Adelaide Test Pre match and Selection discussion thread

[bulbul]

but we done what Pakis didnt..Win World cup Semifinal last year :yay:

[Ultimate_Game]

Thanks but I would take a WC win anyday

[Sir john]

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old video :cleveland:

[Magneto]

Hah! Neither Rohit nor Ojha got picked. Making Ojha a passenger after such a good effort against WI is just destroying his confidence.

[Pagalpanti]

They look beaten. Would've had a bit of optimism had players shown some sign of fight but they're just going through the motion. We might drag it to Day 4 lunch session though, pitch looks to be flat.

[yoda]

we will draw this match and declare series victory. :hehe:

[NareshK]

We should learn the nitty gritty details of spot fixing, match fixing, infighting and how to announce retirement and then make a comeback within a week and finally the most important - how to blame BCCI and ICC for everything that's wrong.

[Magneto]

Clarke is turning out to be a super-nervous/supersafe captain. He has enough runs on the board to beat India by an innings easily. They're just playing selfish cricket to boost their averages and score a couple of double centuries. Disgraceful!

[badmash]

We should learn the nitty gritty details of spot fixing' date=' match fixing, infighting and how to announce retirement and then make a comeback within a week and finally the most important - how to blame BCCI and ICC for everything that's wrong.[/quote'] and win a test match :winky:

[vvvslaxman]

Clarke is turning out to be a super-nervous/supersafe captain. He has enough runs on the board to beat India by an innings easily. They're just playing selfish cricket to boost their averages and score a couple of double centuries. Disgraceful!

:cantstop:

[akshayxyz]

deserve to - No should - No can - No .. - No .. - No .. - No Will - may be, I hope not.

[Needforspeed]

if you plot the time which I spent each day watching test matches in this series against progress of this tour on x-axis, you'll get a perfect example of exponential decay curve. The sad part is I can not reduce that time any more. I have already stopped watching, y'day I did'n see even a single ball, now I have to cut down on the number of times I check scores on cricinfo, then will cut down on the number of media reports on cricket i read and eventually will cut down on the time I spend in cricket-talk section of ICF. Have to take cricket out of my system.

Don't think that's possible. Been trying to do so for years. Even after all these defeats, the next time India wins something I will be again doing this. :dance: I guess we Indian Cricket Fans are too thick-skinned. :two_thumbs_up:

[badmash]

I was actually interested in ashwin's performance..don't know y but I thought he would bamboozle Australia with his variations ... watched the match till 1 am when Ashwin had taken two wickets...then ponting and clarke started to attack ashwin...went to sleep when ponting was on 87 because the match started getting boring...lots of runs..no wickets..sehwag bowling lots of overs...ZZZzzzzzzz

[Ultimate_Game]

Well of ourse :winky. Can't fathom why we send in 16 player squad on tours when 12 would suffice. After all if a batsman can't be dropped after 7 consecutive failures in Eng and Aus, when will we ever get the standby batsman in

[VRV Singh]

It will be on through the night here. Won't stay up. Will inspect the damage in the morning.

Better than I thought. Three wickets. :yay:

[asterix]

The title should have been Will Agneepath series last before the release of AgneePath.

:cantstop:

[Yoda-esque]

Nope.No chance..Match will be over on 4th day post-lunch..Yes,an Innings defeat

[Bilal_Khan]

the heck is agneepath ?

[khanjee]

well at least we would have had dhoni to blame for everything that goes wrong... Honestly Dhoni as cap look way better than the half a day of what I saw viru doing...no slip in test matches on the first day? and so muchmore..really?

[Vinci]

Guys I spent hours and hours on statistics of Ponting from FirstClass to Test matches as a captain, batsman, and non-player. I also came with a binomial, normal, log normal to model runs scored and thus each distribution similar to Possion Distribution. On the distribution, I equated lognormal, produced the formula closer to James's Pythagorean's. There are some deviations but they are within 0.00014 of the sample range of RS and RA. Please be aware, James had it for modelled for baseball but I modified to suit cricketing needs. PontingScore = RS^c/(RS^c + RA^c) where... (google to get James theory what these represent.._ I don't want to post my formula and observation here but you can PM me for details. What does it mean to commoners? In the layman terms, my equation yields that Ponting may outscore Sachin in 5.8 years if he continues to play and Sachin for another 2.3 years. BTW, I sent my finding to Cricket Australia, and am awaiting their reply.

Hey DhoniAdorer, interesting work there... Can you please PM me the details? baseball seems to be fast turning into a statistical guiding light to cricket... anyway, for the start, did you try parameter fitting for modeling the runs scored? you can try using alpha distribution and check if it reduces the deviations(?)