Australian Squad for BanIndian series

JGK wrote:

horace wrote:re Diva appointment, what do people think?...he has been an assistant coach for the toxics and their young bats seem to be on the improve..

despite a pretty average record in Oz domestic cricket Diva shined over many years playing in Pomgolia...I think his record there was better than here...he might be some help on the Ashes tour with our inexperienced batting line-up

Diva is in the top 10 all time for first class runs scored by a person who didn't play a test match.

horace wrote:re Diva appointment, what do people think?...he has been an assistant coach for the toxics and their young bats seem to be on the improve..

Anthony_Gonzales wrote:There is something about Gambhir's face that you just want to smack it. A friend of mine said the same thing the other day.

embee wrote:If you smacked Ganbhir in the face with Andrew Hilditch youd fell really good

Twin
bombings have killed at least 20 people outside a cinema and bus stop
in the Indian city of Hyderabad, provoking safety fears among
Australia's touring cricket team.

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Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said the perpetrators of the
"dastardly act" would be punished. It came with the nation on alert
after the recent hanging of a separatist unleashed protests in the
Muslim-majority region of Kashmir.
The Thursday evening bombings
targeted a mainly Hindu district in Hyderabad, a hub of India's
computing industry in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh, which hosts
local offices of Google and Microsoft among other Western IT companies.
Witnesses
said one of the crude devices went off about 15 metres from the
entrance to the Venkatadri Cinema in the popular retail district of
Dilsukh Nagar and the second exploded next to a nearby bus stop.
The
first explosion went off just as movie-goers were making their way out
of the cinema at the end of a show. Some had stopped at food stalls
when the deafening blast went off.
A government minister said the
bombs, which went off in quick succession, were planted on bicycles.
The charred wreckage of parked scooters lay on the ground, mingled with
the blood and footwear of victims who included two women.
Doctors
struggled to treat a stream of wounded victims as bloodied patients lay
on stretchers at city hospitals and anguished relatives clamoured for
news of their loved ones, an AFP photographer saw.
Hyderabad is
due to host a Test match between Australia and India from March 2 but a
statement from the Australian side said it was now in talks with Indian
authorities and stressed that the safety of its players was "paramount".
Hyderabad
deputy inspector of police Shiv Kumar said there was no doubt that
"this is a terror attack" while adding there had been no claim of
responsibility.
Twenty people died in the attack, said Kumar, while an officer in the police control room said 82 people had been wounded.
Sreekanth Rao, a doctor at the city's Yashoda hospital, said several of those injured were in a life-threatening condition.
"Five
people are being operated on. We had to amputate a 22-year-old woman's
leg because that was the only way we could save her," he told AFP.
"This
is a dastardly act and the guilty will not go unpunished," Prime
Minister Singh said of the attacks, the most serious to hit India since
13 people died in a 2011 bombing outside the High Court in the capital
New Delhi.
But Singh also appealed for "calm" in the aftermath of
the Hyderabad blasts, as police struggled to keep order with large
crowds massing at the scene.