Oh how sweet it is, the taste of Kangaroo despair.

[sandeep]

Watching the 3rd India Australia ODI meander to its predictable conclusion, I couldn't help but notice the despair and frustration in the eyes of the Australian players.  Smith.  Warner.   Finch.   Stoinis.  Handscomb.   Agar.  You can see it in all of them.  Frustration.   Fatigue.   Disappointment.  That creeping knowledge that the game is over.   And with it, the series.   And all they can do is go through the motions and take another L.  These are professional cricketers out there, all quite skilled in their own right, doing their best, but knowing that slowly, inevitably, their best is not going to be good enough, and is going to come up short.   I know that look.  I have seen it.  Felt it.  Endured it, way too often as an Indian fan during the late 90s and early 2000s, at the hands of that all-conquering superlative Australian team of that era.   

 

The shoe is on the other foot.  And damn if it doesn't feel good.   Let's brownwash the potty-mouth brats.   

 

 

Edited September 24, 2017 by sandeep

[velu]

other than starc, its their full strength team .. and we rested one or two main ODI players , which makes our series win sweet

[Laaloo]

Just now, velu said:

other than starc, its their full strength team .. and we rested one or two main ODI players , which makes our series win sweet

Starc and hazlewood

 

But their batting is full strength today with Finch in 

[SK_IH]

hazlewood would have been smashed as we,,,only starc is missing but he is quite a miss 

[RAZPOR]

Aussies are all up with excuses on reddit,thier forums 

Calling this a D side & how they just care about ashes and some other excuses.

 

One of the most inventive one was when i saw one guy call chahal a chucker due to his elbow flex

 

 

[sandeep]

20 minutes ago, RAZPOR said:

Aussies are all up with excuses on reddit,thier forums 

Calling this a D side & how they just care about ashes and some other excuses.

 

One of the most inventive one was when i saw one guy call chahal a chucker due to his elbow flex

 

 

Mazey lo.   That's what frustration turns into.  

[G_B_]

do they (their fans) even care?

[Kohlifan]

who else is missing apart from Hazalwood, Starc as far as i know mostly play test matches

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[velu]

14 minutes ago, Kohlifan said:

who else is missing apart from Hazalwood, Starc as far as i know mostly play test matches

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only bowler i can recollect other than those 2 is james pattinson ..

[bowl_out]

22 minutes ago, velu said:

 

only bowler i can recollect other than those 2 is james pattinson ..

Pattinson is not an ODI regular.. Starc, Hazelwood, Cummins/Coulter Nile are the core pace bowlers for the Aus ODI side

[Tibarn]

The bowling is weaker without Starc there, but their batting is basically their best right now, with Finch back. 

 

They are missing a replacement for Watson IMO.

[velu]

 

 

[sandeep]

4 hours ago, G_B_ said:

do they (their fans) even care?

Who cares if they care or don't.  The players do. 

[CoverDrive]

Yes sledging when the game is lost is like the worst thing to do :) 

 

you quietly take your loss and move on. 

 

Problem for them has been ineffective bowling. 

[sandeep]

6 hours ago, CoverDrive said:

Yes sledging when the game is lost is like the worst thing to do :) 

 

you quietly take your loss and move on. 

 

Problem for them has been ineffective bowling. 

One of my favorite moments in yesterday's game was when Hardik played that crazy ramp shot off of Stoinis(?)  It was a shot of confidence, arrogance even.  High risk, but total control, maximum result.  And Smith reacted by saying something like "that's a ridiculous shot.  He can't do that".   Damn that was good to watch.  

[putrevus]

They need to whitewash them for all the suffering/heartbreaks Aussies caused us over the years.Aussies have won so much and they seem to bounce back just fine.

[Pollack]

6 hours ago, CoverDrive said:

Yes sledging when the game is lost is like the worst thing to do :) 

 

you quietly take your loss and move on. 

 

Problem for them has been ineffective bowling. 

Its other way around i.e. Ineffective batting.

293 was a paltry score on it. It was a patta of epic proportions plus small boundary.

[sandeep]

39 minutes ago, Pollack said:

Its other way around i.e. Ineffective batting.

293 was a paltry score on it. It was a patta of epic proportions plus small boundary.

Yeah.  Bowlers have actually done OK for them - Don't forget that we were 11/3 and 87/5 in the 1st ODI.  Hijdas like @Prince_ started dancing and raising their lungis pre-maturely, predicting an easy series win for Australia in the 1st game thread.  

 

And even since then, in each of the games, the Australian front-line bowlers have done a good job.  They are merely paying the overdue price for playing with 4 bowlers, 3.5 if you consider how raw and inexperienced Agar is.  

[maniac]

The Aussie team has been piss poor...Yes Starc is a match winner and an impact player  who can win matches on his own but don't Aussies take pride in the battery of fast bowling backups?

 

The fact that Agar is your primary spinner shows the cupboard is bare in that department.

 

Also I believe Starc and Hazelwood played in CT where Aussies sucked as well.

[sandeep]

1 hour ago, maniac said:

The Aussie team has been piss poor...Yes Starc is a match winner and an impact player  who can win matches on his own but don't Aussies take pride in the battery of fast bowling backups?

 

The fact that Agar is your primary spinner shows the cupboard is bare in that department.

 

Also I believe Starc and Hazelwood played in CT where Aussies sucked as well.

I'm actually a bit disappointed in the Aussie performance.   I wanted this series to put some pressure on our batting so that we are forced to update our strategy.  Indian team only makes changes to players and tactics when under pressure of losing.  Our team is constructed to aim at 330 in ODIs, while England aim at 400.   Aim low, score low.   And as SL showed us in the CT, even an ordinary team can chase down a 330 in ODIs these days.