Australia v India
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As long as the Aussies aren't cheating I couldn't give a fuck about banter out on the field. You take the emotion out of the game and it gets pretty boring. A test series isn't meant to be for the faint of heart, tests are a mental game more than anything and if you can throw the opposition off by whatever mean then good luck to you.
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@No-Quarter said in Australia v India:
As long as the Aussies aren't cheating I couldn't give a fuck about banter out on the field. You take the emotion out of the game and it gets pretty boring. A test series isn't meant to be for the faint of heart, tests are a mental game more than anything and if you can throw the opposition off by whatever mean then good luck to you.
It’s more the Steve Smith pitch scrape that ppl are going on about.
Totally agree tho. Sport is entertainment.
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@MajorRage said in Australia v India:
@No-Quarter said in Australia v India:
As long as the Aussies aren't cheating I couldn't give a fuck about banter out on the field. You take the emotion out of the game and it gets pretty boring. A test series isn't meant to be for the faint of heart, tests are a mental game more than anything and if you can throw the opposition off by whatever mean then good luck to you.
It’s more the Steve Smith pitch scrape that ppl are going on about.
Totally agree tho. Sport is entertainment.
Yeah, that was the biggest non-event ever. You can't get rid of markings that easily, and by that stage of the match there are deep markings for off, middle and leg, and even in between for the weirdoes that like to take a mark between middle and off and/or leg.
Batsmen constantly retake their mark to confirm which ones are theirs.
Steve Smith is just eccentric as hell and has all sorts of idiosyncrasies. I very much doubt the Indian batsmen even noticed? Has he commented?
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@booboo said in Australia v India:
@KiwiMurph said in Australia v India:
Australia well in front for me. They should be eyeing up 400+
Yep . Paine and Green survive the new ball and swing it back to Aussie.
Spot on. 250/6 is India's day. They've bowled well considering the inexperience from injuries. First hour really important though
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Excellent captain's knock from Paine at a bloody slippery time. He's a top fella and a good cricketer. Calling himself a fool on national television, then performing immediately after is exactly what good leadership looks like. Humility and then obvious competence.
I think Australia will win mostly because of how the gabba to oz cricket is eden Park to nz rugby - it just always works out ok.
India have earned a lot of admiration for their part in what must be one of the hardest tours ever because of COVID. That's a lot of time in hotels, when normally it's golf and sight seeing on off days.
To compete with yesterday's bowling attack in Australian conditions is pretty rare. It also further exposes our abortion of a tour a year ago.
India won this series 2 summers ago and are still in this one with a different captain. Keeping the Aussies sweating for 8 tests in a row at home is unprecedented in the last 2 decades and a far cry from the usual script - make 500 then roll them twice. Older India would have layed down a couple of times like Pakistan do, but this Indiais different.
I reckon Ravi Shastri might be the man. It's all looked a bit more professional and complete since he and Kohli took over.
Whatever happens, great series.
That Steve Smith thing is best described as totally unnecessary. If you choose to defend it as a subconscious quirk or shadow batting, then for fucks sake be sure to hold his hand everytime he has to cross the road! Lest he be bowled over by an 18 wheeler while "shadow" marking leg stump in the middle of the A4!
He was trying to be annoying to the batsmen in the hope of a wicket from diminished focus. No biggie. In past times some batsman might have told him to fuck off, and that would be it. A great example of the media fucking up our reality with their coverage.
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Talking Washington's name, Harsha Bhogle mentioned in commentary yesterday that there is an under 19 cricketer in the Indian system somewhere named Napolean Einstein.
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@Siam said in Australia v India:
Excellent captain's knock from Paine at a bloody slippery time. He's a top fella and a good cricketer. Calling himself a fool on national television, then performing immediately after is exactly what good leadership looks like. Humility and then obvious competence.
I think Australia will win mostly because of how the gabba to oz cricket is eden Park to nz rugby - it just always works out ok.
India have earned a lot of admiration for their part in what must be one of the hardest tours ever because of COVID. That's a lot of time in hotels, when normally it's golf and sight seeing on off days.
To compete with yesterday's bowling attack in Australian conditions is pretty rare. It also further exposes our abortion of a tour a year ago.
India won this series 2 summers ago and are still in this one with a different captain. Keeping the Aussies sweating for 8 tests in a row at home is unprecedented in the last 2 decades and a far cry from the usual script - make 500 then roll them twice. Older India would have layed down a couple of times like Pakistan do, but this Indiais different.
I reckon Ravi Shastri might be the man. It's all looked a bit more professional and complete since he and Kohli took over.
Whatever happens, great series.
That Steve Smith thing is best described as totally unnecessary. If you choose to defend it as a subconscious quirk or shadow batting, then for fucks sake be sure to hold his hand everytime he has to cross the road! Lest he be bowled over by an 18 wheeler while "shadow" marking leg stump in the middle of the A4!
He was trying to be annoying to the batsmen in the hope of a wicket from diminished focus. No biggie. In past times some batsman might have told him to fuck off, and that would be it. A great example of the media fucking up our reality with their coverage.
Yeah, I wouldn't call it cheating, but it was certainly a dick move. Just because he apparently "always does it" doesn't make it less of a dick move. Just get the fuck off the pitch when you're not batting.
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@KiwiMurph said in Australia v India:
Cummins looks like he could run right through the Indians here.
He is some bowler. What a player.
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That's appalling cricket. What the fuck was he thinking?
