Mr. Healy is downplaying to what happened in Sydney test. There were so many wrong decisions against India which cost us the match. If these had been fair decisions, India was a clear winner. For example, Symonds was clearly out to Ishant but not given which mattered most. Other than this he is mostly right.
Firstly Healy is in the same league as other biased Aussies like Mark Taylor..We dont care what you say, because at the end you are worthless.. He has a twisted devious mind so typical of all the biased Channel 9 commentators..
India is the better team...Aussies stand no way near the current Indian team on form and ability.. Test Series should have been 2-1 India's Favour..Sydney clearly belonged to India...
Remember one thing Aussie boy, We are Tigers and do not try to catch the Indian Tiger by the Tail (aka Your silly sledging tactics and biased reporting)
We will give it back later in the year...with compounded interest..be prepared for it.. Chak De India..
RE:RE:Healy better start taking some Prozac Pills
by Nandakumar R on Mar 08, 2008 11:26 AM
Try to accept other's comments,though it is biased. Rather peroration, bat,ball & consistency should be the answer to these people who make comments. As he said in the column, England could not make it after it beat Oz in the further years not only with Oz but also with other teams. Those type of scenario India should not emulate. We can't stop anybody writes against India, but we should scotch through a fitting reply and buoy it future years.
ponting and his teamates were so arrogant that thay havent left even Shaarad Pawar.In world,u can afford to take punga with anybody but not with indian Politicians.Sharad Pawar put himself completely in cricket mindset and then result is history.Australia is defeated in its own battlefield.Ponting couldnt use his bat although he had it.We indians have taken the revenge with best interest rate possible.
I think Ian Healy is justifying India more than they deserve. I agreed that India were on the harsher side of justice, but everything India did was also not right. They could not withstand even 3 overs in the Sydney test, for example.
RE:Article too much pro-India
by Karthik on Mar 08, 2008 10:21 AM
yeah..our battimg woos are still there only there is a subatantial improvement in bowling..
RE:Article too much pro-India
by Srinivas Kasinathan on Mar 08, 2008 10:56 AM
Brother, get to the middle and then talk. Talk is cheap. With crucial decision after crucial decision going against you, what the hell do you expect the tailenders can do when there are 11 players hovering around mouthing insane and indecent abuses at you? How long can new players playing as tailenders in their first couple of test matches last in the middle when the team's spirit has been broken beyond repair? Ian Healy is a loudmouth just like the rest of the Aussie commentators. Apart from a bad display of batting in Melbourne, there was not a single day where India played badly. Even in Melbourne we had decisions going against India. One or two decisions is okay but a series of decisions along with other controversies is just not cricket. T20 was a bad day but it was one off day; had there been a T20 series, India would have wallopped the Aussies good and proper. In the next couple of years, India will dominate cricket scene in all the three forms.
Mr. Ian Healy is right on one count that Indians got the better of the Aussies in non-cricketing combat on and off the field. Aussies, by calling Indians derogatory names had come to believe so strongly in their own superiority, just like the Nazis, that they lost the OD series due to sheer demoralization when that inflated sense of supriority was punctured by first quick fall of wickets. I has said elsewhere that Indian treasurehouse of abuse is far richer than that of Australian's and if Indians really get down to business, they can have Australians running home crying "Mummy!". That is what exactly happened, off went Ponting and crew to the referee crying 'racial slur'. This was complete nonsense. They tried to mix such politics with cricket and at poolitics, too, Indians are better versed because politics is the greatest industry in India and everyone practices it. The best part was that though Australian press largely backed their boys, the general cricket fan did not and that really made Ponting and his crew offer the thick edge to outside the off stump delivery.
RE:RE:mcgrath
by ritunesh maurya on Mar 08, 2008 10:21 AM
We have already abused them in a hard manner by our performance. The players just need to carry on their performance to reply them in feild, while they are supposed to be here in this year ending.
Even after our win in finals, i am not very much convenienced with our players devotion and efforts. We could register win only because of superb performance of Sachin, none of the other was much impressive. Rest of them were playing in the similar frustating manner.
I think what Healy is saying is essentially correct. A lot in this series depended on the off field activities and Aus lost in that and lost everything thereafter, loosing their capability to play their natural brand of cricket. They have been scarred and debilitated by the Reabock column accusing them of their strong point - charging themselves up by verbal aggression. The rest was a corollary. If I were an Aus I would accuse Reabock of trason.
