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[k-slice]

54/2
since all else has failed, i am now starting to support the indian fielders. In my own game, the fielders that save runs and effect runouts will win. i have given up on us competing on the basis of batting and bowling. hope i am proved wrong.

[dhruvdeepak]

dont worry we'll win. taken the bold move of dropping Tendulkar today!

[12th_Man]

Oh man!! How would SRT get his 100th 100 now ?
BTW on batting beauty, India doing good so far.

[12th_Man]

dont worry we'll win. taken the bold move of dropping Tendulkar today!

While it is a good initiative to get away from hero worship mode but I think the non performers should be dropped.
Going forward i would like to see VKohli,SRT in mix and rotate amongst VS,GG,SRaina.
After this series or in meaning less games,  MSD should be in the pool. Needless to say MSD for another Keeper.
MSD is currently India's weakest and strongest point. MSD picking a long term injury not only means grooming captain(s), also possibly three WK's for three formats.
It is high time VS and GG start scoring some runs.

[dhruvdeepak]

dont worry we'll win. taken the bold move of dropping Tendulkar today!

While it is a good initiative to get away from hero worship mode but I think the non performers should be dropped.
Going forward i would like to see VKohli,SRT in mix and rotate amongst VS,GG,SRaina.
After this series or in meaning less games,  MSD should be in the pool. Needless to say MSD for another Keeper.
MSD is currently India's weakest and strongest point. MSD picking a long term injury not only means grooming captain(s), also possibly three WK's for three formats.
It is high time VS and GG start scoring some runs.

a nice testing chase beckons

[dhruvdeepak]

3 runouts again...proud of this team! doing it against young aussies!

[achutank]

Sehwag's catch and rohit's run out - incredible 

[dhruvdeepak]

ack! no working streams....

[k-slice]

ack! no working streams....

dd check your messages.

[dhruvdeepak]

dhoni looking miserable out there!

64 needed from 50!

[dhruvdeepak]

excellent match - my only complaint is vinay kumar getting 2 wickets. (he actually earned them this time around)

umesh yadav bowled the fastest 10 overs by an Indian. ever. i think his average speed was 148kph!

[dhruvdeepak]

cmon msd get the singles at least. no need for risks, but need to move it around

[dhruvdeepak]

i take it back. dhoni is the fastest indian in the world. look at him run!!!!

[achutank]

Looks like dhoni is playing for his place in the side and with raina gone as I post I wonder if we have thrown a match we should have won

[dhruvdeepak]

wow! puppy backs doherty, who gets Raina bowled!

239-5.

31 needed off 23

[dhruvdeepak]

cracking game (because of MSD)


27 needed off 18.


jadeja returning to his roots of trying to instigate runouts

[achutank]

Tough ?

[achutank]

Jadu gone beeped

[dhruvdeepak]

13 off 8.

jadeja missed a few easy boundary balls and then got out.

all up to dhoni in the next 2 balls

[achutank]

Nonrunner on and dot ball

[dhruvdeepak]

all over dhoni has lost this one

[dhruvdeepak]

apparently dhoni playing unwell...

12 off 4

[dhruvdeepak]

king dhoni

[k-slice]

i need to start more threads!!

[dhruvdeepak]

MSD MSD MSD MSD

 

[achutank]

What a six

[achutank]

all over dhoni has lost this one

patience man 

[dhruvdeepak]

msd was just beeping with us all along

[dhruvdeepak]

brilliant he gives a decision on next match's pitch also 

[dhruvdeepak]

insane how dhoni triumphs against all.

i always figured clint mckay for a winner - he has this lucky knack of being on the right side of every tight situation (even in that 2009 match where sachin made 175).

dhoni just destroyed this reputation. and how. wow! one of the biggest sixes ever (save for Durban)

[dhruvdeepak]

Bradman can suck it


Here's another interesting stat from Rajneesh Gupta: "Highest batting avg in successful chases (Min.25 inns): Dhoni (104.89), M Clarke (89.20),Bevan (86.25) & M Hussey (83.87)."

[Blwe_torch]

Dhoni is the king of ODIs!

[12th_Man]

i take it back. dhoni is the fastest indian in the world. look at him run!!!!

Yes he is the quickest between the wickets. It was fun to watch MSD running with Hussey in one of the IPL matches against Mmbi last year.

[dhruvdeepak]

insane how dhoni triumphs against all.

i always figured clint mckay for a winner - he has this lucky knack of being on the right side of every tight situation (even in that 2009 match where sachin made 175).

dhoni just destroyed this reputation. and how. wow! one of the biggest sixes ever (save for Durban)

hmmm this guy has the opposite viewpoint - relating clint mackay to an agarkar or a vinay kumar:

http://blogs.espncricinfo.com/sadisthour/archives/2012/02/ive_never_rated_clint_mckay.php


I’ve never rated Clint McKay. Never.

Every time I see him on the Australian team sheet I think it’s a weakened team. And it goes back farther than that, when he played for Victoria in the old days I felt the same way.

For years I’d be one of seven people in the G watching him for Victoria and telling the other six people that I didn’t rate him. Only for one of them to point out that he’d taken 4 for 60.

I should love Clint McKay. I should talk him up in random conversations and wear a t-shirt that just has his face on it. Clint McKay grew up 15 minutes from where I did. We should share a Northern Suburbs of Melbourne bond.

Instead of complaining about him I should be worshipping his head-swaying run-up, fetishizing his good lengths and eagerly anticipating his back of the hand slower ball.

A friend of mine had heard McKay might be their team’s overseas player and wanted to know about him. All I had for them was that he was tall and had a good slower ball. I could give them no more information of a guy who I’ve seen bowl probably 40 times.

To be honest, I don’t think I’ve ever seen McKay not take wickets. But somehow I never seem to remember how he took them. They just appear over and over again.

He’s just one of those bowlers who takes wickets. In 18 ODIs, Mckay has 38 wickets at just under 20. That’s the sort of numbers that make any sort of preconceived perception sort of irrelevant.

And as I was writing this, he was Australia’s only bowler who looked like taking wickets. And then he was the only Australian bowler to be hit on to the cathedral by MS Dhoni, before following up with a waist-high no ball.

I’ve always felt that when someone hits McKay the ball goes further. He doesn’t get hit for small sixes, or gentle fours, people just hit him really hard. That could even be the whole reason I have had this thing against him.

Wickets are good, but everyone remembers the big hits.

That will probably be the case here again. McKay’s three wickets were handy, but I’d think more people will talk about how Dhoni almost killed spectators who were over a hundred metres away to win the game.

People are fickle like that.

[RicePlateReddy]

dont worry we'll win. taken the bold move of dropping Tendulkar today!

Good call!

[achutank]

We should have finished the match earlier: Gambhir


Adelaide: Man-of-the-match Gautam Gambhir feels that India's victory against Australia in match four of the CB series on Sunday should not have had to come in the last over.
"We should have finished the game in the 48th over. We shouldn't have taken this game to the 50th over. This is my personal observation," said Gambhir.

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The left-hander played an important hand of 92 that set up India's four-wicket win against Australia.
Gambhir however admitted that it's "easier said than done."
"It's easier said than done. There is far more pressure on the players who are in the middle. It's their turn to take the decision. I don't know why he (Dhoni) delayed it. Perhaps, he wanted somebody else to take the responsibility. Still the most important shot in the match was played by him," Gambhir said.
"If I was there, I wouldn't have looked to take it till the last over. I would have looked to finish one or two overs before. There is far more pressure even if you need 5-6 runs from the final over. But then we are different human beings, and we think differently."
The southpaw also backed the rotation policy and the decision to rest batting ace Sachin Tendulkar.
"The amount of cricket we play, it's important to rotate.
When we don't rotate, everyone has a problem. When we rotate, then it's an issue too. Be it Rohit or Raina, they get an extra opportunity. To be honest, this was the best XI too.
"More importantly, this is the XI that had the belief that they could beat any opposition in the park. One or two can't make the difference. It's the XI with belief. You don't want names. You want people who can deliver."
Gambhir said that it was important for one of the three from the top-order to bat till the 35th over.
"Someone from the top-order had to bat till the 35th over. Fortunately, it was me. I thought Rohit played a fantastic knock even though he made only 33 runs. But he did so at a very critical stage of the game. I'm very confident that he would succeed and a big score is around the corner."
Gambhir also said that as long as he is consistent, he is not bothered about landmarks.
"It's important to get consistent runs. If I am desperate for a century, it would go away. Any amount of runs that helps the team win is good rather than make a hundred on a losing cause."
"For me, even Ravindra Jadeja's 12 runs were very crucial in the team's win."
Television replays showed that Gambhir's leg before decision might have been a debatable one but the Indian opener was quick to downplay it.
"It could have pitched outside the leg stump but with a naked eye, it's just flash of a second you get to take a decision. It could have gone either way. But it's better to finish with 92 than with a zero."
Gambhir termed Umesh Yadav as the find of the tour.
"Umesh is the find of the tour. Somebody who can bowl at 150 kmph with a semi-new ball is fantastic. He should play long for India and be developed into a world class bowler. At that speed, it's tough for any great batsman. He is giving opponents back what we have been getting for years and years."
With the changed rules which made it mandatory for new balls being used from both ends, Gambhir felt that 270 was a good total.
"With two new balls, 270 was a good total. Two new balls also delay your game plan and the ball still remains new. The wicket was very similar throughout."
Gambhir dedicated this win and his knock to Yuvraj Singh who is recovering from a malignant tumour and presently getting treatment in the United States.
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[RicePlateReddy]

hmmm this guy has the opposite viewpoint - relating clint mackay to an agarkar or a vinay kumar:

You really hate "the other VK" don't you  I think he has the potential to shake off his mediocrity. For whatever it mattered, Dhoni picked him today ahead of PeeKay.

[dhruvdeepak]

hmmm this guy has the opposite viewpoint - relating clint mackay to an agarkar or a vinay kumar:

You really hate "the other VK" don't you  I think he has the potential to shake off his mediocrity. For whatever it mattered, Dhoni picked him today ahead of PeeKay.

no he has great potential to be the next venkatesh prasad. though venky had the advantage of height. and actually knew how to bowl the legcutter

[dhruvdeepak]

i thought it was a nice touch to give Gauti man of the match.

it is easy to be swayed by a match-defining 6 (think back to the world cup final)


Sehwag is disgustingly out of form. he scored more in that one ODI against WI than he has on this entire tour.

[dhruvdeepak]

http://www.espncricinfo.com/commonwealth-bank-series-2012/content/current/story/553054.html

Dhoni stayed cool. He wanted to bat the last over. However, he couldn't find the gap to take a single. Fifth ball of the 49th over, he would have wanted a single to allow Ashwin a free hit off the sixth. Pushed straight to cover. Now he needed a single just to retain the strike. Pushed not far enough to the left of the bowler, Xavier Doherty.

Knives begin to sharpen. Walls begin coming closer. Sensible people do unreasonable things. Ashwin did, walking right across the stumps to try and flick Clint McKay behind. Another miss. Now 13 off five. Finally Ashwin took a single, leaving Dhoni 12 to get off four.

Dhoni remained emotionless, a man who knew the target could be achieved in two hits, that he was capable of hitting those two hits, that he had done it before, and that he had done it so well it seemed planned. Then boom. Dhoni got a length ball and he lofted it for a six, far enough to clear any ground in the world. He did not move. He looked at the bowler. The bowler now knew this could get over in one ball. No, he feared it could get over in one ball.

so true.