With all due respect, I see no reason as to why we should not make the fact that Australia lost the test match a big issue. I mean, comon...Aussies are the world's #1 test playing nation and India was like the biblical David in front of a mammoth, and of course arrogant, Goliath!! Please don't take the glory away from India in the process of suppporting the rude Aussies...they had it coming and better still at the hands of India who lost key players at crucial junctures by wrong umpiring decisions in previous encounters.(Let me refresh, Sachin who was given lbw for ducking a bouncer, Rahul being given out for a "nick" that did not exist, and of course the cheap sledging tactics that seem to go forever unnoticed while poor sehwag gets a suspension and on and on and on....). While respecting ur opinion, I would implore upon you to rethink before coming up with articles that act like a filler. Or in ur own words, so what if it is just a wayward opinion, no one died shud not be the philosophy behind ur article.
This collective outrage is not because Australia lost the test, its because India beat the Australians in their mind games. Its a good lesson for Australia not be over confident and under estimate the oppositions. Remember how they commented before the start of the series? Do they have the guts now to repeat the same? The same with Klusener suicidal run is stupid. Klusener never said before the game that he will definitely win the game for South Africa. He tried and he failed, but its not the case with Australians, they claimed India is no threat to them and theny will sweep the series.
We now have an opportunity at hand to back fire at them and that's what everybody is doing and that's what they should do.
It is cruel but it is true that public memory is so short.A very insightful and good article with an unbiased and clear perspective. Good work.Keep it up.
Nobody so far has given thought that If Australia would have batted slowly in the first innings then the match would have ended in a draw. So the fact that Australia says that they played fast in tests also has proved very fatal for them and they lost the test. Also they would have scored more runs had they played slowly. So I think they must rethink their strtegy to play fast cricket.
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by Sathya on Dec 27, 2003 12:58 AM
I don't quite agree with that. What makes everyone think that if AUS batted slowly they wud ve score more runs or for that matter even match what they scored. Its in playing aggressive cricket their strength lies. If they play slow and circumspect they will only get bowled out sooner. To me the match was lost b'cos of their lack of teeth in bowling complemented wit hour superoir batting..and again they had one bad day with batting..which happens. So for AUS to win it all comes down to their bowling and FIELDING not their batting..which is one of the best if not the best and they will and should bat the way they are used to.
