Cricket
Its back to those bad old days, the performance has been so pathetic, that everybody's scurrying to find excuses. Methinks its just a ruse to lull the Kangaroos in to a false sense of security!! (can i get more fanatic than this.???) We have always done well when we have been totally written off. And this situation surely deserves to be in the "written-off" category, all batsmen failing collectively, no sachin, opening dilemmas, depleted pace bowling, the only bright spot seems to be that ,Anil & Bhajji will get a chance to have a crack together at the Aussies.
Aussies as always will arrive bristling with confidence, threatening to sweep everything before them. They have got a few things right, dropped MacGill, picked Symonds. Compared to their last two tours, they have got more batsmen, who are adept at playing spin..hayden, lehman, symonds.

As far as the Champions trophy is concerned, I dont see anybody doing a Greece (as in the Euro 2004). No team has got the game to beat the Aussies, unless of course somebody pulls of a "Laxman" or a "Butcher"