Burgey
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Nah the 80s was way way way worse than this.
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2nd Test at the MCG, Melbourne, 26 Dec - 30 Dec 2020
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cnerd123
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he's also potentially got Tendulkar as a father-in-law
If that doesn't motivate you to score runs nothing else will
Spark
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nah come on hobart vs SA was muuuuch worse than this. in that test much, it genuinely felt like they'd forgotten that you actually have to play at balls on your stumps.
silentstriker
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Aside from 2001, if we are only looking at overseas Test wins of the past 20 or so years, this one immediately comes to mind. India's first-ever overseas win in South Africa. Sreesanth's dance after hitting Nel for six (after being told he has no heart by Nel).
But this is up there given the injuries and lack of Kohli.
But this is up there given the injuries and lack of Kohli.
Spark
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yeah and you could come up with a whole stack of home batting performances which was worse than this in the last decade alone. this isn't the same league as 98ao, for example.
cnerd123
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Yea Rahane captained excellently. Holding back Siraj until the 2nd session on Day 1, letting the other senior bowlers take the pressure first and letting him find his feet gradually. Some of the fields he set were clever too, and he seems to get good results out of Ashwin.
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Ashwin vs Lyon was the biggest difference between the two bowling lineups. The pacers from both sides all to a man were awesome. But Ashwin bowled a marathon super accurate spell, gave nothing away and dismissed Australia's best batsmen like an alpha, while Lyon bowled short rubbish for long stretches of his spell and only escaped with decent figures because of some cheap tailend wickets. Made a huge difference to how the two batting lineups batted overall.
Gnske
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The Voges dismissal man, the Voges dismissal.
Spark
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i think that test match has the only instance i can recall of someone walking for an lbw.
Salamuddin
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Spot on. Kohli is a great batsman but simply too emotional to be an effective captain. However he has an enormous ego so unlikely he will step aside for Rahane.
stephen
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It really wasn't. At least not from a batting perspective. We have now gone 4 innings in a row with a maximum score of 200. That never happened in the 80s. Our bowling is way better than it was back then but this batting is woeful. It really is inexcusable. Not even the mighty Windies teams got on top of our batting this badly.
Daemon
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I feel like we should just open with Vihari or even Pujara and stick Rohit down at 5. Need someone to eat up some deliveries and Vihari has shown he can stick around.
I really don't trust Rahul or Rohit to score anything or last against the quality of new ball bowling we've seen so far.
Gnske
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@GoodAreasShane didn't pick Nintendo for your multi, well-played.
silentstriker
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That's a huge if.
Salamuddin
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Rohit is surely coming in for the next test for Agarwal. They didn't fly him all the way to Sydney and get him to do the 14 day quarantine if he wasn't in serious consideration for the third test. I think they might give Vihari another chance though and only if he fails look at KL Rahul for the GAbba.