Aussie Cricket

[Chris B.]

Handy than Smith has won the toss. Will be an interesting first half hour!

[Virgil]

Positive start from Oz especially from Renshaw

[mariner4life]

50 inside 10 overs that has some variable stuff in it already. Not bad

[NTA]

LOL SMarsh sucks again.

[Chris B.]

@NTA Someone had to cover for Mitch (Marsh not Starc)!

#draintheswamp

[NTA]

[Paekakboyz]

The second session was good viewing - Aussie moving along nicely after those earlier wickets. Maxwell was accelerating nicely too.

Fuck me, How many of this Indian squad give a shit about fielding? some right barry crockers going down. They have some sharp guys but sometimes they couldn't look less interested!

[barbarian]

Good day, though the pitch looks pretty flat. We might need 400+ just to be in the game.

[NTA]

Fielding isn't thrashwanked over by Indian fans. Batting is. And they'll have to be pretty fucking special with their batting later in this Test.

Interesting fact: Mitch Marsh has a better batting average this series than Kohli.

Which means the fucking Indian skipper is due. And the pitch wasn't coated in mines either by the sounds, so we'll see how it breaks up.

[gollum]

I'm completely lost, is the pitch a dirty cheaters unplayable minefield that cannot possibly be batted on or not? There's a lot of conflicting opinion here...

Also have to wonder how its taken till the 3rd test for Maxwell to get a shot..

[mariner4life]

That's a great first day for Aus. dmith is class, and Maxwell might be right about his test abilities.

Considering the text commentary from the first 10 overs thats a huge amount of runs

[Chris B.]

@mariner4life said in Aussie Cricket:

That's a great first day for Aus. dmith is class, and Maxwell might be right about his test abilities.

Considering the text commentary from the first 10 overs thats a huge amount of runs

Yeah - you've got to think this pitch will be dynamite to bat on in the 4th innings, so Oz are way ahead of the game. If I were India I wouldn't have been that happy if Oz had been bowled out for 250.

[NTA]

Dirk Nannes saying that India didn't clap Smith's ton - maybe because Kohli was off the field at the time, and they had no idea what to do without him there?

Nannes was critical of the Aussies for not giving Roscoe Taylor a pat on the back at the end of his 290 as well. I've listened to Nannes in commentary and, like a lot of the blokes hired by ABC radio, he's pretty good.

Mar 16, 2017

India accused of failing to acknowledge Steve Smith’s hundred

‘I’d be ropeable’: India’s ‘disrespectful’ snub

[Rapido]

Booooooo

I was loving those minefields in the first 2 tests.

This sucks.

[Duluth]

@NTA said in Aussie Cricket:

Dirk Nannes saying that India didn't clap Smith's ton - maybe because Kohli was off the field at the time, and they had no idea what to do without him there?

I wonder if the management told them off? A couple of Indian players ran over to shake Smiths hand at the end of the day

[mariner4life]

Maxwell with a very impressive hundred. Well done to that bloke, living his dream, proving his doubters wrong.

Aus 331-4 ans well ahead in the game

[NTA]

@mariner4life said in Aussie Cricket:

Well done to that bloke, living his dream , proving his doubters wrong. of batting ahead of Wade

Fixed.

[mariner4life]

@NTA i have had that thought

[Donsteppa]

And both of them batting ahead of MMarsh....

[Donsteppa]

That Smith is a reasonable batsman...