India v Australia | 3rd ODI | Delhi | 31/10/09

[OZGOD]

About to go to bed, but apparently the OZ have won the toss and decided to bat. The teams according to Cricinfo:

Teams: Three changes for Australia. The teams are up above. As you can see, Bollinger replaces Hilfenhaus, Manou comes in for Paine while Moises Henriques replaces Shaun Marsh. It's also Henriques' debut.

Toss: Australia are batting. Ponting's happy to win it. We'll give you the teams shortly. India are unchanged. Manou aside, Ponting indicated there were a couple more changes.

www.cricinfo.com

Where's Marsh ?? :akmal

 

[Bublu Bhuyan]

Would have liked to watch India bat first.

 

[Afridi_Fan]

Punter opening for Aussies.

 

[srg]

Third time punter has won the toss !!!

 

[OZGOD]

LOL Dubya is opening. On that note I'm off to bed - cyaz all tomorrow, when we have ground India into the Feroz Shah Kotla dirt (I may let live to regret saying this).

 

[srg]

Ponting as opener? Seems he is determined to play a captain's knock here

 

[Momo]

Third time punter has won the toss !!!

He is not called Punter for nothing.

 

[srg]

He is not called Punter for nothing.

Well, I thought his tricks won't work before Dhoni.but...

 

[Romali_rotti]

We should declare it a national holiday if Dhoni wins the toss against Oz atleast once this series...

 

[Afridi_Fan]

Punter in his only other opening innings scored 88 Not Out. Not a good sign for Indians, although the opposition was Bangladesh.

 

[RexRex]

he wants dulkar's ODI record as well ..

 

[Afridi_Fan]

Nice gesture by the players, a minute silence for Shep.

 

[Romali_rotti]

he wants dulkar's ODI record as well ..

Sucks for The_Bunny as he wont get it...

 

[Afridi_Fan]

Highest score at Kotla Pakistan 303.

 

[Romali_rotti]

This is looking boring, no 4's or 6's....

 

[Afridi_Fan]

This is looking boring, no 4's or 6's....

With no wickets too

 

[Romali_rotti]

DAMNNN has Ishant gotten taller or something ???? looks like a goddamn treee

 

[asad100101]

where can I watch the match online?

 

[dblock]

Interesting..Punter opening and not doing too bad.

 

[Bublu Bhuyan]

DAMNNN has Ishant gotten taller or something ???? looks like a goddamn treee

 

[Bublu Bhuyan]

Bhajji into the attack.

 

[Afridi_Fan]

Yuvi strikes, 72/1

Watson gone.

 

[Bublu Bhuyan]

SR Watson st †Dhoni b Yuvraj Singh 41 (59b 5x4 0x6) SR: 69.49

 

[IAJ]

Would have liked to watch India bat first.

Yes one billion other wanted that too. Let us see if India can win a match chasing. Its not allways about winning toss, scoring 300+ and let the bowlers do the rest.

 

[IAJ]

Ouch, that must have hurt, but it is ok since its Gambhir

 

[IAJ]

Before 20 overs bowled India have used 6 different bowlers. Only in India that can happen.

 

[Bublu Bhuyan]

Yes one billion other wanted that too. Let us see if India can win a match chasing. Its not allways about winning toss, scoring 300+ and let the bowlers do the rest.

Well, haven't Australia won their only match by doing the exact same thing in this series till now ?

 

[IAJ]

Well, haven't Australia won their only match by doing the exact same thing in this series till now ?

Well I am not talking about this series alone. Dhoni is a good captain but his luck depends too much on toss. You like it or not, that is fact.

 

[sehban]

Just get the feeling Aus is playing into India's hands here... not taking any risk, i highly doubt they would be able to defend a score of 240... they need atleast 270

Ponting goes

 

[Bublu Bhuyan]

RT Ponting lbw b Jadeja 59 (92b 4x4 0x6) SR: 64.13

 

[Romali_rotti]

was Cam White out LBw ?

 

[tauseefm]

^^ he was given ct behind
It didn' t touch the bat at all

Indian Umpire + indian(appeal) = OUTTTTTTTTTT
Indian Umpire + Aus(appeal) =

 

[Romali_rotti]

Ok after watching replay Cam White was clearly out snicko shows a nick while bat was in the air just a feather.. GOOD CALLL IT WAS OUT..

 

[bablu_khan]

Wow what a brilliant decision by umpire. Snicko confirms that it was out

 

[itduzz]

rubbish indian umpires making mockery of a game

 

[tauseefm]

i am sorry but after looking at both ponting and whites out there is something wrong with the technology. How the hell howkeye says ball was strate when it turned after pitching. In whites case you could see the slight space between bat and ball when they showed it from the back view and sniko still showed an edge

 

[Hash]

very slow going by us here.

Is it the pitch or are we just batting badly?

 

[AZ]

we?

 

[Hash]

well we finish on 229.

Let's see if that will be enough. Need early wickets.

 

[bluffmasterv2]

another easy win for India...

 

[Apnacricket]

I dont thnk so mate. Just go out there and face a few bowls from the spinners or aussies paceman you will find out how hard it is to play shots on this slow pitch. I think 230 should be a match winning score if the aussies bowl good.

 

[bluffmasterv2]

Thats one dangerous batting line up against a "B" aussie team. Aussies stand no chance here, or may i say this whole tour.

Aussies r.i.p

Now imagine Pak vs Ind, that means business!

 

[kamranO]

Sehwag gone

 

[kamranO]

India 37/1 what a good bowling by johnson&johnson

 

[Cracket]

Ok after watching replay Cam White was clearly out snicko shows a nick while bat was in the air just a feather.. GOOD CALLL IT WAS OUT..

Pretty much every decision so far has been spot on perfect, except that one where Ponting was hit plumb on for LBW by Jadeja but was given not out. Ironic Jadeja later on got him in the exact same fashion, which was also plumb.

 

[kamranO]

Sachin Tendulkar gone run out

 

[Romali_rotti]

India doing their atmost best to setup a 10 runs to win per over stage.. And SRT now run out could be a blessing, he was looking tired..

 

[*sallu*]

Tendu runout,

Big blow as I'm pretty sure the likes of Yuvraj and Raina will struggle on this pitch.

Game on Gambhir and Dhoni now I feel

 

[12thMan]

Gambhir bowled by Hauritz
India 53-3 after 15.2 overs - need 177 more to win

 

[Nazir_ Rules]

64/3 after 17 overs

 

[Nazir_ Rules]

after 17.1 ausi were 74/1

 

[Nazir_ Rules]

Required Rate 5.07

 

[kamranO]

Good bowling by aussies till now

 

[Nazir_ Rules]

4 off the last over, the score now 68/3 after 18

 

[Nazir_ Rules]

Good bowling by aussies till now

Yep!

 

[Nazir_ Rules]

Really Good Bowling by Ausis, Johnson doing good.

 

[Nazir_ Rules]

160 runs to win now.

 

[Nazir_ Rules]

Required Rate 5.13 now.

 

[kamranO]

No hitting from indians just single, double, single heheheh

 

[Nazir_ Rules]

4!

 

[Nazir_ Rules]

No hitting from indians just single, double, single heheheh

lol! yeah.

 

[JeeraBlade]

13.3
Henriques to Tendulkar, OUT, he's run out by a couple of yards, Johnson hits the target, he pushes a full delivery down to mid-off and risks the single, the ball is to Johnson's left and that allows him to gather and release it quickly, the run-out was fairly obvious, the umpire confirms with the man upstairs. Tendulkar in fact had to run around the bowler so he lost a precious second or two there

SR Tendulkar run out 32 (47b 2x4 0x6) SR: 68.08

What a pathetic whiners these guys are.

"Tendulkar in fact had to run around the bowler:"

Whats wrong with saying that --- he made a "stupid" judgment. It was bad call. He made a mistake ---- but no, it can never be "his" fault.


"he's run out by a couple of yards"
"he lost a precious second or two there."


Is the genuis doing commentary on Cricinfo talking about Usain Bolt or Grandpa Sachin that he could have made a couple of yards in two seconds?

 

[kamranO]

Oh No Four

 

[Nazir_ Rules]

76/3 after 20

 

[Nazir_ Rules]

What a pathetic whiners these guys are.

"Tendulkar in fact had to run around the bowler:"

Whats wrong with saying that --- he made a "stupid" judgment. It was bad call. He made a mistake ---- but no, it can never be "his" fault.


"he's run out by a couple of yards"
"he lost a precious second or two there."


Is the genuis doing commentary on Cricinfo talking about Usain Bolt or Grandpa Sachin that he could have made a couple of yards in two seconds?

lol! true, i noticed that as well!

 

[cricket_fever]

shame...poor india....dhoni is their last hope now!

 

[Nazir_ Rules]

Indians are under pressure right now, they are not accelerating the innings as they would like to, or else if you have yuvraj, and Dhoni on the crease you would expect the team to fire, but hats off to ausis for bowling well.

 

[Nazir_ Rules]

81/3 after 21

 

[Nazir_ Rules]

82/3 after 22

 

[Bublu Bhuyan]

India 90/3 (22.5 ov)

 

[Nazir_ Rules]

4!!!

 

[Nazir_ Rules]

Ind 107/3

 

[Nazir_ Rules]

Another4!

 

[Nazir_ Rules]

the score now, is 112/3

 

[Mohsin]

We should declare it a national holiday if Dhoni wins the toss against Oz atleast once this series...

 

[Bublu Bhuyan]

The Australian side has so far looked awesome. It won't be easy for Pakistan at all later this year.

 

[Amir]

The Australian side has so far looked awesome. It won't be easy for Pakistan at all later this year.

Forget Australia....we just make it difficult enough for ourselves!

 

[Nazir_ Rules]

115/3

 

[Nazir_ Rules]

Forget Australia....we just make it difficult enough for ourselves!

lol! but this time it would be us who make the mistakes, it will be them who do inshallah, and inshallah we will win!

 

[Bublu Bhuyan]

Forget Australia....we just make it difficult enough for ourselves!

Australia really looked out of sorts till the Ashes this year, but have come back superbly since.