What's in store for Cricket in 2009?

[Langeveldt]

On an optimistic note, I hope to see some of the genuine cricket fans getting bored of the T20 rubbish and perhaps fighting the good fight in totally ignoring it..

I also see Stanford ending his assosciation with cricket, hopefully

Australia losing their number one test ranking, hopefully

Vaughn van Jaarsveld to average in the 40's in ODI cricket

 

[indian_legend]

1. Australia slipping to no.3 in test ranking below India & SA
2. Mendis to continue his amazing bowling, and will continue to average <12 in ODIs
3. Gautam Gambhir & Hashim Amla to have a good year in both ODIs and Tests
4. Bangladesh getting a test match win after Ashraful is dumped from the team
5. Rahul Dravid to announce his retirement after the New Zealand series
6. ICL to be unbanned and Abdur Razzaq & Mohammed Yousuf getting into the Pakistan team
7. Hayden to retire & Ponting to be dropped from the Aussie team with David Hussey & Shane Marsh making their test debuts
8. Another successful chase of a 400+ score in an ODI
9. England winning the Ashes
10. Scotland giving England a huge scare in the ODI before losing a last-ball thriller
11. Namibia arriving on the international scene & beating Zimbabwe in an ODI
12. West Indies finding a decent spinner
13. Talk of having Day/Night test matches taking place with Australia announcing that they will host a Day/Night test match in 2010
14. Scoring rates to increase in tests with teams scoring at over 4 rpo regularly in tests

 

[G.I.Joe]

(1) India to start off slowly in New Zealand, with a possible series loss, and build up from there to win in the West Indies again.
(2) Rahul Dravid to still be in the reckoning at the end of the year.
(3) Delhi to win the Ranji Trophy.
(4) CSK, MI and KKR to make it to the top 4 in the IPL.
(5) Australia to win the test series in England.
(6) The Indian eves to crash out of the World Cup with a whimper.
(7) Yusuf Pathan to possibly be kicked out of the ODI squad and labelled a T20 specialist.
(8) Not a single 400+ score in ODIs over the entire year.
(9) A final resolution of the ICL headache.

 

[nightprowler10]

- Pakistan not to play any home Tests, hence losing every series they do play.
- Australia to continue losing and India to dominate most cricket.
- South Africa and India to go back and forth for the number 1 spot.

 

[Magrat Garlick]

On an optimistic note, I hope to see some of the genuine cricket fans getting bored of the F50 rubbish and perhaps fighting the good fight in totally ignoring it..

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[chaminda_00]

awta

 

[Athlai]

Australia -
South Africa +
India +
Pakistan -
Sri Lanka -
England -
New Zealand +
West Indies +
Bangladesh + (yet only marginal)


Ross Taylor Jesse Ryder and Daniel Flynn to score a bucketload of runs.

 

[pup11]

Australia to win ODI series at home and away against South Africa, and they would also beat NZ in the ODI series at home....
Australia to have a rought ime in the test series in South Africa...
Australia to win the Ashes....
India would keep getting better, but possible retirments of Dravid and Laxman might be prove to be big voids to fill...
Yuvraj Singh would struggle throught the year in test cricket but still would hold his place in the test side...
The cricket world would decode Mendis' mystery this year...
IPL would be bigger and better this time..
Phil Hughes to make a scincilating debut ala Clarke and Hussey..

 

[dontcloseyoureyes]

Phil Hughes to make a scincilating debut ala Clarke and Hussey..

It'll be pretty tough for Hughes to match Hussey's amazing debut of 1 & 29.

 

[Bees]

I know a ton of folk don't care for the IPL, but which team will win in 2009?

 

[dontcloseyoureyes]

Backing the Royals again, but I reckon Dehli will go all the way.

 

[G.I.Joe]

Will wait until all the transfers are done before making the call, tbh.

 

[pup11]

Backing the Royals again, but I reckon Dehli will go all the way.

One can't really say anything for sure at this point of time because by the time transfer and auction window closes the looks of most teams around in IPL could change quite a lot, which is something i am not a big fan off.

 

[GIMH]

England to regain the Ashes, win the T20 WC, the CT, Tests away & home to West Indies and beat the Saffies away...yeeeaaahhh

 

[ozone]

- Hayden and Lee to retire/get dropped permanently before the end of the ashes.
- Australia to dominate ODI's and win all series, including T20 WC.
- Big shake up in Test Rankings, number one changing hands several times between Australia, South Africa and India, with England just behind.
- New Zealand to get hammered by Australians and Indians in ODIs, but to pull off a good result in the Test series against India, winning 1-0
- Australia and South Africa draw the Test series in South Africa.
- Ryan Sidebottom unable to get back into the England side for home West Indies Series.
- Owais Shah plays one of the series against the West Indies, but gets dropped before Ashes for Michael Vaughan.
- England to regain The Ashes 2-1, with Andrew Strauss the leading run scorer and Mitchell Johnson the leading wicket-taker for the series. James Anderson will be Englands bowler of the series.
- Ricky Ponting will step down from the captaincy after Ashes but will continue playing and will average 50+ in the year.
- Steve Harmison will drop off the radar for England in ODIs but will continue to play Tests.
- Pakistan will not play a test in 2009 against anyone other than Sri Lanka.

 

[Prad100w]

England winning the Ashes and South Africa mauling Australia in SA.

 

[morgieb]

Series/Ranking Predictions:

Australia to lose their top spot.
India & SA to push Australia out of it.
Australia to lose to SA & England.
England to push for a top 3 place.
Pakistan will continue to have boycotts for their series.
Sri Lanka to free-fall.
New Zealand to lose to Bangladesh (if they play them).
A solution to the ICL.
Zimbabwe to come back with Mugabe losing power/dying.
Bangladesh to struggle, and lose to Zimbabwe.
IPL to suffer from a second-year-syndrome

Player retirements:
Matthew Hayden
Brett Lee (from tests)
Murali
Chaminda Vaas
Rahul Dravid
Shoaib Akhtar (when he comes back)

Other player predictions:
Mendis to be put down from immortality.
Phil Hughes to come in and take the cricket world by storm.
Tsotbe to take Ntini's place and excel.
Racial quotas to be dumped.
Most (if not all) of Zimbabwe's ex-players (who are active) to come back.
Owais Shah to replace Ian Bell.