***Official*** Australia in India 2017

[Arachnodouche]

Great day's play and **** trolling here. If we see out the first hour tomorrow, we're winning this. Australia will rue losing their bottom four for so little.

 

[social]

Woeful captaincy from Smith

SOK and Haze should've bowled virtually all the overs with the others sparingly used

 

[Compton]

Awful day from Australia.

They've blown the great work of days 1 and 2 and this Test is now India's to lose.

 

[vcs]

Sokky is impossible to score off even when he isn't picking up wickets. Aussie Jaddu?

 

[OverratedSanity]

Still have Nair, Saha and Ashwin to come. Honestly if we don't set them 250+ here I'll be very disappointed.

 

[bigmitch]

OK this thing about the wicket getting slower and easier to bat on, hmm.....still looks ready to crumble at any second

Day 4 after tea, "Ashwin to Smith. Smith pushes forward, and disappears down a crack."

 

[cnerd123]

Guys we could still lose this.

ChePu and Rahane have to start all over again on this pitch against a fresh Aussie attack with renewed determination.

Could easily lose 5 wickets in the first session

Game is evenly balanced here, at best.

 

[quincywagstaff]

For Australia this match is looking eerily similar to their first Test in Sri Lanka last year (had an almost identical 1st inns run lead).

 

[harsh.ag]

Still have Nair, Saha and Ashwin to come. Honestly if we don't set them 250+ here I'll be very disappointed.

Saha and Ashwin who again?

 

[vcs]

We don't have Herath though

 

[Arachnodouche]

OK this thing about the wicket getting slower and easier to bat on, hmm.....still looks ready to crumble at any second

Day 4 after tea, "Ashwin to Smith. Smith pushes forward, and disappears down a crack."

The wicket isn't getting easier, the batsmen are grinding it out with their souls on the line. It's ****ing brilliant TEST CRICKET, but Australia are in for it batting last on this.

 

[Shri]

We don't have Herath though

We have a Jaddu.

 

[social]

This series was basically done by playing grinding cricket until India came out to bat for the 2nd time

Few wickets down and we say "let's have a go"

****ing mindless ****

 

[Shri]

How good would it be if we last till tea tomorrow?

 

[Compton]

Guys we could still lose this.

ChePu and Rahane have to start all over again on this pitch against a fresh Aussie attack with renewed determination.

Could easily lose 5 wickets in the first session

Game is evenly balanced here, at best.

That's absolute nonsense.

The lead is over 120, with 6 wickets in hand. Australia are facing a chase of 250+ batting last on a pitch that has spun since day one.

 

[stephen]

The game is realistically India's to lose now. That last session really hurt. Need to blow these guys away tomorrow morning to have a good chance of winning here.

 

[Top_Cat]

Of course the deck has flattened out, no way would these professional batsmen have adjusted to find runs in trying Test-match conditions. And if India get a 250-run lead which precedes an Aussie collapse, we can definitely blame the pitch instead of the batsmen.

 

[stephen]

Oh and there's no way that this pitch won't be rated poor.

 

[OverratedSanity]

I just thought of something. What if we somehow get into a truly dominating position tomorrow and the rain saves Australia.

We get to blame Shri again because he was praying for rain. You'd better hope that doesn't happen Shri you ****.

 

[anil1405]

Well if India bat well and end up winning this test then similar situations in 3rd or 4th test can be considered as advantage India but not now.