Aussie Cricket

[NTA]

@hooroo you just want to see India lose to a plucky bunch of upstarts

[antipodean]

Starc catches an edge and he was looking like he could have won this for Oz.

[antipodean]

Cummins can't hang around while Lyons is scoring like it's a T20.

Oz have one wicket to score another 64 runs.

[NTA]

@antipodean Not gunna happen

[NTA]

FUck. Second last ball before tea, Hoff gone. Good effort from the tail.

Shame the top order don't know how to top order.

Well done India.

[mariner4life]

bottom 5 score 148, top 6 score 143. hang your heads you useless fucks.

Black Caps supporters are well used to a team that requires the bowlers to take the wickets and score the runs

[NTA]

Test Cricket. It's alright.

[MN5]

@mariner4life said in Aussie Cricket:

bottom 5 score 148, top 6 score 143. hang your heads you useless fucks.

Black Caps supporters are well used to a team that requires the bowlers to take the wickets and score the runs

Yep when Vettori and Mccullum needed big partnerships after Jamie How and Peter Fulton had fucked up yet again.

[ACT Crusader]

Well done to India. Put the pressure on the top order and OZ were really chasing their tail thereafter. Oz lower order with a bit of fight, but it did look inevitable that they would fall short.

I’ve already seen some chatter about “if they had Smith and Warner” and yes they would’ve made a difference. But according to pre-game commentary India was without fast bowlers...

[NTA]

@act-crusader additionally: IF Finch and Marsh hadn't so spectacularly fucked up in the first dig, we MAY have scored more and had a lead BUT the Indian middle order would have been more circumspect, methinks

[Chris B.]

@nta Yeah - Ashwin in particular played an immensely stupid shot - a six or out slog - when he could have just pushed a single at a point where every run was making things exponentially harder for Oz.

Ashwin got outplayed by Lyon, which would have been a root cause of India's loss if they'd lost - main factor in this being a reasonably close game.

In reality - if I was picking a combined team from the two squads, I'd be tossing up between Ashwin and Lyon, but other than that I'd be picking Starc and Hazlewood from Oz and probably Khawaja instead of Rohit Sharma.

[Snowy]

@nta said in Aussie Cricket:

Also: Nigel Long is having a 'mare.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=4&objectid=11554234

Nigel "that could have been anything" Llong is akin to Jerome "we have a deal" Garces.

Probably best not to mention him, I have a Llong memory (although if he has welsh heritage his name could be pronounced something like Thong or Schlong which amuses me).

[NTA]

@snowy fucking hell. Did your violin come with an "underarm" tuning fork? 🙄

😉

[Snowy]

@nta Haven't forgotten the underarm either.

Wasn't alive for the Deans try in 1905 but we was robbed then too!

[NTA]

@snowy have you become a Wallabies supporter of late?

[Snowy]

@nta said in Aussie Cricket:

@snowy have you become a Wallabies supporter of late?

No butPhil Kearns does enough "we was robbed" for everyone - what he really means is "we were shit".

To be "robbed" it needs to be at least close.

[barbarian]

@snowy said in Aussie Cricket:

Nigel "that could have been anything" Llong is akin to Jerome "we have a deal" Garces.

Jeez if you're going to hate on a bloke, at least get it right - it was Romain Poite, not Garces.

[Duluth]

@nta said in Aussie Cricket:

IF Finch and Marsh hadn't so spectacularly fucked up in the first dig, we MAY have scored more and had a lead BUT the Indian middle order would have been more circumspect, methinks

If you were picking the team what would your batting lineup be?

[NTA]

@duluth tough to pick at the moment as some of the recent players aren't in hot form, but Finch doesn't seem to have the correct temperament for Test cricket so can't stay. One change, steady as she goes.

Renshaw - good brain for opening.
Harris
Waj
Marsh - 70 runs in that situation warrants another go, but I fear double-failure is around the corner
Hanscomb
Head
Paine
Cummins
Starc
Lyon
Hazelwood

[NTA]

@Duluth though I think I was reading somewhere that we'll proceed to the Second Test with the existing lineup, so we will see how that works out.

I doubt whether India will be so reckless against our bowlers again.