Laaloo Posted April 9, 2008 Share Posted April 9, 2008 Australia will play the first Test on the tour of India in Bangalore from October 9-13, the Board of Control for Cricket in India announced on Wednesday. The tourists arrive in the country on September 29 and begin their four-Test tour with a warm-up game from October 2 to 5, a statement from the BCCI said. The second Test will be in Mohali, from October 17-21, the third in New Delhi from October 28-November 1 and fourth in Nagpur from November 5-9. They will play at Mohali, Bangalore, Nagpur, and Delhi One thing I dont understand is y dont they play in mumbai????? Most Ind Aus exciting competition occurs in Mumbai!! y not this time?? Ind Aus thrillers take place in Mumbai Source: http://ia.rediff.com/cricket/2008/apr/09autour.htm Link to comment
Cricketics Posted April 9, 2008 Share Posted April 9, 2008 OMG Third test in Delhi.. haha.. good.. Delhi has been lucky venue for us in Test. and a memorable one too.. last great memory of Delhi test of India vs Australia is of Nayan Mongia.. he hit 150 odd and India won the game.. it was just one of test. in 1996 Link to comment
Tapioca Posted April 10, 2008 Share Posted April 10, 2008 Most Ind Aus exciting competition occurs in Mumbai!! y not this time?? Wankhade is out, so it would have been nice to have a match at Brabourne after so long Link to comment
DavidUK Posted April 10, 2008 Share Posted April 10, 2008 I may be making the trip from England to watch a couple of these tests. I was hoping to visit India when England are touring Nov/Dec but if the test matches are in Dec I won't be able to get the time off work. As I have only India and Bangladesh to complete the set of watching a test in all the test playing countries I thought I may come over when you play the Convicts instead. I was thinking of perhaps Delhi and Mohali. Any reasons why I should chose a different pair of tests? Link to comment
DavidUK Posted April 10, 2008 Share Posted April 10, 2008 I may be making the trip from England to watch a couple of these tests. I was hoping to visit India when England are touring Nov/Dec but if the test matches are in Dec I won't be able to get the time off work. As I have only India and Bangladesh to complete the set of watching a test in all the test playing countries I thought I may come over when you play the Convicts instead. I was thinking of perhaps Delhi and Mohali. Any reasons why I should chose a different pair of tests? NB. Obviously I shall be vehmently supporting India against the hated Aussies!! I'm even going to order an Indian ODI shirt just so as the locals don't mistake me for an Australian!! Link to comment
DavidUK Posted April 10, 2008 Share Posted April 10, 2008 By the way, many of the England fans on barmyarmy.com no longer consider the Convicts as the number one test team in the world on account of their cowardice at pulling out of their second consecutive tour of Pakistan. Our reasoning being that all the other countries tour Pakistan, so why shouldn't Australia? And if they don't, they can no longer be considered number one Link to comment
Gambit Posted April 10, 2008 Share Posted April 10, 2008 I may be making the trip from England to watch a couple of these tests. I was hoping to visit India when England are touring Nov/Dec but if the test matches are in Dec I won't be able to get the time off work. As I have only India and Bangladesh to complete the set of watching a test in all the test playing countries I thought I may come over when you play the Convicts instead. I was thinking of perhaps Delhi and Mohali. Any reasons why I should chose a different pair of tests? Welcome to ICF David! IMO Delhi and Mohali would be the best. Since they are in North India, the weather will be very pleasant with a max of around 20-22 degrees and a min of as cool as 0 degrees. Delhi and Mohali aren't too far away from each other either. Mohali is one of the most beautiful grounds in the country with possibly the best crowd. Dunno about the Delhi stadium though because they've built a new one and don't know what it looks like. So you've been to games in almost all test playing nations huh? That's incredible. Where was your most memorable viewing experience? Link to comment
DavidUK Posted April 10, 2008 Share Posted April 10, 2008 Thanks for your welcome Gambit. These are the tests matches I have seen abroard. New Zealand 6 tests Australia 4 tests Pakistan 2 tests Sri Lanka 2 tests West Indies 2 tests South Africa 1 test. All of the above where with England the visitors. My favourite place is probably New Zealand, as their grounds are so small and picuresque.The people are also the friendliest and there is plenty to do in between the matches.Having said that, all of the [places were enjoyable, but all in their own different ways Link to comment
umpire Posted April 10, 2008 Share Posted April 10, 2008 AA BEL MUJHE MAR Nagpur, not again? Bangalore, not again? We should have chose Eden Gardens, Kotla, Mohali (kanpur if they produce raging turner and we win) and Chennai Link to comment
umpire Posted April 13, 2008 Share Posted April 13, 2008 Border Gavaskar Trophy 2008-09 I want Indian curators to produce raging turner in all 4 tests. I want whitewash. The curator that produces best turner should get 1 million Rs from BCCI. Link to comment
Kartikey Posted April 13, 2008 Share Posted April 13, 2008 Lets not forget, Warne was awful in India, McGill has been hammered by all our batsmen, Hogg was crap against us and has retired which leads me to believe that if we get a Kanpur pitch again, we can destroy them cuz even Harris would probably be better than whoever Oz bring. Link to comment
bigdhoni7 Posted April 13, 2008 Share Posted April 13, 2008 Exactly. We need to prepare the same type of pitches for that series. No use giving them an inch for victory with any type of pitch that would suit them most. Link to comment
umpire Posted April 13, 2008 Share Posted April 13, 2008 yes 4-0 whitewash is what I demand and it will happen if we get turners. I want open bus parade in Sydney Link to comment
zubinpepsi Posted April 13, 2008 Share Posted April 13, 2008 yes.. i agree.. we shud prepare such wickets n thrash the hell outa those aussies... Link to comment
Kartikey Posted April 13, 2008 Share Posted April 13, 2008 yes 4-0 whitewash is what I demand and it will happen if we get turners. I want open bus parade in Sydney Forget Symonds' blood boiling, he will probably get a heart attack. Link to comment
umpire Posted April 13, 2008 Share Posted April 13, 2008 it can happen, if we curator do not mess it up like last time. Its my dream. White washing Aussies. Has anyone ever done that? We can do that. The white wash will make sure that next 50 years they will $hit in pants playing India in India Link to comment
zubinpepsi Posted April 13, 2008 Share Posted April 13, 2008 yes.. dont care about the sporting wickets bull shi...t... we shud prepare the tracks on ur skill.... we shud whitewash them.... Link to comment
umpire Posted April 13, 2008 Share Posted April 13, 2008 Martyn will be in India as well, playing for ICL. He can come and spit on pitches with Hayden. Free tickets provided by ICL Link to comment
amits Posted April 13, 2008 Share Posted April 13, 2008 we need to get curators like the one who prepared the mumbai pitch in 2004 & this kanpur pitch in 2008. and we should play an attack of 4 spinners(kumble, harbhajan, murali kartik & 1 out of ojha/mishra/yusuf) & against aus to spin us to a 4-0 win. with sehwag in there, it will be 5 spinners Link to comment
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