Here he goes again, ruining yet another India-related threadYou're a pathetic, spineless sycophant sucking up to the Indian team all the time. Good going. Not only that, but retards like you love to attack those who criticise the Mighty Indian Team in the slightest.
A little less literate, and you'd be one of those burning effigies in villages after a loss and putting Tendulkar's photos on an altar and asking your sister to worship him after a win.
I think Melbourn's worst has past, the forecast is reasonable, bit of rain but nothing horrendous. The weather of the past 4 days though may be enough to keep the 4 pace men in the team.
The curator at MCG think it wont assist seamers but may turn. Per:
I wonder how much Hoggy paid him to say that.
Yeah that could be a possibility but jokes apart i also think the MCG drop-in pitch might not assist the seamers because due to all the rain in Melbourne the pitch curator wasn't able to do much work on the pitch leading into the test and that could very well mean we might get an underprepared slowish track for the boxing day test which might assist seam bowling early on in the game but it may only get slow and low as the game progresses and in that case having George's varition up our sleeves won't be a bad idea.
A distinct possibility imo.
Slow turn would be what the Indians would thrive on IMO.
Then who is gonna play in Sydney, because they will pick A spinner in Sydney (and likely Adelaide) pretty much regardless of whether Hogg plays in Melbourne and how he performs...
But the MCG pitch doesn't seem to have the pace or bounce to assist the quickies so it would be madness to select an all pace-attack on that sort of track, i am not saying Hogg would run through the Indian team but he could be handy nonetheless in those sort of conditions, and lets be honest if Indians are to be troubled by quick bowling then the 3 frontline pace bowlers should be good enough to do that and if they play pace well in this series than it won't make much difference even if we play an extra quickie.
i dont think we can be that confident.. i am sure we'll get to see our tail bat this test match...
TBF to Symonds, his last few test match performances have been pretty damn good. There's no grounds in his recent form to support dropping him.
ha, now if that happens Australia will have a serious problem. But i think Hogg will go ok in this series whenever & wherever he plays, really believe he can translate some of that ODI form into the test arena.
But Noffke brings a lot more to the current Australian squad when compared to Symonds, Symonds is in the team as a bit of a batting all-rounder but his bowling is a joke at the test level and jury is still out on his batting capability in the longer form of the game, since we no longer have the great Warne and McGrath we just can't afford to go in with only 4 frontline bowlers having a bowling all-rounder would add depth to our bowling attack so Noffke would be a better choice than Symonds IMO.
