Australia v India
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@Snowy said in Australia v India:
You being first to arrive with an excuse for anal probing isn't too much of a shock though
i don't usually use an excuse. just change lanes without indicating
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@barbarian said in Australia v India:
@mariner4life You also add in guys like Sehwag and Darren Gough opting for clickbait-esque statements and the fire is roaring before they are even off the ground.
I understand the pile-on. The Sydney test allowed the media (both here and abroad) to dust off three classic old chestnuts at once: the Aussie team are sledging, the Aussie crowd are racist and Smith is a cheat. Talk about an editors dream.
The real shame of it is it's overshadowed the most anticipated test on home soil in maybe a decade. When was the last time we had a genuine decider in a test series? I can't remember, maybe a game against South Africa?
Well let’s look back before the SCG test and all of a sudden there’s a made up story about the GABBA test and India not wanting to play it if there is this Covid restriction and protocol. That was not coming from the India camp....
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@Paekakboyz said in Australia v India:
@Snowy maybe John saw how Han stuffed Luke into a Tauntaun to warm him up? Just lucky for those other players that he only had a cold finger...
Holy shit, gratuitous Star Wars reference !!!!!
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Aussie wins the toss and bats first
Consensus seems to be that the pitch is drier than normal. Already has a crack in it
Australia
1 David Warner, 2 Marcus Harris, 3 Marnus Labuschagne, 4 Steven Smith, 5 Matthew Wade, 6 Cameron Green, 7 Tim Paine (capt & wk), 8 Pat Cummins, 9 Mitchell Starc, 10 Nathan Lyon, 11 Josh HazlewoodIndia
1 Rohit Sharma, 2 Shubman Gill, 3 Cheteshwar Pujara, 4 Ajinkya Rahane (capt), 5 Mayank Agarwal, 6 Rishabh Pant (wk), 7 Washington Sundar, 8 Shardul Thakur, 9 Navdeep Saini, 10 Mohammed Siraj, 11 T Natarajan -
@Duluth said in Australia v India:
Aussie wins the toss and bats first
Consensus seems to be that the pitch is drier than normal. Already has a crack in it
Australia
1 David Warner, 2 Marcus Harris, 3 Marnus Labuschagne, 4 Steven Smith, 5 Matthew Wade, 6 Cameron Green, 7 Tim Paine (capt & wk), 8 Pat Cummins, 9 Mitchell Starc, 10 Nathan Lyon, 11 Josh HazlewoodIndia
1 Rohit Sharma, 2 Shubman Gill, 3 Cheteshwar Pujara, 4 Ajinkya Rahane (capt), 5 Mayank Agarwal, 6 Rishabh Pant (wk), 7 Washington Sundar, 8 Shardul Thakur, 9 Navdeep Saini, 10 Mohammed Siraj, 11 T NatarajanThat Australian batting line up is a strange mix of absolutely outstanding, extremely journeymanish and inexperienced.
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@MN5 said in Australia v India:
@Duluth said in Australia v India:
Aussie wins the toss and bats first
Consensus seems to be that the pitch is drier than normal. Already has a crack in it
Australia
1 David Warner, 2 Marcus Harris, 3 Marnus Labuschagne, 4 Steven Smith, 5 Matthew Wade, 6 Cameron Green, 7 Tim Paine (capt & wk), 8 Pat Cummins, 9 Mitchell Starc, 10 Nathan Lyon, 11 Josh HazlewoodIndia
1 Rohit Sharma, 2 Shubman Gill, 3 Cheteshwar Pujara, 4 Ajinkya Rahane (capt), 5 Mayank Agarwal, 6 Rishabh Pant (wk), 7 Washington Sundar, 8 Shardul Thakur, 9 Navdeep Saini, 10 Mohammed Siraj, 11 T NatarajanThat Australian batting line up is a strange mix of absolutely outstanding, extremely journeymanish and inexperienced.
They'll back themselves against the Indian 'attack' for this test.
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@KiwiMurph said in Australia v India:
@MN5 said in Australia v India:
@Duluth said in Australia v India:
Aussie wins the toss and bats first
Consensus seems to be that the pitch is drier than normal. Already has a crack in it
Australia
1 David Warner, 2 Marcus Harris, 3 Marnus Labuschagne, 4 Steven Smith, 5 Matthew Wade, 6 Cameron Green, 7 Tim Paine (capt & wk), 8 Pat Cummins, 9 Mitchell Starc, 10 Nathan Lyon, 11 Josh HazlewoodIndia
1 Rohit Sharma, 2 Shubman Gill, 3 Cheteshwar Pujara, 4 Ajinkya Rahane (capt), 5 Mayank Agarwal, 6 Rishabh Pant (wk), 7 Washington Sundar, 8 Shardul Thakur, 9 Navdeep Saini, 10 Mohammed Siraj, 11 T NatarajanThat Australian batting line up is a strange mix of absolutely outstanding, extremely journeymanish and inexperienced.
They'll back themselves against the Indian 'attack' for this test.
Fighting words
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India really needed to win that toss and put some runs on the board.
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@No-Quarter said in Australia v India:
India really needed to win that toss and put some runs on the board.
Yep - they're fucked.
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@No-Quarter said in Australia v India:
India really needed to win that toss and put some runs on the board.
I love it when head office use that cliche in a sales context.
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@KiwiMurph said in Australia v India:
@No-Quarter said in Australia v India:
India really needed to win that toss and put some runs on the board.
Yep - they're fucked.
Good start getting Warner but they're going to have to roll Aus for under 200 if they want to be in this game.
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Warner going early always brings a smile to my face.
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@mariner4life said in Australia v India:
Warner going early always brings a smile to my face.
Same here but it's catch 22 for me as I do like watching him bat.
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@KiwiMurph said in Australia v India:
@MN5 he's nowhere near fully fit. If Pucovski was fit he might well have missed this game.
Indeed so why is he playing then ?
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@MN5 said in Australia v India:
@KiwiMurph said in Australia v India:
@MN5 he's nowhere near fully fit. If Pucovski was fit he might well have missed this game.
Indeed so why is he playing then ?
as a kiwi cricket fan you should know this better than most. Guys get rushed back when the pool of other options is paddling depth