Australia vs Rest of the World (cricket) (3 Viewers)

[dave_119]

i dnt see any quality in the indian side to take over from him.. i mean tendulkar struggled with his game, sehwag will go into his shell if captain... laxman is just lazy in some of his stroke play, maybe not mature enough... leaving dravid, who becomes the corpse with pads on when he is captain and batting

 

[HeCtic]

They'll find someone. They seemingly mightn't have a ready made replacement like we did with Punter, but I never thought Ganguly would have the discipline to be a Test captain. In a few years time, maybe one of their younger guns will show enough to get a go at it?

 

[bobbie212]

ganguly will be ther for a few more yrs. by the time he has gone laxman, tendulkar, dravid may also be on the virge or retiring, leaving space for kaif and yuvraj sing to play and perhaps take over the captaincy. perhaps even pathan?

 

[acmilan]

Yuvraj to me would seem like a good captain.

 

[acmilan]

On a side note, India, specifically Pathan and Khan, are demolishing Bangladesh. Bangladesh are 7/115 in first innings. Pathan 5/28 in 12 overs, Khan 2/35 in 9 overs

 

[dave_119]

bangladesh should be removed from test cricket... they have gone back 10 yrs instead of moving forward.. al tho their u/19 team performed well at last years world cup, beating aus, i was there to witness.. they do have some real talent.

 

[acmilan]

Well right now id say they are pretty close to Zimbabwe, they were pretty close in the series they played this year. Although Zimbabwe did have that crap team without Streak and the rest of the usuals

 

[HeCtic]

Zimbabwe losing talent like Streak,Hick,Goodwin,Johnson,Ervine etc over the years has set them back big time. They had potential to be awesome if they kept their players and local expertise at home to develop future stars.

Alas they're now lost to permanent obscurity forever.

 

[acmilan]

Well they havnt lost Streak and Ervine, they just arnt playing at the moment due to political issues.

 

[HeCtic]

Neither of them want to return though. Streak's as good as gone. Not sure about guys like Ervine, Travis Friend etc who are young enough but don't want to return to their country.

 

[dave_119]

ervine (W.A), blignaut (TAS), friend (sth sydney) + others will never return to international cricket in zim, the government atm will not let them, if they did, they would be persecuted, same reason basically as olonga, cept his stand was on death of democracy...

you cant say Hick ever did anything for zim, honestly, being born their and brought up in england, then chossing to play for, doesn't show he had much faith in zim cricket. full stop

 

[acmilan]

It was a pretty sorry sight seeing Streak sitting amongst the crowd watching Zimbabwe getting hammered in the just finish series with English

 

[Seraph]

They beat australia in the ICC cup

 

[choco]

when do tickets for that come out?

 

[acmilan]

England has actually overtaken South Africa as the second best overall Test team and this year they have a better Test record than Australia. I think they are undefeated. On a side note, Tendulkar 130 not out against Bangladesh and has equalled the record for most Test centuries with Gavaskar with 34 test centuries

 

[ohwhenthesaints]

On a side note, Tendulkar 130 not out against Bangladesh and has equalled the record for most Test centuries with Gavaskar with 34 test centuries

Congratulations to him, without doubt one of the best batsmen of all time.

 

[max]

It would have been nice seeing Streak playing for NSW.

 

[ohwhenthesaints]

It would have been nice seeing Katich playing for NSW too.

 

[HeCtic]

Zaheer got 75 against Bangladesh, the highest score by a number 11 in Test history, two world records taken by the Indians in this match.

 

[dave_119]

what was the other record??