Australia v India
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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.
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@canefan said in Australia v India:
@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
I think Coney has mentioned that.
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@NTA said in Australia v India:
@nzzp said in Australia v India:
Warner must have good oil to get a commentating gig. He's ... not great
His personality coming through i.e. massive shitfluffybunny
I'm guessing he's not throwing the bowlers and the coaches and Australian Cricket under the bus ... so he gets the gig.
His book will be verrrrry interesting if he wants to burn some bridges
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@canefan said in Australia v India:
@nzzp said in Australia v India:
Brilliant hundred from Jaiswal. Ramped a 6 to go to 101! Ballsy!
Happy he didn't do that to us
it's because we're better than Australia
<glances around nervously>
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@nzzp said in Australia v India:
@canefan said in Australia v India:
@nzzp said in Australia v India:
Brilliant hundred from Jaiswal. Ramped a 6 to go to 101! Ballsy!
Happy he didn't do that to us
it's because we're better than Australia
<glances around nervously>
In India we would have won this test by now.
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@KiwiMurph said in Australia v India:
Do they bat Jaiswal at 3 going forward?
He's too good to open
Not sure I agree with that, you’re making openers sound like dogsbodies when some of the greatest batsmen of all time went in first.
Toughest batting position in cricket, as a general rule of thumb depending on eras you can add an about 5-7 to an openers career average to get his true worth to the team.
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@MN5 said in Australia v India:
@KiwiMurph said in Australia v India:
Do they bat Jaiswal at 3 going forward?
He's too good to open
Not sure I agree with that, you’re making openers sound like dogsbodies when some of the greatest batsmen of all time went in first.
Who then had better batsmen behind them at first drop
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@KiwiMurph said in Australia v India:
@MN5 said in Australia v India:
@KiwiMurph said in Australia v India:
Do they bat Jaiswal at 3 going forward?
He's too good to open
Not sure I agree with that, you’re making openers sound like dogsbodies when some of the greatest batsmen of all time went in first.
Who then had better batsmen behind them at first drop
Not always. Hobbs and Sutcliffe were a class apart from those who followed.
Sunil Gavaskar was far and away the best batsman of his generation.
Graham Gooch was usually better than those who followed.
Okay, Hayden and Langer arguably had even better guys below them.
Same with Greenidge and Haynes.
We’ll call this a draw
