First West Indies, then Australia....who next?

[Turbinator]

first came the dominance of the west indies, then australia.........rest haf so far only played second fiddle to these teams...............whos turn is it next?

IMO i truly believe it cud be India's turn under dravid and sehhwag.................or Pakistan under younis khan!!!!!!!!!

 

[Turbinator]

First came the dominance of the west indies, then australia.........rest haf so far only played second fiddle to these teams...............whos turn is it next?

IMO i truly believe it cud be India's turn under dravid and sehhwag.................or Pakistan under younis khan!!!!!!!!!

 

[Barney Rubble]

England.

 

[BoyBrumby]

I think sooner or later India must become the number one team, purely on grounds of the playing resources at their disposal. Think it'll be medium/long term tho.

In the short term my guess is that Oz will hang on to their undisputed title for a couple or three years yet & then there may be an interregnum where no one is clearly the number one.

 

[AussieDominance]

Australia will rule the show for the next 10 years it has closed up but get ready for it to come back out

 

[Neil Pickup]

The West Indies dominated because of their pace attack.
Australia because of McGrath and Warne (and to a lesser extent Gillespie plus support).

India and Pakistan won't dominate until they have an attack that can regularly take 20 Australian, English or South African wickets away from the subcontinent.

 

[Autobahn]

The West Indies dominated because of their pace attack.
Australia because of McGrath and Warne (and to a lesser extent Gillespie plus support).

I think the production line of aussie 50+ batsmen helped a tad...

 

[AussieDominance]

it did indeeed the whole team is a joy to watch! when compilign 100's and 5 for's

 

[Turbinator]

The West Indies dominated because of their pace attack.
Australia because of McGrath and Warne (and to a lesser extent Gillespie plus support).

India and Pakistan won't dominate until they have an attack that can regularly take 20 Australian, English or South African wickets away from the subcontinent.

PLZZZZZZZZZ dont include England in this...........England IMO are HIGHLYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY overrated. India and pakistan both can regularly i believe take 20 english wickets even IN England. South africa is not such a great test team btw. And australia well, remember the 2003/2004 tests series between India and Australia in Australia. I agree that was a one time thing but hey wut can u say its Australia we're talkign bout. But all in all England and South africa in no means are better test playing nations then India and Pak.

 

[AussieDominance]

just a word of caution dont do the PLZZZZZZZ and the HIGHLYYYYYYY it just annoys more people and distrupts the argument

Cheers

 

[Turbinator]

just a word of caution dont do the PLZZZZZZZ and the HIGHLYYYYYYY it just annoys more people and distrupts the argument

Cheers

sryy man ..........jus to use to it from like other forums where they do it alot..........but yea ill watch out

 

[Lillian Thomson]

West Indies dominated because a lot of fast bowlers just happen to appear in a short space of time.
Australia dominate due to putting a structure in place designed to give their sportsman the best chance of success. There's no reason to suppose that their dominance is about to end, Shane Warne maybe 36 but he could easily go on for another 4 years.

 

[Magrat Garlick]

India and pakistan both can regularly i believe take 20 english wickets even IN England.

Pakistan I won't argue with, at full strength (Gul, Shoaib, Kaneria, Asif) they could probably do it (see our abandoned farce), but India? Kumble's barely been effective outside the subcontinent, Pathan is even more on-and-off than Harmison, and the other seamers are unproven to say the least.

Last time India were in England, they took 55 wickets in 4 Tests. England's batting then included John Crawley, an old-school Flintoff, Robert Key and Mark Butcher (at various points). They've been replaced by Ian Bell, Alastair Cook and Paul Collingwood, who have all scored heavily against India and Pakistan in recent times. Meanwhile, India have replaced old seamers Zaheer and Agarkar with various permutations of Munaf/Sreesanth/Yuvraj/RP Singh. I'm struggling to see how that's much better?

 

[Turbinator]

Pakistan I won't argue with, at full strength (Gul, Shoaib, Kaneria, Asif) they could probably do it (see our abandoned farce), but India? Kumble's barely been effective outside the subcontinent, Pathan is even more on-and-off than Harmison, and the other seamers are unproven to say the least.

Last time India were in England, they took 55 wickets in 4 Tests. England's batting then included John Crawley, an old-school Flintoff, Robert Key and Mark Butcher (at various points). They've been replaced by Ian Bell, Alastair Cook and Paul Collingwood, who have all scored heavily against India and Pakistan in recent times. Meanwhile, India have replaced old seamers Zaheer and Agarkar with various permutations of Munaf/Sreesanth/Yuvraj/RP Singh. I'm struggling to see how that's much better?

Watch next year when India tour England in the summer, watch and you'll see.

 

[AussieDominance]

West Indies dominated because a lot of fast bowlers just happen to appear in a short space of time.
Australia dominate due to putting a structure in place designed to give their sportsman the best chance of success. There's no reason to suppose that their dominance is about to end, Shane Warne maybe 36 but he could easily go on for another 4 years.

Lillian

http://www.foxsports.com.au/story/0,8659,20281848-23212,00.html

sorry for posting another news site but relevant for discussion

 

[adharcric]

Meanwhile, India have replaced old seamers Zaheer and Agarkar with various permutations of Munaf/Sreesanth/Yuvraj/RP Singh.

When was the last time you saw Yuvraj bowling quick?

 

[Magrat Garlick]

When was the last time you saw Yuvraj bowling quick?

Haha. Now what made me think that? I meant Vikram.

 

[Mr Mxyzptlk]

Watch next year when India tour England in the summer, watch and you'll see.

India struggled to take 20 West Indian wickets earlier this year, and the England is a far superior team. Where exactly does this wonderful Indian bowling attack come from by next year?

 

[Mr Mxyzptlk]

West Indies dominated because a lot of fast bowlers just happen to appear in a short space of time.
Australia dominate due to putting a structure in place designed to give their sportsman the best chance of success. There's no reason to suppose that their dominance is about to end, Shane Warne maybe 36 but he could easily go on for another 4 years.

Is this fine Australian structure actually producing any bowlers of high quality though? Because they seem to be rather conspicuously absent.

 

[aussie]

I'm not sure, but i think England & Pakistan after Australia lose the mantle of world number one. Since they have the batting talent & bowling resources to be a force both at home & away consistently once all of their players are fit.