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I see both Marshes get out to sraight ones , how shit is Kholi then, yeah I agree BH I'm still trying to find out where this NSW bias is coming from I certainly haven't posted about it, no doubt I'm guilty of providing stats as to why Shaun should of got a gig ahead of Usman, pretty sure i was mocked by someone for providing stats for a game that is completely founded on stats.

I might have concerns and doubts who gets picked for Australia but once they wear that baggy green I'm a hundred percent behind them and hope they do well, unlike that absolute dickhead Leatherstops who hopes they fail.

Beasley Hutton wrote: Freeze if you do remember I did post some time back around that South Africa Bellerive debacle that if it wasnt for the NSW contingent of Starc, Hazlewood, Warner, Smith, Lyon where on earth would Australian cricket be but that NZ cold air must be getting to your grey matter me thinks.
I have no problems with NSW players being chosen to play for Australia like the players listed above but as long as they are the right one's which Maddinson is most definitely not Kurt Patterson (another NSW boy) should have been chosen for that spot.
I will have to admit I got it wrong with O'Keefe who I didnt think would trouble the Indians on their home dusty clay pits but he bowled beautifully I must say just the right lengths & line & speed to continually make the Indians play with doubt in the back of their minds...hopefully he and Lyon can back it up in Bangalore.

Like I said BH who cares who does well in a win...a win is a win...u and I always will have our banter...I have no doubt the NSW boys will stuff up next match that is the nature of the game....surprised myself SOK took a 12 for...set himself a big benchmark now...but hey it may be Lyon next match or even better a Marsh 100 or a Marsh 10 for.....good effort by Behrendorf yesterday with his 9 for!

Monte Pannasar was interviewed on Fox Sports.Monte has been training Okeefe and was wrapped with his 12 wicket effot.
Monte believes India will not produce another spinning deck in this series.The wickets from now on will be flat decks.So if we bat well we could win this series 1-0.

Anchorman...If we go into the next test with one spinner.Who plays Lyon or Okeefe...

There will be a minimum of 2 spinners picked for each Test both will be ok.

An outstanding performance by the Australians. I don't think too many people saw that coming including the Indian cricketers themselves. The challenge will now to be to keep up that level of performance when the opposition bounces back which they surely would have to do in the 2nd test. Can the spinners maintain their disciplines when Kohli and others attack them on better pitches as will inevitably happen. Can the batsmen deal with Ashwin and Jadeja when they are on tracks that just spin a bit rather than turn square? If they can then they have a good chance of winning this series. The bonus for Australia in winning the first test is that the Indians will be second guessing themselves as to what sort of pitch to prepare for the remaining tests. We have beaten them on a raging turner so where do they go from here?

I had to laugh hearing the Pune curators reply after copping it from the Indian media over the 1st Test pitch..."I only produced the sort of pitch the BCCI told me too"