Indian batsmen a scared lot: Former Aussie players

[Gambit]

Indian batsmen a scared lot: Former Aussie players Indian batsmen are a 'scared species', making them an easy prey for the Australian pace battery in the upcoming ODI series, feel former Aussie bowlers Ray Bright and Rodney Hogg. Former pacer Hogg and Bright, a left-arm spinner of the 70's, felt the Indians would not get much of a home advantage in the seven-match series starting September 29. "Well I say, Good Luck. Which they (India) would need," Hogg was quoted as saying by 'Neo Sports'. "Unfortunately India tends to play Bangladesh a lot, so they tend to stretch up cricket," said Bright as he took pot shot at the Indian line-up. Hogg described the Indian batsmen as 'arrogant' and said they were scared of facing pacers. "Couple of Indian batsmen are scared species, might be slightly arrogant and certainly there is no way to hide when people like Clark are going to go to India. With their pace there's nowhere to hide," he said. Former Australian batsman Gary Cosier echoed a similar view and said Indians would buckle under pressure when faced with an accurate attack. "Australia's bowlers and fieldsmen have impacts and they tend to put so much pressure on these very, very good players that the result is not very good at the end of the game," Cosier said. Hogg criticised the decision to bring back Sourav Ganguly into the team and said the ex-captain has been brought back only because of 'political' clout. "He just probably had political numbers that's why he's back in their squad. That's why Greg felt like he was playing too much just for himself," he said. Bright also felt that both Ganguly and Sachin Tendulkar were past there prime. "The Tendulkars and Gangulys are not perhaps the players they were five years ago." Bright and Cosier said for Indians to have any chance in the series, they will have to improve their fielding drastically. "Well I think they've got to really back themselves and I'm not sure if they are as positive as they have been and they still need to work on their fielding that's been to me a very poor example of how one day cricket should be played," said Bright. "They need to field exceptionally well and they need players who are on the border of not playing too much longer," Cosier added. http://www.rediff.com/cricket/2007/sep/22aus.htm

[Cricketics]

rodney rabies hogg, and ray shyt bright :finger: they making such shyt statments so that media can do honours and make their name.. packholes

[The Outsider]

That is why I hate Ganguly for losing the '04 series.

[Mr. Wicket]

Hmm, not smart. Commenting like that about Tendulkar's not a wise thing by any means. I hope they have plenty of crow on hand.

[Chaos]

god, Tendulkar not in his prime, SHhhh boss is readin this news!

[Mandrake]

Aussies calling someone arrogant.give me a break:hysterical:

[living]

I hope the Indian T20 team reads this, and gets fired up :D

[Predator_05]

Rodney Hogg ? Ray Bright ? Gary Cosier ? Who are these guys ? Oh, that's right - a bunch of sh*tty, no-mark cricketers who achieved nothing in their short careers with Australia. As if anyone gives a damn what these losers have to say. Seriously, why the hell does the Indian media reach out to these losers for sound-bytes ? Do you ever see Channel 9 or an Aussie paper like the Sydney Morning Herald asking Maninder Singh or Anshuman Gaekwad what they think their team's chances will be ? Indians have no f*cking shame.

[Chaos]

Yea pred, u r right. Our media r so fcking stupid. No professionalism. BCCI and Media c*nts.

[bigdhoni7]

predz hits the nail on its head. india media is a joke.

[Lurker]

And so what were you Mr. Nothings saying here...Hahahaha eggs on face Aussie gan*00s!!!

[Ram]

Fck you morons !

[sgusa]

I was hoping someone from Aus would piss Tendulkar enough. this would do nicely. Thank you convict boys!

[coffee_rules]

they are gandon'ts now....

[bigdhoni7]

fawk you kangaroos up da ass!!! :yay:

[Yuvraj4Captaincy]

I was hoping someone from Aus would piss Tendulkar enough. this would do nicely. Thank you convict boys!

Tendulkar is not needed for now....Yuvraj, Dhoni , Sehwag and company is nuff .......

[The Outsider]

The only one who looked scared were Hussey, Clarke, and Haddin. Boy, did they choke or what.

[sgusa]

Tendulkar is not needed for now....Yuvraj' date=' Dhoni , Sehwag and company is nuff .......[/quote'] Hapy to have the option, but there is nothing like SRT at the top of the innings spanking the convicts :)

[Chandan]

Just can't believe what these guys were saying! Were the English bowlers slow by any stretch of imagination?? And didn't our batsmen trash them in their own den?? Is Flintoff slow?? Is Broad slow??

"Couple of Indian batsmen are scared species, might be slightly arrogant and certainly there is no way to hide when people like Clark are going to go to India. With their pace there's nowhere to hide," he said

Clark?? This guy bowls at 135-139 range and our batsmen would be scared of him??? So these guys don't even know who the fastest bowler is in the Aussie camp! Had they said Lee, it could have meant something, but Clark?? And please someone explain, how can be a person scared and arrogant at the same time?? These guys are simple rubbish, absolute junk and nothing else! Hope rediff goes to them again and ask about that longest six of Yuvi on Lee.

[Anakin]

They'll have a good lesson about the reality soon enough, sans McWarne pair to save their butts.