He needed 8 wickets for 800, but nevertheless announced before the match that we would retire. In the end, he got his 8 wickets, which is the sign of a great player. Tendulkar has got himself in this mess, and I don't see his next century coming in Tests. Probably he will score on against Sri Lanka in the ODI and everyone will consider him back in form.
Another alternative for Tendulkar is to say beforehand that whenever his gets his 100th 100 he will retire immediately after that match, be it during an ongoing series. He should linger around for too long now...
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^ agreed 100% - he has already hung around too long, I amm beginning to realize
Re: India in Australia 2011-12
I never thought that India ll collapsed in Australia like this :hinna: Bcoz in the every tour they were fight but now they ll behaving like a new team even in presence of big Titans 
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Agreed. Sachin had many opportunities between the English Summer and this series against Australia to get that elusive 100th hundred. He should have toured West Indies and got the ton out of the way before the testing tour of Australia. As it is he is destroying his own legacy and reputation by continuing to play for personal milestones and by being part of a team that is not only losing but also losing very badly
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Sachin Tendulkar should have retired after World Cup: Imran Khan**
Former Pakistan captain Imran Khan feels that iconic batsman Sachin Tendulkar should have retired after the “ultimate high” of India wining the World Cup last year.
"We all want to go with a big bang but you always don’t get it right. For Sachin the ultimate time to go was after that World Cup win. He had such a great World Cup. He is a great player and there is not replacement for him," Imran said.
"He has to decide for himself and he must time it right. You don’t want to go having lost to Australia 4-0. If he had gone after that World Cup that would have been the ultimate high," Imran told a TV channel.
Imran said Indian players has the right to decide when they want to retire and the management should first get the replacement for them.
“It’s a very difficult question for a sportsman to know when to leave…It’s a very difficult decision and many great players have not got it right,” he said.
“For Indian cricket it’s not one player now but three or four would have to take decision. But the big question is whether you have got their replacement. If the gap between the young and old player is too much then you have to stay with the old players.”
Asked about Tendulkar’s impending 100th international ton, Imran said it doesn’t matter whether he gets that elusive hundred or not as statistic doesn’t matter for a great player.
**"Records must be broken with the team winning. You should not be playing to break records. Records should be part of the win. ***well-said Immi
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*Sachin is a great player. Would I think of Sachin whether he is of 99 hundreds or 100 hundreds! No," Imran said.
**“Greatest player I’ve played against is Viv Richards. I don’t need to look at his records. He is great because he loved challenges. Records are after all statistics and statistics did not matter to great players,” **he said.
The former fast bowler said that he would have hung up his boots if his team had suffered a similar consecutive overseas whitewash like Team India.
"I would have retired from cricket. I think if I was in a team that lost eight matches in a row I would have given up cricket. It’s not the West Indies of 80s. But see who India has lost to - Australia and England. This Australia team hardly has won any series. You can’t blame the fans for feeling upset," he said.
Imran said if India gives too much emphasis on Twenty20 cricket and IPL then it might be reduced to a “walkover team in Test cricket”.
“India needs to think seriously… have they put too much emphasis on IPL, T20 cricket. It’s great entertainment but how to compare T20 with Test cricket. Test cricket is the ultimate test of the skills of a player,” he said.
“If India doesn’t get the balance right, they are going to be just a walkover team in Test cricket.”
On resuming Indo-Pak Cricket series, Imran said it is time to put the past behind and establish new relations between the two neighbouring cricketing nations.
“We have deprived the sub-continent of the pleasure of an Indo-Pak cricket series. The highlight of the World Cup was the semifinal between Pakistan and India. Let’s put our past behind and move on. It’s time for new relationship and new era,” he said.
“We must go beyond Mumbai 26/11. Everybody in Pakistan condemned the person and the Mumbai incident. Even in Pakistan thousand people have died in terrorist attacks. It’s time for new relationships and to resume Indo-Pak cricket series.”
Re: India in Australia 2011-12
Ian Chappell hit the nail (right) on the head ‘It’s a team thing with Australia while in India it’s an individual thing and a star thing’
**India’s ‘star culture’ is a problem
**http://www.espncricinfo.com/australia-v-india-2011/content/video_audio/551391.html
Re: India in Australia 2011-12