Re: ausis missing symonds
by Against Pseudos on Dec 09, 2010 04:24 AM
Vinay:
"In the name of".... that was good.... :)
In India we would have happily tolerated 10 Symonds worth of indiscipline, binge drinking, rule breaking and what-not just to ensure a few wins.... and then we'd have had the cheek to accuse other teams of being desperate for winning; going to any extreme; and not playing in the spirit of the game etc.... ;-)
Re: Re: ausis missing symonds
by Abhijit Nair on Dec 09, 2010 10:34 AM
Actually M Clarke was the one who opposed Symonds.but it is true that Symonds was a very talented player till the events in India and India tour of aus and allegations destroyed his career,a few indian players are also responsible for it
Re: Re: ausis missing symonds
by vinay on Dec 10, 2010 03:37 AM
whatever, they r missing symmonds is a fact. n as far as desperate for winning, etc. its punter, n players like clarke, responsible for cheating for winning.
There is a lesson in what Australian team is facing today. Mcgarth, Warne, Gillespie, Gillie, Hayden, waugh's and ponting have long ridden Autralian cricket like collosus. Result- very poor match winning bench strength. Just imagine when Sachin, Dravid and VVS retire. Zaheer is overworked and Bhajji is half the bowler that he was. we will be in similar situation by 2013, as one can see inspite of Ponting , Clarke, Hussey and the very talented Watson, the australian batting is in shambles.... get wrane back indeed!
Re: Time to think- India too
by Ashok Kumar on Dec 09, 2010 10:46 AM
I disagree on the batting front. With Vijay developing to be a good test opener, Gambir could move down to No.3 and you have Virat, Raina, Rohit, Pujara, Yuvraj to try for No.4,5 and 6. So the batting will not be a worry when the famous trio move out. But it will be most definitely the bowling that will suffer. We have not managed well Talents like RP Singh, Mithun and Sreeshanth. BCCI must select 4-5 young seamers, train them in all sorts of foreign conditions and create this bench strength in bowling as well. Otherwise we will struggle. There is no point in putting pressure on batters, if your bowlers are going to leak runs.
Requesting Shane Warne to come out of retirement and help Australia restore their self-confidence is not such an absurd idea. Such things have happened before, and are known to work. In 1977, when Australia were bitten by Packer, they brought Bob Simpson out of retirement, who was 41 years of age at that time. He led a fifth string Australian XI to victory over a full strength India XI, and delayed the inevitable for one year. Next year, ACB surrendered before WSC, but Simpson went on to serve Australian Cricket as an inspirational manager. Earlier in 1976, when England had no clue as to how to handle the red hot West-Indian pace quartret, they brought Brian Close out of retirement. Shane Warne is said to have been the best captain Australia never had, and could actually inspire his team to do its best. Revival of the flagging morale is the need of the hour, and Warne is one man who can do it.
Re: why hayden resigned ?
by Against Pseudos on Dec 09, 2010 04:26 AM
Firefighter:
Follow Sachin into the Indian team?
With Sehwag and Gambhir providing a fairly stable platform at the top; I think Hayden will find it slightly difficult to move beyond the IPL team and into the Indian one... ;-)
