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… in half an hour soon and here i am, sitting in a dark living room. Nothing dramatic follows though. I am just lazy to go and put on the light.

So, the official start of the Australian summer is just a fifteen minutes away and there is some concrete news of the team composition. First, the toss, though! Looks like Dravid will have to wait to put on his pads since as Ponting seems to have won the toss and has chosen to have a bat first.

The Australians have left Tait out and so Hogg will get a look in. As for India, Mark Taylor thinks that India have been brave since they go in with four specialist bowlers with Bhajji coming in as the second spinner to complement Kumble. How brave is that, we shall see.

And I am not sold at all about the whole Dravid experiment. Looks like the old “he comes in at over 10 anyways, so why not push him up” experiment is in the works again. Et tu, Kumble? If only the selectors had the same patience to persist with a specialist opener that they have time and again exhibited with this “push middle order batsman to open” experiment, I am sure we’d have found a stable opening pair by now.

Aaah, the teams are now coming out for the national anthem. It will be Gurmit Singh and Silvie Paladino doing the honors for the two countries. It’s a sunny day in Melbourne with the temprature at a balmy 63F. And the pitch promises to be a good batting track. So I am thinking that Ponting will agree that this was a good toss to begin, given India’s fragile bowling attack. But all that on paper only and anything can happen on the field.

So I am going to sit back now and watch. Wish me (and India) luck…

This entry was posted on Tuesday, December 25th, 2007 at 6:20 pm and is filed under Australia, Cricket, Down Under, India, Life, sports, test matches.