rkt.india Posted January 23, 2012 Share Posted January 23, 2012 Waugh averaged 80 in the final 12 months of his career' date=' Taylor was aound 60+ in the last 12 months and Katich was 50+ in the last 12 months[/quote'] and still they were excluded because Aussies wanted to blood youngster. When Michael Clark was first picked in place of Steve Waugh, his FC average was 36. Link to comment
saneindian Posted January 23, 2012 Share Posted January 23, 2012 and still they were excluded because Aussies wanted to blood youngster. When Michael Clark was first picked in place of Steve Waugh' date=' his FC average was 36.[/quote'] Waugh was never forced out, stepped away on his own. And one of the drivers for that decision was the urgency to handover the test captaincy to the 2003 WC winning skipper Punter who was scoring runs everywhere around that time. And no Clarke did not replace Waugh in the side. He made his test debut in India only because Punter was not fit for the first 2-3 tests in 2004. Taylor too was never forced out, stepped out on his own. If he had to to be forced out, would have been a period when he was struggling between 97 and 98. Katich went out as Clarke saw his a potential threat to his captaincy and the personal history the two have had. Was their best batsman in last 3 years before being dropped while the Aussies stuck with Hussey and Punter. Link to comment
Singham Posted January 23, 2012 Share Posted January 23, 2012 Only batsmen should be picked based on domestic records. Bowlers, esp,fast bowlers should be picked on their pace and potential. Vinay and mithun are prime examples that bowlers should not picked on the basis of their domestic performance. Link to comment
rkt.india Posted January 23, 2012 Share Posted January 23, 2012 Waugh was never forced out' date= stepped away on his own. And one of the drivers for that decision was the urgency to handover the test captaincy to the 2003 WC winning skipper Punter who was scoring runs everywhere around hat time. Taylor too was never forced out, stepped out on his own. If he had to to be forced out, would have been a period when he was struggling between 97 and 98. Katich went out as Clarke saw his a potential threat to his captaincy and the personal history the two have had. Was their best batsman in last 3 years before being dropped while the Aussies stuck with Hussey and Punter. No. He was not willing to leave. He was told before the series that this is going be his last series even if he does well or not. Here, our ATGs are not doing well for long now and our selectors and BCCI is still not able to take any call. I do not think we will see a different batting line up than this in the next home series as well aside from any injury. Our selectors do not have in them to talk to these ATGs and says that this is going to be their last test series. Link to comment
achilles Posted January 23, 2012 Share Posted January 23, 2012 What is interesting to note then is that despite the 3 Aussies being in good form, they were asked to go. Its not that we don't have it in us to dismiss non-performers. We did get rid of an "out-of-form" Dada who was then forced to up his game to make a comeback and Bhajji, who clearly has lost the motivation to come back. The problem is the selection panel lacks people who talk straight. They don't want to answer the questions about why they dropped XYZ player, they don't want to rotate players coz the players themselves are against it. They don't want to usher in young players while constantly maintaining that "this team can beat any team". This reeks of delusion coz we lost 8-0 in England, couldn't even win practice matches in both England and Australia and have lost 3 games down under too. To me, this is just stupidity. But then again, this is the way our cricket runs and we get rid of people who try to change it. We deserves this caning. Link to comment
Singham Posted January 23, 2012 Share Posted January 23, 2012 How many of you going to wake up in the morning and watch the match? :yay::nervous: After all the dismal performance. How many of u r still hopeful? Link to comment
bulbul Posted January 23, 2012 Share Posted January 23, 2012 ill catch up after 6am till lunch its nothing to do with Hopefullness...without seeing little bit of cricket or following continuosly in CI i feel like missing something Link to comment
Old guy Posted January 23, 2012 Share Posted January 23, 2012 i would .. but wont follow whole day Link to comment
Number Posted January 23, 2012 Share Posted January 23, 2012 I will. till 9:30 probably. If it were a 10 game series , we were 9-0 down .. I feel I would have still done that. Link to comment
Dhonuts Dhoni Posted January 23, 2012 Share Posted January 23, 2012 Bad news guys. I snuck into Adelaide oval and took this picture. Better stay in bed! Link to comment
Number Posted January 23, 2012 Share Posted January 23, 2012 ^ What if we bowl first ?? Link to comment
Old guy Posted January 23, 2012 Share Posted January 23, 2012 Bad news guys. I snuck into Adelaide oval and took this picture. Better stay in bed! i can see ponting dancing .. and trying to find his middle stump again :D Link to comment
khanjee Posted January 23, 2012 Share Posted January 23, 2012 will be up watching ..plus being on the ET zone, that give me a bit of adv... Link to comment
Dhonuts Dhoni Posted January 23, 2012 Share Posted January 23, 2012 ^ What if we bowl first ?? D.Warner 300* i can see ponting dancing .. and trying to find his middle stump again :D I can too if he decides to play that sort of **** shot again. Yadav is very good. Link to comment
Old guy Posted January 23, 2012 Share Posted January 23, 2012 D.Warner 300* I can too if he decides to play that sort of **** shot again. Yadav is very good. honestly i will only be watching cos of these players warner ,harris form australia kohli,yadav,saha (he isnt really special but would be interesting to see how he copes) and rohit(if he plays) Link to comment
yoda Posted January 23, 2012 Share Posted January 23, 2012 haven't watched much of the series so far. ever since the first test, have tried to tune out as much as possible. Link to comment
Sachinism Posted January 23, 2012 Share Posted January 23, 2012 Starts at 11:30 I'll be watching til lunch and assess the situation from there Link to comment
singhprakash72 Posted January 23, 2012 Share Posted January 23, 2012 It will be evening for me but what the heck ...it might be last time watching the great Indian trio bat. So may be worth a watch ! Link to comment
Cricketics Posted January 23, 2012 Share Posted January 23, 2012 Haha. We would be already awake. You poor guys. For us it starts 7pm Link to comment
Old guy Posted January 23, 2012 Share Posted January 23, 2012 gonna sleep so i can catch the game :D Link to comment
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