How confident are you that India will beat Eng/Aus at home?

[Vikas Bhatt]

Bad time to ask this question but.... We're strong at home (lost only 2 series in close to 25 years) and run on auto-pilot IF we're playing well but we've not been as convincing even in some of the recent home tests though there is incredible belief that we can come back and win - something that was there even in overseas tests before last summer. England haven't won since 84/85 and Australia since 2004 but they've run us close in tests (Bangalore 2001/2008, Mohali 2010, Chennai 2008 being a few recent examples). England also won a test in 2006 which helped them draw the series.

Pak technically beat us 2-1 [1999] We lost embarrasingly 2-0 to SA [2000] Aus beat us 2-1 in 2004. So thats really 3. B->

[Vikas Bhatt]

????????? We've beaten SA at both formats of the game at home. We've defeated them twice in tests. Never lost in ODIs ever.

We lost 2-0 in tests in 2000 and the same series we won a 'fixed' one day series 3-2.

[Vikas Bhatt]

I'm sure BCCI will be looking for 'revenge' and prepare rank turners. Should be like the one where Hirwani made his debut.

Unfortunately our pitch doctors these days only think of flat decks where a test can last 5 days full of high scores for our FTBs. The results we get are largely by accident of late.

[deathmonger]

Pak technically beat us 2-1 [1999] We lost embarrasingly 2-0 to SA [2000] Aus beat us 2-1 in 2004. So thats really 3. B->

What crap. A tournament where matches where held in Pakistan and Sri Lanka. Why not lump all post 2000 tests in one series so we can win 4-3.

[deathmonger]

We lost 2-0 in tests in 2000 and the same series we won a 'fixed' one day series 3-2.

we won 2-1 in 2010 (sachin 200) and lots of other times. in tests we have defeated them once in the 90s (srinath 6 wkt) and once in 2004 (sehwag was good in that series)

[wobblydoggy]

Unfortunately our pitch doctors these days only think of flat decks where a test can last 5 days full of high scores for our FTBs. The results we get are largely by accident of late.

+1

[deathmonger]

+1

still we get and have been getting. england will draw on the flat decks and capsize on the turners.

[indiaregulator]

/thread. I win.

[deathmonger]

/thread. I win.

who the **** is that? i stopped following after hoenn.

[indiaregulator]

:giggle: I don't know, i just googled "legendary Pokemon" but after further reading, apparently its an alien Pokemon from another planet that appears in the latest series.

[deathmonger]

:giggle: I don't know, i just googled "legendary Pokemon" but after further reading, apparently its an alien Pokemon from another planet that appears in the latest series.

man i loved this show as a kid. how many series now? 13-14?

[indiaregulator]

Not followed it since I was about....10 years old, I remember watching the first Pokemon movie in like 1999 or something, the one with mew and mewtwo then stopped.

[deathmonger]

Not followed it since I was about....10 years old' date=' I remember watching the first Pokemon movie in like 1999 or something, the one with mew and mewtwo then stopped.[/quote'] ok. enough niceties i believe. i guess we should let the india-pak trolling resume.

[indiaregulator]

Don't worry pal, I'm not trolling you :) Its the guy with horrible spelling who is really really getting wound up by it ;)

[deathmonger]

Don't worry pal, I'm not trolling you :) Its the guy with horrible spelling who is really really getting wound up by it ;)

:two_thumbs_up:

[wobblydoggy]

Don't worry pal, I'm not trolling you :) Its the guy with horrible spelling who is really really getting wound up by it ;)

wat, ho do u meen?

[Cricket Tragic]

Pak technically beat us 2-1 [1999] We lost embarrasingly 2-0 to SA [2000] Aus beat us 2-1 in 2004. So thats really 3. B->

It was 1-1 in 1999 and that is how it will go down in the record books. You can't include the Asian test champ because it was a different tournament.

[Rameshraja17]

Aus - Piches in INDIA will their bowling ordinary attack so v can win. Eng - Obvious that ENG cant play spin in sub continent. In Home advantage INDIA s the supreme country , WC is an example

[Vikas Bhatt]

What crap. A tournament where matches where held in Pakistan and Sri Lanka. Why not lump all post 2000 tests in one series so we can win 4-3.

I said 'technically' for a good reason. The Pak tests were originally planned a 3 test series. Then suddenly the silly Asian test championship was rushed in and so the last test [Kolkotta] was taken off the bilateral series and pushed into the championship as it's opening test. Technically all India Pak tests were held back to back in India and Pak won 2 of the 3 tests it played on our soil. B->

[Vikas Bhatt]

we won 2-1 in 2010 (sachin 200) and lots of other times. in tests we have defeated them once in the 90s (srinath 6 wkt) and once in 2004 (sehwag was good in that series)

I was reminding you of the fact that we been whitewashed by SA at home [Azhar's last test match/series] while we have not won a series away against them.