***Official*** Australia in India 2017

[wellAlbidarned]

feels like Haze is starting to fall away a bit in his action

 

[Contra]

Haha Hazelwood clearly tired from all that bowling.

 

[irfan]

Smith really bowling his frontline 4 into the ground. Only two overs from Maxi seems crazy given the selectors obsession with an allrounder at 6 and the length of this current innings.

 

[vcs]

It looks impossible to get wickets on this track right now. Or make runs. Or do anything really. Not a great advert for exciting cricket, but variety is the spice of Test cricket and all that...

 

[Contra]

It looks impossible to get wickets on this track right now. Or make runs. Or do anything really. Not a great advert for exciting cricket, but variety is the spice of Test cricket and all that...

It's also the kind of batsmen that are at the crease, Pujara literally has refused to go after anything other than bad balls, which there haven't been much of, and Saha is also not the most aggressive batsmen.

 

[OverratedSanity]

It looks impossible to get wickets on this track right now. Or make runs. Or do anything really. Not a great advert for exciting cricket, but variety is the spice of Test cricket and all that...

Dunno, I think both are possible, just Australia have been tight and these two have batted well.

 

[Shri]

Whats the point of bowling short balls on the leg side to a well set batsman who will just leave most of them?

 

[Spark]

Whats the point of bowling short balls on the leg side to a well set batsman who will just leave most of them?

Nothing else seems to be working.

 

[Tangles]

Smith really bowling his frontline 4 into the ground. Only two overs from Maxi seems crazy given the selectors obsession with an allrounder at 6 and the length of this current innings.

Was always going to happen on a flat track. He didn't bowl Maxi in the ODIs recently.

 

[cnerd123]

Yea Aus seem content just drying up runs here and taking time out of the game, which is weird. Have they settled for the draw already?

 

[Contra]

Whats the point of bowling short balls on the leg side to a well set batsman who will just leave most of them?

Aussies are playing for a draw at this point imo.

 

[Spark]

Yea Aus seem content just drying up runs here and taking time out of the game, which is weird. Have they settled for the draw already?

I think the idea is to ask India to make the running, hope they make a mistake, try to put on 250 or so and then hope for something mad on the 5th afternoon.

 

[Shri]

Really like the look of all those rough spots next to the left hander's off stump. We got one of those in our side and Aus has like five. Good signs.

 

[Burgey]

Yea Aus seem content just drying up runs here and taking time out of the game, which is weird. Have they settled for the draw already?

They may have assessed the deck as not likely to break up. It seems to be as flat as day two so far. Their primary method has been to keep things tight all series. If they tried to over attack here and it doesn't work, they'll be in deficit really quickly.

Plus, it's 1-1 and they hold the trophy. So, you know, come and get it.

 

[OverratedSanity]

Australia's bowling throughout this test has focussed on keeping things really really tight and trying to eke out a mistake from the batsmen. I don't think that equates to playing for a draw at all. So far, it's mostly worked and I don't think they've been any more "negative" today than yesterday.

The pacers look tired though, which is the real problem.

 

[Shri]

Thats where you bowl a short ball if you are going to.

 

[Contra]

150 for Pujara WAG, champ batsmen.

 

[Spark]

Get Maxwell on.

 

[Shri]

Sehwag at his peak would have buried the opposition in a pitch like this by this point.

 

[cnerd123]

Pujara so good