SPIN BEE STINGS OZ BADLY

Australia playing against the Board President Eleven had a very sad story to tell yesterday(12th of Feb2013)at Chennai The captain of the Australia Mathew Wade before playing in India during this series had claimed that he was to assume the role of highly successful Mathew Haiden on this trip. He might prove it true in the days to come! But his first outing with bat was not so encouraging as he thought. The full fledged Australin Team stumbled agaist the spin attack of The Board Eleven ,like a pack of cards surrendering nine of their ten wickets to the spinners. It is rather astonishing to note that they were all out in a single day towards stumps at a paltry 241 runs.Unbelievable! the Captain Mathew Wade who was to perform yet another Mathew Haiden was back in pavilion just for a score of 35 runs after facing 76 balls with one hit to the fence &two over it.From the way he despached the ball twice over the fence,it looked as if he was going to pa play the role really in India of Haiden! But Alas! he fell to the sting of the Spin Bee of J&K ParveZ Rassol who ,incidentally,claimed the 7 of 10 wickets.A marvellous performance from this brand new Spinner from Kashmir! The other veterans of the Australians,EJM.Covan(58),S.P.D.Smith(41),P.M>Siddle(22),J.L.Pattinson(9) J.M.Bird(1)),&A.C.Agar(0)were the batsmen fell cheaply to the unplayable spinner bee Rassol The Million Dollar Man G.J.Maxwell who was purchased by the Mumbai Indias at the highest price of the IPL auctions also fell for(0) cauhht by the wicket keeper P.Patem , bowled by Binny. U.T.Khawaja&M.C.Henrique fell to S.Ladda cheaply for32&16 respectively The BoardEleven ,however,was not much behind the Australians with just103 runs for 5 wickets, giving Australians to make inroads. Being a match of just 2 days which is under progress & concluding today(13th Feb2013), a result is ruled out. Let us, however,await the result by the evening. The following comments ,however,offered 1) this new finfd Parvez should be given proper recognition by giving him as a Bonus to play for India atleast in the 3rd Test Mach as ther selection for the first 2 matches has already been made. 2)The India Team should be careful without taking the performance of Australians for granted as it could very well be a new tactics to mislead Indians that they are suceptible to Spin attack since the Australians are generally good at playing Spin as compared to other cricket playing Nations. 3)Their idea might be to see the back of either Harbhajan Singh or Aswin from the Team by replacing either of them from the Team by the New find. Of late ,it has been observed that England&Australia employ many a tricks to see that they could beat India in the Indian Soil. 4)Generally Australians are reluctant to play spinners in India.Here again their first two practice matches&the first Test match are to be played at Chennai.So if they could find a new spinner in place of Harbhajan or Aswin,they could be very much pleased &happy.Harbhajan Singh, incidentally, has a good record against the Australians in the Indian Soil. Any how all the Best to both Australia&India in the first test match at Chennai where spin is likely to rule the match. SreedharanMundanat Wednesday13th of February2013 ati3-45Hrs(IST)