Australia [288/5] beat India [254/9] by 34 runs in the first ODI, take 1-0 series lead

[Snowflake]

Did this woman commentator just call Rohit's mishit a beautifully timed shot? )

I haven't heard her much, but she's been quite awful in this game. No insight into the game at all

 

[Shandarchowka]

Let's hope Ahmed gets some useful experience. We should also have blooded the Mavi and Nagorkoti in this ODI series.

Are Mavi and Nagarkoti also speed demons like Khaleel?

 

[Napa]

anyone uses Willow in the USA for their streaming? They are terrible, cant watch 1080p without stuttering.

I have been watching on Willow with no problem, but on my smartphone. So I don't think my display is 1080p.

 

[Canford Cliffs]

Missing Pandya already. He alone could hv won us this game.

 

[Rahul1]

Are Mavi and Nagarkoti also speed demons like Khaleel?

I think they are faster than Hasan and amir.

 

[Hasan2K8]

Out of Ind players, After Tendulkar, I liked Ganguly a lot because he is Bengali some bias. But Dhoni was a player instantly likeable, from a humble background to this megastar he turned out and done wonders for his nation. Look at Dhoni from start and Kohli. Character wise dhoni is a good gentleman while king kohli has some arrogant attitude. Class player, but needs to tone down the overhype especially when appealing for everything and all sorts teen like emotions!

 

[jnaveen1980]

37 year old he doesn’t play tests doesn’t play first class either. On his last legs.

 

[Canford Cliffs]

Are Mavi and Nagarkoti also speed demons like Khaleel?

Didnt you see them in U19 WC..
when they rolled Pak all out for 80 odd runs

 

[Kohli The King of Chase]

Wait till Dhoni ups his str.rate upto 80, after the match is lost.

 

[Snowflake]

I think they are faster than Hasan and amir.

Sure they are )

 

[Napa]

Are Mavi and Nagarkoti also speed demons like Khaleel?

Mavi and Nagarkoti are the other young Indian pacers I hear about, maybe Rajpoot too. Maybe not as fast as Khaleel, but we need to try out a few youngsters and hope we uncover another gem like Bumrah.

 

[Snowflake]

Dhoni fueling like a champ!

 

[Hasan2K8]

R Sharma hits sixes against spinners with such ease

 

[Justcrazy]

Required rate is below 7.5 here , if these two can bat another 10 overs India would make some kind of recovery

 

[Sachin136]

Sure they are )

Amir bowls in the high 120s even in the first over of a test match. It doesn't take much to be faster than him.

 

[Varun]

Come again - we've hit a grand total of 0 boundaries.

But 4 sixes!?

 

[Aman]

‘King’ Kohli could not save them today..

"King" Kohli has flopped this tour. Had it not been for Pujara stepping up and carrying the team they would have lost the test series too.

 

[shaaik]

They are biased as hell man.

Seems you haven't heard her commentating then.. She always sounds more Indian than any Indian out there. not to forget, her almost every sentence has to have IPL in it..

 

[Napa]

Only reason I am still watching this game is I want to see Rohit in beast mode, if it ever happens. As soon as he is out, goodnight all

 

[Aman]

Only reason I am still watching this game is I want to see Rohit in beast mode, if it ever happens. As soon as he is out, goodnight all

Hope Dhoni turns it around, hate to see a champion player struggling this much.

Think he was 6 off something like 36 balls...

 

[Smbhayi]

KL is a backup opener. That's all he is. He might not play a single game in the WC. ATR is useless. He creamed a couple of WI bowlers and Kohli started salivating

while others failed..

 

[Ramsay]

19 off 52 balls. Grandpa is killing all the momentum

 

[Aman]

India outside their top order look really weak. We were inferior version of them but we seem to have found some reliable scorers after Taylor who can bat time or hit.

It'll be interesting what the starting XI will look like for the WC.

 

[Napa]

"King" Kohli has flopped this tour. Had it not been for Pujara stepping up and carrying the team they would have lost the test series too.

While Kohli was not India's best batsmen in the Test series, I would say he "flopped" only by his very high standards. His 170 run partnership with Pujara was critical for India winning the 3rd Test, and that Test proved to be the winning margin for the Series win.

 

[Aman]

19 off 52 balls. Grandpa is killing all the momentum

4/3

 

[Aman]

While Kohli was not India's best batsmen in the Test series, I would say he "flopped" only by his very high standards. His 170 run partnership with Pujara was critical for India winning the 3rd Test, and that Test proved to be the winning margin for the Series win.

For his standards he has. I don't even remember one good leading innings from him this series. India's big series win came with Kohli doing little.

 

[Varun]

Seems you haven't heard her commentating then.. She always sounds more Indian than any Indian out there. not to forget, her almost every sentence has to have IPL in it..

Does she already have a commentary contract there, or is she hoping to get one?

 

[Napa]

Come again - we've hit a grand total of 0 boundaries.

But 4 sixes!?

The Indian team hasn't hit a 4 in the first 20 overs, which is a record. They have hit a few sixes though.

 

[Sachin136]

This is Kohli's first single digit score since 2017 and people have already started undermining a guy who averaged 134 at a SR of 103 last year.

 

[Varun]

The sub-300 score is keeping us in the game.

 

[Sachin136]

For his standards he has. I don't even remember one good leading innings from him this series. India's big series win came with Kohli doing little.

Did you miss his brilliant innings at Perth?

 

[Canford Cliffs]

Seems you haven't heard her commentating then.. She always sounds more Indian than any Indian out there. not to forget, her almost every sentence has to have IPL in it..

But you expect people to talk about a superior league like IPL. You think anyone remembers flop league like BPL

 

[Hasan2K8]

First time ever in their history? No 4s in the first 20overs. But 4 sixes.

 

[Varun]

Dhoni 4 then dot - dot - dot doesn't help.

 

[Aman]

Did you miss his brilliant innings at Perth?

Yeah, what was the result of that match?

In the match he leads, the team loses?

Pujara is the reason for the series win, without him they would have lost the series.

 

[Justcrazy]

First four off the innings

 

[Canford Cliffs]

[MENTION=132715]Varun[/MENTION] - Missing Pandya already?
#2ndBestAllrounderAfterStokes

 

[Sachin136]

Yeah, what was the result of that match?

In the match he leads, the team loses?

Pujara is the reason for the series win, without him they would have lost the series.

Of course Pujara was behind the win. But I was talking about "I don't even remember one good leading innings from him this series."

 

[jnaveen1980]

They will reach 200 by 50 th over

 

[Varun]

[MENTION=132715]Varun[/MENTION] - Missing Pandya already?
#2ndBestAllrounderAfterStokes

I'm missing him as much as I missed Dinesh Mongia in 2005.

 

[jnaveen1980]

Siddle is fit even at 50

 

[Justcrazy]

These two have batted well so far , they consolidating the innings here.

 

[Canford Cliffs]

India need to play this team for world cup

Dhawan
Rohit
Shaw/Agarwaal
Kohli
Gill
Jadhav/Pandya
Pant
Bhuvi
Kuldeep
Shami
Bumrah

 

[Hasan2K8]

Seems you haven't heard her commentating then.. She always sounds more Indian than any Indian out there. not to forget, her almost every sentence has to have IPL in it..

Nah.. her accent is southern (England), bit on the mild side, not close to cockny. No indian indian fem will sound like her. So disagree about her sounding like any indian out there. There’s a difference between accents. English born, growing up from primary school to max, in the south. Accents are different each sides. South is general same mostly cockney influenced, especially south-east England.

 

[shaaik]

But you expect people to talk about a superior league like IPL. You think anyone remembers flop league like BPL

Of course, you do but at the same time don't expect commis to act as the poster boys/girls of these t20 leagues...

 

[Shandarchowka]

Dhoni is here to stay. Great batting in adversity..

 

[Canford Cliffs]

Of course, you do but at the same time don't expect commis to act as the poster boys/girls of these t20 leagues...

To be fair, all fox commentators were discussing IPL. Gilchrist mentioned Dharamsala is the best ground he played when he was playing for KXIP, even Warne and Alan Border was all about it. Its not only Isa Guha.

 

[Justcrazy]

203 required in 27 overs , one of this two need to look for couple of big overs here.

 

[Justcrazy]

for sharma.

 

[shaaik]

To be fair, all fox commentators were discussing IPL. Gilchrist mentioned Dharamsala is the best ground he played when he was playing for KXIP, even Warne and Alan Border was all about it. Its not only Isa Guha.

Not talking about this match,about Isha in particular... She would bring up IPL even in tests ..

 

[Hasan2K8]

"King" Kohli has flopped this tour. Had it not been for Pujara stepping up and carrying the team they would have lost the test series too.

Indeed,agree most part. But Aus batting in the first innings were bad in almost all of the matches. Can’t really faulth them playing with their B side.

 

[Napa]

Yeah, what was the result of that match?

In the match he leads, the team loses?

Pujara is the reason for the series win, without him they would have lost the series.

While it is true that Pujara was the reason we won the series, with an average of 40+, Kohli can only be considered a failure when judged by his high standards.

Most important batsmen for us in the series were Pujara, followed by Agarwal and then Kohli. While Pant scored more than Kohli, I would say Kohli's innings had more impact.

 

[Hasan2K8]

Ms Dhoni looks up for it today. Really focused, determined. Slow stsrt but slowly recovering it. Couple of more big shots will reduce the deficit between balls faced and runs!

177 off 132. If these two bat for another 12 overs. They have a chance to win

 

[Oligochaetes]

Nice comeback from MSD and Rohit... I mean India still have a sclim chance tp pull off a win.

 

[Justcrazy]

Required rate is almost 8 , its manageable with wickets in hand

 

[Hasan2K8]

Sehwag 5 runs short of 8k ODI runs. Lol why did they not give him few more last ODI to get 8k runs

 

[Varun]

This is why ODIs >>>> T20s.

 

[Varun]

Sehwag 5 runs short of 8k ODI runs. Lol why did they not give him few more last ODI to get 8k runs

In fact, he has scored 8,273 ODI runs from 251 ODIs.

 

[Aman]

Rohit becomes Bradman against Aus in ODIs.

So good to watch.

 

[TM Riddle]

Aah looks like Dhongi has cemented his place for the ODI WC. A selfish innings from the most selfish player to play for India.

 

[Aman]

While it is true that Pujara was the reason we won the series, with an average of 40+, Kohli can only be considered a failure when judged by his high standards.

Most important batsmen for us in the series were Pujara, followed by Agarwal and then Kohli. While Pant scored more than Kohli, I would say Kohli's innings had more impact.

Did you not read the papers? Everyone was hyping Kohli up as the best batsmen in the world, this was the series for him to nail it. To prove he's the best and he's not there because Smith is suspended, only for the dude to be outshined by Pujara and the big series win being won by Pujara's 100s and breaking down of the Aussie pacers in the process.

 

[Shandarchowka]

Rohit is the best batsman when there's not much swing/seam movement for bowlers

 

[Aman]

Said it a million times before and will say it again - Rohit is so great to watch.

What a batsmen.

 

[Aman]

Rohit is the best batsman when there's not much swing/seam movement for bowlers

He could smoke 300 on his day )

 

[Varun]

Did you not read the papers? Everyone was hyping Kohli up as the best batsmen in the world, this was the series for him to nail it. To prove he's the best and he's not there because Smith is suspended, only for the dude to be outshined by Pujara and the big series win being won by Pujara's 100s and breaking down of the Aussie pacers in the process.

You must be the only one to read newspapers anymore.

The rest of us watch dozens of test matches, series and make up our minds with our own conclusive opinions.

 

[iRfaN_LA]

Rohit looks overweight. Batting well though after a poor start.

 

[Napa]

This is why ODIs >>>> T20s.

Agreed. 50 overs is often enough for a proper innings to be played, not like T20 where it is come in and start swinging and keep swinging.

 

[Aman]

Required rate is almost 8 , its manageable with wickets in hand

They'll chase this if Rohit take this deep.

 

[Oligochaetes]

:

Rohit is a Beast!

 

[TM Riddle]

Did you not read the papers? Everyone was hyping Kohli up as the best batsmen in the world, this was the series for him to nail it. To prove he's the best and he's not there because Smith is suspended, only for the dude to be outshined by Pujara and the big series win being won by Pujara's 100s and breaking down of the Aussie pacers in the process.

Kohli is the best batsman in the world. His performance in this series has no bearing on that.

 

[Aman]

Kohli is the best batsman in the world. His performance in this series has no bearing on that.

This was the series to prove it, as is he's only holding the spot for Smith.

 

[Shandarchowka]

The pitch I think is very flat looking at Rohit's score

 

[Hasan2K8]

In fact, he has scored 8,273 ODI runs from 251 ODIs.

For India. Sehwag has 7995 runs. Exclude Asia XI or other charity events.

 

[TM Riddle]

Dhoni is such a torture to watch. I would gladly take Sarfaraz over this hack.

 

[Aman]

Dhoni is such a torture to watch. I would gladly take Sarfaraz over this hack.

That "hack" won you a WC.

Have some respect.

 

[Varun]

This was the series to prove it, as is he's only holding the spot for Smith.

Of course, "this was the series to prove it" after it's all over. Did you post such before the first ball of the first test? I thought not.

He averaged 40 anyway. India won 2-1. The series is over. We aren't playing a test against a proper side until deep into 2019. Kohli and Pujara will both play. Stop whining. Move on. Thanks.

 

[TM Riddle]

This was the series to prove it, as is he's only holding the spot for Smith.

For you maybe. He already proved it in England.

 

[Shandarchowka]

That hack won you a WC.

Have some respect.

And Sarfi won us a CT.

 

[TM Riddle]

) Dhoni almost plays a maiden when the RR is above 8 . Oh God when would this suffering end.

 

[Nikhil_cric]

1 run of that over )