Australia v India

Rapido

All very disappointing when the Aussie cricket team aren't mostly complete bellends.
Unfortunately Warner does seemed to have matured and not be as much of a cock, he is stuck with the punchable face. He brought that on himself by being a fuckwit in the first place.

There must be some up and coming dickheads that we can look forward to disliking?

Nothing is bloody right this year.

Leap with me on the "get ready for a broken fucken arm" Cummins/Shami bandwagon.

Snowy

@Rapido said in Australia v India:

@Snowy said in Australia v India:

All very disappointing when the Aussie cricket team aren't mostly complete bellends.
Unfortunately Warner does seemed to have matured and not be as much of a cock, he is stuck with the punchable face. He brought that on himself by being a fuckwit in the first place.

There must be some up and coming dickheads that we can look forward to disliking?

Nothing is bloody right this year.

Leap woth me on the "get ready for a broken fucken arm" Cummins/Shami bandwagon.

I'm not sure that there is the Clarke / Johnson wankeriness with Smith (cheat, yes) / Cummins.

That is the problem that Aus need to fix. If you are team of arseholes still, at least show it.

Duluth

Aussie won the toss, batting first

Australia: 1 Joe Burns, 2 Matthew Wade, 3 Marnus Labuschagne, 4 Steven Smith, 5 Travis Head, 6 Cameron Green, 7 Tim Paine (capt & wk), 8 Pat Cummins, 9 Mitchell Starc, 10 Josh Hazlewood, 11 Nathan Lyon

India: 1 Mayank Agarwal, 2 Shubman Gill, 3 Cheteshwar Pujara, 4 Ajinkya Rahane (capt), 5 Hanuma Vihari, 6 Rishabh Pant (wk), 7 Ravindra Jadeja, 8 R Ashwin, 9 Umesh Yadav, 10 Mohammed Siraj, 11 Jasprit Bumrah

NTA

Burns' front foot is not yet mobile

Some good shape by Bumrah

MN5

@NTA said in Australia v India:

Burns' front foot is not yet mobile

What’s the story with New Zealand’s favourite player David Warner ? Wasn’t he supposed to be available?

NTA

@MN5 groin still not 100%.

Also don't change a winning team

MN5

@NTA said in Australia v India:

@MN5 groin still not 100%.

Also don't change a winning team

We did after two innings thrashing’s in a row cos Santner is the Jordie Barrett of cricket.

Actually he triggers me as much as Mitch Marsh does to you. Must be the name.

NTA

Burns just got a duck from 10 balls after looking rubbish to admittedly good fast bowling.

Warner back for third test thanks waiter.

KiwiMurph

Ashwin causing big problems.

ACT Crusader

@KiwiMurph got Smith again just trying to push it. He’s a class bowler Ashwin, even on an MCG deck that doesn’t really give much.

KiwiMurph

That's 100% the wrong call.

India absolutely fucked over.

NTA

Based on the technology available that was the only call.

Surely we can have HDR cameras for this?

KiwiMurph

@NTA only call?

I disagree.

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NTA

@KiwiMurph can't see the back of the bat from that shot. Benefit of the doubt.

If you've got one shot that puts the batsman in and another that shows them maybe out, what do you go with?

HDR cameras. The answer is "you go with HDR cameras"

NTA

Terrible review. He's tall but not THAT tall

KiwiMurph

@NTA look how far the bail is off - it doesn't take a genius to figure out that the bail came off before the bat crossed the line.

Cyclops

@NTA said in Australia v India:

Terrible review. He's tall but not THAT tall

This temporary increase to three reviews has shown that 2 is definitely the right amount. That was definitely a tactical based on match situation, similar to the one against labuschagne earlier this week.

KiwiMurph

@Cyclops at least unlike rugby TMO it doesn't take much time.

NTA

@KiwiMurph said in Australia v India:

@NTA look how far the bail is off - it doesn't take a genius to figure out that the bail came off before the bat crossed the line.

Ok but he's safe in the other shot, so you don't have conclusive proof that is the case.

KiwiMurph

@NTA it's actually not clear he is safe on that angle either - its the shadow of the bat causing an illusion.

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