posted Oct 13, 2008

Zaheer Khan is The Man of the Match for his all round performance that wins the race ahead of fine hundreds from Ponting and Hussey. Zaheer picked 6 wickets (5 in the 1st innings) and scored a fine unbeaten half century in the first innings.
Whoever called this earlier, congrats you win the 606 award for today

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posted Oct 13, 2008

I'd love to know which captain would declare with under 300 on the board and almost a days play to go

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What about Daniel Vettori of New Zealand vs England in New Zealand in the 1st Test.

Wort a shout

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posted Oct 13, 2008

Ponting's fan brigade cannot see past his spit covered hands to realise that he is no great tactician. A better captain would have ensured that India had batted for at least 30 mins on day 4. Anyway, hope he continues the same tactics especially when aus is on the backfoot.

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posted Oct 13, 2008

Pontnig is OK - not a great captain.
he should have declared overnight. All this talk about new brand of cricket!

If the AUS really were going to win they should have played more agressively in their second innings - they scored too slowly to be looking at a win. Only 5 wickets down on day 4 with not enough runs on the board is not agressive cricket

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posted Oct 13, 2008

I said yesterday that the Aussies were batting at a slow rate and that they should get a move on if they wanted to win the test. That said, going by the combined run rate during this test, it appears that the track was not that friendly for quick scoring. I still think that it was a brave decision to declare with a lead of 298 with 83 overs remaining.

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posted Oct 13, 2008

India's batsmen did enough to keep Australia at bay as the first Test of four finished in a draw in Bangalore...THIS SUMS UP THE FACT iNDIA "BOTTLED IT"..Perhaps now the blinkered Indian supporters will now stop bragging about their GREAT team.
Aussies this term are no great shakes and India's attempt on this total was absolutely pathetic and shows no ambition.

World's greatest side...YEAH RIGHT...

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posted Oct 13, 2008

After being on the ropes after the first 2 days India came back well to draw. Yep.

And no Indian supporter would claim that their side is the greatest.

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posted Oct 13, 2008

A lot have been on 606, 'Australia's reign over' etc...

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posted Oct 13, 2008

I think that its honours shared in this test, Australia had a great first innings and India's Fight back was also impressive. I for one will be very interested in what pitch the Indians present to the Aussies at Mohali.
Hope we see another hard fought test there.

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posted Oct 13, 2008

I think a proper test wicket is all that should be on offer.

no need for india to try and produce an overly dusty pitch thinking kumble and singh will dominate.

today, on a wicket made to spin late Sharma and Kahn were their stand out players. they need to produce a fair wicket, let kumble rest, pick a seamer, have a proper 3 seam one spin bowling unit and back themselves. stop trying to engineer wins and just try and win.

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