2nd Test at the MCG, Melbourne, 26 Dec - 30 Dec 2020

[Senile Sentry]

He needs to be a far better VC and stop Kohli from making bad calls, in selection and during the game.

Kohlis tactical captaincy is among the best.

His player selections though......

 

[social]

Well done India

Brilliant comeback

Didn’t watch today but why didn’t Starc hit out when Green got out?

Lyon is okayish but Haze is pretty bad & never going to last long

 

[Senile Sentry]

Comeback similar to 2011 aus in sa series. After the 49 ao humiliation (after being in a very dominant position) and losing the first test, aus came back to win the next one and square the series.

 

[Prince EWS]

cnerd123 wouldn't have moved Laxman to #6 imo

Could've worked out even better for India if he actually did well opening tbf.

 

[stephen]

Australia are smashed by 8 wickets. 5 pages about Indian selection. Makes sense.

 

[Senile Sentry]

Rohit , the great polariser since Trump

 

[Burgey]

Loved the way Gill bats

Aussies made error of bowling to him like they bowled to Shaw or Agarwal. Gill is way much tighter

He really isn’t though. He was dropped on zero in the slips in the first dig and edged twice through there before he’d reached 15 again today. That’s precisely the right line to bowl to him early on, like it is to about 90% of top order players

Obviously a huge upgrade on the 40 year old virgin they had opening before him though

 

[cnerd123]

Australia are smashed by 8 wickets. 5 pages about Indian selection. Makes sense.

we could start talking about DRS or over-rates again instead.

 

[Burgey]

Kohlis tactical captaincy is among the best.

His player selections though......

Is the captain a selector India? They'll always have a massive say anyway I suppose but does he have a formal role on the panel?

 

[OverratedSanity]

Australia are smashed by 8 wickets. 5 pages about Indian selection. Makes sense.

Our players are dropping like flies, what do you expect?

 

[harsh.ag]

Australia are smashed by 8 wickets. 5 pages about Indian selection. Makes sense.

Australia's selection policy can't change Smith's form and leaving Uzzi out of the squad though.

India have Rohit coming in, Umesh maybe out, so there is more room to talk ****

 

[Salamuddin]

Australia are smashed by 8 wickets. 5 pages about Indian selection. Makes sense.

Replace burns and Wade with Warner and Puckovski. Pretty straightforward - not much else the mighty Aussies need to do.

 

[Spikey]

wait are people seriously saying rohit doesn't come in. what's going on in here

 

[social]

Replace burns and Wade with Warner and Puckovski. Pretty straightforward - not much else the mighty Aussies need to do.

Pucovski is highly unlikely to be fit

 

[Prince EWS]

Pucovski is highly unlikely to be fit

Press reporting the opposite today.

EXCLUSIVE: Pucovski all but cleared for third Test after tough Christmas training regime

EXCLUSIVE: Pucovski all but cleared for third Test after tough Christmas training regime

www.foxsports.com.au

 

[Spark]

yeah paine indicated post-game that he's pretty close to being passed fit.

 

[Senile Sentry]

Is the captain a selector India? They'll always have a massive say anyway I suppose but does he have a formal role on the panel?

One of the big mysteries. But what is crystal clear is that if Virat really wants a player in his team, he will get that player.
For example - Saini

 

[Burgey]

Yeah there not unusual I suppose but wondered if there was a formal role for him

 

[Senile Sentry]

He really isn’t though. He was dropped on zero in the slips in the first dig and edged twice through there before he’d reached 15 again today. That’s precisely the right line to bowl to him early on, like it is to about 90% of top order players

Obviously a huge upgrade on the 40 year old virgin they had opening before him though

None of the edges were catchable today tbf.

 

[Daemon]

Press reporting the opposite today.

EXCLUSIVE: Pucovski all but cleared for third Test after tough Christmas training regime

EXCLUSIVE: Pucovski all but cleared for third Test after tough Christmas training regime

www.foxsports.com.au

yeah paine indicated post-game that he's pretty close to being passed fit.

Lol at you losers relying on info that's not from someone in the know