Australia v India

booboo

@booboo This Australia team are getting rather old in the tooth. Is there any young blood in Sheffield Shield cricket that they could bring into the national side?

Don't know
Don't care

Just the difference between the celebration of how good the Oz bowling attcke was yesterday, to how awful they are today us amusing.

sparky

Lyons smashed for six. Lead over 200 now.

canefan

Huge 6 by Jaiswal

MN5

@booboo said in Australia v India:

@sparky said in Australia v India:

India with a lead of 177 and with 10 wickets remaining. Almost no pressure on the batsmen. Five wides. I can't remember the last time I saw such a toothless Australian bowling attack.

Gee. Quick to go from the GREATEST bowling attack EVER, my goodness 4 x 2-fiddy-plus, to COMPLETELY TOOTHLESS.

Sports fans are fickle as fuck.

Windies in the early 80s and late 80s were better.

Could argue Waqar, Wasim, Imran and Qadir too.

Maybe not, they might not have played together enough

booboo

@sparky said in Australia v India:

@canefan Less than one year to the Ashes. If they play as badly as they have done so today, it will be 5 - zip to England.

It's always one year till The Ashes. Bores me senseless.

canefan

@MN5 said in Australia v India:

@booboo said in Australia v India:

@sparky said in Australia v India:

India with a lead of 177 and with 10 wickets remaining. Almost no pressure on the batsmen. Five wides. I can't remember the last time I saw such a toothless Australian bowling attack.

Gee. Quick to go from the GREATEST bowling attack EVER, my goodness 4 x 2-fiddy-plus, to COMPLETELY TOOTHLESS.

Sports fans are fickle as fuck.

Windies in the early 80s and late 80s were better.

Could argue Waqar, Wasim, Imran and Qadir too.

Maybe not, they might not have played together enough

Windies in the 80s were plain nasty. Tours to the Windies must have been terrifying. Just ask Ken Rutherford

booboo

@MN5 said in Australia v India:

@booboo said in Australia v India:

@sparky said in Australia v India:

India with a lead of 177 and with 10 wickets remaining. Almost no pressure on the batsmen. Five wides. I can't remember the last time I saw such a toothless Australian bowling attack.

Gee. Quick to go from the GREATEST bowling attack EVER, my goodness 4 x 2-fiddy-plus, to COMPLETELY TOOTHLESS.

Sports fans are fickle as fuck.

Windies in the early 80s and late 80s were better.

Could argue Waqar, Wasim, Imran and Qadir too.

Maybe not, they might not have played together enough

I'm just comparing the comments from yesterday to today

sparky

Jaiswal looking a special talent to be fair.

canefan

@sparky said in Australia v India:

Jaiswal looking a special talent to be fair.

Luckily we managed to contain him in his own backyard 💪

MN5

@sparky said in Australia v India:

@canefan Less than one year to the Ashes. If they play as badly as they have done so today, it will be 5 - zip to England.

Extremely unlikely. England have sucked arse between all the Bazballing heroics.

canefan

@sparky said in Australia v India:

@canefan Less than one year to the Ashes. If they play as badly as they have done so today, it will be 5 - zip to England.

It's a 5 match series. They have time to improve

booboo

Weird pattern huh?

17 wickets day one, day two and you can't buy a wicket

canefan

@booboo said in Australia v India:

Weird pattern huh?

17 wickets day one, day two and you can't buy a wicket

One of the comms said that the general consensus was that the pitch would be slower on day 1, then get more difficult to bat over the next couple of days as it quickened up. It's been the reverse

sparky

@MN5 Ranked 4 in the world at the minute and unlike Australia they have brought in a bit of young talent since the last Ashes series.

But yeah they need to evolve beyond the bash and crush of Bazball and probably ditch Stokes if he can't get Test fit.

NTA

@booboo said in Australia v India:

Weird pattern huh?

17 wickets day one, day two and you can't buy a wicket

Shows it wasn't had pitch, just a bit of impatience from everyone with the willow in hand.

Survive the first hour on it and you're good to go.

sparky

Fabulous day for India and a punishing one for Australia on their own turf. India lead by 218 runs with 10 wickets and three days remaining.

mariner4life

150 all out
104 all out
172-0

Is a weird scorecard that also shows why I love test cricket. Conditions change, adapt

nzzp

Has the Aussie commentary team had a major refresh? Becuase they were mostly listenable ... a few years ago I muted and put on the ABC because they were so jingoistic one eyed fluffybunnies. But these seemed better the last couple of days

Rapido

@NTA said in Australia v India:

@booboo said in Australia v India:

Weird pattern huh?

17 wickets day one, day two and you can't buy a wicket

Shows it wasn't had pitch, just a bit of impatience from everyone with the willow in hand.

Survive the first hour on it and you're good to go.

I think it was a hard pitch on Day 1.

After day 1, I watched Kimber's channel review of the day where he reported on the cricviz metrics which showed it was hugely different from a normal Perth day 1 in terms of sideways movement.

Also the new kookaburra.

But there was also some bad batting.

In leadup podcasts to the test. Talk was that groundsman wasn't happy with cracks in last years potch (maybe they were too early?, because Perth and cracks is quite normal) so he left more grass on.

MN5

@sparky said in Australia v India:

@MN5 Ranked 4 in the world at the minute and unlike Australia they have brought in a bit of young talent since the last Ashes series.

But yeah they need to evolve beyond the bash and crush of Bazball and probably ditch Stokes if he can't get Test fit.

I’m picking a pretty close series. England have a few bog standard players which will even things up.

The Silver Fern

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