Australia v India, 1st Test, Melbourne, 26-30 December, 2011

skully wrote:

Nath wrote:weather coming to the fore today.

Ah, fark it.

they said on the weather forecast that there's a possibility of rain in the 1st session

PlanetPakistan wrote:

Basil wrote:

PlanetPakistan wrote:This series is over hyped as neither side is that good.

They're both better than a certain other sub-continental side I could mention!

SL are going through a rough patch due to Murali's retirement.

S/L weren'tthe side I had in mind actually, but your point is well made.

Cloudy this morning with patchy drizzle. The chance of thunderstorms over eastern suburbs early this morning. Sunny breaks developing mid afternoon. Winds south to southwesterly averaging 20 to 25 km/h increasing to 25 to 30km/h late morning.

Looks like its going to be an 'on-off' day.

skully wrote:

lardbucket wrote:Hilfy in, Starc and Christian out.

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thanks for the Rikkiing, Big Cheese.

Trev was never gonna be right about Christian.

Yep, another career ruined.

Still, I reckon he was close to playing. Ponting and Hussey would have been sh*tting themselves.

Don't see how India can take 20 wickets, bit like their tour of England.

This should be a good test. Both teams not exactly setting the world alight, both batting orders seem brittle and there's a lot of scores to settle. We could see a couple of spectacular collapses. Australia probably have the better fast bowling unit, while India's Ashwin and Ojha pip Lyon and Clarke in the spin department.

This Ed Cowan bloke, his figures look good, no longer the nearly man it seems. Warner and Cowan at the top of the order will be interesting.

DJ_Smerk wrote:This should be a good test. Both teams not exactly setting the world alight, both batting orders seem brittle and there's a lot of scores to settle. We could see a couple of spectacular collapses. Australia probably have the better fast bowling unit, while India's Ashwin and Ojha pip Lyon and Clarke in the spin department.

This Ed Cowan bloke, his figures look good, no longer the nearly man it seems. Warner and Cowan at the top of the order will be interesting.

Got a feeling that India will win the series

I reckon regardless of which way the coin falls this morning, Australia will be batting.

Will Zaheer Khan last the morning session? Or even play?

Probably pulled a groin getting up from the breakfast table this morning.

JKLever wrote:Don't see how India can take 20 wickets, bit like their tour of England.

You expect us to believe that you're genuinely unaware of the massive batting collapses Australia has engineered in recent times?

One of those was against NZ. I think India is a tad better than NZ at cricket.

wait, we won the toss and are batting first?!

Aus to be 304-8 at stumps.

Depressing watching the West Indies v Ashwin. Talk about lead footed batting. Move your feet lads, move about a bit.


Hope Ashwin goes well though.

Hmm, MCG only half full at the moment.

Perhaps the crowd thought it's an 11am start?

"Ted Coen making his debut for Australia"


Looks like Bill Lawry has finally lost it.

Henry wrote:Perhaps the crowd thought it's an 11am start?

there's train lines out of service after yesterday's rain/hail

Straw coloured wicket - not much seam, no overcast conditions. Aus batting first to scratch up 280, India to bat for 3 days to make 750, Aus to salvage a draw at 8-195 at the end of play on Day 5.

Did I say not much seam? Zak darting it away to the slips nicely ATM.

Links mofos, links.

Please?

Warner might be injured already.

furriner wrote:Links mofos, links.

Please?

Never mind. Got one.

Fleming on ABC

Our innings have been as short as a Kim Kardashian marriage.

Beginning is how it will go...Australia are going to whack us silly, aren't they?