Stuff the Poms, lets play India every second year!

[Adelaide Hawk]

India would have won a series in australia if your players wouldn't have cheated and steve bucknor wouldn't have given poor decisions in australia's favor.
India will definitely win a test series in australia under kohli if australians do not use unfair practices.

India are s**t pal.

 

[JG22]

India would have won a series in australia if your players wouldn't have cheated and steve bucknor wouldn't have given poor decisions in australia's favor.
India will definitely win a test series in australia under kohli if australians do not use unfair practices.

Move on from 2008, facts are Australia won the series.

Kohlis men will never win a series here when a much better team was never able to. Don't think Kohli will win a test here unlike Smith in India.

 

[Jbudds]

India would have won a series in australia if your players wouldn't have cheated and steve bucknor wouldn't have given poor decisions in australia's favor.
India will definitely win a test series in australia under kohli if australians do not use unfair practices.

How exactly did we cheat?

 

[Gough]

I like the four year cycle, call me old fashioned. And let's face it, who here hasn't got a semi at the prospect of an Ashes summer?

 

[Belnakor]

BCCI wouldn't have it.

They've been humiliated every time they've come here for the last century.

they give up too early. India throw the towel in against Australia about 2 tests in every series. They basically started talking "wait until you play us in india" half way through the last series.

 

[smasha]

India have a home game here in Melbourne because more Indians get to the ground than Aussies lol.

1.2 billion population versus 23 million lol.

Nice fair comparison.

 

[iluvparis]

Love when we play in India - always something happening on their pitches.

To be honest our some series against India don't excite me that much - generally 2-3 boring batathons. Prefer Saffers/England at home any day.

 

[Ok Boomer]

India would have won a series in australia if your players wouldn't have cheated and steve bucknor wouldn't have given poor decisions in australia's favor.

Umpiring doesn't excuse that massive choke against Michael Clarke your gutless, and in one case racist tailenders had. Even if they survived that test for a draw, the series would have ended up level, not as a India win. I feel bad for other Indian fans who have to be associated with delusional clowns like you.

 

[PhatBoy]

India are s**t pal.

Probably why series results are so evenly matched over the last 20 years.

 

[PhatBoy]

India have a home game here in Melbourne because more Indians get to the ground than Aussies lol.

1.2 billion population versus 23 million lol.

Nice fair comparison.

And a group of sandbars consisting of a few million destroyed every team on the planet for 20 years. Population is irrelevant.

 

[roscreasl98]

India would have won a series in australia if your players wouldn't have cheated and steve bucknor wouldn't have given poor decisions in australia's favor.
India will definitely win a test series in australia under kohli if australians do not use unfair practices.

Which "Unfair Practices" are you referring to??

 

[JG22]

they give up too early. India throw the towel in against Australia about 2 tests in every series. They basically started talking "wait until you play us in india" half way through the last series.

They literally have been saying that in recent years.

 

[Scotland]

This is the only interesting series in years.

They come here, we make massive totals and they either bat it out for a draw or capitulate. We go there, we make feeble totals against spin.

The same problems that have plagued us in India are starting to creep in over the last two tests.

 

[Borisdog]

Whilst it has been an interesting series, I'd prefer to not play them at all. They're dead-set nothing but trouble.

 

[Scotland]

I'd prefer to play them on proper pitches.

Not the roads we serve up each year, but good old fashioned fast and bouncy pitches where the keeper can sign autographs over the fence between deliveries.

 

[Blue1980]

Wouldn't work, there'd be minimal time to play anyone else.

Rubbish, England can do it, so can we. We are doing nothing for ages after the 4th test

 

[Blue1980]

We should play both England and India less often. It's bad for Test cricket globally.

I'd rather they set up a proper international Test schedule and reduce these long bilateral series to special tours (similar to the British and Irish Lions in rugby).

It was all very well to constantly play long tours back in the days when there were half a dozen Test nations and one format, but it's just not practical any more. I love a big long meaty series between two top countries as much as anyone, but it's killing the game.

We should have 7 tests a home summer.

Scale back ODI's and have a couple of winter tests too

 

[Demosthenes]

We should have 7 tests a home summer.

Scale back ODI's and have a couple of winter tests too

I'd love that but it'll never happen. Test cricket has to be workable within its current footprint.

 

[GeelongFTW]

Move on from 2008, QUOTE]

 

[The Casey Cat]

Outside of that one series in 2011 england have been bloody awful in Australia since the mid 1980's, those two 5-0 series that book ended that 3-1 win of theirs were brutal beatings.

Yep on the whole I'd say India have been more competitive. They were good here without winning in 03/4, 07/8 and 14/15. England trounced us once but been obliterated every other series.

 

[Cleavy]

once every 4 years (at home) is plenty.

 

[Ciderhound]

And they won't anytime soon either, next time they tour they can expect a pace battery of Stark-Hazlewood-Cummins and Pattinson, added bonus with that group is 3 of them can bat allowing us to play a specialist spinner as well.

And hopefully the pathetic minions at cricket Australia wake up and smell the coffee, refuse to play nice anymore and serve up 3 fast, bouncy and grass laden wickets for each test.

 

[Donnie Darko]

Werent the stadiums largely empty in the series?
I doubt it will ever be an intense rivalry .

 

[ams4crows]

I'd love that but it'll never happen. Test cricket has to be workable within its current footprint.

Test Cricket at Adelaide oval is booming! We love it, could easily have two tests in Adelaide and CA would make a massive profit.

Give us two tests over some s**t meaningless ODI or international 20/20!!

 

[Mateyman]

Somewhat harsh to put a decade's worth of defeats to SA as being down to transition. How hard is it to just accept that they've been the better side in the majority of meetings in that period? You could argue they're still transitioning from the Kallis and Smith era (not to mention being without de Villiers and Steyn for the series win this summer)

From memory in that period they've won 3 series, we've won 2? I wouldn't say they've clearly been better in head-to-heads between us, but they've been the better side over the whole period undoubtedly.