World Champions are ready for the tough Australian tour.Fortunately
from Indian point of view most of the key players are fit.Now Australia
will face the music if Indian batting line up clicks.There is no one
in Aus team apart from ponting who can give headache to Indians.Ponting
was also not in the best of forms of late.He is not a captain
too.There is added pressure on Ponting and Hussy to perform otherwise
they will lose their place in the team.One must give credit to BCCI for
sending some players early in Aus so that they got accustomed to the
pace and bounce in the wicket.India though has strong batting line up
but still it is upto Viru and Gauti to give India solid start.I am sure
Sahewag will be the man to watch out for along with Very Very Special
Laxman & How can one forget the best in the business i.e Sachin
Tendukar (Masterblaster) this may be the last tour of Indias FAB4 but
you never know about them.With increasing age their hunger for runs is
also increasing and that is good sign for India.
There is not much to talk about
Australian bowling as there is no quality spinner and also the fasters
are inexperienced.but the only thing goes in their favour is they know
their conditions better than Indians.It will not be as easy as it seems
to be because Aussies play hard cricket and I hope they play fair
cricket this time around unlike past tour.I can see that both teams will
play in the right spirit as there is no Symonds,Bhajji,Srisant and
there is change in the leadership.
Indian bowling seems good with Zaheer
leading the attack with young Umesh Yadav who looked promissing and
fit;still he has a long way to go.But I hope he does not
reduce his pace in the coming months like other Indian bowlers.Ishant
Sharma does not bowl fast neither he swings the bowl nor he hits the
dake hard to bounce the ball to the throat of the batsman.He once said
in an interview that he himself does not know which way the ball is
going to swing then how can the batsman guess.I hope he had not said it
seriously.The chances will have to be taken as and when they come and
those batsmen who get setteled down should continue the good work as
long as possible and should play session by session.
Clearly Indians are favourates to win the battle if they play to their potential.
