Australia v India
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@Snowy said in Australia v India:
@No-Quarter said in Australia v India:
BMac didn't even look like hitting it, the ball was just way too good for him.
He openly blames himself for that one. Says that he broke his own very simple golden rule - watch the ball.
Coney (I think) was talking about it during last England test.
Yeah. Ball wasn't that good. (Edit: it was good, full inswinger, but should gave been defended.) Down to BMac playing across the line. Can see why it excited the Aussies though.
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@MN5 said in Australia v India:
Are there any good Indian commentators over at the moment ? Harsha Bogle is always great value and Wasim Akram was brilliant when Pakistan toured
Harsha is on comms for ABC radio at the moment. He's good but tends toward waxing lyrical about everything, which I think is probably natural in the highly competitive India Cricket Journalist market.
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Notch in the 2013-4 series is pretty much unparalleled. Ever.
It's everything outside those 5 Tests that is the issue.
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@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.
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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!
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New kid about to sing the anthem in front of a packed G on a day that'll reach 38°C
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And shit anthem singing from the Aussie guy. Bad sign
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Konstas survives Bumrah's first over - about all you can say.
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@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
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Siraj starts well against the Waj as well!
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Fuck me reverse ramp? This kid doesn't give a fuck.
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India burn a review early. Should just trust Gough - Mark Waugh instantly said height and was right.
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Times 4
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TIMES FIVE
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Well, Konstas is going to either be a raging success, or an abject failure. No middle ground likely...
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@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
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More damaging than the runs he's scored so far is that Bumrah hasn't made inroads in his opening spell.
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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
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Kolhi acting like a complete spud towards him
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King Kohli. King Dickhead right now.
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@KiwiMurph straying a little down leg going for LBW as well
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I think you can pretty much call this test for Aus already. India have nothing without Bumrah and will fold like they did vs Black Caps
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Konstas all over the Indian openers brilliant attacking batting from the kid
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And he's geeing up the crowd
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@ACT-Crusader said in Australia v India:
@NTA said in Australia v India:
And he's feeling up the crowd
Love it.
That’s what cricket needs.
Fucking autocorrect
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It’s all or nothing but certainly entertaining
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@ACT-Crusader said in Australia v India:
Konstas all over the Indian openers brilliant attacking batting from the kid
You have to take the good with bad
He will get out at times looking silly by playing too aggressive but that will happen when you play this way
It's better than playing 'proper' and getting out for fuck all - how did that work out for McSweeney...
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Half century for the debutante.
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Then boompha, pull shot for 4
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19 years old, on debut, Boxing Day test and scores fifty. Congratulations to the young man!
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Feels like Aus have found their opener for the next 15 years
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Konstas gets 60 and people laud it
Will Young gets 60 and people complain he doesn't get 100.....
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@KiwiMurph said in Australia v India:
Konstas gets 60 and people laud it
Will Young gets 60 and people complain he doesn't get 100.....
Will Young has had a truckload more goes though
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Almost feel like the fun has ended now Konstas has gone, fun knock and irritated the Indians no end
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