*Official* India Tour of Australia 2018/19

[Second Spitter]

After 15 wickets are we still calling this a road?

 

[Spark]

After 15 wickets are we still calling this a road?

yes, and correctly so

 

[Arachnodouche]

Oh stop.

No, it’s not crucial at all. They could be all out tomorrow for zero additional runs and it would be fine. There’s already enough.

Yup. I get it's the media's job to keep up the pretense of a live cricket match, but Indian fans here ought to be less excitable.

 

[OverratedSanity]

yes, and correctly so

It really hasn't been a road for a while now. It was on day 1. It's done more than enough since especially today.

 

[Spark]

It really hasn't been a road for a while now. It was on day 1. It's done more than enough since especially today.

i still don't think it's done very much tbh. it's offered a little more to bowlers, especially as far as some bounce goes, but competent batting should be able to score substantial amounts of runs on this pitch.

this would have been fine on day 1, but it's a good pitch to bat on imo.

 

[StephenZA]

After 15 wickets are we still calling this a road?

I think we just have to accept there is no decent batting lineups in world cricket at the moment. Maybe England because of its never ending all rounder lineup.

 

[OverratedSanity]

i still don't think it's done very much tbh. it's offered a little more to bowlers, especially as far as some bounce goes, but competent batting should be able to score substantial amounts of runs on this pitch.

this would have been fine on day 1, but it's a good pitch to bat on imo.

Sure, but there's a difference between a good pitch to bat on and a road. This is objectively not a road since day 2.

 

[Spark]

Sure, but there's a difference between a good pitch to bat on and a road. This is objectively not a road since day 2.

uvelocity to come back and comment

 

[Midwinter]

You can call the pitch what you want but Heazlewoods last 3 overs were awesome.

 

[StephenZA]

Sure, but there's a difference between a good pitch to bat on and a road. This is objectively not a road since day 2.

Not a road but pretty innocuous from what I've seen. If Test standard batsmen struggle on this then there no real hope for them.

 

[TheJediBrah]

i still don't think it's done very much tbh. it's offered a little more to bowlers, especially as far as some bounce goes, but competent batting should be able to score substantial amounts of runs on this pitch.

this would have been fine on day 1, but it's a good pitch to bat on imo.

It annoys a bit how it seems we call nearly everything "a road" these days though, unless it's a minefield. A road should mean absolutely nothing for the bowlers.Today wasn't a road, it was a decent batting pitch with enough help for the bowlers.

 

[Second Spitter]

I think we just have to accept there is no decent batting lineups in world cricket at the moment. Maybe England because of its never ending all rounder lineup.

#ThanksT20

 

[TheJediBrah]

If India fold tomorrow though, could be interesting if they have <400 runs to play with. I don't give Aus a chance to chase it, but at least it keeps the game a bit more interest.

 

[Second Spitter]

Agarwal looks at home at this level. India look like they have their opening batsmen set for the foreseeable future.

 

[cnerd123]

Bat again, bat till Lunch tomorrow, get some more overs into the Aussie's legs, give ourselves 5 sessions to bowl them out

Runs don't matter, just grind them to exhaustion.

Australia will be smart about this and probably have Lyon bowl unchanged from one end, with Mitch Marsh bowling a lot of overs as well. Give Haze/Starc/Cummins a break. There is nothing to bowl for here, and don't want to risk an injury with the series to save in Sydney. We could see Finch and Head both have decent length spells too.

Really hard to see a way back into this for Australia. They just gotta go through the motions here, and then back themselves (and the weather) to bat our a draw in the 4th.

This is what I get for being arrogant

they're going to roll us over early tomorrow and pull off a historic 4th innings runchase aren't they? ffs.

 

[stephen]

After 15 wickets are we still calling this a road?

The pitch had nothing to do with 14 of those wickets.

 

[cnerd123]

The problem with this is MCG is going to come out of this with a good rating. It seems this is batsmen getting themselves out rather than a pitch offering assistance. But I'm not watching. Interested for opinion of others.

it's exactly what will happen and it's what makes the perth rating such bullshit

theoretically the result has nothing to do with the pitch rating. It's entirely down to how the pitch behaves. The Perth game could have been 500 vs 500 or 80 vs 80, if it behaved the same way it would get the same rating.

It's just that the ICC ratings for pitches tend to have batting friendly = good, unless batting friendly = absolutely nothing for the bowlers. And this has enough in it for the bowlers to stay interested.

 

[the big bambino]

Well the day of reckoning had to come and I’m actually surprised and grateful Australia won a match before this implosion happened. Batting world wide is in a deep depression atm and Australia is amongst the worst. Yet we wilfully made it even weaker and gifted India it’s first series win here. In doing so we put a strain on our bowlers, forcing them to bowl long spells simply because we can’t occupy the crease. I just hate them for what they’ve done to the team.

 

[vcs]

MCG spectators warned over racist taunts - ESPNcricinfo

"Kohli's a wanker" is such a great example of the excellent, ready wit that Aussie crowds are renowned for

 

[TheJediBrah]

MCG spectators warned over racist taunts - ESPNcricinfo

"Kohli's a wanker" is such a great example of the excellent, ready wit that Aussie crowds are renowned for

"x is a wanker" has been around for literally decades. It's a staple of Australian culture. It brings me back to my first ever cricket game as a 10 year old on Boxing Day, 100% serious