Twenty-20 time - India vs Australia

Its time for twenty twenty now

Match between India vs Australia starts 2pm tomorrow IST. Its been raining all day today in Melbourne so no team got any chance to practice. The weather forcast though is all clear for tomorrow. The curator says the pitch will be a batting paradise and the expected attendance for the day night game is expected to be 90,000


Team News, contrary to what was expected, its now emerging that Sachin may not play in the match afterall. Yuvraj Singh is already out with his knee injury.

So that means Kartick, Gambhir along with sehwag will get the game. Frankly i expect India to be shot out tomorrow

Sehwag
Gambhir
Irfan
Dinesh Kartick
Suresh Raina
Utthappa
Dhoni
Sreesanth
Harbhajan
Ishant
Munaf

(Manotj Tiwari somewhere maybe? in place of Munaf for an extra batsman)


Meanwhile This is what Dhoni has to say

"We will take the Twenty20 as one of the practice games,".

"We will look to win, but that's best that the reserve guys have come in and join the squad, so we need to get the best out of it and hopefully the weather will be better for cricket tomorrow."



On Australian side, Hayden will be rested while Ponting is suspect.

Australia squad Michael Clarke, Adam Gilchrist (wk), Ricky Ponting (capt), Brad Hodge, Andrew Symonds, Michael Hussey, David Hussey, Adam Voges, James Hopes, Brett Lee, Ashley Noffke, Nathan Bracken, Ben Hilfenhaus.

India squad Sachin Tendulkar, Virender Sehwag, Robin Uthappa, Gautam Gambhir, Dinesh Karthik, Yuvraj Singh, Rohit Sharma, Manoj Tiwary, MS Dhoni (capt, wk), Suresh Raina, Piyush Chawla, Praveen Kumar, Irfan Pathan, Munaf Patel, Harbhajan Singh, Ishant Sharma, Sreesanth.

We are all expecting dhoni to be a wonderful captain, but he is not able to perform in tests which according to me is where a cricketer is truly tested. Anyways, lets hope india plays better. This team has been chosen for its fielding,

We have munaf

and what about this yuvi thing? is he becoming the britney spears of indian cricket? i know the analogy doesn't fit in there, but u get it right?

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Agnel's Signature:

yeah.. deepika padukona = drugs!

I think dhoni is simply trying to play it down like he did b4 the T20 world cup when nobody had any hopes from india..This time, ppl have hopes, but he is playing it down so tht in case they lose, he'll be able to say, " Hey, didnt i say, it was just a practice match? " and if they manage to win, he'll say, "Hey,we are not T20 World Champions for nothing"..
So for his own good, he must be thinking tht the lesser the hope they create, the lesser will be the disappointment if they lose..

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Private Ryan's Signature:

ponting not sure to play

Cricinfo - India to use Twenty20 as 'practice'

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Agnel's Signature:

I think Dhoni would opt for Praveen kumar instead of Dinesh Karthick..

My Playing11

Gambhir
Sehwag
Uthappa
Manoj Tiwari
Raina
Dhoni
Irfan
Praveen Kumar
Bhajji
Sreesanth
Munaf

This team without Joginder sharma hardly looks menacing

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Ninja's Signature:

OMG, he isn't playing?
BTW, where is the other pathan? He is gonna replace sehwag at the top of the order in the near future

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Agnel's Signature:

I just think it will be a miracle if India win this. Atleast on paper they are all set to be routed. (But then cricket is not fought on paper)

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Safin's Signature:


"You force me to do terrible things that...I enjoy doing anyway!"

INDIA has to keep up its Champion Status !!!

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xXx's Signature:

I somewhat believe, indians are gonna hit out the aussies out of the match.
uh oh, yuvi isn't in good form, may be deepika will spice up the evening

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