Aus vs India, 3rd Test, Perth, 16-20 Jan (II)

skully wrote:Clearly he should be sacked of the captaincy, blindfolded and shot at dawn.

The way he's batting, we'd hardly miss him.

furriner wrote:Fcuk off Buckaroo. Get off it.

I don't know man.

All I can say that is today & yesterday I'm just too overcome with emotions. I am crying and I am laughing and I just don't know how to react.

And all that comes in my mind is:

Roebuck for President
Roebuck for President

BTW - Ponting drops to 4th on the ICC rankings behind Sanga, Kallis and Hussey.

This is the first time Ponting has been below 900 points since the Boxing Day Test in 2005.

Also, Hussey still doesn't have a full rating - is current rating is still only 95% of his max so even though he is on 908 points, he potentially has another 40 odd points in him.

JGK wrote:This is the first time Ponting has been below 900 points since the Boxing Day Test in 2005.

Also, Hussey still doesn't have a full rating - is current rating is still only 95% of his max so even though he is on 908 points, he potentially has another 40 odd points in him.

Its a shame for him then that he's just started to be found out be international bowlers.

Yep. Only averaging 54 this series . . . though the run farm (Adelaide) is yet to come . . .

Bhajji will be back in Adelaide. Ponting might be tested.

I think the question was asked in this thread (can't find it) about most centurions in one side. I said at the time that the 9 centurions India had in this Test was the equal record. Here are all instances of a team having 9 centurions in a Test team (non-centurions in brackets):

NZ v Eng Lord's 1990
TJ Franklin, JG Wright, AH Jones, MD Crowe, MJ Greatbatch,
KR Rutherford, RJ Hadlee, JG Bracewell and IDS Smith
(MC Snedden and DK Morrison)

NZ v Aus Brisbane 2004-05
MH Richardson, MS Sinclair, SP Fleming, SB Styris, NJ Astle,
CD McMillan, JDP Oram, BB McCullum and DL Vettori
(KD Mills and CS Martin)

Wld XI v Aus Sydney 2005-06
GC Smith, V Sehwag, RS Dravid, BC Lara, JH Kallis,
Inzamam-ul-Haq, A Flintoff, MV Boucher and DL Vettori
(SJ Harmison and M Muralitharan)

SAf v NZ Johannesburg 2005-06
GC Smith, HH Dippenaar, HM Amla, JH Kallis, AG Prince,
AB de Villiers, MV Boucher, SM Pollock and AJ Hall
(DW Steyn and M Ntini)

Ind v Pak Bangalore 2007-08
W Jaffer, G Gambhir, RS Dravid, SC Ganguly, VVS Laxman,
Yuvraj Singh, KD Karthik, IK Pathan and A Kumble
(Harbhajan Singh and I Sharma)

Ind v Aus Perth 2007-08
W Jaffer, V Sehwag, RS Dravid, SR Tendulkar, SC Ganguly, VVS Laxman,
MS Dhoni, IK Pathan and A Kumble
(RP Singh and I Sharma)

"NZ v Aus Brisbane 2004-05
MH Richardson, MS Sinclair, SP Fleming, SB Styris, NJ Astle,
CD McMillan, JDP Oram, BB McCullum and DL Vettori
(KD Mills and CS Martin)"

It does not appear to be much of an indicator of quality

Awesome stats skull - "one day cricket ..... it'll rooon techniques......"

Check your PMs Mick.