Did Aus serve revenge as a cold dish?

[zen]

By fielding Aus A in ODIs and making our team (including MO and trundlers) look better than what it is 

[Stan AF]

Isn't that plain and clear as daylight???

 

And look at our fans rejoicing over beating this dead snake!!

[sandeep]

Aussie "selectors" have been screwing their team over in all formats for a few years now.  You are giving them way too much credit.

 

2 flawed teams playing a short series is nothing to overthink about. 

[zen]

Just now, Stan AF said:

Isn't that plain and clear as daylight???

 

And look at our fans rejoicing over beating this dead snake!!

it was a win-win situation for them i.e. if they do well, great or the bench is tested .... And they won an ODI with this line up

[singhprakash72]

They have made sure MSD is going to world cup as #4 :-)...this was probably the weakest Oz side I have seen, not because of quality of players but lack of competitive spirit.

[maniac]

30 minutes ago, sandeep said:

Aussie "selectors" have been screwing their team over in all formats for a few years now.  You are giving them way too much credit.

 

2 flawed teams playing a short series is nothing to overthink about. 

They are doing the best with what they have.

 

During the Pakistan series they threw very crap player and hoped that they stick. You can blame the quality they are producing but not the efforts of selectors

 

Now during World Cup they will have Starc,Cummins,Smith and Warner return which will make them formidable. Now they have guys like Behrendorff,Richardson who can be in the mix. The Aussie full strength X1 looks way more settled come World Cup. Despite losing they have benefitted relatively more.

 

India despite bashing this mediocre team still have a problem of 4,5,6. Can you trust Dhoni/Dk/Jadhav/ Rayudu when **** gets real? 

 

Indias bench strength in bowling is lacking too. Bhuvi,Bumrah and Shami but no one good enough to be a back up. Where as Starc,Cummins,Richardson,Stanlake,Behrendorffand Hazelwood. That seems a better pool than what we have on bench.

 

Marsh,Khwaja, Handscombe,Maxwell, Finch May not look much but when you add Warner and Smith to the mix looks a much formidable middle

order.

 

India have a solid spin line up but playing our best 2 spinners is ruining the balance. Pandya has shot himself in the foot and Shankar or Jadeja don’t look good enough.

 

Now I am not saying Warner,Smith,Starc,Cummins will walk back and start winning games however given their track record and stature we need to go by that assumption.

 

I think India has a lot more selection issues than Australia at the moment.

Edited January 18, 2019 by maniac

[Number]

Our first 4 games in WC are against 

SA

Aus

Nz

Pak 

If we lose to SA then Aus.

sh!t will get real and will feel like Aus ne hame C bana diya.

[kosingh]

When you have Greg Chappell involved in selecting teams, what do you expect from Australia. He'll screw up their WC side too. 

[Adi BB]

34 minutes ago, maniac said:

They are doing the best with what they have.

 

During the Pakistan series they threw very crap player and hoped that they stick. You can blame the quality they are producing but not the efforts of selectors

 

Now during World Cup they will have Starc,Cummins,Smith and Warner return which will make them formidable. Now they have guys like Behrendorff,Richardson who can be in the mix. The Aussie full strength X1 looks way more settled come World Cup. Despite losing they have benefitted relatively more.

 

India despite bashing this mediocre team still have a problem of 4,5,6. Can you trust Dhoni/Dk/Jadhav/ Rayudu when **** gets real? 

 

Indias bench strength in bowling is lacking too. Bhuvi,Bumrah and Shami but no one good enough to be a back up. Where as Starc,Cummins,Richardson,Stanlake,Behrendorffand Hazelwood. That seems a better pool than what we have on bench.

 

Marsh,Khwaja, Handscombe,Maxwell, Finch May not look much but when you add Warner and Smith to the mix looks a much formidable middle

order.

 

India have a solid spin line up but playing our best 2 spinners is ruining the balance. Pandya has shot himself in the foot and Shankar or Jadeja don’t look good enough.

 

Now I am not saying Warner,Smith,Starc,Cummins will walk back and start winning games however given their track record and stature we need to go by that assumption.

 

I think India has a lot more selection issues than Australia at the moment.

Agree with baba word for word .

Australia will somehow be at full strength during the world cup and they'll be hard to beat 

Edited January 18, 2019 by Adi BB

[gattaca]

 

1 hour ago, singhprakash72 said:

They have made sure MSD is going to world cup as #4 :-)...this was probably the weakest Oz side I have seen, not because of quality of players but lack of competitive spirit.

Dhoni is going to World Cup regardless this is stupid conspiracy theory.

[mishra]

We Won test series , won odi series.

Warne in commie box was making jokes which u can make out is sound of a dejected man.

CA needs to wake up and bring back Smith ASAP

[chewy]

Warner, Carey, Finch, Smith, Marsh, Maxwell, Stoinis, Cummins, Starc, Zampa, Stanlake

 

And suddenly Australia scoring 300 plus and defending these scores becomes slightly easier for them

 

What's worrying, how easily the Indian batsmen were bogged down by Zampa's leg spin

 

NZ series will a better litmus test

[gattaca]

We won we didn’t miss pandya the slut nuff said.

Edited January 19, 2019 by gattaca

[Pollack]

They have shown very little consideration for bilateral ODIs for past few years. They focus on playing their best players in high profile test series like vs SA/India/England and managing them properly for big loi event like World Cup.

[Khota]

India should have tested its bench too. For that progressive thinking you need a coach not a drunk.

[Pollack]

2 minutes ago, Khota said:

India should have tested its bench too. For that progressive thinking you need a coach not a drunk.

Shastri as a coach now has an overseas test series win. ODI series win in Australia.  A very successful coach. His drinking habits are none of anyone's business.  Get over your hate.

[rtmohanlal]

we have won our 'first ever in AUS ' in both tests and ODIs .So that's a great achievement. Yes... Starc, Cummins,Hazlewood were rested

but Chahal,Bumrah,Hardik,Kedar also were not playing  all matches for us.Infact  if any ,Starc, Cummins & Hazlewood were forced by our batsmen  to not play the ODI series  by enormously wearing &  tiring them  in the test series.AUS team management foresaw that they can't afford to have a 2nd  test series loss to an Asian team straight away(vs SL), so they were rested.After all, one can't have it both ways.Isn't it??? 

[Clarke]

3 hours ago, Khota said:

India should have tested its bench too. For that progressive thinking you need a coach not a drunk.

The time was last year in Eng as well as Asia cup. Shouldn't have played unfit Bhuvi & didn't have to give any importance to Asia cup by playing Bumrah, who should have chilled out like Kohli. We tried out Umesh but should have additionally added some youngsters. At least in the WI series Khaleel was given a chance.

Edited January 19, 2019 by Clarke

[Khota]

9 hours ago, Pollack said:

Shastri as a coach now has an overseas test series win. ODI series win in Australia.  A very successful coach. His drinking habits are none of anyone's business.  Get over your hate.

There is no hate. It is a competence issue.

[Khota]

5 hours ago, Clarke said:

The time was last year in Eng as well as Asia cup. Shouldn't have played unfit Bhuvi & didn't have to give any importance to Asia cup by playing Bumrah, who should have chilled out like Kohli. We tried out Umesh but should have additionally added some youngsters. At least in the WI series Khaleel was given a chance.

The auto selections should not play. Definitely need to try some pace options and a middle order. Top annd spin are settled.