Australia v India
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@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
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@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
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@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
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@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.
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@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.
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150 all out
104 all out
172-0Is a weird scorecard that also shows why I love test cricket. Conditions change, adapt
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@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.
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@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.
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@sparky said in Australia v India:
@MN5 Yep, Ben Stokes needs to be told to get Test-fit or fuck off. I think he should focus on the White Ball game now.
He does bust out some big moments here and there but he is pretty overrated. Ordinary in both disciplines at test level.
Brook is a massive talent and Root is still all class though.
