Archive for October 21st, 2008
India crush weak Aussies by 320 runs
I guess most of you have heard this unbelievable news by now. India has inflicted a crushing defeat upon the once mighty Aussies. Their biggest margin of victory ever. Quite shocking stuff. Many people were not pleased when they read the article titled Almighty Who? on CricInfo the other day. Even though its generally considered very hard to beat India in India but after this huge defeat it seems clear that Australia is not the force they used to be. The loss of so many legends seems to have crippled Ricky Ponting’s side. Their bowling looked especially weak. And unusually India was the more aggressive side.
For the Indian side Tendulkar became the highest scorer in test cricket. Ganguly was able to get a hundred too. Zaheer Khan and Harbajhan Singh were able to make a good comeback. Mishra, the debutant leggie was able to get wickets. And most of all, the new captain Dhoni got man of the match.
The Australians had nothing much to show. Lee, their spearhead was pretty useless and without him their bowling suffered. Johnson and the new comers had to do something which they unable to do. It would be interesting to see how they make a come back in Delhi in a week.
