Australia tour of India, Feb 17-March 29

[yuppie]

One more than England...

No Bangladesh tour before though.

[meninblue]

Shreyas knocks 202* on his homeground.

[Arthur Crabtree]

Normally you go to India and have to acclimatise because of the heat. But it has been as hot in Australia (91 in Melbourne, 90 in Pune).

[GarlicJam]

Although the humidity might be a very different matter.


I thought that you lot used Celcius for temperatures?

[Arthur Crabtree]

I try to usually, but it's more natural for me to use Fahrenheit. Particularly for hot weather.

[Arthur Crabtree]

I'm going:
Warner/Renshaw/S.Marsh/Smith/Handscom/Maxwell/Wade/O'Keefe/Starc/Hazlewood/Lyon.

[yuppie]

I think they will start with M Marsh.

Im also going for Wade to miss two catches.

[rich1uk]

Im also going for Wade to miss two catches.

you'll have to be more specific than that

before lunch ?

in first innings ?

or in the first game ?

[braveneutral]

I'm going with Wade to eat a pie in the middle of an over.

[yuppie]

Im also going for Wade to miss two catches.

you'll have to be more specific than that

before lunch ?

in first innings ?

or in the first game ?

With wade we always talk about sessions. So 2 before Lunch. If India bat all day, then that will be 6 missed catches for the day.

But seriously, Wade keeping in India. He will need to average at least 50 to make up for his poor keeping, and considering his form of late, that is not likely. Even more worryingly is that Aus have taken one keeper.

[Arthur Crabtree]

I'm going with Wade to eat a pie in the middle of an over.

If he fails to hold onto the pie, will that count as one of the drops?

Press seems to be saying that Mitch2 (that's Marsh, they've all moved up one) will be playing.

1 KL Rahul, 2 M Vijay, 3 Cheteshwar Pujara, 4 Virat Kohli (capt), 5 Ajinkya Rahane, 6 Wriddhiman Saha (wk), 7 R Ashwin, 8 Ravindra Jadeja, 9 Jayant Yadav, 10 Ishant Sharma, 11 Umesh Yadav.

1 David Warner, 2 Matt Renshaw, 3 Steven Smith (capt), 4 Shaun Marsh, 5 Peter Handscomb, 6 Mitchell Marsh, 7 Matthew Wade (wk), 8 Mitchell Starc, 9 Steve O'Keefe, 10 Nathan Lyon, 11 Josh Hazlewood.

Cricinfo is saying these are the likely teams. Personally, I'd go for six proper bats, then 2+2 for Australia, so then you need to ask who is the best bat out of Mitch2, Khawaja and Slapsie Maxie. Obviously Usman, but after his tour to SL, maybe the force isn't strong with him in Asia. But then Mitch2 batted nearly as unsuccessfully. While at the same time coming second in their averages. MM did score a fifty.

Lest we forget, here are the batting stats for Australia in SL.

http://stats.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine ... pe=batting

[Arthur Crabtree]

Australia probably going into the series as mangier underdogs than England. I suppose a 4-0 win to India seems the most likely outcome. The pitch in Pune is said to be very dry and bare. The big hope for Australia will be if they get to reverse it better than England did. And the dream will be if they can control the game with spin.

[meninblue]

I hope we field 3 spinners tomorrow. Ashwin, Jayant and Jaddu.

[andy]

If pitch is as dry as expected then, i would say that you will do...Im a fan of Jayant very good all-round cricketer

[meninblue]

If pitch is as dry as expected then, i would say that you will do...Im a fan of Jayant very good all-round cricketer

There are few spots having tinge of grass on tomorrows wicket. But i think it will be got rid off tomorrow before play starts.