***Official*** Australia in India 2017

[weldone]

Ashwin is getting really desperate now. That was a terrible over.

 

[Shri]

Lol the umpire almost gave it out but reached for the glasses instead.

 

[Daemon]

Ashwin shall henceforth be banned from reviewing.

He's also bowling pretty **** atm.

 

[artvandalay]

Why the hell was Ashwin so confident there ? That's 2 **** reviews within an hour on a pitch where drs is crucial.

 

[Shri]

Why no ultra edge?

 

[Gnske]

This reviewing is beyond a meme now.

4-0 on the cards.

It's clear who needs to be captaining

 

[cnerd123]

What a team full of softcocks, seriously. Loose batting, dropping catches, desperate reviews.

Bring back Jaddu. The only real man in the team.

 

[AndyZaltzHair]

Ashwin has no understanding of reviews. The way he nodded his head that he was absolutely sure

 

[Daemon]

There you go TC, it's kicking up as well. Rubbish pitch.

 

[FaaipDeOiad]

Marsh has the biggest gap between his best and worst of any batsman I've ever seen. I guess inflated by how infrequently he plays. But he's played at least half a dozen genuinely world class test innings in 20 odd tests, which is amazing for a player with a fairly ordinary overall record who is constantly in and out of the side. Both his centuries in Sri Lanka, his century in South Africa, and great 50 odd scores like the 49 against New Zealand chasing in the day-night test, another good 50 against SA, and this innings. And in between those just constant failures and hardly any easy runs. Such an odd career.

He's deserved his place in the side for a fair while now and if he's fit I think he'll keep it for a while, but always seems prone to a bunch of low scores in a row and another drop.

 

[anil1405]

Pack your bags and go to your respective cities/towns.

Real cricket starts in exactly a months time.

 

[Gnske]

Ashwin has no understanding of reviews. The way he nodded his head that he was absolutely sure

He's trying to make Kohli look even more brain-less and assure his usurping by the end of the series.

He's just too smart to not be playing the game, he knows the real enemy is Kohli's dimwitted nature to the Indian team.

 

[cnerd123]

These ones and twos are what have killed India. Not sure whether Kohli's just been terrible at setting fields to stop those jammy runs, or if the Aussies have been great at deliberately working the ball into these areas.

 

[artvandalay]

For all his aggressive blustering Kohli's field placings are not that much more attacking than Dhoni's on average. He could and should have more catchers around the bat than all those sweepers.

 

[Top_Cat]

There you go TC, it's kicking up as well. Rubbish pitch.

Again, for me, this is still preferable to what we saw against England. As long as it's not the norm, and it isn't, no problem.

And I might add, everyone thought prior to this series that unusual decks would advantage anyone but Australia and for them to have a hope, the decks would have to be flat like Aussie pitches. Well, the decks have been spicy and Australia have absolutely dominated, different players shining at different times, Oz batted first in Pune and second here. Just shows how over-rated the quality of the deck is to who wins anyway.

Know what wins? Good cricket. India have been arse and they've paid for it.

 

[Spark]

Marsh has the biggest gap between his best and worst of any batsman I've ever seen. I guess inflated by how infrequently he plays. But he's played at least half a dozen genuinely world class test innings in 20 odd tests, which is amazing for a player with a fairly ordinary overall record who is constantly in and out of the side. Both his centuries in Sri Lanka, his century in South Africa, and great 50 odd scores like the 49 against New Zealand chasing in the day-night test, another good 50 against SA, and this innings. And in between those just constant failures and hardly any easy runs. Such an odd career.

He's deserved his place in the side for a fair while now and if he's fit I think he'll keep it for a while, but always seems prone to a bunch of low scores in a row and another drop.

He's more prone to getting injured and then forgotten than anything else.

 

[TheJediBrah]

Again, for me, this is still preferable to what we saw against England. As long as it's not the norm, and it isn't, no problem.

It's been the norm so far this series. And still shouldn't be doing this on Day 2 regardless, IMO.

Agree that it's still probably better than lifeless roads though.

 

[Gnske]

Marsh has the biggest gap between his best and worst of any batsman I've ever seen. I guess inflated by how infrequently he plays. But he's played at least half a dozen genuinely world class test innings in 20 odd tests, which is amazing for a player with a fairly ordinary overall record who is constantly in and out of the side. Both his centuries in Sri Lanka, his century in South Africa, and great 50 odd scores like the 49 against New Zealand chasing in the day-night test, another good 50 against SA, and this innings. And in between those just constant failures and hardly any easy runs. Such an odd career.

He's deserved his place in the side for a fair while now and if he's fit I think he'll keep it for a while, but always seems prone to a bunch of low scores in a row and another drop.

He's been getting better tbf. Aging into a tolerable wine. Should get at least a decent last few years out of him.

 

[Spikey]

I thought that looked like it was missing off, not pitching outside leg

 

[AndyZaltzHair]

Batting fourth will be nightmare. These runs are crucial