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I read somewhere that Hayden blamed “Third-world” conditions that they had to deal with in India for Australia’s bad performance and especially their poor over-rate….

So much for the macho man that he is considered. I guess physical and mental toughness are 2 different things. Hayden mentioned that Heat was one of the reasons that they could not get it done fast enough. I did not know that Hayden came from Western Europe and not Australia…

Here are some of the excuses Hayden gave (it’s coming from an unofficial and anonymous source)

1. Some of our bowlers were not fit and therefore were taking forever to complete their overs.

2. We have a Captain who does not know how to lead when we are behind and did not know how to call the toss….

3. We were all home-sick and thinking about families back home and therefore had a hard time focusing.

4. The Indian Batsmen out there were speaking in “Hindu” or whatever that language is called and we had to relay that over to the dressing-room to get it decoded so we could understand their strategies. This added to the delay in our over-rate.

5. There were a lot of centuries/double-centuries scored and the celebrations took forever.

6. A lot of boundaries were hit and we had to run all the way to the fence to fetch the ball.

7. The music played on the ground was not to our liking (not sure how this matters….)

8. We had to travel to different cities to play different Tests and that confused our bowlers.

9. Due to poor ground conditions our bowlers had to lengthen their run-ups to get generate the same pace.

10. We did not really have good spinners….Not sure what is happening with Shane Warne’s return. We really need him bad….Rest of these folks are just bad.

I am sure there are more reasons that Hayden put forward. May be you have heard some of them….