New Delhi: Indian batsmen are a "scared species", making them an easy prey for the Australian pace battery in the upcoming ODI series, feel former Australian bowlers Ray Bright and Rodney Hogg.
Former pacers Hogg and Bright, a left-arm spinner of the 70's, felt the Indians would not get much of a home advantage in the seven-match series starting September 29.
"Well I say, Good Luck. Which they (India) would need," Hogg was quoted as saying by Neo Sports.
"Unfortunately India tends to play Bangladesh a lot, so they tend to stretch up cricket," said Bright as he took potshot at the Indian line-up.
Hogg described the Indian batsmen as "arrogant" and said they were scared of facing pacers. "Couple of Indian batsmen are scared species, might be slightly arrogant and certainly there is no way to hide when people like Clark are going to go to India. With their pace there's nowhere to hide," he said.
Former Australian batsman Gary Cosier echoed a similar view and said Indians would buckle under pressure when faced with an accurate attack.
http://content.msn.co.in/Sports/Cricket/Stories/CricketAFP_230907_1014.htm "Australia's bowlers and fieldsmen have impacts and they tend to put so much pressure on these very, very good players that the result is not very good at the end of the game," Cosier said.
RE:ausiies jokers
by Moses Joseph on Sep 25, 2007 10:17 PM Permalink
The above commens of Australians connected with cricket seem very "arrogant". If Aussies are so superior and Indians are a scared lot, then why dis Australia lose to India in Twenty20?
RE:ausiies jokers
by Jeet Sengupta on Sep 25, 2007 10:47 PM Permalink
These are mind games being played by the aussies. The new and resilient India will not buckle under such psychological pressure tactics.
