The pitch all of sudden turns into a land mine garden…and “Bhagwaan” still on 99*.looks like that ispecial 100 is reserved for those National Highways of India..
#sharktale1212: cricinfo + office 
How is it that India is still ranked #2 in both the formats of the game? 
http://www.espncricinfo.com/rankings/content/current/page/211271.html
The rankings are up to date as well.
#Bluffmaster the ranking take into count the old performances and also the head to head performance, if we loose 4-0 and SA beats NZ 3-0 we will go down to 3rd rank.
ODI definitely we have very good record in 2011, so we deserve that rating, but hope the rot of tests does not infect the ODIs.
Yeah.. i am not able to understand what is happening to Dravid. The best batsmen in the entire cricketing world for defence, is getting bowled again and again. The wall developed chinks There’s a lot of gap b/w bat & pad.
P.S India should atleast thank Aussies at the presentation ceremony. They saved our team from an innings defeat. Now pls, anyone willing to bet on the loss margin ? 
The match is bloody fixed. BCCI would have sent out feelers to Cricket Australia before the match asking them to take this to the 5th day. No wonder Hussey was talking about this being a ‘longer’ match even before the match had started, and Ponting talking about it being ‘difficult’ to take 20 wickets on this pitch.
** Rahul Dravid likely to announce retirement shortly**
Frankly the number of times he has been bowled, it was getting ridiculous as well.
Should have taken retirement from australian tour(s) when he was felicitated on the last tour itself.
295 - 300 (loss margin)
lost by 298…This would have finished yesterday if followon was enforced..8-0..Its time for Old Guards to retire…Laxman atleast..one by one is a better option.
1 Indian centurian
Match stretched to 5th day
Loosing margin under 300..
One would think we are hearing about Indian team’s match from the 1950s..
^^^ atleast the team form 1950s was not the world no.1 team only a few months ago!!!
Oh my lord…My Pommie team lost too…72 allout…Looks like only WI and Aus can sustain the No 1 rankings for 10 + years..other teams cant even retain them for 10 months..
lol the pommies can’t play spin on subcont tracks.
Among Aus/Eng/Ind/Pak/SA/SL/NZ, I wait for the day when one of these teams will beat the other AWAY.
India doesn’t play away for 2 years now (our batsmen must be feeling cosy with their favorite curators by their side now) but its a chance for Aus/Eng/SA to show they can bat on roads too.
And i hope these ‘cosy batsmen’ find that they have lost a huge chunk of their Indian fans.
As if they care. If only it hits them where it hurts i.e. their endorsements contracts, nobody would be bothered.
i read the tv channels have started loosing ads and viewership in this series. saw on crimes of india (aka TOI) that hardly anyone was watching the test series and that many advertisers have shied from sponsoring the team now. i hope the sponsors go to sports like tennis, hockey, badminton and football. no one should sponsor the indian cricket team from now onwards.
Well they have asked for TRP linked ad slots cost now. I hope the they lose the test matches in India too. Won’t that be fun.
If you look at it, they never won as convincingly in India as they lost abroad. Even the test series with Aus would have been a draw had it not been for the last wicket heroics. They were that bad.
People need to stop watching cricket. Once viewership goes down, sponsorship should go down. This will affect BCCI and cricketers.
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“Australia and England agree to stop playing each other. Ashes winner to be decided based on who beats India by a bigger margin.”**** **** 
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India continue to keep bringing up their home record in response to their back-to-back 0-4 whitewashes in England and Australia. The moment the question about the whitewashes was asked, Virender Sehwag shot back even before it could be finished, “We also won 2-0 in India.” Yeah right