Remember thisThe Australians are known not to give an inch to their opposition and they extend their discourtesy out of it too. The quality of bowlers provided by Cricket Australia for the net sessions can be best described as pedestrian. It happened at Melbourne, Sydney and now at Perth. The local officials asked a school boy team from England called as Australian Cricket Experience to bowl in the nets ahead of the third Test.
Interestingly, it isn’t the same when the Australians are practicing. For instance, the home team batsmen batted against high quality Western Australia team bowlers.
Batting coach Lalchand Rajput was left livid with the quality at hand and made no bones of it. “I asked them why do we get such bowlers and they turned around said speak with Cricket Australia. I’ll ask Chetan (Chauhan) to take the matter up. It’s really unfair.”
One of the bowlers was so inept that Sourav Ganguly shooed him away yesterday. It only adds to the workload of the Indian bowlers who have to put in that much extra so that the batsmen get ready. Chauhan said that he’ll speak with the boys first before protesting with CA.
so why in the world are we bending over backwards in accommodating Cricket Australia with an additional tour match prior to the start of the Border Gavaskar Trophy?
Wednesday, September 03, 2008
Why?
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If it was up to me away teams wouldn't get warm showers either.
It our indianness, of which what i think is not really appropriate for this page (or any other page, where my comments can be traced back to me)
I agree UJ... An no photo ops with orphans either !
Cheers,
Ankit,
I dont know if it is our Indianness or naivete..
Either ways, it is more detrimental to us than useful.
Cheers,
That wont make much of a difference if Aussies play 2 or 3 practise games. Lack of a quality spinner is going to do their prospects no good :)
yeah buzz, but why make anything easier for them?
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