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Old 03-02-2008, 10:33 PM in reply to sanketh84's post starting "if u look at it...few strokes that were..."
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The "massive" ground didn't seem to stop Australia did it? The scored 33% of their runs off the bat in boundaries, and had they batted 20 overs looked on course for at least 160. India faced 105 balls and scored 71 off the bat, deducting the 3 fours scored they scored 59 off 102, I had a quick look and there were 55 dot balls. Are you seriously suggesting that all of these balls weren't scored off because of the ground? Nonsense. If roles were reversed you would be praising the Indian bowlers for the next 6 months, and probably laughing at the Australian batsmen for the same time. A dot ball isn't a victim of the size of the ground, and neither are 95% of 1s, they are caused by either good bowling (restricting or preventing attacking shots), good fielding / field placing or poor batting. At the most India may have scored what, 10 more runs? Its time to stop finding pathetic excuses and accept the fact that India woefully underperformed, however well Australia bowled. That is the only reason you weren't entertained, but if you just want to see 4s and 6s, maybe bowlers should be replaced with a bowling machine to stop bowlers spoiling the game by doing their job well.
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