And we lost a game we had in our paws even after 4 days of previous bad cricket.

Krezja got man of the match for giving away more rns than Australia did in either innings. 12 wickets is not bad for debut though, but I doubt that we will be seeing him again anytime soon. Ponting made some bad decisions, but so did Kumble and Dhoni, its part of cricket, Ponting had a relatively poor series, but in comparison to almost everyone else (bar perhaps Hussey) it was not a terrible tour for him. The selectors have themselves to blame, and Border criticising Ponting is a joke, he gave Ponting this mediocre team, passing the buck is not what selectors should be doing, they should be seeing where they went wrong and trying to fix it. So what Clarke doesnt like Symonds, Symonds lifts when things are bad, something no one in the tail did.

Dhoni had an ordinary start to his long term captaincy debt, but handing the rains over to Ganguly for the final session was classy, something I wished we would see more in this day and age.

Overall the Aussies were outplayed and comprehensively out bowled, only Watson on the second to last day of the tour got reverse swing, and Australia's choices in bowling were overall horrible. Every Batsman had one good innings, Hayden got of to an unlucky start but improved from there, Katich was solid if unspectacular, Ponting, other than that century was overall poor, Clarke was horrendous and how he retains his spot I do not know, his bowling was poor, and batting patchy, even his century needed some very lucky breaks. Hussey was the rock of the Aussie batting, Watson was okay,his bowling improved, but he was also underbowled and too hasty to give his wicket away. Haddin was woeful, Australia need to try Ronchi in the ODI series and perhaps blood him against NZ, Haddin was poor all over. White was also a poor selection, his batting was alright for coming in at 8, he was overbowled for his skill level, and his poor showing may cost him a spot he deserved in the ODI side. Johnson was okay if unspectacular, Lee terrible, and undeserving of his spot, he had better bounce back very strongly against the Kiwi's or kiss his spot away, Clark was very unlucky to be dropped he was economical and allowed Johnson to strike at the other end. Siddle was good on debut and may see a recall this summer when Lee is dropped or injury takes it's toll on another bowler.

Bring on the Kiwi's we need some games that we can win to boost our confidence.