nballa Posted March 23, 2011 Share Posted March 23, 2011 Pakistan gets to win it all.... GOOOO pak how do you hope to accomplish such a difficult task like winning a world cup when a simple task like lighting a can of petrol on fire in the middle of times square presented an absolutely daunting challenge. Link to comment
Prakat Posted March 23, 2011 Share Posted March 23, 2011 Inshaallah India going down no matter what they do while Pakistan gets 2 step closer to win it all.... GOOOO pak You actually want to win the World Cup without playing against India? Why don't you tell your team to just steal a coffee cup from the hotel room and come back? Link to comment
DomainK Posted March 23, 2011 Share Posted March 23, 2011 "Must" do? Really? Do they mean that if India doesn't do one of those, we are doomed? :WTF: Link to comment
Prakat Posted March 23, 2011 Share Posted March 23, 2011 Hurricane says it will move fast and blow hard. :roti: Link to comment
Prakat Posted March 23, 2011 Share Posted March 23, 2011 "India is gonne lose today and play Sri Lanka in QF, get butt****ed and go out." :hysterical: Link to comment
Ramzz Posted March 23, 2011 Share Posted March 23, 2011 Johnson to target Sehwag with short delivery As that great innovative thinker Homer Simpson once said when faced with a difficult problem, "I've been working on a plan: I'll hide under some coats and hope that somehow everything will work out". That's pretty much how a fast bowler must feel when Virender Sehwag is in his stride. But no pile of coats could offer that level of escapism, nor shield a man from the roars of an Indian home crowd. Fast bowlers will tell you they don't get frightened. The biggest, meanest men in the side, it is their job to inflict pain, not suffer it. But Sehwag can send the world's toughest and quickest into the foetal position, as he almost did to Morne Morkel in Nagpur last week. It's something of a paradox, therefore, that the man who has handled Sehwag as well as anyone in recent years is Mitchell Johnson. Johnson is quick and awkward, but can be more fragile than your average fast bowler - belt him a few times and you can almost sense him searching for a suitable stack of coats to crawl under. But somehow, his style has worked against Sehwag. Perhaps it's Johnson's unpredictability that has been the undoing of Sehwag; a couple of loose balls might be dispatched, but followed by another attempted boundary from one that is too close to cut, or so accurate that it should be respected. Whatever the case, in the past five years, no bowler has dismissed Sehwag more often across all formats than Johnson, who has claimed his wicket nine times from 18 games. That's a trend Johnson wants to continue in Ahmedabad on Thursday, and he believes the best way to attack Sehwag is to bowl at his body. "I don't mind bowling up into his rib-cage to be honest," Johnson said. "He seems to struggle with that a bit. I guess [also] putting pressure on him, if he gets a single it puts pressure on the batsman at the other end. That's one way we thought about it as well. It's always a good challenge to bowl to someone like that, he doesn't really use his feet but he can hit the ball hard. It will be a pretty good start to the game if we can get him early. "In the bowlers' meeting I asked the question how many times he has scored four from the first ball. He likes to get scoring quickly. He's a dangerous player and we'll be looking to get him as quickly as we can. We'll stick to our plans and stick to what we know best of what works against him." The Australians do seem to have worked Sehwag out better than most sides. His one-day average against Australia is 22.65, notably worse than it is against any other nation, excluding Associates, and it's ten innings since he has made a limited-overs fifty against them. Getting rid of Sehwag early would be the perfect start for Australia, given that he is India's leading run scorer in this World Cup. That's partially due to his 175 against Bangladesh, an innings that ensured the tournament opened with a bang. Since then, India have looked to Sachin Tendulkar, who has scored two centuries, and Yuvraj Singh, who has been a consistent threat. But the Australians know that, as formidable as India's batting line-up is, there is always the possibility of a collapse. Against South Africa, India lost their last nine wickets for 29 runs; against England they lost their their last seven for 33; and against West Indies their last seven were skittled for 50. It's a trend that Johnson finds encouraging. "If we can get two or three of their big guns early on it changes the way they think about their game. It's something we've spoken about and we'll work hard to try and do it. You always target their best players and Sehwag and Tendulkar are their best players, so we think it can change the way they think." But finding a way through the batting order of Sehwag, Tendulkar, Gautam Gambhir, Virat Kohli and Yuvraj is easier said than done. It will be the biggest challenge yet for Australia's attack, which the selectors always intended to be a wicket-taking group, and the offspinner Jason Krejza will also need to work out how to control the world's best players of spin. "As a bowling unit we feel pretty confident, us three quicks going together, we always look forward to bowling over 140kph and swinging the ball," Johnson said. "There's been talk about the wicket, Sehwag said it will be slow and a bit of a turner, but we have our spinners, Krejza can spin the ball a fair way. It's leading up to be a very good game and we're looking forward to it." And if Australia's best-laid plans don't work, and they can't find any coats in the Ahmedabad heat, they might have to resort to another of Homer's problem-solving strategies: "I'm not normally a praying man but if you're up there please save me, Superman." Brydon Coverdale is an assistant editor at ESPNcricinfo http://www.espncricinfo.com/icc_cricket_worldcup2011/content/current/story/507541.html Link to comment
pinkfreud Posted March 23, 2011 Share Posted March 23, 2011 Dale Steyn and Morkel also supposedly spoke about targeting Sehwag's rib cage before our match against SA. Maybe Johnson should try being original and stop chewing the cud on the same old repetitive bullcrap. It's not going to work. Link to comment
BERGKAMP Posted March 23, 2011 Share Posted March 23, 2011 WHAT A LOAD OF BOLLOCKS (!) Do you beleive in monsters and the tooth fairy as well? Link to comment
BERGKAMP Posted March 23, 2011 Share Posted March 23, 2011 Bad things happen for the Ozzies when little Midge opens his mouth Keep talking son :haha: [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtxnfqDJUWg]YouTube - Anderson v Johnson: top sledging[/ame] he bowls down the left he bowls down the right, that mitchell johnson his bowling is shite! LOL Link to comment
Watson87 Posted March 23, 2011 Share Posted March 23, 2011 Bad things happen for the Ozzies when little Midge opens his mouth Keep talking son :haha: LOL That was a classic from Jimmy Anderson. :--D But talking about this topic, Sehwag won't be a threat, read somewhere that he averages 20 or 22 against Aussies, Sachin will fire, I have a feeling he will score big, and I mean big. Link to comment
Lord Posted March 23, 2011 Share Posted March 23, 2011 wow thats some news,I thought they'll serve full tosses Link to comment
kabira Posted March 23, 2011 Share Posted March 23, 2011 Sreesanth has superb average and SR against Aussies compare to Zaheer Khan. SS is worth a gamble. Link to comment
Lord Posted March 23, 2011 Share Posted March 23, 2011 wtf?why are they becoming experts,everybody knows these things,including the Aussies Link to comment
gaurav92 Posted March 23, 2011 Share Posted March 23, 2011 ^:cantstop: On a serious note, have they not discovered anything beyond saying that "We will bounce Sehwag off" ? I am bored now hearing all this customary mind games from Oz :bebored: Link to comment
Prakat Posted March 23, 2011 Share Posted March 23, 2011 :hysterical::hysterical::hysterical: this is how it works..if team India loses...laugh more and be proud of your 'balls on fire' prediction :giggle: and if team India wins...then it is just a 'anti-jinx' thread also OP has some disciples who spring into action whenever required :finger: :two_thumbs_up: Get it covered both ways! :winky: tired of these chronic depressive, wrist-slashing, pill-popping, sadsack, killjoys. :facepalm: Link to comment
Ramzz Posted March 23, 2011 Share Posted March 23, 2011 Sehwag's biggest weakness is himself...nothing else. If he gets past the 30's...he is in for big one. Link to comment
Andy Posted March 23, 2011 Share Posted March 23, 2011 Everytime I Log in , I see this Thread I feel the Pain :(( Link to comment
satyam1729 Posted March 23, 2011 Share Posted March 23, 2011 I will stop following cricket if we don't have spinning wicket tomorrow ? If SL and Bangladesh can they why can't we ? This will just prove that BCCI is a money making organisation and has nothing to do with Indian team winning or losing. Here cricket means Indian cricket. Link to comment
Karan114 Posted March 23, 2011 Share Posted March 23, 2011 tomorrow ? If SL and Bangladesh can they why can't we ? This will just prove that BCCI is a money making organisation and has nothing to do with Indian team winning or losing. You really need proof for that? :hysterical::hysterical::hysterical: Link to comment
Ultimate_Game Posted March 23, 2011 Share Posted March 23, 2011 Weren't you around for the Nagpur Test in 2004 when Aussies beat India for the first time since 1960s when Sharad Pawar gifted them a green pitch at Nagpur? Link to comment
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