4th Test - Australia v India

[sydney-dog]

Les Burdett needs to start producing a different type of wicket, their is nothing in the pitch at all for the bolwers...

uip to lunch on day five a total of 21 wickets had fallen, you will never get a result on such a flat track

[Dogwatcher]

Sehwag gyped as man of the match.

[locky801]

Sehwag gyped as man of the match.

totally desrved it IMHO

[Dogwatcher]

over 200 runs, including a match saving effort, plus several wickets for the match - my oath he did.

[hearts on fire]

yeah, Sehwag played alot better than Tendulkar.
Tendulkar only got it because he has got a high profile.....

[hearts on fire]

To sum this Test up in one word.









Boring.

[jackpot jim]

Les Burdett needs to start producing a different type of wicket, their is nothing in the pitch at all for the bolwers...

uip to lunch on day five a total of 21 wickets had fallen, you will never get a result on such a flat track

Absolute Rubbish. Nothing wrong with the Pitch at all. 1st Draw there for over 10 years. Australia Dropped Numerous catches for the match and also Batted as slowly and Negatively as they have for many years. Didn't Have a Quality spinner and also the State of the series Dictated that India were going to Cautious in compiling a big 1st innings and that Australia had No incentive to Play for a Win. All These factors thrown together Produced a Draw NOT Les Burdett and his Pitch.
Shame on you Sydney Dog for for suggesting that Les Burdett didn't make a suitable Pitch.

[zipzap]

Les Burdett needs to start producing a different type of wicket, their is nothing in the pitch at all for the bolwers...

uip to lunch on day five a total of 21 wickets had fallen, you will never get a result on such a flat track

Absolute Rubbish. Nothing wrong with the Pitch at all. 1st Draw there for over 10 years. Australia Dropped Numerous catches for the match and also Batted as slowly and Negatively as they have for many years. Didn't Have a Quality spinner and also the State of the series Dictated that India were going to Cautious in compiling a big 1st innings and that Australia had No incentive to Play for a Win. All These factors thrown together Produced a Draw NOT Les Burdett and his Pitch.
Shame on you Sydney Dog for for suggesting that Les Burdett didn't make a suitable Pitch.

He's only saying what everyone else is thinking. Prettiest oval in the world and all that but it constantly intrigues me how Sir Les is put on the highest pedestal in town - he's a groundsman FFS. He will be Governor one day, mark my words

[am Bays]

To sum this Test up in one word.









Boring.

Crap the three days I had there were sensational - some fantastic batting by both sides (Tendulkar 1st dig), Lee and Sharma bowling well (especially Lee on teh 5th day), Pathan swinging it on a flat deck (tha ball to get Hussey was a beauty, Johnson developing as a bowler (not great but he kept putting in).

Not a great test by anymeans but to call it boring, well young go and watch the fast food version of the game but leave the real cricket to the true cricketing cognescenti.

[Stumps]

Les Burdett needs to start producing a different type of wicket, their is nothing in the pitch at all for the bolwers...

uip to lunch on day five a total of 21 wickets had fallen, you will never get a result on such a flat track

Absolute Rubbish. Nothing wrong with the Pitch at all. 1st Draw there for over 10 years. Australia Dropped Numerous catches for the match and also Batted as slowly and Negatively as they have for many years. Didn't Have a Quality spinner and also the State of the series Dictated that India were going to Cautious in compiling a big 1st innings and that Australia had No incentive to Play for a Win. All These factors thrown together Produced a Draw NOT Les Burdett and his Pitch.
Shame on you Sydney Dog for for suggesting that Les Burdett didn't make a suitable Pitch.

totally agree ZZ- hes got good grass beacuse its constanty sunny and he waters it- then he rolls and mows it til its got not a blade of grass on it- not one ball even looks to deviate off the straight- and hes a bloody hero FFS- a poor test pitch as it has been for the last few years- burdett has been lucky because the past few years one team choking in the second innings has produced a "result pitch"-
A pitch should have something in it for the quicks and the batsman- this one didnt







He's only saying what everyone else is thinking. Prettiest oval in the world and all that but it constantly intrigues me how Sir Les is put on the highest pedestal in town - he's a groundsman FFS. He will be Governor one day, mark my words

[Stumps]

totally agree ZZ- hes got good grass beacuse its constanty sunny and he waters it- then he rolls and mows it til its got not a blade of grass on it- not one ball even looks to deviate off the straight- and hes a bloody hero FFS- a poor test pitch as it has been for the last few years- burdett has been lucky because the past few years one team choking in the second innings has produced a "result pitch"-
A pitch should have something in it for the quicks and the batsman- this one didnt

[redden whites]

Yep we have given up on day 1 2 and 3 at Adelaide also. Les got lucky that the poms collapsed so poorly last year . All one way traffic just nothing for the quicks and holding slowly for the bats. Yet some of the one day wickets are green tops .

[giffo]

It might have been a different story if Sehwag wasn't dropped on 14 in the 2nd innings, however that's cricket. I took the lad in on Monday to see Gilly play his last game as he is his idol. If a 12y.o doesn't get bored, then something must be wrong with some of your attention spans. There was some great batting (Sehwag put 2 over the mid-on fences, the first one landing in the back row of seats on the terrace in front of the river end hill), some good fielding (Johnsons run-out of Tendulkar was brilliant) and some nice catches. The only thing I couldn't understand was why the new ball wasn't taken when it was due as both Johnson & Lee where well rested by then.