The Cricket Thread

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This Pak team is pants and rivalry with India isnt the same. Nothing like the good old days of Sachin vs Waqar Younis, Wasim Akram and Aqib Javed. That was a battle!!

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I think we got Semi Slot in the bag. India will play 3 spinners vs South Africa and Spin them out of this tournament. South Africans have no chance vs spin on subcontinent wickets.

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Australia are funny, lost and went below Ireland before the tournament and now looking like very strong favourites for the cup. Love that Australian winning mentality.

The fact we, the mighty Australia, went below minnows Ireland shows we weren't taking it seriously enough. Maybe that's changed at this tournament. We're brilliant at tournaments. Just look at the 50 overs World Cup. However I still feel we'll fall short because this isn't quite our best side.

[Spike 12,049]

I refuse to watch the Australian cricket team while Michael Clarke is the captain.

[Madmax 9,219]

Meh, we'll beat them when it matters in the big tournaments. We always do. 5-0, people.

As per usual.

8-0.

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Take Watson out of Australian team and its an ordinary side.

[Ankit 3,176]

Destroyed South Africa as well O_O We're looking damn good so far.

To be honest, it's looking like a one man show of Shane Watson. His batting has been majestic. Absolutely murdering bowlers but rest of the batting order hasn't been tested that much. Would be interesting to see if Watson goes early in a match, how will the rest of the team fair!!

Special mention to Pat Cummings and Mitchell Starc, they look really good bending their backs and bowling quick. Pace bowling in safe hands, then?

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Take Watson out of Australian team and its an ordinary side.

You could say the same about Kohli and us tbf.

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You could say the same about Kohli and us tbf.

Not really...We have Dhoni and Raina and Yuvi. Watson pretty much takes wickets and scores most of their runs.

[Madmax 9,219]

Performances so far speak otherwise.

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Not really...We have Dhoni and Raina and Yuvi. Watson pretty much takes wickets and scores most of their runs.

No. India is actually an average side. Dhoni barely does anything. Living on past glories. The rest of your team is 'Meh'. We've got good depth in our fast bowling department. Our batting is not world class (Apart from Watson and maybe the Hussey Brothers) but its getting better and better. There is plenty of young up and coming Batsmen though. We have always had brilliant domestic talent.

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Performances so far speak otherwise.

The only bad performance was against Australia and that was we experimented a bit too much. This is subcontinent and we are very well loaded in spin dept. Batting wise, everyone has chipped in apart from the openers.

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No. India is actually an average side. Dhoni barely does anything. Living on past glories. The rest of your team is 'Meh'. We've got good depth in our fast bowling department. Our batting is not world class (Apart from Watson and maybe the Hussey Brothers) but its getting better and better. There is plenty of young up and coming Batsmen though. We have always had brilliant domestic talent.

You may have good dept in your fast bowling and we have a good dept in spin dept. And these are subcontinental wickets where Spin > Fast Bowling.

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You may have good dept in your fast bowling and we have a good dept in spin dept. And these are subcontinental wickets where Spin > Fast Bowling.

But just about everywhere else Fast > Spin. India are flat track bullies. Struggle anywhere else.

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But just about everywhere else Fast > Spin. India are flat track bullies. Struggle anywhere else.

I was talking about the T20 WC. But even other wise the pool of Talent in India > the rest of the World. Your Homie Ian Chappell agrees.

India are the envy of the other major nations. Their best young batsmen - in Townsville and at home - are technically better than most of their counterparts from the other Test-playing nations. All that Indian players need is regular exposure to bouncy surfaces against strong opposition and the national team's recent travails in England and Australia will soon be a thing of the past.

Australia, on the other hand, seem to be going through a period of producing solid but unspectacular batsmanship. It's unclear at the top level where the next Ponting or Michael Clarke will come from, and that picture becomes no clearer after watching their U-19s play.

http://www.espncrici...ory/579325.html

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I was talking about the T20 WC. But even other wise the pool of Talent in India > the rest of the World. Your Homie Ian Chappell agrees.

India are the envy of the other major nations. Their best young batsmen - in Townsville and at home - are technically better than most of their counterparts from the other Test-playing nations. All that Indian players need is regular exposure to bouncy surfaces against strong opposition and the national team's recent travails in England and Australia will soon be a thing of the past.

Australia, on the other hand, seem to be going through a period of producing solid but unspectacular batsmanship. It's unclear at the top level where the next Ponting or Michael Clarke will come from, and that picture becomes no clearer after watching their U-19s play.

http://www.espncrici...ory/579325.html

India will always have 'more' talent due to the population. However I say we have better quality talent. In that we only have a population of 22 or so million. Furthermore Cricket utterly dominates India. It is their main sport to the point its almost like a religion. So you have almost a 1 billion people to choose from. In Australia we have so many sports competiting against each other which means far less people take up Cricket. Imagine if we had your population. We'd probably be unbeaten for 50 years now

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India will always have 'more' talent due to the population. However I say we have better quality talent. In that we only have a population of 22 or so million. Furthermore Cricket utterly dominates India. It is their main sport to the point its almost like a religion. So you have almost a 1 billion people to choose from. In Australia we have so many sports competiting against each other which means far less people take up Cricket. Imagine if we had your population. We'd probably be unbeaten for 50 years now

The point is talent in india > rest of the world. No ifs and buts. I was merely talking about the current Aussie team in T20 but since you decided to go off topic and compare pool of talent in both countries, I thought I d show you what your own country men have to say about the Talent.

Ian Chappell: It's unclear at the top level where the next Ponting or Michael Clarke will come from, and that picture becomes no clearer after watching their U-19s play.

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India will always have 'more' talent due to the population. However I say we have better quality talent. In that we only have a population of 22 or so million. Furthermore Cricket utterly dominates India. It is their main sport to the point its almost like a religion. So you have almost a 1 billion people to choose from. In Australia we have so many sports competiting against each other which means far less people take up Cricket. Imagine if we had your population. We'd probably be unbeaten for 50 years now

perhaps its as well the Chinese dont play cricket ,only heard of one Chinaman and he was invented by an Englishman I believe