Australia v India
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@KiwiMurph said in Australia v India:
@barbarian The problem with Starc is he is two different bowlers depending on whether it's a day/night pink ball test or not.
In a day/night pink ball test his record is amazing. His recent record in non-pink ball tests? Not that great.
He and Boult are similar in that they both thrive with the white/pink balls, but with the red don't look nearly as threatening especially when there isn't swing.
Starc's action is also not particularly economical so he's better in short bursts, but will get burnt out pretty quickly.
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Something I’ve learned reading this thread is we seem to have a new filter going. It seems that if you type in the word p o a c h you now get pickup. Cool.
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@Catogrande said in Australia v India:
Something I’ve learned reading this thread is we seem to have a new filter going. It seems that if you type in the word p o a c h you now get pickup. Cool.
Rupeni Caucau would’ve been a nice pickup 😎
It works!
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@barbarian said in Australia v India:
I do believe if a few things broke the way of Australia they could have won this series 3-1. But they didn't, and India were good enough to step up on Day 5 when it counted.
How much more could have broken Australia's way? They won all four tosses and suffered one injury vs India's casualty list.
I'm struggling to think of any reviews or turning points which went in India's favour? On Day 5 in Brisbane I would say luck went in Australia's favour with the Pujara LBW call.
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@rotated said in Australia v India:
I'm struggling to think of any reviews or turning points which went in India's favour? On Day 5 in Brisbane I would say luck went in Australia's favour with the Pujara LBW call.
A lot of edges that ballooned away from slips. Part of cricket, but you'll have a run of good and bad - this one turned out to not favour the Aussies.
I'd say the Australian catching in Test 1 or 2 - they shelled a lot. THat's skill not luck, but you woudln't want to rely on it.
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@nzzp said in Australia v India:
A lot of edges that ballooned away from slips. Part of cricket, but you'll have a run of good and bad - this one turned out to not favour the Aussies.
It did massively in one innings in Adelaide, and then got a little more 50/50 from there.
Our dropped catches is entirely on us.
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The Pujara LBW led to India winning the test. As good as he had been, he's not the type of player that can just put the foot down. Washington coming out and hitting a breezy 20 odd, which took the pressure off Pant, got them over the line.
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Shubman Gill's innings was particularly noteworthy. Hell of a strike rate and positivity when batting out the day was a very feasible strategy.
There's a lot of empty talk about batting positively and playing each ball but fuck all teams and batters actually do it.5 or 6 years ago McCullum was largely scoffed at for his continual mentioning of it, with what appeared to be good reason at the time.A wee bit akin to running it in your own half for 60 minutes of 80 in rugby.
Never have I seen a team actually follow through on these words like India did on day 5, and against the best bowling quartet in the world, maybe ever.
That last day gets even more remarkable the more you think about it.
And no shame to the Aussies at all. Perhaps a bit different field for Lyon at stages but that's about it
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This bothers me:
You'll have to scroll forward to the 50 second mark.
Now, there are some obvious instances of not playing a shot but this one isn't so cut and dry. His technique is fine for a turning, bouncing off spin delivery and I'll argue that Pujara not playing a shot is not definitely clear and obvious. Sure when playing from the crease but not many advance out of the crease only to use your pad. In fact I'll argue that nobody does.
Didn't like that the no shot clause got so readily adjudicated in this instance.
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Indians fans sure got carried away...
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@Bovidae said in Australia v India:
Indians fans sure got carried away...
He should be thrilled someone thinks a New Zealander footballer is relevant
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@NTA said in Australia v India:
The bigger issue is that Indian cricket fans are as big a set of dickheads as any cricket fans.
100%. They're up there with kiwi fans with over the top chips on their shoulders about Australian cricketers whose main crime is they're Australian cricketers who are good.
I mean, bar Brad Haddin of course, some of them seem like pretty decent blokes.
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@NTA said in Australia v India:
The bigger issue is that Indian cricket fans are as big a set of dickheads as any cricket fans.
The problem with that is that it is probably a similar percentage of dickheads, which means there are millions of dickheads.
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@nzzp said in Australia v India:
@NTA said in Australia v India:
@Snowy either way, that's a lot of dickheads
a bag full?
Imperial bag at that
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@NTA said in Australia v India:
@nzzp said in Australia v India:
@NTA said in Australia v India:
@Snowy either way, that's a lot of dickheads
a bag full?
Imperial bag at that
Someone is obviously drinking a few craft beers today
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@MN5 said in Australia v India:
@NTA said in Australia v India:
@nzzp said in Australia v India:
@NTA said in Australia v India:
@Snowy either way, that's a lot of dickheads
a bag full?
Imperial bag at that
Someone is obviously drinking a few craft beers today
Yeah should have had a nap as well. Those 6.5% IPAs make me sleepy, along with the 37°C weather.
