1st ODI: Australia v India at Melbourne Feb 5, 2012

[Horrie Is God]

Cricinfo are reporting Wade & Dan Christian will make their debuts..So no Forrest by the looks of it..

India win the toss & are going to have a bowl..

 

[Tonearm Terrorwrist]

f**k we don't have to put up with the green text do we?

 

[Hallatia]

India rest Sehwag

 

[Horrie Is God]

Australia team
DA Warner, MS Wade†, RT Ponting, MJ Clarke*, MEK Hussey, DJ Hussey, DT Christian, RJ Harris, MA Starc, CJ McKay, XJ Doherty
India team
G Gambhir, SR Tendulkar, V Kohli, SK Raina, RG Sharma, MS Dhoni*†, RA Jadeja, R Ashwin, R Sharma, R Vinay Kumar, P Kumar

 

[Tonearm Terrorwrist]

Good crowd :lol:

 

[Horrie Is God]

Will this series still be going once the footy season starts??..

 

[Hallatia]

I think it will only because the league season starts so early this year

 

[Hallatia]

yup, there is a match on the 2nd of March (Melbourne), which is NRL kick off, and the three finals are on the 4th (Brisbane), the 6th (Adelaide) and the 8th (Adelaide)

 

[Horrie Is God]

Poor scheduling..

The hype from the start of the season will swamp most of the interest from what should be a pretty good series..

The crowds are already tiny..

 

[Tonearm Terrorwrist]

The ball is only dead when the keeper touches it. That should be runs not a dead ball.

 

[IanG]

Poor scheduling..

The hype from the start of the season will swamp most of the interest from what should be a pretty good series..

The crowds are already tiny..

Yeah well that's India's fault. They wanted to come later in the piece.

In my experience the seasons have usually overlapped by a few of weeks anyway.

In fact I remember one time I played cricket on a Saturday Afternoon and then went to the footy that evening

 

[Hallatia]

I blame the NRL for starting so early this season

 

[aussies1st]

So that is what a boundary looks like.

 

[Horrie Is God]

They both look like they are batting with this..

 

[aussies1st]

Warner really is average in this format.

 

[Hallatia]

Noooooooo! He's the captain of my fantasy team

 

[Horrie Is God]

These kids in the Indian side are bowling very well..

 

[IanG]

Warner OUT Bowled for 6
Punter in

Australia 1 for 15

I blame the NRL for starting so early this season

Well that's cause they wanted a week of no club games when they have the rep games

 

[Hallatia]

These kids in the Indian side are bowling very well..

when I saw that Khan wasn't playing, I was tossing up whether to select Vinay for my fantasy team, and for whatever reason, I brought Starc in instead

 

[Hallatia]

Punter gone for 2, Vinay Kumar gets his second. Australia 19/2