Fourth Test - India vs Australia @ Delhi

[Smoooothy]

Starting the thread since no one else has

5 changes for Australia
IN
Watson
Wade
Maxwell
Johnson
Pattinson

OUT
Clarke
Haddin
Starc
Doherty
Henriques

We have won the toss and are batting

Pitch will play tricks, looks slow and will take turn

 

[lewigie]

Clarke not playing? Uh oh

 

[Magma]

apparently it looks like a day 3 pitch already

4/4 tosses won, whitewash.

btw starc is out due to surgery.

 

[Ron]

Starting the thread since no one else has

5 changes for Australia
IN
Watson
Wade
Maxwell
Johnson
Pattinson

OUT
Clarke
Haddin
Starc
Doherty
Henriques

Gotta say, starc is a little stiff there

We have won the toss and are batting

Pitch will play tricks, looks slow and will take turn

Starc has been sent home for surgery, not really dropped.

Might as well gibe MJ a run, nothing else has worked on this tour.

Is this the worst captain and VC combination we have had in the last 30 years?

 

[Smoooothy]

i knew that...

 

[Carbine Chaos]

They musn't rate Usman much if he still can't crack a game.

 

[PTizzle]

They musn't rate Usman much if he still can't crack a game.

That's what I was thinking. Still, who do you drop?

 

[damochandler]

india will be batting by stumps

 

[Carbine Chaos]

That's what I was thinking. Still, who do you drop?

Hell, anybody. Might as well have given him a run.

 

[mediumsizered]

They musn't rate Usman much if he still can't crack a game.

His best chance was in the 3rd Test whilst the 4 naughty boys did detention. Given he wasn't chosen then, he was never going to get a game this time.

 

[Ron]

His best chance was in the 3rd Test whilst the 4 naughty boys did detention. Given he wasn't chosen then, he was never going to get a game this time.

Seeing as he was one of the four naughty boys, it kinda made it a bit hard to choose him.

 

[damochandler]

ussie has played his last test. thank christ this is the last test. i hope they have learnt that a squad with only 6 batsman is ridiculous

 

[FRUMPY]

His best chance was in the 3rd Test whilst the 4 naughty boys did detention. Given he wasn't chosen then, he was never going to get a game this time.

He would have played the 3rd test instead of smith if he was available. stuffed himself up by not doing the team thing and being suspended for a test.

 

[PTizzle]

I wish we'd have had a bowl looking at this pitch.

 

[danielnajdek]

india will be batting by stumps

Yep it will happen.

With Clarke out even more so.

 

[TassieEagle]

One of the worst batting line ups I have seen from an Aussie side... but honestly I don't see a solution.

 

[Magma]

for some reason i dont think that top 6 is that bad.

i think we may have a problem.

 

[Smoooothy]

I wish we'd have had a bowl looking at this pitch.

don't want to be batting last on that minefield

 

[mediumsizered]

Seeing as he was one of the four naughty boys, it kinda made it a bit hard to choose him.

True. He has become such a non-entity I forgot he was one of the naughty boys. He has certainly been nothing more than a tourist during this tour. He should have been hanging out with Merv Hughes' tour group.

 

[PTizzle]

don't want to be batting last on that minefield

I don't want us to bat at all

http://i.imgur.com/9ZwpbJZ.jpg

 

[Howard Littlejohn]

Is this the worst captain and VC combination we have had in the last 30 years?

Who is vice?
I don't know much about Watson as a captain, only that as a player he should not be there. His captaincy might be OK.
Kim Hughes/Rod Marsh combo would have been dysfunctional, gven Marsh reportedly spent his later career trying to bring Hughes down.

 

[brisbane13]

They musn't rate Usman much if he still can't crack a game.

he shot him self in the foot buy not doing his home work. there would have to be another issue why he cant get a game

 

[alfy!]

I don't want us to bat at all

http://i.imgur.com/9ZwpbJZ.jpg

Oh dear.

 

[Kakkle]

So uh, why not actually do something different and bowl first?

 

[western royboy]

Who is vice?
I don't know much about Watson as a captain, only that as a player he should not be there. His captaincy might be OK.
Kim Hughes/Rod Marsh combo would have been dysfunctional, gven Marsh reportedly spent his later career trying to bring Hughes down.

Which adds to the intrigue seeing that now he's the Third Selector on duty for this Test.