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| India vs Australia Day 1 Highlights 1st Test Melbourne 2011 Posted: 25 Dec 2011 10:10 AM PST
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| Rain may play spoilsport on opening day of India-Australia 1st Test Posted: 25 Dec 2011 09:27 AM PST
Even as excitement reaches fever pitch in anticipation of the India-Australia Boxing Day Test slated to commence on Monday (December 26) at Melbourne Cricket Ground, rain threatens to wash out a large part of the opening day. Weatherman Alex Zadnik predicted thunderstorms would likely occur during the day that is likely to have maximum of 25 degree temperature. However, MCC secretary Stephen Gough said that only rain on the day would interrupt play, with the opening Test between the two nations scheduled to start at 10.30am. “The torrential downpour that hit Melbourne on Christmas Day won’t be a concern,” Gough said.
“We have the entire centre wicket square covered, as well as the bowlers’ run-up. There are no pools of water on the ground because of the excellent drainage. And we’ll use super soppers if necessary to ensure the ground is in perfect condition for play. Everything is good to go.” India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni and his Australian counterpart Michael Clarke have already promised some tough cricket over the next two months though they categorically stated they would like to get over the bitter memories of the last tour here in 2008 and play in the spirit of the game. The famed batting trio of Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid and VVS Laxman, will most likely be playing their last series in this country and have made it clear what it means winning a series to them. Unlike Australia, India are yet to announce their playing XI for the match. The batting looks solid as ever with the presence of the “Big Three” and a lot will also depend on how Virender Sehwag and Gautam Gambhir fare at the top of the order. Virat Kohli is likely to be picked over Rohit Sharma in the middle order. The bowling, considered to be India’s weak link on the tour, looks unsettled with doubts over fitness of premier fast bowlers Zaheer Khan and Ishant Sharma. Dhoni, however, assured Saturday that everyone in the team is “fit” for the series opener. Ravichandran Ashwin picked-up a four-wicket haul in the second warm-up match at Canberra and is likely to get the nod ahead of Pragyan Ojha. © Agencies  |
| India vs Australia Day 1 LIVE Streaming 1st Test MCG 2011 Posted: 25 Dec 2011 09:23 AM PST
Watch India vs Australia , 1st Test, Day 1, 2011 (to be) played at Melbourne Cricket Ground LIVE STREAMING on WWW.THECRICKET-TV.INFO India will undertake the toughest test of all with the start of first Test at MCG in a four-match Test series in Australia. Australia’s form has been patchy over the last six months, and India have prepared better for this series than they did for the England tour. Yet the hosts will still have a better handle on conditions and on the other side India looks stronger on paper. All this promises to be a tough contest for both sides to get off the mark first in this series. Catch the action of India vs Australia, 1st Test match 2011 LIVE and ONLINE at THECRICKET-TV
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| India vs Australia (Ind vs Aus) 1st Test MCG Live Cricket Streaming Links Posted: 25 Dec 2011 08:30 AM PST
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| India vs Australia (Ind vs Aus) 1st Test, Day 1 Live Cricket Streaming Links Posted: 25 Dec 2011 02:30 AM PST
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| India vs Australia 1st Test (2011) Melbourne (MCG) Preview Posted: 25 Dec 2011 12:00 AM PST
With a young and inexperienced side to lead, Michael Clarke has already conceded that it would be quite a task for his greenhorn bowlers to contain India’s veteran line-up of batsmen. But never the best of travellers despite their improving record, the Indians would be challenged by the sheer hostility of conditions that Australia is known for.
The larger grounds and the bouncing tracks would test the Indian side even though the visitors hold the edge against the most inexperienced of Australian sides. It is India’s best chance considering how Australia have struggled in the past few months and if Sachin Tendulkar manages to score that elusive 100th international hundred, it would be cause of bigger celebrations. In fact, such has been the wait for the ton that an early lead for the two teams could become a sideshow if Tendulkar reaches his milestone in the opening Test. Tendulkar, the game’s biggest legend with 15,183 runs from 184 Tests, chases that century after an excruciating wait of seven Tests and 13 innings which even his team-mates are urging him to end now. On the other side, Ricky Ponting, with 12,656 runs from 158 Tests, is the game’s third biggest scorer ever and is arguably the best Australian batsman ever after Sir Donald Bradman. Yet, the former Australian captain finds his head on the chopping block after failing to score a century in the last two years, a wait of 16 Tests and 30 innings when he advanced his total by only 856 runs and a mere eight half centuries. Indeed this Test is a story of plots within plots with India chasing that elusive series win on Australian soil which hasn’t happened on nine previous visits, 36 Tests and 64 years. India’s trinity of batting legends, Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid (13,094 from 160 Tests) and VVS Laxman (8,626 from 130 Tests) almost surely have their absolute last chance of scripting history in Australia as another visit by India on these shores is not scheduled before 2014. On paper, it should be an easy task given Australia have a callow attack of James Pattinson (2 Tests), Peter Siddle (27 Tests), Ben Hilfenhaus (17 Tests) and Nathan Lyon (7 Tests). Yet, the promise they have shown, as individuals and as a bowling group, turns them as Australia’s most potent weapon in the forthcoming series. Pattinson, Siddle and Hilfenhaus all bowl in the 140-km zone and bring diverse variety on the table. While Pattinson is extreme speed with lethal away movement, Siddle is bouncy with a back-of-length approach and Hilfenhaus is a renowned exponent of late swing. In Lyon, Australia probably have their best off-spinner in the last 30 years. It is a bowling attack which is expected to make up for the frailty in batting which has suffered collapses of 136, 47, 192, 88 and 127 in different innings of the last 21 Tests of two years. Australia’s troubles have been laid on the doors of two of its most experienced batsmen, Ponting and Mike Hussey, though its worries with its openers is no less pronounced with Philip Hughes failing to make the most of his opportunity and Shane Watson becoming injured with an annoying regularity. Wicketkeeper Brad Haddin is talented but his 2171 runs from 39 Tests at 36.18 average with just three hundreds don’t stack up to the class of Adam Gilchrist who never failed to shore up the lower half of the batting during his astonishing 96 Tests in which he cracked 17 centuries in his decade-long career lasting till 2008. It’s a batting line-up which is palpably wary of India’s swing-led attack of Zaheer Khan, Ishant Sharma and Umesh Yadav even though the first two have got their fans anxious on their fitness. Both Zaheer and Ishant were troubled by ankle injuries in recent times but this week has shown very encouraging signs on their prospects for the Tests. Ishant indeed hit his full straps as he bowled in the nets at the MCG on Friday. Zaheer, in contrast, looks eager and keen even though he has bowled well within himself in lead-up to the opening Test. Sharma announced himself on to the world stage during the 2008 tour and has since then accounted for Ricky Ponting on six occasions. Zaheer doesn’t look all that impressive on paper in Australia, having picked his wickets at 40 runs apiece and never completing a full series on two previous visits. Yet, he is magnificent with the new and old ball and one prime reason why Australia ordered a batting camp earlier this week. While it is critical, India’s new-ball bowlers Zaheer and Sharma show prime fitness in Tests, it is equally critical that Gautam Gambhir and Virender Sehwag fire as openers in the present trip. The two Delhi cricketers have not hit a century in Tests this year. But Gambhir with Sehwag are India’s most prolific openers ever and must see off the new ball if India’s middle order is to come to its own. The grassy MCG pitch is expected to be extremely helpful for fast bowlers in the first 30 overs after which it is likely to flatten out in batsmen’s favour. Sehwag and Gambhir thus have a critical role in the line-up. While Gambhir is yet to play a Test in Australia, Sehwag has usually flourished here scoring 833 runs from seven Tests at an average of 59.50. A young Virat Kohli is almost certain to occupy the number six batting slot but would be looking over his shoulder at Rohit Sharma who many reckon is presently in the form of his life. Skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni has every reason to prove that the 4-0 defeat in England this summer was an aberration in his glittering tenure as captain of India during which he has won 17 of 34 Tests. One worry for India would be its fielding at a huge MCG, India don’t seem to have enough strong shoulders to throw from the boundary. Overcast conditions and a slight drizzle is expected to spice up the opening day of the Boxing Day Test and captains of the two sides would be tempted to opt to field first. Teams (from): India: Mahendra Singh Dhoni (captain), Virender Sehwag, Gautam Gambhir, Rahul Dravid, Sachin Tendulkar, VVS Laxman, Virat Kohli, Ravichandran Ashwin, Zaheer Khan, Ishant Sharma, Umesh Yadav, Abhimanyu Mithun, Pragyan Ojha, Wriddhiman Saha, Ajinkya Rahane. Australia: Michael Clarke (captain), Brad Haddin, Ed Cowan, Ben Hilfenhaus, Michael Hussey, Nathan Lyon, Shaun Marsh, James Pattinson, Ricky Ponting, Peter Siddle, David Warner, Mitchell Starc (12th man). Umpires: Marais Erasmus (South Africa) and Ian Gould (England). Match referee: Ranjan Madugalle ( Sri Lanka). The match starts at 5 a.m. (IST).  |
| ‘Sehwag and Gauti must make it count’: Aakash Chopra Posted: 24 Dec 2011 11:20 PM PST
Chopra couldn’t score a fifty and his average was only 23.25 during India’s eventful tour of Australia in 2003-04 but the then Australian captain Steve Waugh was moved enough to say after the final Test in Sydney that the Delhi-opener was the reason why India not only drew the series 1-1 but also at times dominated the home team. The secret of Chopra’s success, not reflected in figures, was how he invariably blunted the new-ball attack.
“The kookaburra ball is all about negotiating the first 30 overs. If you come through the spell with minimal loss, the middle order would come on to their own,” reminiscences Chopra. Blunting the new-ball was something that Chopra did with remarkable panache on that trip. In Brisbane, he batted for 40 balls for his four runs. In Adelaide, it was 67 balls for his 27 runs; at MCG, it was 48 runs from 135 balls and finally the score of 45 in Sydney came from 184 balls. Sure enough Australians lost the plot and the Indian middle order flourished like never before. Tendulkar made 383 runs at 76.60; Laxman 494 runs at 82.33 and Dravid proved to be the deadliest of them all with 619 runs at 123.80. “I knew most Indian openers had come and failed on those shores. Interestingly, I could hardly do much work-out before the series. I had injured my finger in the preceding series against New Zealand. But England’s Michael Vaughan was mighty successful in the season before. I asked ESPN to provide me his tapes. I also spoke to Geoffrey Boycott in Singapore on my way to Australia,” says Chopra. Whatever Chopra prepared was nothing to what he faced on the Australian pitches. “Brisbane was very quick; MCG was a bit damp. The conditions were difficult for it seamed and swung. There were 70,000 people shouting and screaming as the atmosphere was unnerving. As I took blows on the body, it did look like a boxing match on Boxing day.” Chopra remembers the astonishingly quick Brett Lee and the mouthfuls which Australians gave to him. “Matty Hayden was the worst. He chirped a lot. They were never short of a word. They were effective too. They all said how I was defensive. How I could never hit a shot. But I knew my instructions well. “I had been asked to spend as much time on the wicket as possible. I was prepared to let go as many balls outside the off-stump as I could. I also curbed my square cuts which is my bread-and-butter shot.” Indeed, Chopra’s leaves on the off-stump were breathtaking. At times the ball almost took the off-stump but if Chopra’ didn’t have to play those deliveries, he didn’t play them at all. Chopra now offers the same advice to the present two openers with whom he has played a lot of his cricket for the native state, Delhi. “Leaving as many deliveries as possible would be the key. They must know their off-stump and curb the urge to lash out at away deliveries. The good thing is they could trust the bounce of those pitches. “Importantly, they must make it count. For they wouldn’t get many starts. There is no harm in accepting that a good ball is always around the corner. But if they are set, they must ensure it’s a substantial knock.” Chopra suspects the MCG pitch would be damp. Batting first on that pitch would be a real ask. “The wicket is difficult for the first few hours. Later it turns dry and deteriorates. I remember on that tour actually a piece of the square came off during the third day at MCG.” Fortunately, Gambhir and Sehwag compliment each other well. While Sehwag is prone to lash out at bowlers, Gambhir is very good with rotating the strike. For the good of India, Chopra hopes the Australians are caught up in these diverse Indian tactics. © PTI  |
| India vs Australia 1st Test (2011) Live Streams Online Posted: 24 Dec 2011 11:11 PM PST
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| ‘With a bit of luck, we can stop Sachin’: Haddin Posted: 24 Dec 2011 10:58 PM PST
“It’s exciting, the prospect of him scoring his 100th hundred for the fans and everyone involved in the game. But we haven’t discussed anything about his hundred and with a bit of luck we don’t give the opportunity to get there,” said Haddin during the practice session on Sunday morning. Haddin was confident Australia has the attack to rip apart the experienced Indian batting line-up.
“We’ve picked an 11 that we think is confident to rip through this Indian side. If you look at the way James (Pattinson) and more importantly the way Peter Siddle has fed off these young guys,” he said. “He has been outstanding in the last couple of Tests. He hasn’t got the five-fors that the other guys have but this is the best I’ve seen Peter Siddle bowl in Test cricket. “He has really taken the guys like James under his wing. We’ve got three quicks that are raring to go who can get that radar up around 140 or 145 (km/h),” he added. The Australian wicketkeeper is equally excited about young off-spinner Nathan Lyon and his prospects for the series. “Nathan is a work in progress. He’s getting better in every Test. We’ve got to be patient and in the next few years, we’ll see a real quality spinner. “He has the temperament to handle pressure situations. He doesn’t seem to get too flustered whether he’s bowling or not bowling. The tempo of his game is very good.” Haddin doesn’t want to speculate a great deal on the fitness of Zaheer and Ishant Sharma for the Test but says his side has identified areas where they could pressurise the Indians. “Once they take the field they seem to roll out all right. We know where their strengths are but we also know there are areas we can get the game moving forward and develop the game as quick as we like,” he said. Haddin hoped the weight of history, of not having won a series in Australia for the last 64 years, would bog down the visitors. “I hope so. It’s definitely a different place to play cricket for the Indians. But it’s not as foreign anymore. It’s like Australia going to India. We are pretty much used to the conditions now because you spend so much time there. “They’ve got some great players and I know especially our bowlers are looking forward to having a crack at them,” he said. Haddin has been criticised for being overtly attacking while batting and not being judicious in his strokeplay. “From my point of view, it’s not the swinging ball. It’s just making sure my mindset is just playing at the tempo I play at, don’t try to take the game forward too quick and just react to the game.” Haddin disagreed with critics who suggest that Australia’s top order is shaky. “You talk about our inexperienced top three. I think we’ve got a very in-form top three which is good. If we are going to do any good in this series, it’s going to be from one to seven with the bat, we’ve all got to perform. We’ve got to make sure we’ve got our game heads on and ready to go.” © PTI  |
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