You are absolutely right. I completely agree with what you have written in you heading. Really Australia have grown poorer and poorer day by day. And all this is happening due to the leadership. Ponting just is not ready to go. He thinks he is the one who is driving the Australian cricket. See he is stuck everywhere. He is the captain of the ODI team. He is the captain of the Test team. And also he is the captain of the T20 team. Isn't there any other guy other than Ponting? This guy is playing this much cricket that his already poor form is becoming poorer and poorer. And due to this Ponting has got a rate distiction. All know that Aussies are famous for their records. So, there is one more record in the feather of Ponting. This man called Ponting has led his team to most T20 DEFEATS. Yes, you read it right. Ponting has lost around 10 T20 matches as a captain. Out of these 10 he has lost 5 matches on the trot. Now isn't that too a good record?
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Australia out of T20 WC - with an awesome record!
Aussies out of the T20 WC
Yes and that's quite a good news for all of us. We wanted some other team other than the Aussies to play good cricket. Other than Australia, South Africa and India are playing good cricket. Sri Lanka and West Indies too lifted their games to send Australia packing. I completely agree with the fact that, Australia is nearer to the end of cricketing history. You know, everyone has got his share of luck, be it good or bad. The same is happening with the Aussies. They were so high after the 1996 World Cup that, they became the first country in the history of the game to win the World Cup three times in a row. So, in a way that was their good luck going their way. Now the tide seems to have turned the other way round. And India has a big role to play in that. Since India defeated Australia in their own backyard in the Perth Test - after the infamous Sydeny Test - all seem to be going against the Aussies. They lost the CB series to India too. And the biggest upset was seen just yesterday. The Australian team being knocked out of the T20 World Cup. What's more to come?
Seguir leyendo...India's ICC Ranking - Up And Down!
India looks well set for the no. 1 spot. With both the bowlers and batsmen in form, it doesn't look too difficult now. And India has marched towards this spot by dethrowning Australia from the No. 2 position. Now, SA is no. 1, India is no. 2 and Australia is no.3. But still in the longer version of the game, it's Australia who is still at the top. It will take some tough cricket from Dhoni and his men before his dream of taking India to the top in both the versions of the game is realised. And I think, that day is not too far when it will materialize.
But the loss to Sri Lanka in the final ODI pushed India to the third spot once again. As SA was just for some days at the top of the ICC Team rankings, so was India. But there was a double blow. The first was that, India lost to Sri Lanka. And there Down Under, OZ defeated NZ. So Australia could climb up a spot again.
Bad decisions And Poor Umpiring
Of course. There is not even an iota of doubt in this fact. TV replays very loudly screaming that it's Haddin and not Clarke who had bowled out Broom. So, I whole-heartedly agree with what Vettori had to say. Vettori is a very mature and seasoned player. He has been around for a fair bit of time and he knows what is right and wrong to say in front of the media. If the Australians were so aware about public speaking then why did a OZ player in a radio interview speak against McCullm. Was that right then? It does not look good for the Aussies to speak about being honest on the field. All know what had happned there. How the Indians were cheated repeatedly. And along with the Australian team there was Bucknor too. Then there was Andrew Symonds to had openly confessed to being out on 30. And in the same innings he went on to score one of his best scores. So Aussies, please stop complianing now. Learn to accept defeat. I tell you these Aussies don't know how to be greacious in defeats too.Meanwhile the Indians too are suffering again at the hands of poor and childish umpiring. I there are whimps doing the umpiring for the Indo-SL series. First it was Sachin Tendulkar - well not once but twice. One of them at the hands of Kumara Dharmasena. He forgot his dharma - his duties - and gave the best batsman on the earth out. It makes the number game for all very very difficult. Then in the second ODI it was Yuvraj who was given out by Gamini Silva who might need an eye surgery to see properly.I wanna ask why doesn't the ICC use the third umpire and the other technology to adjust the decisions. Rather than depend of stupid people like Gamini Silva, Kumara Dharmasena or Steve Bucknor.
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