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  1. pup11

    ***Official*** Australia in India 2012/13

    From an Aus pov this tour has been an absolute disaster that has finally ended, this tour can do us some good if we are going to fix the shortcomings that were exposed during this tour but from previous experience that too is very unlikely to happen. One thing is for sure that Arthur just...
  2. pup11

    ***Official*** Australia in India 2012/13

    AWTA I think we have done as well as we could have with the current set of players, can't recall when was the last time we brought so many batsmen who were in their early 20's to a place like India. To their credit apart from Maxwell every other young player has atleast a score of 50 or above...
  3. pup11

    *Official* Road to 2013 Ashes

    Batsmen: Clarke, Hughes, Rogers, Warner, Bailey, David Hussey/Voges Fast-bowlers: Pattinson, Siddle, Faulkner, Hilfenhaus, Coulter-Nile Wicket-keepers: Wade, Haddin Spinners: O'keefe, Agar/Boyce All-rounders: Watson, Mitch Marsh One thing that we should learn from the Indian experience is that...
  4. pup11

    ***Official*** Australia in India 2012/13

    If the Aussie selectors have any sense in their heads they would ask either Haddin or Cowan to lead the side if Clarke can't make it, they could come up with an excuse, saying they don't want to add the extra burden of captaincy on Watson after all that he has been through in the last week (or...
  5. pup11

    ***Official*** Australian Domestic Thread 2012/13

    Its not really that surprising, if you look at it Qld don't have too many dynamic players who could change the course of the game on their own, they have a bunch of hard working honest cricketers who punch above their weight and that's why despite having made it to all three finals this year...
  6. pup11

    ***Official*** Australia in India 2012/13

    AFAIC rather than banning Watson for the third test they should have simply stripped him of his vice-captaincy, that would have served as a better and a more sensible punishment for him under those circumstances. Now if, within one week of the whole homework episode Watson is leading the side...
  7. pup11

    ***Official*** Australia in India 2012/13

    Yeah... but why would they provide us with those conditions, last time during the Ashes at Headingley, England were blown away on a seaming track, in the next test at the Oval they prepared a dry pitch where Swann destroyed the Aussie batting line-up. Now after this sort of performance in...
  8. pup11

    ***Official*** Australia in India 2012/13

    Its still probably a bit too early to say, but how many bowlers from this current squad look likely to save their place for the Ashes?
  9. pup11

    ***Official*** Australia in India 2012/13

    Smith is genuine talent with the ball, unfortunately leg spin is a merciless art and without 100% commitment to it its next to impossible to attain any consistency at bowling wrist spin, you need a lot of bowling under your belt to get wrist spin right, unfortunately Smith doesn't have that...
  10. pup11

    ***Official*** Australia in India 2012/13

    When after getting kicked out of the T20 world cup Bailey faced the media, he said there was a need to develop skillful spinners in Australia, within days of this the chief of selectors said that doing so would 'hurt' our integrity!! I hope he's watching this and how our integrity is being held...
  11. pup11

    ***Official*** Australia in India 2012/13

    Pattinson has been as good as you can be without any support from the other end, he has bowled quick, altered his lengths regularly and tbh he has looked like the only bowler who could get people out in these conditions. NSW cricket is in a mess right now so they are trying to introduce young...
  12. pup11

    ***Official*** Australia in India 2012/13

    I just feel sorry for Clarke, as an Australian fan I'm proud to have a leader who aspires to make this team the best in the world and he is leaving no stone unturned to achieve the same, but at the same time feel ashamed to see peformances like these. Pretty sure its going to be the batsmen who...
  13. pup11

    ***Official*** Australia in India 2012/13

    The cut, paddle sweep, back-foot on/off drive are his primary go to shots against spin, the difference is he usually had 20-30 runs under his belt before the spinners came into bowl, so he used to be set before the spinners came into bowl. Since Dhoni has blocked all his singles he has been...
  14. pup11

    ***Official*** Australia in India 2012/13

    Not sure how the quality of batting is poor because there are atleast two or three pretty good batsmen in every side, who if nothing else should ensure that their teams don't cave in as badly as they are doing atm. Also the number of runs being made by the lower order batsmen from every side is...
  15. pup11

    ***Official*** Australia in India 2012/13

    Good knock from Smith, against spin he has always been pretty good. Now the challenge is to stretch this total as much as possible, would be nice if the last three guys can hang in with Smith to give him chance of scoring his maiden test hundred. The pitch is dusting up so if Doherty and Lyon...
  16. pup11

    ***Official*** Australia in India 2012/13

    Its not like he is a top order batsman, he bats lower down the order and its highly unlikely that you would be scoring too many hundreds while batting that low.
  17. pup11

    ***Official*** Australia in India 2012/13

    He has 14 scores of 50 or above in FC cricket which is basically one good knock in every 5 innings which is acceptable for an all-rounder who bats down the order, but the problem with him is that he is an all or nothing sort of a batsman, who would either play a good looking knock similar to the...
  18. pup11

    ***Official*** Australia in India 2012/13

    Eventually the primary difference between the batting of both the teams has been that every Indian who has made a start has gone onto score big runs, whereas Australia has only one century thus far in this series despite many batsmen getting starts, otherwise when both sides have lost wickets...
  19. pup11

    ***Official*** Australia in India 2012/13

    Henriques is a very inconsistent batsman and this is the reason why despite having so much talent he was never seriously considered for the national side, sure having an extra bowling option is handy but that really shouldn't come at the cost of waking weakening an already brittle batting line-up.
  20. pup11

    ***Official*** Australia in India 2012/13

    Ponting is an ATG and comparing him to any current Aussie batsman is unfair, but the fact of the matter is Hughes was the leading run getter in SS this season till the last leg of the competition began and then he scored runs against Sri Lanka too, so he did all he could do in the conditions he...

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