Australia v India, 4th Test, Adelaide, 24-28 January, 2012

No, quite serious.

Saha will get a 200 tommorrow and Ishant a 50. Ashwin to get a 100, match drawn even if it doesn't rain.

skully wrote:No, quite serious.

Oh right, I must check out some bullet arms and see what they can do.

Batman wrote:Saha will get a 200 tommorrow and Ishant a 50. Ashwin to get a 100, match drawn even if it doesn't rain.

No, 350 runs will mean India win.

tricycle wrote:

Batman wrote:Saha will get a 200 tommorrow and Ishant a 50. Ashwin to get a 100, match drawn even if it doesn't rain.

No, 350 runs will mean India win.

Oh no. No ways. Ashwin will find a way to stuff it by a run. A draw it will be....

Brass Monkey wrote:

skully wrote:No, quite serious.

Oh right, I must check out some bullet arms and see what they can do.

Please do.

SG wrote:Hopefully, we'll see completely new Indian test team come SL in July.

I thought those Tests had been ditched for more ODIs.

Sad.

I thought Kohli and Laxman would at least be able to last to stumps. This would have meant starting day 5 with some crazy hope that they could put something together and maybe make it an interesting day's play.

This shows the folly of starting this game on Tuesday. Should've started on Aus Day then Sat and Sun would've been full days 3 & 4 with Day 5 Monday the part day to finish the Test.

This shows the folly of starting this game on Tuesday. Should've started on Aus Day then Sat and Sun would've been full days 3 & 4 with Day 5 Monday the part day to finish the Test.
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In fairness, these tests were scheduled before everyone realised the Injun's were rubbish...

Regardless of that OP, by starting on Aus Day you guaranteed Day 1, 3 and 4 were on non-work days. Shirley that was most logical?

Either that or 2, 4 and 5. I agree starting on Tuesday wasn't a good idea.

Phurt, in modern Test cricket you'd be a mug to pay full price for a Day 5 ticket, i.e. Day 5 should not be on a weekend.

What are the chances that CA leaned on Pup's shoulders to stretch the test to 5th day instead of wrapping the present up today itself for the benefit of TV studio bosses?

While Aus deserved to win this 4-0 undoubtedly, I would be wary as an Aussie fan with this win a bit. India's once fabled batting was crap undoubtedly and made it easier. The slide was meant to start somewhere. But the worry for Aus is that a majority of new batting talent before this series hasn't been a grand success either. The team has had a turbulent year behind itself and even this series the top 3 batsmen were not consistent enough and a bit shaky. The worrying aspect is that again the runs have come from the old guard of Pup, Punter and Paris and like India middle order, this too is living on a borrowed time [Punter and Paris]. The real difference this series has been bowling purely. Aus bowlers have been the guys who made the real difference where they kept our guys tied up under pressure always while ours delivered pies after pies hoping to get lucky. It will be interesting to see where this team goes a couple of years down the line. CA should learn from India's debacle and lean on Punter and Paris to quit on a high than wait to be caught on the slower side of things again. There is a remarkable similarity in both India/Aus cases here in the sense that options available for the fast aging veterans aren't quite good enough.

OP Tipping wrote:Either that or 2, 4 and 5. I agree starting on Tuesday wasn't a good idea.

It was explained the other night that it was to do with maximising the week of going head to head with the tennis.

A special not must be made of Zaheer Khan who apart for the first test has been pedestrian and woeful rest of the tests. The sting seems to be gone in conditions most suited to his bowling.....

Fine morning with possible showers in the arvo. C'mon boys, wield the sword early, please.

Congrats to Bog for not beating Ken Rutherford

Player Mat Inns NO Runs HS Ave 100 50 0 Start Date Winner
KR Rutherford (NZ) 4 7 0 12 5 1.71 0 0 3 29 Mar 1985 West Indies
New Zealand in West Indies Test Series, 1984/85
SE Marsh (Aus) 4 6 0 17 11 2.83 0 0 3 26 Dec 2011 -
Border-Gavaskar Trophy (India in Australia), 2011/12
CL Badcock (Aus) 4 7 1 23 9 3.83 0 0 3 10 Jun 1938 drawn
The Ashes (Australia in England), 1938
EG Arnold (Eng) 4 4 0 28 27 7.00 0 0 2 11 Dec 1903 England
The Ashes (England in Australia), 1903/04
JH Sinclair (SA) 4 5 0 29 19 5.80 0 0 1 9 Dec 1910 Australia
South Africa in Australia Test Series, 1910/11
PR Umrigar (India) 4 6 0 29 9 4.83 0 0 1 5 Jun 1952 England
India in England Test Series, 1952
TE Bailey (Eng) 4 4 1 39 17 13.00 0 0 0 5 Jun 1958 England
New Zealand in England Test Series, 1958
NS Harford (NZ) 4 8 0 41 23 5.12 0 0 3 5 Jun 1958 England
New Zealand in England Test Series, 1958
AC MacLaren (Eng) 4 5 0 45 17 9.00 0 0 0 27 May 1909 Australia
The Ashes (Australia in England), 1909
LSM Miller (NZ) 4 5 0 45 18 9.00 0 0 2 11 Dec 1953 South Africa
New Zealand in South Africa Test Series, 1953/54
TJE Andrews (Aus) 5 6 0 49 15 8.16 0 0 0 12 Jun 1926 England
The Ashes (Australia in England), 1926
DCS Compton (Eng) 4 7 1 53 23 8.83 0 0 2 1 Dec 1950 Australia
The Ashes (England in Australia), 1950/51
L Klusener (SA) 4 5 1 53 31* 13.25 0 0 1 17 Mar 2001 South Africa
Sir Vivian Richards Trophy (South Africa in West Indies), 2000/01
P Roy (India) 4 7 0 54 35 7.71 0 0 5 5 Jun 1952 England
India in England Test Series, 1952
KD Walters (Aus) 4 7 0 54 20 7.71 0 0 0 8 Jun 1972 drawn
The Ashes (Australia in England), 1972
WR Playle (NZ) 5 9 0 56 18 6.22 0 0 1 5 Jun 1958 England
New Zealand in England Test Series, 1958
V Pollard (NZ) 4 7 0 58 24 8.28 0 0 1 15 Feb 1968 India
India in New Zealand Test Series, 1967/68
GFJ Liebenberg (SA) 4 6 0 59 21 9.83 0 0 1 4 Jun 1998 England
South Africa in England Test Series, 1998
KF Barrington (Eng) 4 4 1 60 50* 20.00 0 1 1 31 May 1962 England
Pakistan in England Test Series, 1962
FC Hayes (Eng) 4 6 0 60 24 10.00 0 0 1 2 Feb 1974 drawn
The Wisden Trophy (England in West Indies), 1973/74
JC Adams (WI) 4 5 0 60 28 12.00 0 0 0 29 Jan 1998 West Indies
The Wisden Trophy (England in West Indies), 1997/98
VY Richardson (Aus) 4 4 0 61 30 15.25 0 0 0 13 Jun 1930 Australia
The Ashes (Australia in England), 1930
N Hussain (Eng) 4 7 1 61 22 10.16 0 0 2 15 Jun 2000 England
The Wisden Trophy (West Indies in England), 2000
M Azharuddin (India) 4 5 0 63 31 12.60 0 0 0 6 Mar 1997 West Indies
India in West Indies Test Series, 1996/97

Ugh. What an ugly untabulated table.


Blame Skully, I suppose.

The greatest rearguard of all time is about take place. Move over Anderson and Panesar. It's Yadav and Ashwin who will make all the headlines today.

No.

Well played Australia, truly awesome performance.

Ferkin huzzah!!!! 4-0 whitewash.

Never in a million years did I expect Aus to give the Bannies such a shellacking. The main bats stood up big time when needed and the bowlers hunted as a pack with superb control, line and length.

Simply outstanding team effort against a bunch of tiring legends.

Phurt...damn Dean Rubber Syndrome, the game went to the final day.

Farewell to Laxman,Dravid and Tendulkar and congratulation on your career achievments.

It was good at the end to see the Australian players and Kohli share some mutual respect. He was the only Indian player that actually looked like he gave a sh!t instead of looking completely disinterested the whole time.