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> snip

>> still makes a diff. you are living in a country familiar to you.
>> you get to meet with family and friends.
>> you get to eat your kind of food.
>> how much do  you travel on work?
>> tell me that towards the end of a long trip (2 weeks or more), you
>> aren't generally totally pissed off with everything- living out of a
>> suitcase, eating out all the time, working all the time because
>> there's nothing better to do, etc.
>> tell me that the aussie cricketers aren't totally exhausted at the
>> end of a long tour of india?

> Didn't Aust win the odo series after losing the last Test series in
> India?

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> >> still makes a diff. you are living in a country familiar to you.
> >> you get to meet with family and friends.
> >> you get to eat your kind of food.
> >> how much do  you travel on work?
> >> tell me that towards the end of a long trip (2 weeks or more), you
> >> aren't generally totally pissed off with everything- living out of a
> >> suitcase, eating out all the time, working all the time because
> >> there's nothing better to do, etc.
> >> tell me that the aussie cricketers aren't totally exhausted at the
> >> end of a long tour of india?

> > Didn't Aust win the odo series after losing the last Test series in
> > India?

> yes they did.
> but that is because they are a better team than india.
> especially the 2001 team with mcgrath and warne.
> and it was a hard-fought win. not the usual thrashing that they dole out.
> but tell me that they weren't tired at the end of the tour?

> --
> stay cool,
> Spaceman Spiff

> yes they did.
> but that is because they are a better team than india.
> especially the 2001 team with mcgrath and warne.
> and it was a hard-fought win. not the usual thrashing that they dole out.
> but tell me that they weren't tired at the end of the tour?

> Well, most of the matches were rain affected..so I cant judge clearly
> on that, though I do agree that he was the top scorer and the kind of
> form he has been lately, I doubt if anybody would trouble him..but he
> was at bay against Harbhajan.

> I think rain affected matches, for a batsmen trying to find a groove
> to bat in, would be damn hard to bat in, always messing with your
> concentration and such.

> As for Harby, he really did have Ponting's measure last time, although
> every time he's batted against him since, in the WC, the TVS, the
> Brisbane test (before Harby was injured), he's looked to assert
> himself over Harby, not to be dictated to - and he's succeeded it
> seems.

> Will be interesting later this year.

> > Well, most of the matches were rain affected..so I cant judge clearly
> > on that, though I do agree that he was the top scorer and the kind of
> > form he has been lately, I doubt if anybody would trouble him..but he
> > was at bay against Harbhajan.

> I think rain affected matches, for a batsmen trying to find a groove to
> bat in, would be damn hard to bat in, always messing with your
> concentration and such.

> As for Harby, he really did have Ponting's measure last time, although
> every time he's batted against him since, in the WC, the TVS, the
> Brisbane test (before Harby was injured), he's looked to assert himself
> over Harby, not to be dictated to - and he's succeeded it seems.