*Official* India Tour of Australia 2018/19

[Second Spitter]

be surprised if Indian cricketers flew any less than First Class tbh

The selfies posted by the T20 squad members on the flight over looked like they were in Business.

 

[Bolo]

I wonder if some of the reluctance towards tour games is the injury risk as well? Both for the touring side and for the cricketers put out to face them.

Is this why Bumrah isn't playing? He's the only automatic pick amongst he bowlers, so leaving him out makes sense. A

 

[morgieb]

Dhawan is absolutely terrible at handling even marginal bounce off a length. Rahul is pretty terrible right now but he's still more likely to get a score imo.

Yeah as an Australian fan I'd like to see India pick Dhawan

Shaw probably scares me the most out of the viable opening options and he's still under 20 and would have **** all experience outside of India.

 

[Second Spitter]

Minor ankle injuries usually take about 6 weeks to heal. I have had one in the past. Don't know what it'd be like for athletes.

McGrath missed around 10 days in 2005 tearing ankle ligaments. Shaw will be right for T1

 

[Daemon]

Australia are really bad hosts. Don't even have the decency to prepare a proper ground where players won't roll their ankle.

On another note we're going to fail to take 20 wickets in every match imo.

 

[Starfighter]

McGrath missed around 10 days in 2005 tearing ankle ligaments. Shaw will be right for T1

It's already been announced he's missing the first test.

McGrath wasn't exactly fully fit when he came back in 05 either.

 

[TheJediBrah]

Where is that Indian fan on here who was complaining about the CA XI being too weak opposition?

 

[Spikey]

why was he fielding on the boundary rope anyway. i thought he was supposed to be good. good batters don't field on the boundary in fc cricket.

 

[Spark]

Australia are really bad hosts. Don't even have the decency to prepare a proper ground where players won't roll their ankle.

On another note we're going to fail to take 20 wickets in every match imo.

i wonder who would be happier in the event of a 0-0 result

 

[OverratedSanity]

i wonder who would be happier in the event of a 0-0 result

I'd prefer India losing 2-1 to drawing the series 0-0 tbh. Not getting one win against a massively weakened Australia would be embarrassing.

Rightly or wrongly, a lot of Indian fans are actually expecting India to win the series. The fact that India actually has a good pace battery has led everyone here to overrated them wildly.

 

[Spikey]

as opposed to the correctly rated indian sides of the past

 

[OverratedSanity]

No one rated the pace attacks, ****

 

[Shri]

oh good spikey is here

 

[Spikey]

where else would i be

 

[Shri]

i don't know hiding out in the pro wrestling thread

 

[Daemon]

'Silly' to try and bowl like Lyon - Ashwin

"It's going to be very hard to replicate one's action. We are talking about actions and biomechanics here, and it's quite silly when people say, oh, it's overspin and sidespin and stuff like that. You've got to still stick to your strengths. You're not going to ask Ishant Sharma to bowl like Philander, can you? It's not going to happen.

lol ashwin

not as if lyon literally changed his bowling style to suit the SC..

 

[Days of Grace]

Loser mentality.

That coupled with the notion that any touring side visiting Australia will suffer bowling injuries means that India, who have a MASSIVE inferior complex when touring Australia, will get beat. And will give up after 0-2. And will then have a “watch till you play us in India” post match conference.

 

[Burner]

Ashwin's going to average 45 for the series best case scenario but I don't see a problem in his comments at all. The problem is that he rarely sticks to his own advice when bowling away from home. Re Southampton, variation after variation.

 

[smash84]

I'd prefer India losing 2-1 to drawing the series 0-0 tbh. Not getting one win against a massively weakened Australia would be embarrassing.

Rightly or wrongly, a lot of Indian fans are actually expecting India to win the series. The fact that India actually has a good pace battery has led everyone here to overrated them .

overrated sanity?

 

[weldone]

lol ashwin

not as if lyon literally changed his bowling style to suit the SC..

That's exactly what Ashwin is hinting at. The journalist asked if Ashwin will try to bowl 'like' Lyon.