4th Test: Australia v India at Adelaide Jan 24-28, 2012

[aussies1st]

Very Clarke like there, getting out before the interval and being clean bowled from a leave.

 

[typicalfan]

One of the other big differences between this years bowling and last years is the lack of no balls. Disciplined performances. How many times did no balls cost us last year?

 

[Horrie Is God]

Very Clarke like there, getting out before the interval and being clean bowled from a leave.

Too true..Hopefully that crap is in the past now..

That Saha innings had 10 times the substance of anything Dhoni has offered this summer..

 

[beads6]

Kohli has been brilliant. Will be a very good bat for India over the next few years.

 

[undertaker]

One of the other big differences between this years bowling and last years is the lack of no balls. Disciplined performances. How many times did no balls cost us last year?

Go and ask Michael Beer that question. That no-ball he got Alistair Cook out on turned out to be VERY costly in the context of that match. I know his selection in the team was THE MOST ridiculous of all the dubious ones during the Hilditch years, given that he was pretty much plucked out of obscurity (largely thanks to Shane Warne) and even none of the selectors had seen him play. However, his brief international career would've looked much more respectible had he not no-balled at that crucial moment.

 

[beads6]

Saha was also very good today. Looks like a proper batsmen unlike Dhoni.

 

[Tonearm Terrorwrist]

One of the other big differences between this years bowling and last years is the lack of no balls. Disciplined performances. How many times did no balls cost us last year?

3 or 4 from referrals alone

 

[El Diablo]

Why all of a sudden the constant no-ball checking on wickets? Have India decided to use a form of DRS exclusively for themselves?

very strange seeing it never happened once in the Aus innings

 

[undertaker]

very strange seeing it never happened once in the Aus innings

Exactly! I don't recall seeing this in the previous 3 tests. Why now suddenly doing this? Have the BCCI had a word to the umpires (not that it matters if the ball is legal)?

 

[Horrie Is God]

very strange seeing it never happened once in the Aus innings

To be fair you've got to get wickets to have referrals..:sarcasm:

 

[undertaker]

To be fair you've got to get wickets to have referrals..:sarcasm:

:lol:

 

[typicalfan]

3 or 4 from referrals alone

no balls release pressure whether they are wicket taking or not. Saw when Hilfenhaus overstepped at the time extras for the innings were at 2. Last year it would have been 15-20 odd.

 

[Bazzi]

I actually fell asleep towards the end of that last session before tea, woke up to the sound of Saha getting bowled.

 

[Tonearm Terrorwrist]

no balls release pressure whether they are wicket taking or not. Saw when Hilfenhaus overstepped at the time extras for the innings were at 2. Last year it would have been 15-20 odd.

We took wickets off no balls and the batsman went on to make a century. Very deflating.

 

[Horrie Is God]

Sidds the magnificent!!..

 

[Tonearm Terrorwrist]

Kohli's was missing leg but that's plumb

 

[Horrie Is God]

I repeat..Sidds the magnificent!!..

 

[Tonearm Terrorwrist]

Bill Lawry will have a heart attack if Siddle gets this.

Great bowling from Siddle though. Amazing turn around from the rubbish of last year

 

[IanG]

Siddle On a Hat Trick

 

[undertaker]

151.2km/h for the hat-trick delivery. Didn't know Siddle bowls over 150km/h