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Craig HillODI: Australia on their way to series clean sweep
July 3rd 2008 23:17
The Australia one-day team are heading for a series clean sweep of the Windies after taking a 3-0 lead in the five-match series.
The Aussies took an unassailable 3-0 lead in the best-of-five limited overs series after injury-prone Shane Watson notched his maiden international century in a crushing seven-wicket win over the Windies in the third match.
Watson has carried his great form from the IPL series to the one-day arena and formed a wonderful 190-run partnership with skipper Ricky Ponting as the visitors made 227-3 in 40.3 overs. The skipper also overturned his barren run rate of late with 69 runs before getting dismissed by Gayle.
Vice-captain Michael Clarke is adamant the team will not let their guards down for the two dead rubbers and will be looking for a 5-0 series clean sweep to kick-start a 'new era' for the Australian one-day team.
"With the team we have now, if we can win 5-0 it certainly shows we've stood tall," said Pup.
"Obviously we've lost a lot of players from both forms of the games, but we won the Test series here, and hopefully if we win this 5-0 it will be a great start to what is a new era" he added.
The next match will be at Warner Park on Friday.
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Comment by Muralidaran Ramesh Somasunderam
I believe that Australia will have best Test and One Day cricket team in the cricketing world for the next ten to fifteen years, because of their infrastructure, planning, and execution in regard to cricket nationally.
I believe that India may be competitive, but will never dominate world cricket. If there is a team that could challenge Australia seriously for the next few years, it will be South Africa. But, this will depend on their policy of changing the quota system of including certain number of “coloured players” in their national team. If they can overcome this policy, and view all South Africans as the same, even though the apartheid policy did exist for many years in that country, the beneficiary of this will be the team, and it will also be vindicated in the results, both from an overall and specific perspective.
The reason I state that India will not be in a position to dominate world cricket is because of too much emphasis being paid to One Day cricket, and because of the lack of good quality consistent cricket wickets in India domestically. This will results in cricketers, who may be competitive at home in India, but lack the technique, application, and concentration required to combat overseas conditions, especially with the movement in the air, and off the deck in the United Kingdom, and the bounce and pace in Australia, except the Sydney cricket ground wicket, which will suit the Indian players overall or generally.
Yours Faithfully,
M. R. Somasunderam.