4th ODI: Australia v India at Adelaide Feb 12, 2012

[BunniesMan]

To belittle the man who saved our arse countless times coming in at 4 for f**k all by saying he was merely a scoreboard player who did his job and nothing more is incomprehensible coming from you. An idiot like BunniesMan I would expect to read that but you're on point more often than not.

Bevan had the big shot in him but his true class was the rotation of the strike, keeping the score ticking over with 1's and 2's and building for the last 10 overs. Keep in mind the mind set of the times in the 90's and early 2000's was that 4 an over was a good rate until the end. I sat in the ladies stand the day he ended Justin Ontong and put multiple pies up in to our section and he could take an attack apart if he decided.

I'll take it further and say he was a better first class bat than Hussey as well except that Bevan was wrongly identified as struggling with the short ball despite his efforts on the WACA against Walsh, Ambrose and Bishop on a cracked pitch.

Hey I reckon Bevan was a great player. One of my earliest cricket memories was his heroics on New Years Day 1996. One of the greatest ODI games I've ever seen along with that WC semi in 1999.

 

[Hallatia]

Australia have won the toss and will bat first

 

[Horrie Is God]

Toss: Australia are batting first. Clarke: "23 degrees here, better than 41 at Perth. Hussey's rested and Peter Forrest gets an opportunity."

 

[TheParraboy]

Australia are batting, in case no one else posted it

 

[aussies1st]

No Tendulkar so India clearly have a rotation system.

 

[Horrie Is God]

Australian team
DA Warner, MS Wade†, RT Ponting, PJ Forrest, MJ Clarke*, DJ Hussey, DT Christian, RJ Harris, MA Starc, CJ McKay, XJ Doherty
Indian team
V Sehwag, G Gambhir, V Kohli, SK Raina, RG Sharma, MS Dhoni*†, RA Jadeja, R Ashwin, R Vinay Kumar, Z Khan, U Yadav

 

[TheParraboy]

Wheres Sachin????????????

He was gonna get that ton in this game, bad bad india !!!!

 

[TheParraboy]

I wonder if Christian will open?

 

[Hallatia]

Wheres Sachin????????????

He was gonna get that ton in this game, bad bad india !!!!

I think you were over-reaching with your predictions this time

 

[Horrie Is God]

Clarke has got 2 of his 6 ODI tons opening..

 

[TheParraboy]

I think you were over-reaching with your predictions this time

Well, India will win this one still, even though they are without Sachin

We will need well over 325 to have a chance IMO

Not convinced on Forrest

 

[TheParraboy]

Clarke has got 2 of his 6 ODI tons opening..

Of course, yes, he could open, Wade down the order, after all Haddin is back next game.

 

[Horrie Is God]

This is Hadds lol..

 

[aussies1st]

Clarke to opener?

 

[snoozer]

Sachin ton coming up as well. Im really extra confident he will get it here

sachin read this and wants to be rested from the game.

told ya!

 

[TheParraboy]

Punter opening

 

[TheParraboy]

told ya!

:sto:

 

[aussies1st]

A heap of changes just for one player!

 

[TheParraboy]

Wouldnt be suprised if Clarke comes in next

 

[TheParraboy]

How good is it having Ritchie commentating, giving it to Dhoni for standing too far back