Australian Media Reaction

[h4te]

I'm a retard who's pissed off and I need attention - Herald Sun

[Ram]

Before now, I was under the impression that only the subcontinental media was guilty of chasing headlines and making ridiculous claims. After seeing the Aussie headlines, my opinion has changed for the good. There is still one key difference. Whenever our team loses, our media hounds our players relentlessly. Whenever Australia loses, their media hounds the opposition players. Strange!

[h4te]

sore losers are sore losers

[jf1gp_1]

who cares what they are writing. they dont like us who cares. measure of our success doesnt depend on wht aussie media thinks. we won and thats the bottom line.

[DomainK]

Symonds has become headstrong while Hayden lost his composure in Mohali. Both were in the thick of the agitation that poisoned the atmosphere at the SCG. Far from calming their captain with sage observations, they pushed the issue along despite fact that Australia were partly to blame and it was one man's word against another's.- Sydney Morning Herald Very late wisdom, friends?

[Sachinism]

This one is the best (im pretty sure its sarcasm, but you never know :p)

AS expected, the Australian tail did not wag today like ravenous labradors given the run of the Pal factory. Australia went down in a screaming heap in the second test at Mohali. With two tests to go, India has gone one up in the four test series and one suspects more humiliation is on the way for Ricky Ponting and his men. The conventional wisdom is that the cycle has finally turned and Australia’s days at the top are over. The reality is, the Australian XI is facing its toughest rival for many years; an opponent hell-bent on victory. It’s hardly an even contest. The Australian XI is up against 1.3 billion Indians. Even counting Australia’s vast coaching staff, Ponting and the lads are heavily outnumbered. They have entered a world of doctored tracks, dodgy food and questionable tactics. At the Punjab Cricket Association Stadium in Mohali, curator Daljit Singh prepared a track which unfairly tipped the scales in India’s favour from the outset. When the Indians had the pads on it was a docile batsmen’s paradise, but as Hayden and Katich strolled to the middle, the track suddenly turned into a ‘Gabba green top and a vicious, spitting, spinning Old Trafford deck all at once, before calming down again when the Indian batsmen returned to the crease. Some say Daljit is a genius. If so, he’s an evil genius, laughing maniacally while stroking a fluffy cat and pushing the heavy roller back and forth along the pitch. Add to that the fact that the Indians have mastered the dark art of reverse swing. Ever see an Indian bowler with a decent manicure? It doesn’t happen. Most have fingernails like Ming the Merciless. Meanwhile, in the heavily manned slips cordon, the Indian catchers are chomping away on some local breath mint that turns their saliva into silicon. The Indians get the ball reversing around the 15 over mark. Just as the conventional swing from the new ball stops, the ball starts reversing around like mad. It’s hardly fair, given that the Australians shun these crude tactics. When Australia is in the field the only time you see the ball move off the straight is during its gentle, curving trajectory on its way over the boundary. On the umpires in this series thus far, I will say nothing except where is Steve Bucknor when you need him? And here’s Australia without a decent leggie since Bryce McGain went off to have a hip replacement and up pops a 25 year old Indian, Amit Mishra, who fizzes them down on a perfect spot and takes five wickets on debut. Surely that kind of precocious talent needs a good, hard examination and there’s no better man for the job than Daryl Hair. If there’s a problem with Mishra’s action - and his figures in this test say there’s got to be - Hair will find it and have him dispatched to Perth, for a battery of tests before he’s allowed to return to the game with a strict warning if he cocks that elbow one more time, he’ll be on the first plane back to Perth to do it all over again. The odds and the numbers are stacked heavily against the Australians. You can’t really expect an even and competitive series when Australia struggles to replace the irreplaceable Glen McGrath while the Indian selectors pluck their very own Glen McGrath out of their backsides. Not only does “Instant Karma” Sharma bowl the same niggardly length and line as the great “Ooh-Aah”, he’s got the same nasty temper. What a cheek. Of course, the gangster-slapping off spinner, Harbhajan Singh, has a dreadful track record of openly flouting the laws and spirit of the game. In this series, he seems to have gone a step further, humiliating his Australian counterparts by actually turning the ball off the pitch. Some say there are a few in the Australian XI who have gone a season or two beyond their use by date. Australia’s premier opening batsman, Matt Hayden, now in his dotage, has spared the scorers any repetitive-type wrist injuries in his last four innings. Matt, a great servant of Australian cricket, is finding out that there comes a time in every sporting career when the body just won’t work like it used to. The eyes go first, the muscles don’t twitch so sharply, the feet become leaden and wobble about unhelpfully. It’s why Muhammad Ali doesn’t fight anymore. That and the Parkinson’s. Before you know it, you’re putting out a cookbook and appearing on Dancing with the Stars. While not too long in the tooth as fast bowlers go, Brett Lee only shows a bit of mongrel when he’s arguing with his captain. None of this bodes well for the remainder of the tour. Sadly, we must concede Australia is up against a cold, unrelenting foe who will do whatever it takes, including crushing their opponents, until the Border-Gavaskar Trophy is firmly ensconced in their hands. It’s not all bad news. The Australians can come back and lick their wounds and the cycle will move again as Tendulkar, Ganguly, Dravid and Laxman wander off into the sunset. India won’t be on top for long and Australia will meet New Zealand in the Australian summer. But if the Kiwis beat us, we’ll know we’re in trouble.

[Fontaine]

This one is the best (im pretty sure its sarcasm' date=' but you never know :p)[/quote'] do you have a link for this article? If so I'm seriously considering submitting it to the BCCI as it amounts to nothing more than slander. The guy practically acuses the bowlers of cheating by using their finger nails and other means to roughen up the ball. Seriously, this newspaper/journalist needs to be brought to court. I didn't see such crap when Simon Jones was reversing the ball on route to destroying the Aussies in the ashes.

[flamy]

^^ Some real gems in that article.. "Gangster-slapping" bhajji, Daryl Hair and Mishra, Ming the Merciless...

[flamy]

do you have a link for this article? If so I'm seriously considering submitting it to the BCCI as it amounts to nothing more than slander. The guy practically acuses the bowlers of cheating by using their finger nails and other means to roughen up the ball. Seriously, this newspaper/journalist needs to be brought to court. I didn't see such crap when Simon Jones was reversing the ball on route to destroying the Aussies in the ashes.

'Tis a blog. http://blogs.theaustralian.news.com.au/jacktheinsider/index.php/theaustralian/comments/indians_dish_up_curry_to_aussies/

[satishg]

^^ lol sarcasm smeared all over that article :hysterical:

[Fontaine]

Add to that the fact that the Indians have mastered the dark art of reverse swing. Ever see an Indian bowler with a decent manicure? It doesn’t happen. Most have fingernails like Ming the Merciless.

So how long exactly are Ishant's fingernails in this pic?

[satishg]

do you have a link for this article? If so I'm seriously considering submitting it to the BCCI as it amounts to nothing more than slander. The guy practically acuses the bowlers of cheating by using their finger nails and other means to roughen up the ball. Seriously, this newspaper/journalist needs to be brought to court. I didn't see such crap when Simon Jones was reversing the ball on route to destroying the Aussies in the ashes.

easy Fontaine, i think he was making fun of his own team than ours..u cud see that from his reference to Daryl Hair and Steven Bucknor

[flamy]

So how long exactly are Ishant's fingernails in this pic?

bad argument. He has got some tools in his mane. :D

[coffee_rules]

Quote from that pissing article:

Clarke was unsure whether he caught it, but Ricky Ponting was and, under the catching pact between the nations at the time, Ganguly had to go.

How can Ponting be sure of something he didn't even catch? When the man who caught it was unsure.. By the looks of it? C'mon! Ponting wanted to win the test by cheating!

[Fontaine]

easy Fontaine' date=' i think he was making fun of his own team than ours..u cud see that from his reference to Daryl Hair and Steven Bucknor[/quote'] Oh right, thanks. Objections withdrawn! I just realized it was a blog!! Joke's on me. :-D

[Sachinism]

easy Fontaine' date=' i think he was making fun of his own team than ours..u cud see that from his reference to Daryl Hair and Steven Bucknor[/quote'] yeh it does seem to be a sarcastic piece he'd have to be really retarded to hold opinions like that

[DomainK]

This one is the best (im pretty sure its sarcasm' date=' but you never know :p)[/quote'] :hysterical::hysterical::hysterical::hysterical::hysterical::hysterical::hysterical::hysterical:

[observer1]

what fantastic wit. It is nearly as good as the Agarkar joins ICL story that was written up on this site a year ago

[vadodaravictor]

I'm a retard who's pissed off and I need attention - Herald Sun

Damn, they don't have comment section on this website..otherwise I would have FUBAR'd this guy:whack::damnmate: It was Australia who started it (Like appealing on bounced catch, not walking when you have edged etc) and now we are not going to step back...Eff you biatch:finger:

[DomainK]

Damn, they don't have comment section on this website..otherwise I would have FUBAR'd this guy:whack::damnmate: It was Australia who started it (Like appealing on bounced catch, not walking when you have edged etc) and now we are not going to step back...Eff you biatch:finger:

Forgive them. They dont even deserve the time one would waste in typing a comment.