So England did win their battle against the Aussies by 9 wkts.
Wait. They did not. They lost.
Ponting and Watson scored hundreds to end the English fairy tale. So Aussies will now defend their title successfully.
Bad omens as now they would be confident coming to the Indian land and my predictions would now drop from 5-2 India to 4-3 India.
And then Ausssies take on weak teams of WI and then Pakistan in the home series and India then take on Sri Lanka. Lol.
Tough task for them to win even a single Test all this years in the country. How many ? 27 years. 6 tours and no win. 6 Test tours.
3 tests and 5 ODIs and then India take on the Africans. Till then its no exciting series scheduled.
Australia have not lost to Pakistan in a Test match in 15 years. Can you believe ? Even with 2 Ws, the genuine fast bowlers Pakistan couldnt win a single Test against them after 1994, so now imagine if they could win with the help of an Aamer, Gul and Asif.
3-0 losses in 2002 and 2005 series. Not to forget 1999.
Can Pakistanis break the jinx down under ? Well, only 2 teams have played well down under in the last 15 years. Its India in 2004 and 2007 and then South Africa in 2008-09.
Amongst 5 or 6 good test teams - -Australia, India, SA, Pak, England hardly any team has had a horrible mismatch like this.
Sri Lanka are yet to beat Australia in Australia, India in India and South Africa in South Africa in a single Test. Germain. That, the f is your team. Lol. Till then lets forget to bother them being a decent test side.
For now its Pakistan Vs New Zealand in the 2nd semi final .
The irony is that whenever in a ICC event after 1992 Pak have played NZ and won , they have lost to Australia in the final.
They beat NZ in 1992 thanks to their last great batsman Inzy, and won against England in the final. England there after could never reach the final, let go of a super 6 or 8 untill 2007.
Lot of stats. Pak would be back to their extremes tomorrow and the luck is now to be in their favor, so they would play good. Bad (WI), Good (Ind), Bad (Aus) and now good (NZ) and then bad (Aus).
I open the forum for the brickbats, some new commentors from Sri Lanka and most prolly ............
