*Official* India Tour of Australia 2018/19

[StephenZA]

I thought Hazelwood would have been the best bowler on this pitch, but he has been, I think, disappointing.

 

[Top_Cat]

Hazlewood with a killer fade at the moment.

 

[mr_mister]

100 balls taking off the shine >> 20 runs.

50 balls sure. After that you're just wasting time. Just accelerating time till the second new ball

 

[Black_Warrior]

Yet he’s played and missed at half a dozen and Cummins has basically bent him over whenever he’s bowled to him. Bloke’s a wonderful player, but everyone has a weakness on off stump to a ball moving away early on. It’s been that way since 1877.

Yeah well all the more reason to not let it dominate any assessment of Kohli's batting when pretty much everyone gets out to corridors of uncertainty? The point is he can still survive against that. He can survive against Anderson bowling outswingers to him. Yes he looks bent and ugly but survives. Spin on the other hand...

I don't think he has a problem against spin, it's just Lyon in particular.

And Moeen Ali, Adil Rashid, O Keefe.

 

[Arachnodouche]

Tbf, even in 2014-15 when he was scoring loads of runs, he was still a very skittish starter. He'd usually calm down and stop batting like a nutter 20-30 balls in, hopefully it happens today.

No batsman in international cricket more resembles a cat on a hot tin roof.

 

[OverratedSanity]

And Moeen Ali, Adil Rashid

He scored like a billion runs against them in the 2016 home series.

 

[StephenZA]

50 balls sure. After that you're just wasting time. Just accelerating time till the second new ball

Elgar and Amla would disagree..... they allowed for ABdV's great innings.

But I do think Pujaras biggest issue is his inability to take quick singles/two's consistently. We know he is no great runner but if he could do that and score 40 runs would be better.

 

[OverratedSanity]

So it's not just Ishant overstepping? I'm shocked, I tell you

 

[mr_mister]

Elgar and Amla would disagree..... they allowed for ABdV's great innings.

But I do think Pujaras biggest issue is his inability to take quick singles/two's consistently. We know he is no great runner but if he could do that and score 40 runs would be better.

Yeah we all are quick to associate a slow test innings as as a good test innings but really a strike rate of under 25 is **** imo

 

[silentstriker]

Australia definitely ahead but interestingly, at this stage Australia were two down and about 15 runs ahead of where India are. India need to emulate that big partnership that got Australia from 150 to 230 or so.

 

[Flem274*]

i like watching rahane because he bats like a lunatic

 

[OverratedSanity]

Australia definitely ahead but interestingly, at this stage Australia were two down and about 15 runs ahead of where India are. India need to emulate that big partnership that got Australia from 150 to 230 or so.

India's lower order might not even bother coming out to bat for all the runs they'll contribute. This partnership needs to be really really big.

 

[silentstriker]

Yeah we all are quick to associate a slow test innings as as a good test innings but really a strike rate of under 25 is **** imo

Have to disagree. Depends on the situation. In T20, it would be uniformly a terrible innings. In Test cricket, it’s not that clear.

Rahane’s innings would have been a lot worse for India if he had scored his runs in 25 balls and gotten out. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not defending the innings - India needed him to go onand make a big score. But I completely and utterly disagree with the suggestion you made that his innings had the same value as Rahanes if Rahane would get out right now.

 

[Top_Cat]

I don’t get the criticism of Rahane’s knock at all, tbh. He came out swinging but playing with some risk has come off, he’s made the Aussies abandon their plans to keep him quiet and he’s consolidating now. If he’s not out at the end of the day, he’s in a perfect position to slap them around tomorrow on what will probably be the best batting day of the Test.

 

[silentstriker]

I don’t get the criticism of Rahane’s knock at all, tbh. He came out swinging but playing with some risk has come off, he’s made the Aussies abandon their plans to defend and he’s consolidating now. If he’s not out at the end of the day, he’s in a perfect position to capitalise tomorrow.

My problem is only in how likely it is that such a strategy comes off in that situation.

 

[Daemon]

That was the most convincing one and an utterly harmless short ball from Haze.

 

[Top_Cat]

You know they’re 0-1 up right?

 

[OverratedSanity]

I don’t get the criticism of Rahane’s knock at all, tbh. He came out swinging but playing with some risk has come off, he’s made the Aussies abandon their plans to keep him quiet and he’s consolidating now. If he’s not out at the end of the day, he’s in a perfect position to slap them around tomorrow on what will probably be the best batting day of the Test.

It's fine it came off. It hasnt come off many many times in the last 18 months though and it was pure luck he survived those first 10-12 balls. He's looked solid since then though.

 

[Starfighter]

It was around this stage yesterday when the pitch was the most difficult. It's much calmer today, and that choice long hop from Hazlewood and million singles through square leg off Lyon are helping things along.

Also Khawaja is apparently the team hatstand.

 

[OverratedSanity]

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