1st Test, Aus vs India, Adelaide oval 17th-21st December

[Pratters]

home track bully and mediocre here over a decade. The evidence is compelling

Runs and wickets don't happen on past reputation dude. Else we don't need to play this test series. We can all snooze and wake up after 2 months.

 

[Teja.]

Those 15-20 min where we lost three wickets really cost India from winning the day to at best splitting it.

 

[Gob]

I've been at the beach and then at the shops..how did it go?

 

[OverratedSanity]

only was able to watch portions of it with any attentiveness but seems a good day's cricket.

still deeply unconvinced that shaw will hack it as a test opener. that's really, really not a test opener's shot, sehwag comparisons or not.

Sehwag was just very attacking, but he had a clean conventional straight blade and bat swing. Shaw has a weird arc which needs fixing.

 

[Prince EWS]

only was able to watch portions of it with any attentiveness but seems a good day's cricket.

still deeply unconvinced that shaw will hack it as a test opener. that's really, really not a test opener's shot, sehwag comparisons or not.

To me his technique - or at least his shot selection - has seriously deteriorated since his injury/ban double whammy that kept him out of cricket for a while.

 

[Spikey]

oh hell yeah the amazing race is on now

 

[cnerd123]

Imagine Pant trying to negotiate that passage instead of Saha

Rahane absolutely sold Kohli down the river there. His call and he bailed on it. Good job future skip, you owe us tons of runs in the coming games, especially if we lose this.

 

[thierry henry]

Just me or was the 2nd new ball only terrifying for about 5 overs

 

[Burgey]

Runs and wickets don't happen on past reputation dude. Else we don't need to play this test series. We can all snooze and wake up after 2 months.

well I look forward to him taking 20 plus wickets at 22 and doing what no visiting finger spinner has ever done here, including Murali

 

[Prince EWS]

Just me or was the 2nd new ball only terrifying for about 5 overs

Even then it was just the odd delivery rather than sustained movement. Most of the balls did nothing.

 

[Spark]

Sehwag was just very attacking, but he had a clean conventional straight blade and bat swing. Shaw has a weird arc which needs fixing.

right that's my point. no way is sehwag playing that shot today, he's either ignoring it or hitting for four with a straight bat. not that vague waft with his bat about a foot away from his pad.

 

[Pratters]

well I look forward to him taking 20 plus wickets at 22 and doing what no visiting finger spinner has ever done here, including Murali

You are using one extreme and putting in another extreme to try and justify your point. No one is saying he is going to set the world on fire ffs.

 

[Pratters]

Imagine Pant trying to negotiate that passage instead of Saha

Haha yes. True. Also, welcome to the forum. You seem like a nice new poster.

 

[OverratedSanity]

Ashwin bowled superbly last tour at Adelaid before getting injured again predictably the fat ****.

 

[Spark]

Haha yes. True. Also, welcome to the forum. You seem like a nice new poster.

omg

 

[stephen]

The scorecard probably reflects the events of the day despite the feeling that India were very lucky for much of the time.

 

[Pratters]

Re Saha, he averages 42 in FC cricket and 30 in tests. As a reliable keeper, that's quite good value. Not sure why there is so much debate re Saha all the time. Let us have some other viable options, then we can debate.

 

[cnerd123]

Ashwin bowled superbly last tour at Adelaid before getting injured again predictably the fat ****.

Tbh if he can score runs and take wickets here before making way for Jaddu to return I wouldn't mind at all

 

[Manee]

I'm going into this series fully expecting an Australia whitewash victory. Today has not changed that belief as I think Australia can get a huge score on this pitch because Bumrah is out of form, I've never rated Umesh Yadav outside India, Ashwin is EXTREMELY hit and miss outside Asia in Test matches and Vihari is not good enough as a fifth bowler compared to someone like Cameron Green or Ben Stokes or even Hardik Pandya. However, I'm proud of the application shown by the Indian batsman. I'm not working today so watched much of the last 40 overs and think that India were dogged in their determination to not get rolled over in the sort of foreign conditions where historically, we have struggled.

 

[cnerd123]

Re Saha, he averages 42 in FC cricket and 30 in tests. As a reliable keeper, that's quite good value. Not sure why there is so much debate re Saha all the time. Let us have some other viable options, then we can debate.

Only downside of Saha is that he is 36 and India wil need to move past him eventually.

Wonder how Lokesh would go keeping in Test cricket.