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I didn't expect our middle order to fail so badly . =/ Clarke really needs to start playing.

 

Anyways, it was a good match. Well played, SA.

 

Their batting was never consistent even in Ashes. Each time Haddin and lower order bailed them out. Against a superior and motivated bowling attack, they were exposed. Against fatigued England and home conditions+Johnson, this weakness was never exposed.

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Lively pitch bullies :giggle:

India, England and South Africa have all now demonstrated that the Australian teams of Clarke are most vulnerable on surfaces far less lively than those of their homeland. None of Chennai, Hyderabad, Mohali, Delhi, Nottingham, Lord's, Durham or Port Elizabeth - the locales of Australia's past eight defeats - offered much in the way of conventional seam, swing or bounce. Reverse swing, spin and, in the case of Morne Morkel, a unique trajectory have all come into play instead.

In the absence of any South African spinners accomplished enough to merit a place, Dale Steyn's wonderfully destructive spells of reverse swing at St George's Park revived memories of numerous other overseas incisions by pacemen of various countries. Zaheer Khan did it to Australia several times in years gone by with assistance from Ishant Sharma; James Anderson and Stuart Broad won a Test match each last year by finding life beyond the new ball. It is a skill Australia's batsmen struggle to counter for the same reason their opponents have been so flummoxed by Johnson recently - few compatriots in the nets have the capacity to replicate it.

 

 

http://www.espncricinfo.com/south-africa-v-australia-2013-14/content/story/722163.html

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there's this kid (sarfaraz khan) in the u-19 squad who keeps playing great knocks when the team has been in dire straits. at least 4 knocks, that i know of, in the last year in crucial matches & he's only 16.


he may turn out to be msd version 2.0 in LOI. just needs to work on his fitness a bit


thankfully msd wont be around to ruin his career when he's ready to play in senior squad
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there's this kid (sarfaraz khan) in the u-19 squad who keeps playing great knocks when the team has been in dire straits. at least 4 knocks, that i know of, in the last year in crucial matches & he's only 16.
he may turn out to be msd version 2.0 in LOI.

 

 

Yup. His technique looks even worse than Dhoni. Might be MSD V2.0. But he lacks the power Dhoni had. So I predict he will fail at Ranji level and disappear.

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