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In the first tour match versus Victoria India decided to be smart and declared with 9 down at 266 after day one. In response Victoria is tiring the crap out of them with 437 for 6 after batting for 4 sessions. I wonder which team is the test nation and trying to get some practice under the belt?. :hehe:. How idiotic of India to declare…why not let all eleven get some batting practice. After all you will need your eleven batsmen plus some against the Aussies.

I think Australia’s mental disintegration of the Indians has begun and Victoria is doing it’s part. By the way, Hodge scored a double century.

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why does Australia produce so many good batsmen :(
every time a new face, and he's almost as good as the best batsmen elsewhere....

why why why????

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Here is what Brad Hodge had to say about his opposition.

***" I am very impressed with Nehra and Zaheer and found them difficult. They were able to swing the ball which doesn’t happen in MCG. Balaji too was impressive and he once hit me hard on the knee - Victoria batsman Brad Hodge

Sympathy @ its best.

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^ Imagine if they hadn’t been able to swing the ball and hit the knee caps…:rotfl:

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Must have been a huge accomplishment for Balaji for hitting his knee pads. :hehe:

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:rotfl:
Obviously he is trying to get on the Aussie test team, he is not going to say, “The bowlers I spanked all day today were god awful, just horrible, disregard my 247 runs today”. The performance of the pacers was no surprise, but I expected better from the Indian spinners. Harbajan got nailed pretty good.

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India make poor start](BBC SPORT | Cricket | India make poor start)

Tour match, Brisbane: Queensland Academy of Sport v India

India were in deep trouble at the end of day one in their Test warm-up game against Queensland’s Academy of Sport.

The tourists were 17-3 replying to the home side’s 304-6 declared, with skipper Sourav Ganguly five not out and VVS Laxman on one.

Akash Chopra and Deep Dasgupta both fell to Scott Brant for ducks, and Virender Sehwag was dismissed for six.

Lee Carseldine earlier hit 112 for the Academy despite leg-spinner Anil Kumble taking 4-74.

Teenager Irfan Pathan shared the new ball with Ajit Agarkar in his first match for the senior Indian team and made a dream start by having Daniel Payne lbw with his first delivery.

But the Academy shrugged off the setback with some excellent batting as Carseldine shared stands of 61 with Chris Simpson, 72 with Nye and 85 with Craig Phillipson.

Simpson gave a return catch to Agarkar after making 43 off 46 balls, but Kumble was the main threat.

He picked up his first wicket by bowling Nye for 15 and then ended Carseldine’s four hour innings with the help of a catch by Deep Dasgupta.

Carseldine hit a six and 15 fours in his four hour, 190-ball innings before departing with the total on 222.

Carseldine was quick to punish anything dropped short

Steve Farrell was soon lbw to Kumble, but Phillipson kept the scoreboard ticking over until he strayed from his crease and Dasgupta completed the stumping.

Chris Hartley took the score past 300 and was 21 not out when the declaration came, leaving the Indian batsman with only a few overs to face before the close.

Carseldine was soon involved again as he caught Chopra off Brant and the left-arm seamer, who also plays for English county side Essex, had Dasgupta lbw with his next ball.

Worse was to come for India as Joe Dawes found the edge of Sehwag’s bat and wicket-keeper Hartley made no mistake.

Queensland Academy of Sport: Aaron Nye (captain), Daniel Payne, Chris Simpson, Lee Carseldine, Craig Philipson, Steve Farrell, Chris Hartley, Ryan Le Loux, Shane Jurgensen, Scott Brant, Joe Dawes, Steve Magoffin.

India: Sourav Ganguly (captain), Virender Sehwag, Akash Chopra, Sadogoppan Ramesh, Rahul Dravid, VVS Laxman, Parthiv Patel, Agit Agarkar, Anil Kumble, Lakshimipathy Balaji, Irfan Pathan, Deep Dasgupta.

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India avoid follow-on](BBC SPORT | Cricket | India avoid follow-on)

Tour match, Brisbane, day two of three
Queensland Academy of Sport v India

It’s starting to turn a bit so hopefully our bowlers can do wonders tomorrow morning

VVS Laxman hit a patient 74 to dig India out of serious trouble on the second day of the three-day tour match against the Queensland Academy.

The tourists declined to 26-4 when captain Sourav Ganguly was the fourth batsman dismissed in single figures.

Laxman and Rahul Dravid (38) added 77 for the fifth wicket and further partnerships allowed India to declare on 208-9, 96 runs behind.

The home team reached stumps on 79-2 in their second innings.

The day began with India 17-3. Within five overs, Ganguly edged Joe Dawes to the wicket-keeper and the Queensland side held all the aces.

But India were playing a long batting order and Dravid and Laxman soaked up more than two hours of pressure in accumulating their crucial runs.

Finally, Dravid hit Dawes to short mid-wicket - the burly seamer would finish with 3-36 - before Sadagopan Ramesh, oddly batting seven, added another 42 with Laxman.

Then the off-spinner Chris Simpson finally got one through Laxman’s defences to bowl him, Ramesh was run out after a terrible mix-up with Parthiv Patel, and Steve Magoffin grabbed two late wickets.

India’s declaration gave 22 overs of batting to the home side before stumps in which Irfan Pathan and Virender Sehwag each took a wicket.

First innings centurion Lee Carseldine will resume on Monday’s final day on 31 not out.

Queensland Academy of Sport: Aaron Nye (captain), Daniel Payne, Chris Simpson, Lee Carseldine, Craig Philipson, Steve Farrell, Chris Hartley, Ryan Le Loux, Shane Jurgensen, Scott Brant, Joe Dawes, Steve Magoffin.

India: Sourav Ganguly (captain), Virender Sehwag, Akash Chopra, Sadogoppan Ramesh, Rahul Dravid, VVS Laxman, Parthiv Patel, Agit Agarkar, Anil Kumble, Lakshimipathy Balaji, Irfan Pathan, Deep Dasgupta.

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Reid appointed bowling coach

November 30, 2003 15:40 IST
Last Updated: November 30, 2003 16:11 IST

Former Australian left-arm paceman Bruce Reid was on Sunday appointed as the bowling coach of the Indian cricket team for its 82-day tour of Australia.

The Board of Control for Cricket in India decided to appoint Reid after a working Committee meeting at New Delhi on Sunday.

Concerned over the thrashing the Indian bowlers received in the opening encounter against Victoria, the team management had sought the services of the left-handed seamer as the bowling coach for the gruelling two and half month series.

The team management felt that a seasoned campaigner like Reid will do a lot of good to a relatively inexperienced Indian attack comprising Zaheer Khan, Ashish Nehra, Ajit Agarkar and rookies Lakshmipathy Balaji and Irfan Pathan.

Reid, who earlier coached the Zimbabwe team on their recent tour of Australia, had said on Friday that he was ready to accept the bowling coach offer from the Indian Board.

Reid, who gave nothing away through a nagging line during his playing days, took 113 wickets from 27 matches at an impressive average of 24.63.

That is fast work from the normally slow-as-porpoises BCCI!

Aussies, get ready for some hostile bowling now.:hehe:

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Not even God can help Balaji and Agarkar.... that said, I am happy for Bruce Reid.... it was unfortunate that Bruce Reid's career was short-lived on account of injury... he was an excellent bowler and like the above article says... had a real nagging line. That a gifted bowler like him can appear and vanish from the international scene without so much as a whimper speaks volumes of the immense talent pool in Australia.

However, I had wished the rumour about Akram being India's bowling coach was true. Akram, like Reid, on account of being such a great left hand fast bowler would have been a huge help.... considering that India is playing three left hand seamers (Zaheer/Nehra/Irfan).I prefer Akram over Reid for two reasons : (1) A deshi would have done better communication-wise (2) Had India been able to defeat the Australians with Akram as our bowling coach, well... as Karina mentioned elsewhere..... we might have agreed to gift Kashmir to Pak. There you go, the Kashmir problem solved !!

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i was slightly surprised at Martin Love's apparant absence from the side - especially with Darren Lehmann missing from the side but oh well the Australian Selectors always seem to do things assways.

You know going back to the points of Glenn and Shane - possibly even Brett, it must be absolutely devastating for them knowing that they may never play again under Steven's Captaincy.

I think everyone is wrapped up in what a joyous occassion that Steven's final series will be but i am more saddened than anything else to be honest.

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Originally posted by Talha: *
i was *slightly surprised at Martin Love's apparant absence from the side - especially with Darren Lehmann missing from the side but oh well the Australian Selectors always seem to do things assways.

You know going back to the points of Glenn and Shane - possibly even Brett, it must be absolutely devastating for them knowing that they may never play again under Steven's Captaincy.

I think everyone is wrapped up in what a joyous occassion that Steven's final series will be but i am more saddened than anything else to be honest.
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I think Simon Katich is a much better player then Love, he gives Australia the extra bowling option too.

I think McGrath and Lee will probably return before the last test.

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Just recieved an e-mail from Dish they will be showing indian tour of Aus. Sweet let the humiliation be shown live ;)

Coming Soon! India's Tour of Australia

Can Sachin Tendulkar lead India to a win against the aggressive Aussies?

December 3 - February 8

4 Tests and 14 One Day Internationals

Please check www.dishnetwork.com/cricket later this week for pricing and ordering information.

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[QUOTE]
*Originally posted by teaser: *
Just recieved an e-mail from Dish they will be showing indian tour of Aus. Sweet let the humiliation be shown live ;)

Coming Soon! India's Tour of Australia

Can Sachin Tendulkar lead India to a win against the aggressive Aussies?

December 3 - February 8

4 Tests and 14 One Day Internationals

Please check www.dishnetwork.com/cricket later this week for pricing and ordering information.

[/QUOTE]

I think the title should be changed to...

Coming Soon! Baqra Eid Down Under

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india have so far struggled on their tour to australia but that shouldn't surprise ppl 2 much, as most aussie state sides like queensland and new south wales r stronger than most national cricket sides

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India should go in with 5 bowlers no doubt for the first test.
Ramesh has shown good form in the tour matches, he should open along Sehwag.

Ramesh
Sehwag
Dravid (keeper)
Tendulkar
Laxman
Ganguly
Agarkar
Kumble
Z Khan
Nehra
Pathan

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It is asking a bit too much of Dravid to bat at number three (he will be in soon considering Sehwag's current form) after he keeps the wickets for over 500 Aussie runs. If anything he should bat at number 5.

Having said that, I would go for 4 bowlers and a regular keeper.

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Indian bowling is too weak to consider going with 4 bowlers, they already consist of 6 specialist batsmen, and Prathiv Patel is just as inconsistent behind the stumps as Dravid.

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Are you saying India don't have a test class wicket keeper?.

This must be because they have been playing Dravid as a wk in ODIs and not utilizing the opportunities to groom a full-time world-class keeper?.

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i think the team should look like
Ramesh
Laxman
Dravid
Tendulkar
Ganguly
Parthiv Patel ( wk)
Agarkar
Kumble
Z Khan
Nehra
Pathan

its torturous for Dravid to keep and bat at three post Aussie batting

India has to learn to go into the match with five + 1 wk batsmen into the match..they cannot afford to go into match with four bowlers..thats murderous to say the least...