Before the start of world cup arrogant captain of Australia just said that "Sachin wont be a part of world cup winning team" and started the word game between India and Australia. This was the time when entire Indian team were giving their comment and mentioning one thing "We want to win this world cup for Sachin Tendulkar". I dont know what Ricky want to prove here. I think this is the time to give him answer by throwing punters out of this world cup at Ahmedabad. Sachin Tendulkar is always better than Ponting than why he is not just accepting this thing.
It will be great clash between these two teams and India have upper hand on this while playing at home. Tendulkar, Yuvraj and Harbhajan have good record against Kangaroos. It is good opportunity for India to take revenge of world cup final 2003 where Australia have beaten them by big margin of 125 runs. If India beat Australia then they will be thrown out of this tournament as it is knock out round and after world cup of 1996 this will be the first time when they will be thrown out before semi final. With the advantage of home conditions India will be strong contender to win this contest while the performance Australian team has shown in the big tournaments will give them some confidence although they have been beaten by Pakistan in their last league match. Ashwin has proved in the bowling department that he is better choice for playing elevan. Many experts have adviced India to play with 3 spinners. There will be some confusion in the mind of selectors between Raina and Pathan. I prefer Raina over Pathan as he can play good in all type of condition and team can rely on him for making the middle order strong.
Australian team has performed well in this tournament with Watson, Ponting have good tournament while come back of Mike Hussey has made their middle order bit strong. Lee, Johnsan and Tait are doing well with new ball but Steven Smith failed to impress in any of the matches. Michael Clarke has played couple of good inings but still it is not good tournament for him. Krejza will have chance to get place into playing elevan as Ahmedabad's pitch may help spinners.
A lot has been said by Australian media for Ponting's captainship, so he has to play and win the game to save his captainship although Mike Hussey has supported him and said he is the best person in the team for the captain. He deserves to be lead the team. IPL experience will give some advantage to the team.
Key Players:
India: Sachin, Sehwag, Yuvraj, Zaheer, Ashwin
Austrailia: Watson, Haddin, Clarke, Hussey, Lee, Tait, Johnson
Head-To-Head:
Total: 104
India: won 35 Lost 61 NR 8
Australia: won 61 Lost 35 NR 8
2 comments:
Agree that Ponting is always arrogant and rude but he have very reliable & consistent team which sachin lacks. Hoping to see improvements in indian team this time and winning the world cup of course.
Very nice
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