India A vs Australia A in India

His bowling average rates pretty highly......

Match delayed due to wet outfield!!!

JGK wrote:There is absolutely no point playing wrist spinners. The Indians are too good against them. Would be far better off playing the best available finger spinner.

...chortle...like peter taylor , mathews, ray bright, ash mallet...or even more laughable - Yardley

Bollinger has a wicket already.
India A 1/24 (5ov)

Super McGain takes a wicket in his first over!

57/3 . . . McGain has 2/6 off 4 overs . . . .

tac wrote:57/3 . . . McGain has 2/6 off 4 overs . . . .

Pick him now while he's young

Weird that McGain got 17 overs and Casson only 1.

JGK wrote:Weird that McGain got 17 overs and Casson only 1.

The latter's one wasn't that promising.

horace wrote:

JGK wrote:There is absolutely no point playing wrist spinners. The Indians are too good against them. Would be far better off playing the best available finger spinner.

...chortle...like peter taylor , mathews, ray bright, ash mallet...or even more laughable - Yardley

Oi ... Roo was a champ! Only Bright and Matthews in that list were oxygen thieves with the ball.

horace wrote:

JGK wrote:There is absolutely no point playing wrist spinners. The Indians are too good against them. Would be far better off playing the best available finger spinner.

...chortle...like peter taylor , mathews, ray bright, ash mallet...or even more laughable - Yardley

Twit - Matthews' only 10 w/m was in India. Taylor and Candles were rubbish but I think we'd kill to have a Mallet or Roo or Tim May right now.

Speak of Hauritz, Watkins, and Gavin Robertson ... now you're in the cesspit.

lardbucket wrote:Speak of Hauritz, Watkins, and Gavin Robertson ... now you're in the cesspit.

Hauritz destroyed India.

I think you mean Clarke ...

lardbucket wrote:I think you mean Clarke ...

Clarke and Haurtiz. Enemies of India.

Unbelieveable. Pujara and Mishra dropped. Whoever picked this team needs to be deported to Pakistan or Australia. Now.

Hauritz took 5/103 in a match where 40 wickets fell for 605 runs. His ineffective bowling in the Indian second innings cost us the game.

One of my great regrets is that Warne had to pull out of that match. He would have been unplayable on that minefield.

Miller would have been useful on that deck

doremi wrote:Unbelieveable. Pujara and Mishra dropped. Whoever picked this team needs to be deported to Pakistan or Australia. Now.

Not only Pujara and Mishra but sreesanth too.

Who has selected this XI??

I just couldn't believe myself when I saw that Kulkarni was making his FC debut in an India A match??

Is India A for debutant FC players?

And why are we rounding off to Chawla after having seen how badly he did in the test match played against SA? Why on earth can we not even try Mishra?

JGK wrote:Weird that McGain got 17 overs and Casson only 1.

The softcock injured his hammy somehow.

WideWally wrote:Hauritz took 5/103 in a match where 40 wickets fell for 605 runs. His ineffective bowling in the Indian second innings cost us the game.

One of my great regrets is that Warne had to pull out of that match. He would have been unplayable on that minefield.

Our "batting like millionaires" in the 2nd inngs cost us the game.

India A all out for 284. Bollinger with 4 wickets.

McGain despite his 36 years is a genuine spin bowler who turns it and is pretty accurate for a leggie. I like him a lot.
Weren't there a few sub contintent wrist spinners who bowled at that age? Anybody remember?

Huzzah. Go Bubbles.

Dougie pops the cork . . .

Para Batsman wrote:McGain despite his 36 years is a genuine spin bowler who turns it and is pretty accurate for a leggie. I like him a lot.
Weren't there a few sub contintent wrist spinners who bowled at that age? Anybody remember?

I reckon you're thinking of Bob Holland.