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No really..and not because of their list of injured players. This win is special because -
a) It did not involve a lot of sledging. No TMK or anything.
b) No stupid mind games, mental disintegration sorta stuff.
c) No huge umpiring blunders.
d) They won even though they did not have Steve Bucknor in their team...Sorry, I meant he wasn't umpiring in this series. Which kinda explains point c.
e) They did not have to resort to bump catches, or The Haddin to get wickets.
So there you have it. Australia winning because they played good solid cricket...and because of their never-say-die spirit that we all love to hate. Damn it!
Megha also blogs at Silly M(a)id-on.
Showing posts with label India v Australia 2009. Show all posts
Showing posts with label India v Australia 2009. Show all posts
Australia's Series Win Is Remarkable
What next : 997 = 3 runs short ?
Yesterday was a heartbreak to break all hearbreaks !
The high score trend obviously creeps up on us all the time - i mean people my age remember a time when 200 was a par score and 250 a killer one ...RRR creeping up to 6.0 used to be a talking point in a match..from that to now is some distance ...
anyone has any dope on this ? how high run chases have panned out over the years...? will be interesting to see... statisticians and crunchers amongst us , lets hear it if we can ...
Whatever gets you through the night
The morning papers are a bad place to be after yesterday’s game. Unless of course you’re on a different train of thought.
Overnight scores for the Railways vs. Tamil Nadu game: Railways: 327, TN: 312/8, 16 more for that first innings lead.
But sample what Railways’ skipper, Murali Kartik has to say – “These are two tailenders and it takes only two deliveries to dismiss them”.
Now you can dismiss that comment, or like me, stay with it. You can snap at Kartik and say, yeah, right, it takes two deliveries to dismiss two tailenders, how many does it take to dismiss two openers?
Is Kartik insinuating that batsmen other than tailenders get more chances – surely a hangover from yesterday’s game – where it took more than two chances to dismiss Marsh and Watson.
Two chances for Marsh, and one for Watson.
Whereas Bhajji and Nehra, both tailenders, albeit accomplished ones, were dismissed on the second ball they faced.
No, this is not working, not for Murali, not for me. Wonder how Sachin's getting through all this?
1. Updating his new video release titled 'Playing with duds'
2. A long net cracking the Dilscoop with Dilshan, cracking his skull with Misbah
3. Sulking in a corner with his prawns
4. Being spanked by SMG 175 times
5. Negotiating contracts as father X'mas after Yuvi's grandfather remark
6.
BCC! EXCLUSIVE video: Dhoni struggles against net bowler!
He has made Peter Siddles and Nathan Hauritzs look pretty pedestrian. But here you have MS Dhoni finding a net bowler too hot to handle.
And there is a tint of annoyance in his voice also as Mahi says:
"Seedha daalo, off-spin (!) karne ki zarurat nahi. Pehle hi wicket kharab hai (Pitch it straight, don’t try offspin. The track is already in bad shape)."
some straight points on the one day series...
the first match demonstrated very aptly that this series will be a close one... and as i said earlier the result of the match and eventually series will depend on which team shows more discipline on the field...
india ran very close to an unexpected victory... and while some may say india flattered themselves by the margin of defeat... i wonder what would have happened had the scenario been just the opposite...
one reaction would have been to hail australia for their never say die spirit and they would have gone on to say that this is why australia are a champion side coz even their no. 8 & 9 batsmen can come and contribute to the team cause...
but the more obvious reactions would have been to loathe our bowlers to allow no. 8 & 9 batsmen to score the way bhajji and praveen kumar scored against them... so much for in the name of 'in-depth analysis'...
having said that i think some minor tweaking will do us no harm... i would always prefer sehwag or for that matter gambhir over specialist slipper in sachin with his heavily bandaged forefinger... his natural reaction seems to protect that finger first and thats why his reactions are slow to the catches coming in... and this is also the reason he is not placing his body behind the ball in case the catch comes on the bounce...
any captain who allows nehra to field at long off or long on should seriously think about the man management on the field... and praveen should be told to curb his itch to experiment if he lands couple of balls in the good cordon... and for god sake no short ball... the guy just doesn't have the pace to surprise batsmen... and more over when you can swing both ways by bowling up why ruin the over with a mandatory itch to 'experiment' with length in the name of variations...?
the win has come at a cost to australia... while we will be near full strength tomorrow ozies will be missing lee and mitchell... but somewhere a fan in me wants australia to be beaten with full strength so there is no scope of ifs and buts left in anybodies mind...
india-oz series: curtain raiser...
recently before the champions trophy finals, ricky ponting urged his team mates "discipline... not spectacle..."
i think it will do india a world of good if they follow the advice... specially our bowlers... if they can just stick to their line and length without trying too many variations... they can still fair better on 'belter of pitches' that are expected in the upcoming series...
with not even 300+ scores safe on these pitches... most matches will be decided by which team shows greater discipline on the ground... rather than going for a spectacle...
its easier said than done... but if you seriously want to be the top team in the world then you will have to back it with superlative performances rather than doing mere lip service which sounds good when heard...
harbhajan singh has a chance to redeem himself and he will find no better opponent than australia to come good which has always made him focus more on his game...
tho personally i will be particularly interested in raina's progress in the series and how he will emerge after the doubts raised on his handling of the short pitch stuff... he will be undoubtedly tested there and if only he remembers ponting's advice of discipline before spectacle... we could see the making of another established middle order bat that the world will fear...
next: gautam's 'gambhir' form...
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