Australia v India: 4th Test, Adelaide

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4th Test, January 24-28, Adelaide Oval
Start time: 1030 CST, 1100 EST, 0530 IST, 0000 GMT

Australia:
1 David Warner, 2 Ed Cowan, 3 Shaun Marsh, 4 Ricky Ponting, 5 Michael Clarke (capt), 6 Michael Hussey,
7 Brad Haddin (wk), 8 Peter Siddle, 9 Ryan Harris, 10 Ben Hilfenhaus, 11 Nathan Lyon.

India:
1 Virender Sehwag (capt), 2 Gautam Gambhir, 3 Rahul Dravid, 4 Sachin Tendulkar, 5 VVS Laxman, 6 Virat Kohli,
7 Wriddhiman Saha (wk), 8 R Ashwin, 9 Zaheer Khan, 10 Ishant Sharma, 11 Umesh Yadav.

Ponting has scored twice as many hundreds as Tendulka in the last 12 months

Im nodding off , come on Ricky hurry up !!

India have been outplayed, slaughtered, tonked and utterly owned by Aus this series.

Shame

Better you say that than me Skye. It does look bleak for India though.

Well im off to my bed chaps , enjoy the slaughter

LB i shall see you later

Good night Kenny. Sleep tight!

Kvitova through to the semis. I like her with her hair down in the post match interviews... can't wait.

Sharapova

But the noise from Azarenka when she hits the ball

Clarke bowled for 210 by Yadav
386 run partnership comes to an end.
470/4

Ricky pulls one away for 4 to bring up his 200!

Ponting's 6th double century... 5th in Oz.

Hope he can get past his previous best of 257.

Sehwag's and Dravid's rotten series continue. Dravid (The Wall) bowled again.

India 31/2 573 behind.

4-0 is on the cards.

WILL TEST CRICKET DIE A SLOW DEATH IN INDIA, or will it be so quick that we won't feel a thing?

Indian cricket will be back again but they have had a horrible time. They have gone from the best team in the world to being possibly whitewashed by England and Oz in the space of a year. Crushing simply crushing.

I hate this as well as those darned Aussies will get some confidence from this.

Yeah, I am not too happy about that either, we have to play them in Australia later in the year.

Nothing worse than those jumped up Aussies getting confidence....

Seriously though, it is good to see them playing some great cricket.

Problem with Aussie confidence it has a knock on effect.

you had Ponting down, now he is back and his confidence turns into a personal belief of invincibility.

Once he gets going and you add Clarke to that middle order, they will pound your bowlers into submission over the course of a few tests.

Fortunately some teams do have a better mental fortitude than India.

But still.

Good afternoon...
Nothing worse than a confident Australian side I'd agree.

Oh, go play with Bryce Lawrence.

True Biltong, the Aussies are the best team in the world at letting the confidence out. Ponting is a great batsmen and was close to being dropped but this series has given him a new lease on life and his batting will be very good again for a while.

Your not welcome here breaker..... damn over confident Aussie

Bryce Who? Isn't he getting mugged by those school kids outside the washrooms?

We've had a pretty torrid time the last year or so... maybe a bit longer (by our standards) so it's good to see the confidence rebuilding.

However, we will still need to replace Punter, Hussey at some stage.

Whether they are still in fine form in 12-18 months time remains to be seen but I'd be wary of getting too far ahead of ourselves at this stage. This India side is nowhere near a No.1 side any more and Australia has a lot of hard work ahead if they want to get back to the top of the perch again.

61/2 at the close of play.

I dont think that you Aussies will bat again this series breaker. I think that India are done and dusted.

They may not be the #1 team anymore but they are no mugs and your guys have whiped the bar with them. Well done.

OK, I'll grab me coat Billy. (cue: go to Pakistan-England thread where the people are nice)

Ha, you think we are going to forget about this match on another thread?

By the way, how is Brycie doing? Has he recieved the key of Australia yet?

Yeah i am not a nice person breaker, you should have realised that by now

eirebilly wrote:Yeah i am not a nice person breaker, you should have realised that by now

Yeah, we are only nice to Ayssies with lots of self doubt.

No key needed here mate. Just roll up like everyone else. Oh, unless you are a trouble-maker; in which case, things can get difficult.
(I've seen your strategic comments on the other thread. As subtle as a sledgehammer but so true nonetheless.)

Billy, so I guess that helicopter ride over the North Sea is out of the question for me now... unless you have some evil plan in mind.

Bang on Biltong, Aussie's are far too confident when winning.. Much better when they are loosing

Helicopter ride is still on breaker....... hope you can swimn though

As you both know - we are gracious winners and even more humble losers compared to England and SA fans.

It's another irritable trait which other sporting nations find hard to grasp.

Sure Billy... is that why you asked me to bring all those bricks?

Absolutely...... For every test Australia lose, you get to let a brick fall

I would'nt be that mean breaker

Good news in Abu Dhabi - your magic is already working I see.

Got to try something

Linebreaker wrote:As you both know - we are gracious winners and even more humble losers compared to England and SA fans.

Lb made a funny.

Linebreaker wrote:(I've seen your strategic comments on the other thread. As subtle as a sledgehammer but so true nonetheless.)

Subtelty is my middle name

Which thread, I gargle a lot.

I'm glad you picked that up Bb.
Did I hit any particular nerve?

biltongbek wrote:

Linebreaker wrote:(I've seen your strategic comments on the other thread. As subtle as a sledgehammer but so true nonetheless.)

Subtelty is my middle name

Which thread, I gargle a lot.

The almost unnoticeable subtle reference to Australia getting back to No.1 again on the Pakistan-England thread.
You really do arrive with a bang - like a rhinoceros in a chinese lantern shop. Great to see.

Rhinoceros in a chinese lantern shop?

Yeah, maybe I should work on my subtelty and my diplomacy.

I never found it quite so satisfactory to send someone to hell and making them look forward to the trip.

It tends to go over the heads of some, and then they don't notice your intent.

Straight shooting with a subtle twist weems to work much better.

But then again......

You call it as you see it (and damn the consequences!) which is always good and funny to read.

My biggest worry is whether we can bowl India out twice again. I hope so.

The wicket looked so placid this morning with Punter and Clarke in total control... then the wickets began to fall; more because of tiredness, poor judgment (Hussey) and the odd good piece of work from the Indian bowlers.

I've got a feeling there might be some resistance tomorrow but they should be able to enforce the follow on some time on Day 4... or late Day 3 if they can run through the order. Oz bowlers have to play as well as the last 3 Tests and keep hammering away hoping the errors will come at regular intervals.

I don't think India is even playing for pride anymore. You should roll them over easy enough.

Linebreaker wrote:As you both know - we are gracious winners and even more humble losers compared to England and SA fans.

How the hell did i not see this...........

Bleedin Aussies get a couple of wins and the start to get all chirpy again.....

eirebilly wrote:

Linebreaker wrote:As you both know - we are gracious winners and even more humble losers compared to England and SA fans.

How the hell did i not see this...........

Bleedin Aussies get a couple of wins and the start to get all chirpy again.....

Yes, we can be even more vocal than those pesky Munster fans.... right?

eirebilly wrote:

Linebreaker wrote:As you both know - we are gracious winners and even more humble losers compared to England and SA fans.

How the hell did i not see this...........

Bleedin Aussies get a couple of wins and the start to get all chirpy again.....

we do have to admit, they had a lean time of it for a while. Remember how much flak they got on old 606 when they lost their ranking?

That was bad man, real bad.

Linebreaker wrote:

eirebilly wrote:

Linebreaker wrote:As you both know - we are gracious winners and even more humble losers compared to England and SA fans.

How the hell did i not see this...........

Bleedin Aussies get a couple of wins and the start to get all chirpy again.....

Yes, we can be even more vocal than those pesky Munster fans.... right?

Now you are really pushing it breaker... 2 extra bricks under your arm now for the heli flight

biltongbek wrote:

eirebilly wrote:

Linebreaker wrote:As you both know - we are gracious winners and even more humble losers compared to England and SA fans.

How the hell did i not see this...........

Bleedin Aussies get a couple of wins and the start to get all chirpy again.....

we do have to admit, they had a lean time of it for a while. Remember how much flak they got on old 606 when they lost their ranking?

That was bad man, real bad.

I thought we got off quite lightly. It could have been much worse like in the RWC last year. Oh, hang on... that was just YOU!

Linebreaker wrote:

biltongbek wrote:

eirebilly wrote:

Linebreaker wrote:As you both know - we are gracious winners and even more humble losers compared to England and SA fans.

How the hell did i not see this...........

Bleedin Aussies get a couple of wins and the start to get all chirpy again.....

we do have to admit, they had a lean time of it for a while. Remember how much flak they got on old 606 when they lost their ranking?

That was bad man, real bad.

I thought we got off quite lightly. It could have been much worse like in the RWC last year. Oh, hang on... that was just YOU!

I categorically deny that.

I will admit I will dedicate my life to always remind people of the Lawrence clan. Father and son.

Fair enough... each to their own I guess. We've had similar gripes with certain refereeing decisions over the years but you have to move on and hope the IRU can enforce better standards (trying to) and that the referee involved realises their own performance must improve or be more consistent (not sure about that... you'd know more about it than me) It will even out in the future unfortunately for us and I'm sure that day in Wellington will fade from your memory - slightly.


OK. Back to the cricket. Dinner went down well for both teams and they'll all be tucked in bed shortly. No controversies in this series... thus far.

We must never forget the fallen my friend.

Or referees.

We have to honour the fallen and remind our great grand children of the injustices.

They're not dead are they?

They'll dust themselves off and make amends next time - as opposed to the fallen (in war) who do not have that option.

It's only sport, fcs.