India vs Australia - Test Series Talk

Latest news: India Drops Out until Harbhajan's appeal is accepted.

http://canadianpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5hgfMuCnskmto_uysdkKLmS929P4A

 

May be! nowadays on every country some cowards around the cricket stadium to do that, it happens in India as well, but in SCG I suspect some cowards are on the field, the players and umpires itself turned on bookeepers and that will be more interesting to watch near soon...

 

Well India put the tour on Hold and I am sure India will not put down this issue. I think ICC should cancelled the official status for Second Test and cut the series 3 Test matches.

 

SIGN THIS PETITION TO THE ICC PROTESTING THE BAN ON HARBHAJAN

 

Thanks for great link. I know it's IBN7 and this is a great concept. They have a good sucess rate of CJ. Let's me fill up a form.

 

Signed the petition. Though there are no proofs that Bhajji has made racist comments, Referee Mike Proctor said in the report "I believe that one group was telling the truth". WTF does it mean? All the Indian players (Kumble, Sachin) lying according to him? And all the Australian players are the messengers of god telling the truth, who even failed to walk when they know they have been out!! Whole Indian team and media shocked with that one line in the report considering that there are no evidences on Harbhajan's comments, either video or audio. He is not a high court judge to decide things by himself and hearing only one side and banning Bhajji by claiming only Aussies told the truth. It's surprising to see Aussies can't take their own medicine that they have given to the whole cricketing world till now.

Now India is doing right thing by targeting Aussie sledgers one by one. First on Hogg, who allegedly called Kumble and Dhoni "bastards". Bastard is a very intolerable term in India and it's much more offending than a "monkey" thing


Cricinfo article

 

I just read this on another forum about sledging and enjoyed the conversation between Mcgrath and Sarwan.. (OMG I can't stop laughing)

http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthread.php?t=88640

 

Australia 1st innings
Ponting c Dhoni b Ganguly 10, made 55, COST: 45 Runs
Symonds c Dhoni b Sharma 30, lbw b Kumble 48, st Dhoni b Kumble 108, st Dhoni b Harbhajan 148, Made 162*, COST: 132
Johnson c Laxman b Kumble 1, made 28, COST: 27

First Innings MINIMUM Cost: 204 runs

India 1st Innings
Jaffer b Lee (noball) 0, unknown COST.

Aus Second Innings
Hussey lbw b Kumble 20, c Dhoni b RP Singh 58, Made 145*, COST 125
Symonds lbw b Kumble 0, Made 61, COST 61 (bearing in mind RP Singh's lbw in the 4th innings)

not taking into account Symonds, Aus second innings minimum COST: 125

India Second Innings

Dravid c Gilchrist b Symonds 38, unknown COST (bat behind pad)
Ganguly c Clarke b Lee 51, Unknown cost (ball bounced)
RP Singh lbw b Clarke 0, Unknown cost (high)

Indias minimum COST: 329 runs.

5 Indian batsman out prematurly

--AUSTRALIA WIN BY 122 RUNS--

 

Aussie team Racist I believe, with Hab racist back to Symonds!

Interesting game, 3 wickets last over, UNBELIEVABLE!

I think Indian's are really stressed about losing after that as well as Racism!

 

I hope Australia keep down its usual colours in next match. See come cartoons on this here - http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=642063

It could be. Can you take guarantee?

There should be a legal inquiry of the match by some ex-high court judge of India

 

3 wickets last over... it happens in cricket, even it could happen to Australia, its the game of cricket, so there is nothing special loosing wickets in one over... but I never saw a match this much cheating made by the players and umpires.. have you seen a match like this before?

 

Hey buddy! nice calculation. If eveything is going well that we would win the test match.
Now India will play a 2-day match tomorrow. Let's see what happen.

 

The present row in cricket has been brewing for damn near 50 years. Ever since sledging became widespread, it was always going to escalate to a point when two teams could no longer bear to be on the same pitch and the whole structure of cricket would totter.

The gloriously ironical part is that it is the Australians who are swooning like virgins and saying that sledging has gone too far. This from the nation who invented sledging, this from the nation who gloried in sledging, this from the nation who believed that sledging was irrefragable proof of national machismo.

It was Australia who coined the term sledging - meaning a remark of sledgehammer subtlety - and it was Australia who dignified it, with the declaration by Steve Waugh, the captain from 1999 to 2004, that sledging was “mental disintegration”.
The point everybody missed is that cricket is not an insult competition, any more than it is a spitting competition. But, hey, the Australians are world champions and everything they do must be right. So for years, every cricketing nation has tried to be as much like Australia as possible: to hire Australian coaches, to establish Australian-style academies and to use playground insults on the cricket pitch.

Sledging is part of the game, Australians say. That’s true, just as kicking people in the shins is part of football and punching people in the nose is part of rugby. Both these acts are punished. Offenders concede fouls and get sent off. Punishment doesn't stop it, but it keeps it under control. But sledging has been out of control for years.

What’s said on the pitch stays on the pitch. It’s all part of a man’s code. Anyone who complains is a poofter. Thus, Australia brought this childish practice of sledging into cricket, with the result that all the other international teams feel obliged to do the same.

Last summer, England players threw jellybeans on to the pitch to insult Zaheer Khan, of India. I mean, how pathetic is that? India were furious about that, too. The Asian teams come from a culture in which politeness is a more respected thing than it is in Australia or England, but many Asian cricketers have thought it appropriate to fight back in kind.

Continuing escalation is inevitable. If I called you an idiot, again and again and again, you would eventually call me a bloody fool. What would you think if I then staggered back in horror. “He called me a fool! He said bloody! This mustn’t be allowed!” That is what has happened.

Australia led the way in insults and now, claiming that an India player used a racist term, they are saying that rude behaviour on a cricket pitch is terrible, rotten, awful, mustn’t be allowed. If Harbhajan Singh did call Andrew Symonds a monkey as a racist insult, it is pretty nasty. As nasty as when Darren Lehmann, the Australia batsman, called the Sri Lankans “black c***s”. Many Australians defended Lehmann’s outburst because it was “in the heat of the moment”. It was pretty nasty, no matter what the moment’s temperature.

There are a million complications in this row, to do with ever-rising Indian nationalism, ditto Indian prosperity, the changing centres of power in cricket and a million issues of culture, politics and self-worth. Such things are normal in international sport, part of its endless fascination.

The reason the row has got out of hand is not because of racism. It is because too soft a line has been taken on the practice of sledging for far too long.

No one in authority wanted to be seen to be picking on the Australians; none of the players wanted to complain because he would look soft and insufficiently masculine - and, what’s more, he would get sledged ten times worse next time.

Cricket should not have set racism as the final frontier of unacceptable behaviour; a line should have been drawn years ago at the point when banter becomes bitter invective. Cricket has been soft on a serious matter for decades and now cricket is in crisis.


Australia has long promoted mental disintegration; as a result, we are facing the disintegration of cricket.

 

^ No need to have a complete mental breakdown dude, chill

 

I am sorry, Aussies has got more headweight... so they do got chill more!!

 

At last Jaffer got his form back. Scored a 50* against Aussie second class team. Sehwag scored just 24 So it's unlikely that Sehwag will be chosen for test match at Perth

 

Well in Practice match India did well with batting in second innings. Sehwag hits 113 in 78 balls and Karthik made 97. Match was ended in draw.

 

Now I think Indian team will choose Sehwag in place of yuvraj, Kartik in place of Dhoni.

 

Well I think India might come with Kartik and Sehwag as a Opening pair in the match. While Jaffar and Yuvraj may be dropped.

I also think Irfan Pathan will be in team . He batted well in both innings.

 

I think Sehwag and Jaffer will open in 3rd teast.