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India v Australia, 1st Test, Bangalore, 1st day
Chappell: 'India have their nose ahead'
October 9, 2008
"Ricky Ponting would have been particularly disappointed with the way Australia ended up after they had reached 161 for 1 and then 254 for 3, especially after he had made a century. But it was a very competitive and combative first day of the Test and I am sure we will see a lot more like it in this series." Ian Chappell analyses day one of the first Test between India and Australia in Bangalore
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Let me make it clear from the outset that I am Indian and I really derive a lot of pleasure whenever out Team does well on the cricket field. But still I think that the battle between the most inexperienced bowling line up from Australia to have ever landed on the Indian shores and the 'strongest' batting line - up in the world in the 4th innings would be decisive. Personally I would be very disappointed indeed if the Fab 4 succumb to Lee and Co. cheaply. It is time that they stand up to their reputation otherwise their failure will only increase the clamour for their heads and for that only they would be responsible. The odds are firmly stacked in the favour of the Indian batsmen .One gets the feeling that our bowlers will find it difficult to unravel their batting line up whereas their bowlers would certainly be able to achieve it.
Posted by guptavipulv on October 10 2008, 04:48 AM GMT
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Ricky Ponting's footwork and timing were in place, from the moment he arrived at the crease, and he looked good for a tall score immediately. Simon Katich played well for his 66. Hussey will be hard to dislodge, given his determination and concentration and with the likes of Watson, Haddin and White to follow, Australia still have a lot of batting left. Kumble's handling of his resources and field placings were substandard and gave away far too many easy runs. The pace duo of Zaheer Khan and Ishant Sharma bowled with a lot of aggression and fire, and might have done better with more support in the field. The spinners were ordinary, without ever being threatening. India would have been better served if they had permitted Ganguly to lead the side in his last essay in tests. His kind of aggression has been absent, ever since he was bullied into submission by the Chappell conspiracy. India has a long way to go in this test. For India's sake, I hope the fab 4 bat sensibly and well.
Posted by HOTCHA on October 10 2008, 02:34 AM GMT
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You can see Indian pitches are turning to be the slowest and most unresponsive in world. Even Ponting could score a hundred here!
Stop selling urself to 20-20 and ODIs, create some sporting tracks BCCI.
Posted by Dhanno on October 10 2008, 01:37 AM GMT
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Pretty even at the moment i'd say. I feel India are a bowler short. They need another pace bowler in their attack. Although Australia have a far poorer spin attack, White, Clarke and Katich can all play a role. And with 4 pace bowlers they can hopefully use Lee & Johnson in short sharp spells to keep them fresh.
Posted by PeteB on October 10 2008, 00:54 AM GMT
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I think the reason why Ponting was able to score a century was because he came at 1 down whereas in the previous series he was comming at 4 down and more over today he came to bat in the first over of the first day of a test match where ball does not spin. If he scores a 100 say during the last two days when the ball really spins then we can say that ponting has come to terms in india till then there will be a question mark. As far as Indian bowling is concerned I think they did a good job to restrict AUS to a reasonable score which many teams have failed to do in the past.
Posted by avicool on October 09 2008, 23:29 PM GMT
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Based purely on the scoreboard of 254/4 you could argue that India marginally had the better of day one, but if you take into account the details of the first days play, surely Australia are better off....
Ponting (who's struggles in India are well documented) was not troubled by Ishant or Harbhajan and he has scored a century at the first opportunity. Ponting's early success alone must be a huge boost to the Australians.
The Indian bowling looked largely unthreatening and Kumble's reliance on rotating the same four bowlers (until using Sehwag late in the day) was uninspired as were his field placements. The Indian fielding looked ordinary at times as well.
Australia would be disappointed at losing late wickets, but overall this has been a very promising start for them.
Posted by JB77 on October 09 2008, 23:00 PM GMT
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I believe the pitch is the thing that will have most bearing on the end result. The fact that Zaheer was causing most of the problems for the batsmen bodes very well for the four seamers in the Australian line-up versus only two in the Indian side. It could well be that all the talk of spin dominating this game has been jumping the gun. The mix of styles in the Australian pacemen will really test the slowing reactions of the older generation of Indian batsmen. In order for India to win this game, Kumble and Bhaji must really tighten up on their control. They were far too wayward on day one. Should Australian knock up another 150 runs in the first innings and the pitch continue to deliver uncertain bounce, India will have its work cut out.
Posted by Josephus72 on October 09 2008, 22:32 PM GMT
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I think Australia is ahead, but only marginally. If Hussey gets out in the first hour tomorrow, then Aussies can be bundled out for around 350. Kumble came back alive in the last session and Zaheer/Ishant were good consistently. Tomorrow will be an interesting day.
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Posted by sf912002 on October 09 2008, 22:05 PM GMT
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I think Ian has got it spot on when he says that India have their noses in front. Most of the other people commenting seem to forget that Australia no longer have a quality spinner in their stock to exploit the spin on Day 4 and 5. They also played unusually defensive today. This was the first time I've seen Australia in the modern ere scored at less than 3 an over on a relatively flat batting track.
Imagine how slow they will bat when the pitch becomes nasty during their 2nd innings and we haven't even seen their inexperienced middle order play yet!
Posted by Gizza on October 09 2008, 21:28 PM GMT
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It is still too early to predict the course of the game. and the game will be totally depend how soon Indians can send hussey back if he stays in the middle for say about one hour after lunch he will take the game away from Indians.
Posted by srinu212 on October 09 2008, 21:15 PM GMT
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