Adelaide, Perth, Melbourne, Sydney .. .. How good is your memory ? – last time in Dec 2014, India played and lost here at Adelaide .. the bowling line up consisted of Mohammed Shami, Ishant Sharma, Varun Aaron, Karn Sharma .. .. and Murali Vijay who bowled 23 overs in all (besides scoring a 99) and Rohit Sharma.In the Aussie second innings,Rohit took a wicket too !
The Border Gavaskar
trophy starts at Adelaide, South Australia on 6th Dec.As with the rest of the continent, the region
had been long occupied by Aboriginal peoples, who were organised into numerous
tribes and languages. The South Australian Company established a temporary
settlement at Kingscote, Kangaroo Island, on 26 July 1836, five months before
Adelaide was founded.At Adelaide,
therewill be “test trains” running on
Sunday. Unfortunately these are not “trains to the Test”, but just “test
trains” - trains that are testing the tracks and not carrying passengers. The news is all Adelaide train services are
suspended for Saturday, December 8 and Sunday, December 9. The routes impacted
are: Osborne; Outer Harbor; Salisbury; Seaford; Gawler; Gawler Central;
Glanville; Grange; Belair.
According to SACA
chief executive Keith Bradshaw, 13 per cent of fans at the Adelaide Test last
year arrived by train. If you’re impacted by the suspension of services, here’s
everything you need to know to get to the Test on time. An “appalling” State
Government decision to cancel all train services on the weekend of the Adelaide
Test match will remain despite a fierce public backlash. Despite strong
lobbying from the SA Cricket Association and Stadium Management Authority after
the decision was quietly announced on Thursday evening, Transport Minister
Stephan Knoll announced early Friday afternoon that that shutdown would
proceed.International experts will be
in Adelaide that weekend to oversee the relocation of the control center from
the city to Dry Creek and were not available at other times, Mr Knoll said. However,
the minister conceded that the situation “should not have been allowed to
happen”.
On the turf, India
will be greeted with some grass at the Adelaide in the first Test against
Australia, according to curator Damien Hough even though the encounter will be
a day affair. For the past three seasons, Adelaide has hosted three day-night
Tests and to increase the durability of the pink ball for such Tests, Hough had
kept an extra layer of grass."We do the same preparation for red-ball
cricket and pink-ball cricket at Shield level. The best way to get an even
contest is to leave some grass on there and get that balance between bat and
ball. Right now, we really feel that this is where it's at for the pitch,"
he added. The inaugural day-night Test at the Adelaide Oval had ended in three
days while the second one was extended to four days. The third Test at the
venue ended in the first session on day five. If the curator rolls out a green
top, it could suit the fast bowlers of both India and Australia and the outcome
of the first Test might as well just set the tone for the four-match series.
Last time when they
met, four years ago, Fox sports writes that the careers of Nathan Lyon and Virat Kohli may
only be a fraction of what they are today if it wasn’t for Adelaide Oval. It
may sound a far stretch to hold a venue even partly responsible for shaping not
just professional futures, but lives. But prior to one career-defining Test in
the City, Kohli was a batsman with great potential rather than a great batsman,
averaging less than 40 in Test cricket. Lyon’s situation was far worse. Lyon
was becoming increasingly maligned for underperforming in the deciding moments
of Test matches. His most notable flop had just come in a two-Test series
against Pakistan in the UAE. Australia was whitewashed and Lyon was one of its
worst bowlers despite being its premier spinner in spin-friendly conditions.
What followed was
not just one of Lyon’s finest bowling performances to date, but also his and
the team’s moment of catharsis following days of pain and sorrow. Score card
reads : Australia 7 for 517 dec (Smith 162*, Warner 145, Clarke 128) and 5 for
290 dec (Warner 102) beat India 444 (Kohli 115, Lyon 5-134) and 315 (Kohli 141,
Vijay 99, Lyon 7-152) by 48 runs
A gladiatorial
battle between bat and ball took place on the final day at Adelaide Oval, where
a Test that had begun in sorrow a week after the death of Phillip Hughes was
given a dazzling finish that highlighted the greatness of this game. India's
champion was Virat Kohli, a debutant captain with his sight fixed on a
formidable target while all but one of his team-mates failed to show similar
steel. Lyon’s first-innings 5-134 was just his sixth
five-wicket haul in Test cricket that left Australia with a 73-run lead. But
his best was yet to come. India looked certain for at least a draw, reaching
the final session on day five with eight wickets remaining. Lyon was struggling
at 1-91.A two-wicket maiden bowled by
Lyon with 30 overs left in the day sent India into a spin. Seventeen overs
later and Lyon was taking his seventh wicket of the innings, sixth since tea,
and the last of the match to hand Australia a 48-run win with time to spare.
He was awarded
man-of the-match honours for his first ever ten-wicket haul (12 at 23.84), with
the majority of his scalps coming in the Test’s dying moments – a time when
many believed he went missing. Lyon’s most notable wicket was that of Kohli,
who had long threatened on the final day to capture an unlikely result for the
visitors. His hard-fought 115 off 184 in the first innings was bettered by his
gritty 141 off 175 in the second. Kohli became just the sixth opposition player
ever - and the first in more than 50 years - to score a century in both innings
of a Test in Australia. No visiting player has matched the feat since.
Down under, Arsalan Khawaja, brother of Australia cricketer Usman Khawaja, has been arrested as part of an investigation into a notebook which contained a “terror hit list” of Australian politicians. A.Khawaja was taken into custody on Tuesday morning after being taken in for questioning in October. Among the names listed in the notebook were Malcolm Turnbull and Julia Bishop, however Ten Daily reports that police do not suspect A.Khawaja had plans to carry out the attack but was instead trying to “set-up” a colleague. The notebook was found in August.
Coca-Cola has vowed
to retain a strong presence in South Australia despite closing its bottling
line in Adelaide, ending 66 years of local production.The line will produce its final bottle of
Coke today.Its GM Jarrad Mortimer says the company will still
have about 150 employees in SA. “After 66 years and around 10 billion bottles
produced, it’s time for this plant to retire,” Mortimer said. “But despite
that, we’re here to stay in SA. “We’re keeping a local team in sales,
distribution, warehousing, cold drink equipment and IT, plus Statewide
Recycling.”
Production began on
Coca Cola’s Thebarton site in 1952 with the decision to close the plant coming
in February last year. Since then production has been progressively relocated
to other plants in Western Australia and Queensland. Mortimer said Coca-Cola Amatil
had also worked closely with all employees over the two-year transition period
to redeploy some and help others find new work. “The wellbeing of our staff is
our top priority and most of those who’ve left have achieved their goals in
employment, study or retirement,” he said. “We’ve had good support from the
South Australian government through this process, including financial support
through a co-payment to help staff transition to new jobs.” The decision to
close the Adelaide bottling line came after a national review that recommended
boosting production in Queensland and Western Australia but winding it down in
SA.
With regards – S.
Sampathkumar
4th Dec
2018.
