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Old 28-12-2007, 04:06 AM in reply to Django's post starting "Match situation is very important here...."
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Dravid of 2007 is not the same as Dravid of 2003 - perhaps the burden of captaincy has affected his batting. I do not have his statistics in the last 2 years, but I am sure they are not as good as his overall career performance.
It shouldn't Anil Kumble is captaining them and Dhoni is vice captain.
3 former captains out their as well (Tendulkar, Ganguly and Dravid) which usualy spells disaster.

8 on the offside and 1 on the onside feilds with the paceman bowling consistantly 1-2 metre outside offstump. Suggests India is primarilly interested in keeping the runs down.

Interesting the biggest succesfull 4th innings total scored to win a match at the MCG in test history is about 340 runs.

Zaheer traps Symonds plum in front LBW for 44

Aus 5/243 lead is 390.. no rain predicted for the next few days. India are in deep trouble.
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