***Official*** Australia in India 2017

[cnerd123]

If Kohli overbowls Ashwin again I wouldn't put it past Aus chasing 250 tbh

 

[Daemon]

India can't defend 150. If they have 250 on the board they can get them all out for 150 though.

 

[morgieb]

Under 150 Australia are probably favourites. 150-200 would be 50/50. India favourites with 200+.

IMO anyway.

 

[Spark]

I like the call to bring Marsh on.

Yeah, a lot more stump to stump than Starc. Actually hits the deck a bit harder too.

 

[cnerd123]

Yea I've seen enough of Marsh bowling well to be concerned here

As I type that - tight LBW shout.

**** this Aussie bowling attack. So good.

 

[honestbharani]

almost worked already. Indian batsmen will just let up on the concentration here. Good ploy. Should work soon.

 

[Shri]

Are the batters doing something with their stance to counter LBW attempts? Or is it just luck?

 

[Spark]

Yea I've seen enough of Marsh bowling well to be concerned here

As I type that - tight LBW shout.

**** this Aussie bowling attack. So good.

He's a legit decent bowler. Better than his figures IMO.

 

[honestbharani]

Friom what I have seen he is a better bowler at the international level than a batsman. He should go well here as he can get it to reverse too.

 

[91Jmay]

Yeah he is a decent bowler, more than serviceable it's just his batting. I think he has the talent but he needs a longish spell out of the team. A county stint wouldn't hurt him I don't think, get him used to scoring big consistently.

 

[Shri]

This has already been a more than decent performance with the bat. Thhey have scored at 3 an over so far and are only 4 down.

 

[cnerd123]

This has already been a more than decent performance with the bat. Thhey have scored at 3 an over so far and are only 4 down.

Stop it

 

[quincywagstaff]

Don't think Starc around the wicket great tactic to use much on this pitch; makes LBW much harder to get where that's arguably the most likely dismissal and can give the bats angles to work with, esp towards leg.

Think Marsh's stump-to-stump could be more effective.

 

[Spark]

Stop it

He's right, though.

 

[honestbharani]

Shri.. RGV says Suchi has abotu 726 TB of data just so that you can stop jinxing in this thread. Get to it, FFS.

 

[Gnske]

He's a legit decent bowler. Better than his figures IMO.

He'd make a decent stand-in for Frankenstein's monster with a head like that at best.

 

[Shri]

We need to put away the horizontal bat shots until we get another 70 runs.

 

[honestbharani]

/I think more than horizontal bat shots, its the shots with big back lift and follow through that we need to put away, esp. against the spinners.

 

[artvandalay]

Yea is been a surprisingly good batting display so far.

 

[Shri]

He's right, though.

But then again, we were 156-5 in the first dig too.

I think I am just going to stick around and trigger Indian fans with optimism.