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  1. pup11

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

    Would having Stephen Hawking as an avatar help.... :ph34r:
  2. pup11

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

    So you think its cool to fabricate conditions in FC cricket that players are highly unlikely to ever encounter in international cricket, the only purpose it has served thus far is make a bunch of mediocre cricketers look way better than they are.
  3. pup11

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

    He has scored thousands of runs already in SS this season, the problem is the quality of SS cricket is no good these days, Hughes is struggling against spin but do you seriously think he would get to face any decent spin in Australia? Currently the last leg of SS season is going on and almost...
  4. pup11

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

    Don't think Clarke has ever batted at #3 ever even in FC cricket apart from once in a Perth test, our best young batsman who is an opener is batting in the middle order, our keeper is batting at #6 and the whole squad is full of bits and pieces players, now is this the funky South African method...
  5. pup11

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

    Tbt...he is batting exactly like a man who has opened all his life and now is being expected to start an innings against spin that too in a place like India and to make matters worse he has now been pushed one slot further down the order. Anyways think his international career is real jeopardy...
  6. pup11

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

    People like Maxwell and Smith have been brought to this tour not because they feature among top 10 batsmen in Australia atm, they have been brought here because the conditions are helpful for spin and the selectors expect them to chip in with the ball and support the front-line spinner(s)...
  7. pup11

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

    All I'm saying is that in these conditions chances of him having an impact with his bowling are a lot more than his batting, as a batsman he might score 30-40 runs which would have next to no bearing on the game, whereas as a bowler if he is used well he has the ability to take some wickets that...
  8. pup11

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

    Yup... he hasn't bowled in recent FC games and that's the choice he made, but fact of the matter is he got into the Australian set-up mainly because of his ability to bowl wrist spin and that isn't an aspect of his game that he should relinquish, he has got ability with the ball and a good...
  9. pup11

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

    If Smith plays then I just hope Clarke backs Smith's leg-spin as an attacking option in this test, people talk about his batting but his bowling can cause a bigger impact, wrist spin is a hard art to perfect, but at the end of the day Smith has to show some belief in his ability as a bowler.
  10. pup11

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

    Lyon was dropped because he wasn't bowling well and all that technical bullcrap was said just to make sure that Lyon doesn't end up getting marked as another spin discard by the media and the fans, Lyon should have taken the cue and repeated the same things that Arthur said about him in the media.
  11. pup11

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

    If that's the pitch then Australian attack might not be that severely handicapped by picking two spinners, I seriously hope that if they are picking Maxwell, then they don't pick him instead of a bowler. In Hyderabad the biggest problem with the bowling attack was that we just picked three...
  12. pup11

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

    I have seen enough of him off late and he's batting like he always has, on his day he can make batting look very easy but the problem is at that at the first-class and international level he has had a very few days like those, his body is fragile too and even currently he is out for few months...
  13. pup11

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

    This is something I don't get, the results were never fine with Watson apart from maybe in T20 cricket, both in ODI cricket and Test cricket he has wasted numerous starts and that is something that is criminal for a guy who bats high up in the order, his conditioning or general lack of...
  14. pup11

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

    If averaging 2.5 in a four test series against India where every top order batsman filled there boots wasn't bad enough, he then went back to WA and had disciplinary problems which almost led to his state contract getting cancelled. He has chronic back and hamstring problems that just flare up...
  15. pup11

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

    Isn't he an intellectual, so for all we know he might very well be reading this... :ph34r:
  16. pup11

    Who is the best young batsman around right now?

    It might not be looking too good for him right now, but for me Hughes is someone who is definitely going to be one of the apex batsmen of this generation. From other teams Pujara, Chandimal, Williamson and Root look like batsmen with great deal of pedigree and these guys have all the qualities...
  17. pup11

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

    Johnson is the same guy who said that he was contemplating quitting the game because of his poor form before he got injured in South Africa, now between then and now not much has changed, he was bowling **** then and he is bowling **** now, so its hard to find any other real motivation behind...
  18. pup11

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

    Don't get this whole ''he's a rugby guy'' nonsense, Howard is a perfomance manager and the end of the day his work will be analysed by his employers and if they don't find it satisfactory enough then he will be shown the door, someone like Mike Young played a big part in making a good Australian...
  19. pup11

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

    I won't be surprised if Haddin plays in the next test purely as a batsman in case Wade is fit to play, also there is no point in flying Haddin all the to way to India to just warm the bench especially when we as a team are so light on experience. 1.Cowan 2.Warner 3.Hughes 4.Clarke 5.Haddin...
  20. pup11

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

    My problem is that the management and selectors also need to come forward and admit that they were too slow to address these problems and some accountability is required to be shown on that front too. Pat Howard is just now coming out and saying Watson is a ''sometimes'' team player, my...

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