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Pure class. What an innings he has played. 4th innings with trailing by nearly 500 runs and he produced this gem of an innings.
 
Two best teams in the world. I still think India's batting line up is the best. So many many players who make runs on a consistently.
 
andid1 said:
Two best teams in the world. I still think India's batting line up is the best. So many many players who make runs on a consistently.
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Had it not been for the damp conditions in the first innings we would have handled this test even better. Yes, batting was always our strength, we had so many greats among batsmen, but very less in bowlers.
 
sunilvk7 said:
Had it not been for the damp conditions in the first innings we would have handled this test even better. Yes, batting was always our strength, we had so many greats among batsmen, but very less in bowlers.
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If India had South Africa's seem attack then India would just be unstoppable :wub:
 
see the thing is Australia had 11 great players at one time
bu others ie-England,Pakistan have 1 great playerin a generation
They were so lucky to have
Langer
Hayden
Ponting
Katich
Warne
Clarke
McGrath
Lee
Gillespie etc in 1 era
 
CMAC_2810_1998 said:
see the thing is Australia had 11 great players at one time
bu others ie-England,Pakistan have 1 great playerin a generation
They were so lucky to have
Langer
Hayden
Ponting
Katich
Warne
Clarke
McGrath
Lee
Gillespie etc in 1 era
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Not really. Pak had Wasin, Waqar, Aaqib Javed, Saqlain, Musthaq Ahamed, Anwar, Amir Sohail, Moin Khan, Inzi, Ijaz. They are all great players.

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What an innings from VVS Laxman. That was really special. Never got the credit he deserved. Lost the count of number of times he saved our *****.

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VVS Laxman

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Yes, Won the test at Durban, Now we are levelled with 1-1. Laxman was the man of the match. Excellent innings by him.

He averages 149 in second innngs for last 2 years
 
We looked dead and out in first ODI, in the second ODI fought back to win by 1 run,

Excellent low scoring games. So rare breed now a days,
 
Wow Watson really is class.... he can bat and bowl. Must be in the running for Aussie Captain
 
Yeah, that was class innings. Won the game on his own. Credit to Ponting(maybe) for promoting him to open or IPL where he was class with both bat and ball.

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Another excellent win for us. Now we are leading 2-1 in the 5 match series.

We were 5 down for 93 then Raina, Pathan, and Bhajji pulled us back into the game. Pathan was excellent, played his natural game and scored his runs very quickly which eased lot of pressure.

Morne Morkel was ******* awesome. Monster he is.
 
sunilvk7 said:
Yeah, that was class innings. Won the game on his own. Credit to Ponting(maybe) for promoting him to open or IPL where he was class with both bat and ball.

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Another excellent win for us. Now we are leading 2-1 in the 5 match series.

We were 5 down for 93 then Raina, Pathan, and Bhajji pulled us back into the game. Pathan was excellent, played his natural game and scored his runs very quickly which eased lot of pressure.

Morne Morkel was ******* awesome. Monster he is.
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Good battle going on there, in that series, going to be very tight. Good World cup warm up for both sides as well.
 
Scott* said:
Good battle going on there, in that series, going to be very tight. Good World cup warm up for both sides as well.
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Yeah but we are playing in the wrong pitches for world cup preparation. Other than that matches are awesome. No high scoring games. It is like watching the game back in mid 90s. ******* love these 220-250 scores.
 
sunilvk7 said:
Yeah but we are playing in the wrong pitches for world cup preparation. Other than that matches are awesome. No high scoring games. It is like watching the game back in mid 90s. ******* love these 220-250 scores.
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thats alright England World Cup pre series is on the Hard Aussie wickets, just what we expect on the Sub cont... Oh wait :/
 
Scott* said:
thats alright England World Cup pre series is on the Hard Aussie wickets, just what we expect on the Sub cont... Oh wait :/
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Then better be prepared with excuses :p
 
Good result for India with the postition they were in. I think England will beat India next year tho.
 
Scott* said:
thats alright England World Cup pre series is on the Hard Aussie wickets, just what we expect on the Sub cont... Oh wait :/
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Precisely why we don't have a hope..
 
Yeah lets put it this way Shazhad, Tremlett and Woakes are going to get carted! Have been impressed with Shazhad though to be fair... Whens next ODI tomorrow night?
 
And your record in India is not good either. Lost 6 out of 6 last time i think.
 
England world cup squad: Andrew Strauss (Middlesex), James Anderson (Lancashire), Ian Bell (Warwickshire), Tim Bresnan (Yorkshire), Stuart Broad, (Nottinghamshire), Paul Collingwood (Durham), Eoin Morgan (Middlesex), Kevin Pietersen (Surrey), Matt Prior (Sussex), Ajmal Shahzad (Yorkshire), Graeme Swann (Nottinghamshire), James Tredwell (Kent), Jonathan Trott (Warwickshire), Luke Wright (Sussex), Michael Yardy (Sussex)



Shocked that Prior is in instead of Davies. Prior wasn't even pick for the current ODI's, so something has happened to change their minds. I think it is a good decision, he is in great form and a great ODI player.
 
Final fifteen member team for the ICC world cup 2011: India

MS Dhoni(captain and wicket keeper),
Batsmen: Virender Sehwag, Sachin Tendulkar, Gautam Gambhir, Virat Kohli, Suresh Raina, Yuvraj Singh,
Allrounder: Yusuf Pathan,
Spinners: Harbhajan Singh, R Ashwin, Piyush Chawla
Pacers: Zaheer Khan, Ashish Nehra, Munaf Patel, Praveen Kumar, .

Very surprised that Pragyan Ojha has been left out instead of Piyush Chawla. Ashwin is awesome ODI and T20 bowler. Keeps it really tight. But Ojha is the one who can attack and take wickets. Should have dropped Piyush Chawla.

And as expected Rohit Sharma and Ishant Sharma are not selected.
 
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