1st test AUS V IND

[Shaka]

Originally Posted by Nick

The most dangerous bowler on this pitch IMO will be Kumble, due to the bounce he generates. That is assuming that reports of a dry hard surface with cracks is true. I find it hard to see beyond an Indian win to be honest, and think Australia might be rueing the fact they left Stuart McGill at home.

Agree totally about McGill he should be in India, but I think an India win is anything but a foregone conclusion. Without Tendulkar Indian batting line up loses the air of invincibilty and importantly they lose their figurehead. I see a very hard-fought contest with India slight favourites due to home conditions.

[R W S]

Bookmakers are a good guide to who has the advantage going in to the first test and the foolowing best prices are from sportinglife.com

India v Australia - Sun Nov 07, 2004 - Series Betting
Australia (6/5), India (68/29), Draw (3/1)
Best Book: 100% (10 Bookmakers)

India v Australia [1st Test] - Sun Oct 10, 2004 - Win Market
Draw (5/4), Australia (17/10), India (64/17)
Best Book: 102% (14 Bookmakers)

Series odds can be found here

[fair_&_balance]

Any Information where we can see this match in USA?

Or Cricket fans all over the world are going to suffer because of BCCI's incompetency.
It stinks.

[Beny]

Aus win the toss and choose to bat.


The aus team is:

Hayden
Langer
Katich
Martyn
Lehman
Clarke
Gilly
Warne
Kaspa
Gillespie
McGrath

And sorry but I cant rember the Indian Team compleatly suffice to say they picked Pathan and Nehra over a 3rd spinner

[fair_&_balance]

Here is the Indian team Playing in this game.There is no Nehra. But I think they should have had Agarkar in Place of Zaheer simply because Agarkar has better record againt AUS and always gets Langer.

A Chopra, V Sehwag, R Dravid, VVS Laxman, *SC Ganguly,
Yuvraj Singh, +PA Patel, IK Pathan, Z Khan, Harbhajan Singh,
A Kumble.

[fair_&_balance]

Originally Posted by fair_&_balance

Any Information where we can see this match in USA?

Or Cricket fans all over the world are going to suffer because of BCCI's incompetency.
It stinks.

GREAT NEWS FOR YOU ALL IN USA.IT IS COMING FREE ON CHANNEL 457 on DISHNETWORK.

[Shaka]

Australia are 169-4 at the moment. Doesn't seem like the wicket is too bad at all.

[Beny]

I havent been watching for the last hour or so. We were 1-112 when I left. Ouch.

The wicket is shocking, the ball wont even pass above the waist when bowled half-way down the pitch. I've seen it virtualy roll to the keeper.

[Shaka]

Ok i haven't seen any of the cricket, I've been watching the Pak/SL ODI. I'll see if I can get it on one of the satellite channels to see how bad this pitch really is. Wickets in the sub-continent rarely have much bounce though so I'm not sure it can be described as shocking unless the ball is doing all sorts of strange stuff.

[Beny]

I reakon Sri Lanka was better than this. Mind you I'm not complaining, it's still playable.