1) India would lose the test series 0-4 2) India would also lose out the Triangular getting a sound thrashing from Australia and Sri Lanka
3)India should ofcourse win the 20-20 tie after Gambhir gets recalled
MOM: Gautam Gambhir for 65 runs. Gambhir with his cross batted, edges, fluky good for nothing cricketing shots would make Ponting eat mud and wonder how to set his field as its defying the laws of physics.
Dhoni would score 30*...Incidentally it would be his highest tour in this series.
The BCCI would praise the 20-20 win and declare the Aussie tour a success and hand over the mantle to Kumble and Dhoni for years to come.
I think Lalchand Rajput needs a shrink more than anyone else, because he is leaking more and more news of dressing room, being jealous of his power being diluted by the new coach.
India need sports psychologist even after winning T20 world cup, what happened to so called young and arrogant players Dhoni and Yuvraj, just ban this crap game which is killing other games in India
1. Packed schedule and "jaded" players 2. Insufficent time to adjust to the new conditions 3. Injury prone pace attack..not at its best! (Sreesanth will agree!!!!!) 4. Ageing middle order 5. Poor ground fielding (Inspite of the absence of Munaf Patel!) and sluggish running between the wickets (Ganguly.. are you listening?) 6. Lack of a full-time coach and a good support staff.(Gary.. where are you?)
RE:Reasons for the possible 4-0 defeat
by james on Dec 31, 2007 04:26 PM
1.Its the same schedule for aussies as well.. 2.Same indifferent conditon(totally in pitch and climate) or aussies when they played in india. 3.Same aging player as well(avg age of aussies is more than 34).
But still they will play only 4 days cricket and wipe out india 4-0 why simple..
All r hyped here. Even a low profile player will be treated like a king and tigers
RE:try to DRAW the remaining tests
by rakesh jha on Jan 01, 2008 10:18 AM
aussies will score @12 per over, in a single days play they can score 1000 runs and then you will have to score 801 to avoid follow on and subsequently loose with whatever 11 you choose.
RE:try to DRAW the remaining tests
by santoshkumar dattatray bhat on Jan 01, 2008 01:43 PM
I think this the team to draw Saurav ganguly Shewag-worth a gamble Dravid tendulkar laxman Karthik patan kumble harbajan zaheer rpsingh this is the 11 and this is the order they should play india will definately draw the test match. triangular series-replace dravid by robin uttappa, laxman by yuvraj and karthik by dhoni. thats it dont change the batting order. Only one change in the batting order tendulkar opening in place of shewag and shewag two down in place of tendulaker in one dayers
I get a feeling that gary Kirsten will reconsider his decision, with all these surprises in & out of the dressing room. Secondly, there are more so called support staff than the number of players.
Dravid was out of form in 2001 and he was shunted to no.5 and VVS came at 3. Dravid them scored that epic 180 in Eden Gardens...May be it is a good time to play him at no.5 and he just might regain is form that has been lacking for a long time!
We lost so many series in the foreign pitches due to lack of fast pitches in india.why don't we plan when we tour to fast track pitch countries.Before heading to australian series, we should have practiced on the fast track & bouncy pitches in india.If it is not available, why not we spend money on this type of things to prepare.And coming to the Dravid, he is not in form, if we send as opener, he will definately give away his wicket easily to the opposition.Bringing sehwag as opener and putting good partnership in early of the inings will release the pressures for the following batsman.Taking another quicky in the bowling line up by removing harbhajan. If we stick to this basic things we don't need any off the field person to guide us.
