It's official, we have LOST the trophy!
And once again it was our fearless skipper that has cost us the game.
2 terrible mistakes in the last few overs have handed India victory.
1. Bowling Colin Miller without a second slip and a gully, quite simply the dumbest move he has ever made. 3 nicks later India have gone from 19 behind with 3 wickets left to 9 behind with 3 wickets left (2,4,4)
2. Not attacking fully when they still needed 8 to win. ie not having a third slip. Yet another nick, this time off Gillespie that would have gone straight into the breadbasket of third slip, instead it goes for 4.
Two crucial errors that have quite simply cost Australia a test series win in India.
They will say that it has been the most competitive series in history. RUBBISH!
Australia let India off the hook in the second test as well as the third. Australia are simply a better team. It was only 3 players - perhaps 4 (and a suspect umpire)that were the difference in the series. The players are Singh, who terrorised the Australian's imparticular Ponting, Gilchrist and Warne, Laxman who's innings in Calcutta turned the match and Steve Waugh who cost Australia a massive first innings total by handling the ball and by his failure to tighten the screws when Australia had a chance of winning. The 4th player I speak about is Ricky Ponting. The only supposed batsman in the entire series to not get at least 50 in total runs - not in an innings. 100 or so runs from him over the course of the tests and the results would have been far different, he was our Ganguly, Ganguly never played well but still made enough to be a contributor.
And once again it was our fearless skipper that has cost us the game.
2 terrible mistakes in the last few overs have handed India victory.
1. Bowling Colin Miller without a second slip and a gully, quite simply the dumbest move he has ever made. 3 nicks later India have gone from 19 behind with 3 wickets left to 9 behind with 3 wickets left (2,4,4)
2. Not attacking fully when they still needed 8 to win. ie not having a third slip. Yet another nick, this time off Gillespie that would have gone straight into the breadbasket of third slip, instead it goes for 4.
Two crucial errors that have quite simply cost Australia a test series win in India.
They will say that it has been the most competitive series in history. RUBBISH!
Australia let India off the hook in the second test as well as the third. Australia are simply a better team. It was only 3 players - perhaps 4 (and a suspect umpire)that were the difference in the series. The players are Singh, who terrorised the Australian's imparticular Ponting, Gilchrist and Warne, Laxman who's innings in Calcutta turned the match and Steve Waugh who cost Australia a massive first innings total by handling the ball and by his failure to tighten the screws when Australia had a chance of winning. The 4th player I speak about is Ricky Ponting. The only supposed batsman in the entire series to not get at least 50 in total runs - not in an innings. 100 or so runs from him over the course of the tests and the results would have been far different, he was our Ganguly, Ganguly never played well but still made enough to be a contributor.
