2nd Test: India v Australia at Hyderabad (Deccan) Mar 2-6, 2013

[vvvrulz]

Has there been a more overrated, gutless player in the history of Aussie cricket than Shane Watson?

He's still a better player than half of this side.

 

[Sphagnum]

Clarke is just playing his natural game, which he always has.

England did the same thing, play your natural game in India and succeed.

None of the other Australians have looked to do so hence the 11 guys around the bat all innings.

It's why we lost that series there with our gun team. Laxman and Dravid played that sensational innings after being asked to follow on and our batsmen went into their shell for the rest of the series and ended up choking.

Play your natural game, merkins. The Indians thrive on momentum. When they have none, they are worse than Bangladesh. Stop feeding the beast.

 

[Hutty1986]

He's still a better player than half of this side.

:lol: Dark days!

 

[vvvrulz]

No comparison. Wrighty was a champ. Cowan's a Tasmanian NSW reject chump.

:lol: Calling Cowan another John Wright is like comparing Coach Kearney to Coach Bellamy.
At this stage Cowan is a very poor man's Richardson.

What about Ravi Shrastri? Clearly no edge from Clarke down the leg side, and Shrastri is going off about snicko not picking up a noise because the bat face was closed. No chump stain, there was no snicko because he didn't hit it you goose.

Ravi Shastri used to be a good commentator until the last five years or so when he became the BCCI's bum boy. No there's nobody more biased and full of himself than he is and I include Healy & Brayshaw (ok maybe not Healy)...

 

[madunit]

Cowan moves past his bogey score 36.

He's passed 36 just 6 times, 5 of those times he scored a 50 and on the other occasion he scored a ton.

 

[Red Bear]

Yeah, probably - I merely meant the very good vs great threshold... regardless of his overall average (about 52) he only averages about 40 outside Aust at the moment, which makes him the mirror image of Jayawardene, who many Aussies criticise

In part because he's peak has coincided with only 8/20 tests (before this series) being played outside Australia - where he hit tons against Sri Lanka and against South Africa, and had a poor series vs the Windies. He's now doing quite well in India.

 

[vvvrulz]

:lol: Dark days!

Yep! Right now Australia can do with every average cricketer they can get a hold of, Watson is the lesser of many evils ffs even No Show is wearing a baggy green. To think that once upon a time they could have fielded three XI's who'd dominate anybody.

 

[Mr Angry]

Whatever happened to the hype around Hughes, wasn't he the prodigy? (the Big Show before the Big Show)

When those of us outside Australia said despite his early record, nobody that looked that technically awful could be consistently good, we were bagged... when Chris Martin owned him, it was a learning experience... now finally are we accepting he's shite on anything but a road without a decent helping of good fortune...

The answer is the NSW cricket system.

When you are a standout with in it, this usually means it will translate to higher honours.

Ugly does not mean bad, Gilchrist was ugly but very effective. Hughes is a different ugly.

For me it is not even technic, I would argue expectation is his problem right now, and he is failing under that pressure.

But I remain of the opinion he will get many runs.

On a different note, how about Watto, very pretty but very ineffective.

And Maxwell getting wickets is probably not good for our future.

 

[JJ]

The answer is the NSW cricket system.

When you are a standout with in it, this usually means it will translate to higher honours.

Ugly does not mean bad, Gilchrist was ugly but very effective. Hughes is a different ugly.

For me it is not even technic, I would argue expectation is his problem right now, and he is failing under that pressure.

But I remain of the opinion he will get many runs.

On a different note, how about Watto, very pretty but very ineffective.

And Maxwell getting wickets is probably not good for our future.

Ugly and fundamentally flawed is what I'd say...

didn't take long for the Poms, then the lengendary Chris Martin and now the English spinners to find weaknesses.. and he's got nothing to fall back on... the Martin saga was Python-esque... plenty of ugly batsmen have been technically sound (Wright, Andrew Jones, even to me Border and S Waugh) and the likes of Wright and Waug simplky eliminated shots that repeatedly got them out - sensible

Watson to be fair has been decent much of his career...

 

[hineyrulz]

Well that was a cracker of a ball, this wil be all over before lunch now.

 

[Hutty1986]

RIP aussies, Clarkey falls.

 

[BDR]

Ah well that was due to happen eventually. Could be over by tea.

 

[JJ]

all set up for the Big Show to cement his spot and confirm his all-round genius

 

[vvvrulz]

Jadeja gets a lot of hate in the Indian circles but he actually is a pretty handy player.
Sort of like what Maxwell pretends to be.

 

[Didgi]

Unfortunate that there goes making them bat again.

Nice to see Cowan performing. Like I've said, far better value than most of our batsmen.

 

[vvvrulz]

Now as long as No Show gets a golden duck I'll be happy.

 

[hineyrulz]

Won't be long now.

 

[NrlCoach]

cowan about to cry lol

 

[Hutty1986]

Oh FFS.

 

[vvvrulz]

Cowan blows yet another chance at a substantial score.
But lets give him this at least he gets starts.