Australia v India

[NTA]

Notch in the 2013-4 series is pretty much unparalleled. Ever.

It's everything outside those 5 Tests that is the issue.

[Chris B.]

@MN5 The Indians could field e.g.:

Sehwag, Rohit Sharma, Dravid, Tendulkar, Kohli, VVS, Dhoni, Jadeja, Ashwin, Shami, Bumrah

They struggle a bit to find a third seamer to match the Aussies, but on the other hand, the Aussies struggle a bit to find a second spinner to match the Indians - and Warnie was somewhat ineffective against them.

Doh - and I've overlooked the obvious that the second spinner would by Lyon - in fact arguably he'd play ahead of Warnie vs India.

[Chris B.]

Australia 1 Usman Khawaja, 2 Sam Konstas, 3 Marnus Labuschagne, 4 Steven Smith, 5 Travis Head, 6 Mitchell Marsh, 7 Alex Carey (wk), 8 Pat Cummins (capt), 9 Mitchell Starc, 10 Nathan Lyon, 11 Scott Boland

India 1 Yashasvi Jaiswal, 2 KL Rahul, 3 Rohit Sharma (capt), 4 Virat Kohli, 5 Rishabh Pant (wk), 6 Ravindra Jadeja, 7 Nitesh Kumar Reddy, 8 Washington Sundar, 9 Akash Deep, 10 Jasprit Bumrah, 11 Mohammed Siraj

Indians have stacked the bowling - look light on specialist batsmen - and especially batsmen with form!

[NTA]

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[NTA]

New kid about to sing the anthem in front of a packed G on a day that'll reach 38°C

[NTA]

And shit anthem singing from the Aussie guy. Bad sign

[MN5]

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[Chris B.]

Konstas survives Bumrah's first over - about all you can say.

[NTA]

@Chris-B said in Australia v India:

Konstas survives Bumrah's first over - about all you can say.

Great over. Huge nuts on the young man to face the first 6 and probably lucky

[Chris B.]

Siraj starts well against the Waj as well!

[NTA]

Fuck me reverse ramp? This kid doesn't give a fuck.

[Chris B.]

India burn a review early. Should just trust Gough - Mark Waugh instantly said height and was right.

[NTA]

@Chris-B was well out of his crease

[NTA]

@NTA said in Australia v India:

This kid doesn't give a fuck.

Repeat this X 3

[NTA]

Times 4

[NTA]

TIMES FIVE

[Donsteppa]

Well, Konstas is going to either be a raging success, or an abject failure. No middle ground likely...

[MN5]

@Donsteppa said in Australia v India:

Well, Konstas is going to either be a raging success, or an abject failure. No middle ground likely...

Looks like the next David Warner

Disclaimer: I’m not even watching, just keeping an eye on cricinfo

[Chris B.]

More damaging than the runs he's scored so far is that Bumrah hasn't made inroads in his opening spell.

[KiwiMurph]

It's smart strategy from Konstas

Bumrah doesn't really have a Yorker or a gun short ball

Bumrah should be trying to hit the top of the stumps - he's either been too short or too full