India will have a tough time during Australia tour :Glenn McGrath

[kubrickian]

Easy series whitewash for Australia. Aussie conditions don't suit our bowlers at all. In England, conditions assist swing which helps our bowlers. In Australia, you need to bowl with pace, have to be tall and hit the deck to extract bounce and seam movement which doesnt suit our bowling attack. Aussie bowling attack is much much better than England especially at home. I don't see anything other than losing all 4 tests. I'm generally optimistic but you have to be realistic too. But hey, we will always have Dhoni to blame. So let's just make him captain and blame him for all the failures of bowlers and batsmen. :P

[sensible-indian]

Possibility for 0-4 is very very high as of now.

[vvvslaxman]

Easy series whitewash for Australia. Aussie conditions don't suit our bowlers at all. In England, conditions assist swing which helps our bowlers. In Australia, you need to bowl with pace, have to be tall and hit the deck to extract bounce and seam movement which doesnt suit our bowling attack. Aussie bowling attack is much much better than England especially at home. I don't see anything other than losing all 4 tests. I'm generally optimistic but you have to be realistic too. But hey, we will always have Dhoni to blame. So let's just make him captain and blame him for all the failures of bowlers and batsmen. :P

Aussies are used to bashing our bowlers in IPL. Atleast England did not have exposure against our bowlers. Ths is going to be absolute batting massacre.

[bowl_out]

^^ Yeah. right. Dhoni will play Bhuvaneshwar in all five matches and give him 15 over spells, trying to get some non-existent swing....And rest Yadav and Shami....Yet the bowlers will be blamed for not picking up wickets

[kosingh]

I sure hope Bhuvi is not played in Australia. Gimme an attack of Ishant, Aaron, Yadav and Ashwin in Australia.

[Cricket_Hacker]

England was like home sweet home for Bhuvi ,conditions will not be same in Australia. Will be cannon fodder on bouncy australian pitches @125 kmph. Should be there only for LOI's

[vvvslaxman]

England was like home sweet home for Bhuvi ,conditions will not be same in Australia. Will be cannon fodder on bouncy australian pitches @125 kmph. Should be there only for LOI's

There is a role for swing in Australia. Infact last time we were largely undone by swing. They bowled mostly full length deliveries.

[Marut]

The difference between the English and the Aussie tour will be - Indian batting came apart after the second test in England, but Indian bowlers did pretty well throughout the series. If the batsmen had given them a fighting total they would have performed even better. In Australia, not only our batting will come apart, but Australia will make mountains of runs too. We could see numerous sub 150/200 Indian totals and quite a few 500/600+ Australian totals. The margin of defeats are likely to be very massive. If innings and 244 runs was possible in England, here we might see innings and 300-400 runs!

[kosingh]

The difference between the English and the Aussie tour will be - Indian batting came apart after the second test in England, but Indian bowlers did pretty well throughout the series. If the batsmen had given them a fighting total they would have performed even better. In Australia, not only our batting will come apart, but Australia will make mountains of runs too. We could see numerous sub 150/200 Indian totals and quite a few 500/600+ Australian totals. The margin of defeats are likely to be very massive. If innings and 244 runs was possible in England, here we might see innings and 300-400 runs!

I don't think the bowlers did pretty well at all. Their numbers look worse thanks to bizarre field placements and dropped catches. There were a couple of innings here and there some bowlers bowled well. I don't think any bowler deserves more than 6 or 7 out of 10 in the overall series, though.

[gs]

The difference between the English and the Aussie tour will be - Indian batting came apart after the second test in England, but Indian bowlers did pretty well throughout the series. If the batsmen had given them a fighting total they would have performed even better. In Australia, not only our batting will come apart, but Australia will make mountains of runs too. We could see numerous sub 150/200 Indian totals and quite a few 500/600+ Australian totals. The margin of defeats are likely to be very massive. If innings and 244 runs was possible in England, here we might see innings and 300-400 runs!

In spite of the above nothing will change. Capt. cool will still be at the helm and express satisfaction at the "improvements" and "process". The same bunch of losers will be in the team. The fatso coach will continue to milk BCCI.

[kubrickian]

I don't think the bowlers did pretty well at all. Their numbers look worse thanks to bizarre field placements and dropped catches. There were a couple of innings here and there some bowlers bowled well. I don't think any bowler deserves more than 6 or 7 out of 10 in the overall series' date=' though.[/quote'] We are speaking in relative terms because they are generally quite average. In last 3 tests, batting completely flopped and bowlers will always be under pressure if you only have 150 on the board.

[special K]

Aus will win 3-0. I think India might pull off a draw somewhere. This Aussie side batting wise aren't that good, it's their bowling . Indian bowlers will cause Aus batsmen trouble. England have a bit better battling line up then Aus but Aus have a far superior bowling unit.

[King Tendulkar]

4-0 Dhoni will say its all part of the process

[fineleg]

4-0 Dhoni will say its all part of the process

And N.Srini/precambrian will say "who cares abt tests?" :haha:

[Deleted_User_1]

I honestly dont think we will do as bad as we did here. Our players should enjoy the bounce more.

Yeah, if you mean Indian ausses bouncing on aussie poles!

[Marut]

I don't think the bowlers did pretty well at all. Their numbers look worse thanks to bizarre field placements and dropped catches. There were a couple of innings here and there some bowlers bowled well. I don't think any bowler deserves more than 6 or 7 out of 10 in the overall series' date=' though.[/quote'] Bowlers need support from batsmen. The bowling will be under enormous pressure if your batsmen can't put even 150 on board. Dhoni's negative captaincy will make it doubly worse.

[Austin 3:!6]

Australia tour will be much tougher than the recently concluded England tour: a)India always struggle more in bounce and hard pitches. b)Our record in Australia even during our golden era is dismal. c)This being a young side will be absolutely pummeled down under. d)Australia is much much better and no nonsense team than England. e)England is the only overseas country where we have done reasonable well historically. If we perform so poorly here, imagine what will happen in Australia. f)ODI series will have England as 3rd team, so don't think we have any chance there as well. Only positive form the tour will be enough practice before the World cup. Haar haar ke...haar haar ke finally we will learn how to cope with bounce before WC :giggle: I just hope we don't go worse than we did there in 99.

[Stuge]

I'm not even looking forward to it now .

[kosingh]

We are just going to treat the Aus tour and the world cup as a process towards a greater goal.

[CSK Fan]

b)Our record in Australia even during our golden era is dismal.

On the contrary, for almost 10 years, India gave the toughest competition to Australia in Australia in tests. No other team even came close.