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
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@mariner4life said in Australia v India:
@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
Historically yes but we have loads of guys banging on the door of the test team at the moment ( apparently )
