4th Test: India v Australia at Nagpur

[Ned]

I think Watson has done well in this series. He was hitting the seam when bowling and showed grit with the bat against the spinning ball. I reckon he's come of age during this tough series and he deserves a bit of credit.

regards,

REB

He is only there because he is one of Pontings best mates, I wish the selectors would pick the best side and not players with IPL form under there belt.

[Ned]

To be honest Cam White has bowled better than any of us would of expected has taken 5 wickets at 60,

You've got to be kidding. How many wickets has the guy taken when we really needed them. Granted he hasn't been given the ball all that often but there's a reason for that. He's shite. At least three of those wickets have been absolute give ups. White is absolute tripe.

regards,

REB

Where talking bout a spinner who himself dosn't think he is up to the standard and therfore will only bowl himself when captain of the Vics on the odd occasion. Last year he would bowl David Hussey more than himself in the Ford Ranger Cup. Did you think he would tear them apart REB with ripping leg breaks. I still belive that Cam White has bowled beter than we all expected. If you have seen him bowl in the ODI I think you must agree. White one day will be a good Test player as a batsmen, and should never of been picked for this tour in the first place, selectors once again having some weird selection decisions. The talk is all about the spin bowling for Australia we always knew that was going to be a problem our main concern is our fast bowling which has been terrible at best.

[rod_rooster]

To be honest Cam White has bowled better than any of us would of expected has taken 5 wickets at 60,

You've got to be kidding. How many wickets has the guy taken when we really needed them. Granted he hasn't been given the ball all that often but there's a reason for that. He's shite. At least three of those wickets have been absolute give ups. White is absolute tripe.

regards,

REB

Where talking bout a spinner who himself dosn't think he is up to the standard and therfore will only bowl himself when captain of the Vics on the odd occasion. Last year he would bowl David Hussey more than himself in the Ford Ranger Cup. Did you think he would tear them apart REB with ripping leg breaks. I still belive that Cam White has bowled beter than we all expected. If you have seen him bowl in the ODI I think you must agree. White one day will be a good Test player as a batsmen, and should never of been picked for this tour in the first place, selectors once again having some weird selection decisions. The talk is all about the spin bowling for Australia we always knew that was going to be a problem our main concern is our fast bowling which has been terrible at best.

I agree that he's bowled better than expected but in fairness not many of us would have expected him to even take a single wicket.

As for White one day being a good test player as a batsmen you must be speaking in jest. He may be a handy one day player but he is just a slogger and will not make it at test level as a batsman.

[Ned]

To be honest Cam White has bowled better than any of us would of expected has taken 5 wickets at 60,

You've got to be kidding. How many wickets has the guy taken when we really needed them. Granted he hasn't been given the ball all that often but there's a reason for that. He's shite. At least three of those wickets have been absolute give ups. White is absolute tripe.

regards,

REB

Where talking bout a spinner who himself dosn't think he is up to the standard and therfore will only bowl himself when captain of the Vics on the odd occasion. Last year he would bowl David Hussey more than himself in the Ford Ranger Cup. Did you think he would tear them apart REB with ripping leg breaks. I still belive that Cam White has bowled beter than we all expected. If you have seen him bowl in the ODI I think you must agree. White one day will be a good Test player as a batsmen, and should never of been picked for this tour in the first place, selectors once again having some weird selection decisions. The talk is all about the spin bowling for Australia we always knew that was going to be a problem our main concern is our fast bowling which has been terrible at best.

I agree that he's bowled better than expected but in fairness not many of us would have expected him to even take a single wicket.

As for White one day being a good test player as a batsmen you must be speaking in jest. He may be a handy one day player but he is just a slogger and will not make it at test level as a batsman.

How many first class games have you seen him bat in, or are you just going buy the coverage you have seen of him on Fox sports in the Ford Ranger and Channel nine in the ODI's an twenty20 matches. His important innings of 44 the other day was not slogging at all was a very much the opposite. Same was said about Symonds that he was just a slogger. Yes White will try and keep the scorboard ticking and if he gets a loose ball he will try and smash it to the fence, but slogging no. Australia over the last ten years has built there game around attacking cricket.

[rod_rooster]

I see you know little about me Ned. You will find that i have very little regard for the limited overs format of cricket. I don't consider success or lack off success in either 50 over or 20 over "cricket" as having any bearing on how a player will perform in the real format of the game. As for Cameron White, yes i have seen quite a bit of him in first class cricket. He is entertaining for sure and is a good first class cricketer. I just believe he has too many technical flaws to succeed at Test level. That's just my opinion and i may well be proven wrong. I just can't see how he will ever be in the best 6 batsmen in the country.

[Ned]

Ponting is considering playing White and Krejza with Clark being left out.

[stan]

Ponting is considering playing White and Krejza with Clark being left out.

Actually I think White is being looked at.

[catchisthecry]

Why play White at all?
He's done nothing with bat or ball...
Don't say his 44 either, Brett Lee usually gets one score in the 40's batting 8 each series.

[MightyEagles]

Start time will be 2.30 Adelaide/SA time.

[Ned]

Why play White at all?
He's done nothing with bat or ball...
Don't say his 44 either, Brett Lee usually gets one score in the 40's batting 8 each series.

Apart from Johnson which bowler has done anything.

[Rik E Boy]

Why play White at all?
He's done nothing with bat or ball...
Don't say his 44 either, Brett Lee usually gets one score in the 40's batting 8 each series.

Apart from Johnson which bowler has done anything.

Shouldn't you be out rolling the arm over in the nets Cameron instead of trying to defend the indefensible?

regards,

REB

[blink]

Selectors have gone with White and Krejza!!

SM Katich, ML Hayden, RT Ponting, MEK Hussey, MJ Clarke, SR Watson, BJ Haddin, CL White, B Lee, MG Johnson, JJ Krejza

M Vijay, V Sehwag, R Dravid, SR Tendulkar, SC Ganguly, VVS Laxman, MS Dhoni, Harbhajan Singh, Z Khan, A Mishra, I Sharma

[Dirko]

wow...the bowling stocks look thin there...

Good luck Krejza hope you get a bag....

[NFC]

Worst team I can recall. White and Krejza=

[rod_rooster]

We've lost the toss and any chance of winning.

[rod_rooster]

Clark is injured apparently. Still going in with both White and Krezja is very odd. Why not play Siddle or Bollinger? White won't bowl much and we need to take 20 wickets. Our bowling looks too thin for that to be possible.

[Adelaide Hawk]

We've lost the toss and any chance of winning.

Yep .. interest factor nil.

Unless we have a very good 1st day. If India are 300+ with minimum wickets at stumps, this Test is dead.

[westcoastpanther]

They must be picking White for his batting....

Seriously, the selectors are being just like Neil Craig ATM. Made a decision at the start and will stick with it the whole way through, too stubborn or don't want to admit they were wrong. Selectors as much as anything haven't helped our cause to retain the trophy. Idiots...

[NFC]

Seriously, why is White playing???????????? This is the worst bowling attack I have ever seen. Batting attack aint that crash hot either.

[NFC]

Seriously, the selectors are being just like Neil Craig ATM. Made a decision at the start and will stick with it the whole way through, too stubborn or don't want to admit they were wrong. Selectors as much as anything haven't helped our cause to retain the trophy. Idiots...

Good call. (unfortunately).