India vs Victoria

[dr nick]

lol

 

[Lidge]

India 9/266 declared. Vics in reply 1/67 @ Lunch (Elliott 36*, Hodge 19*).

 

[Lidge]

Vics 2/155. Hodge 74* and on fire.

 

[llosis]

Turbantor got some stick from Hodge and has been relieved by Sehwag.

Singh has 1/62 off 12.

The Indian bowling looks pretty light on.

 

[Lidge]

100* for Hodge. The little run machine has been carving them up.

3/213 (Hodge 100*, Hussey 21*)

Update.

The Vic's middle order has vanished in thin air (surprise surprise!).

Hussey & McDonald out in consecutive overs. The Freak Harvey now joins Hodge (100*) at the crease. Score 5/233

 

[The Spornstar]

Originally posted by nicko18
If Bracken was playing for Victoria he wouldn't even be in the picture

How about you debate my points mate - I want you to justify Bracken's selection for the test team ahead of Inness.

 

[llosis]

Stumps day 2

India 9/266d

Vic 5/348
Hodge 153*
Harvey 54*

Partnership of 116*

 

[Jars458]

I think Innes Tait and Rofe would all be better options than Bracken in the long form of the game.

Who knows why the selectors rate him though.

 

[The Spornstar]

Originally posted by Jars458

Who knows why the selectors rate him though.

Who's going to be first to give you some help with that?

 

[Catman]

Originally posted by Jars458
I think Innes Tait and Rofe would all be better options than Bracken in the long form of the game.

And where do Tait and Rofe come from?

 

[Cupido13]

Originally posted by The Spornstar
Tried to cover your ar*se there didn't you? 4/59 isn't a bad effort against the world's best players of spin is it?

My mistake, Sadagopan Ramesh, Harbajhan Singh, Zaheer Khan and Lakshmipathy Balaji are some of the finest batsmen in the world, hats off to Cameron White!! Gutsy effort from Cameron White. I understand he has the potential to be a great player, my point is that he is not a great player yet. Also, I would rate his 4 top order wickets against NSW a couple of years back as a better performance than these 4 ******s from India.

 

[Lidge]

Originally posted by Cupido13
My mistake, Sadagopan Ramesh, Harbajhan Singh, Zaheer Khan and Lakshmipathy Balaji are some of the finest batsmen in the world, hats off to Cameron White!! Gutsy effort from Cameron White. I understand he has the potential to be a great player, my point is that he is not a great player yet. Also, I would rate his 4 top order wickets against NSW a couple of years back as a better performance than these 4 ******s from India.

Question.

How do you rate White's 4/59 against a Test standard line up in comparison to Harbajan Singh's 2/117 (ER 4.33) against a State side with NO current Test players? Keeping in mind they are bowling on the same strip - with Singh getting use of the better bowling conditions on day 2.

 

[Jars458]

Originally posted by Catman
And where do Tait and Rofe come from?

SA. Why?

 

[My North]

Victoria are 5/373 after 100 overs with Brag Hodge on 168 not out and Ian Harvey on 64 not out. You might find a declaration by the Vic one Hodge get to 200 and Harvey to 100. I just hope Cameron White remember to tell the India or might give a bit of there own back to them and forget to tell the india

 

[Lennyfan]

Originally posted by llosis
Stumps day 2

India 9/266d

Vic 5/348
Hodge 153*
Harvey 54*

Partnership of 116*

Good afternoon at the G.

Suprising, out of hodge, moss and harvey (didn't see elliot bat), I wiould have to say that moss was hitting then a lot better. Freak run out which was unfortunate but seems to have number 4 in the batting line up his own now. Has to be the most in form all rounder in Australia but has his distractors (love that he is becoming a batting all rounder which helps with our bowling all rounders (harvey, white)...

Hodge was great. Has matured and know now how to develop an innings. If he does get the call up to the test team will know how to work the singles and become a great batsman. Has every shot in the book, his pull shots are powerful and the drives were a delight.

Harvey also seems to have put his youth behind him. Relising that they could plunder this bowling if they played it smart he developed a partnership that never looked in danger.

Of the bowlers, Nehra was the only one looking like they would be of test standard. Needs to learn how to straighten it more often, then left handers will destroy him otherwise.

Khan and Balaji spray it around and were punished. And singh is in trouble (apart from when the batsman are very new to the crease and their feet are moving slowly) because off spinners with no tricks are killed on most australian pitches.

Good pitch to bat on (2nd day is usually the best). Should be a good deck to host NSW at in a couple of weeks.

For mine, harvey takes McDonalds spot. Otherwise if hussey can learn to build an innings and moss continues on we have a pretty decient state side (but lacks depth in the batting).

 

[JUBJUB]

Vic's are 6/486
Hodge is 240 n.o
White is 32 n.o
Harvey made 71.

 

[Lidge]

My guess is the Vics will declare and give themselves 50 overs to knock the Indians over.

 

[bluechampion]

long haul.

Hodge 260*

Clearly Hookesy has decided to give Brad evey chance to bat his way into the Selectors thoughts.

Or maybe the powers that be don't want India to have another chance to bat in aussie conditions before the NSW match? If NSW only let them bat once, they'll go into the first test with only two proper innings in Australian conditions at a reasonable level of cricket.

 

[Lidge]

Hodge out for 264. White 39* Vics 7/518

At least Boonie was on hand to see this knock - and Hohns was on hand to watch his last hundred.

Won't have done his prospects any harm.

 

[pazza]

On Ganguly's mentally incompetent effort in declaring an innings closed without informing the umpires and their opponents. Is there any chance that Ganguly can be brought before a committee for bringing the game into disrepute, by failing to inform all interested parties of his declaration decision?

 

[Fall Out Boy]

Had a glorious day watching Hodgy smack the Indians all over the ground.

I left when we declared though, so i missed Peter Roach having a bowl.

 

[w00dy]

read in the sun how there was no love lost between the 2 sides this game... hooksey was furious with the indians renegging on an agreement to make it a 70 over match... so he wanted to keep the indians out there for as long as he could... and the indians weren't to impressed with this, ganguly bowling wide of off stump to show his displeasure with still being in the field...

good job hooksey...

and as for the inness/bracken debate... bracken was shown he is a very good limited over bowler, whilst matty inness has shown he can struggle in this form of the game, sometimes struggling to make the victorian XI... in the 4 day game however it is the exact opposite... bracken has done nothing to warrent any further honours whilst matty inness has terriffic numbers...

the point is, why was bracken selected in the aussie 12 ahead of an inness for the last test when his performances in the 4 day game have never been up to standard??? how could the selectors justify that decision?? everyone talks about how hard it is to get into the aussie side, and that you have to be consistantly performing to get a look in... bracken has not met this criteria where others like inness have... he should not be in the picture as far as test matches go