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

[social]

Heh. No. Not more than most players, that is. His balance is great.

Nothing to do with balance

If you don’t get in line and play with an open face, you will nick off a lot when the ball bounces or moves

Very talented stroke player but ...

 

[Shri]

did ponting tell you that when you two caught up for a pint buddy

 

[trundler]

He’s a

Can't say that anymore m8

 

[Shri]

wonder if smith is failing because he can't deal with labu's batting at the other end that makes him self conscious about how ridiculous he looks when batting

 

[aussie tragic]

"Australia has been fined 40 per cent of their match fee and penalised four World Test Championship points for a slow over-rate against India in the second Test."

Talk about kick them when they're down, all for being slow 2 overs, like it mattered

 

[OverratedSanity]

Serves them right for trying to kill test cricket by bowling 2 fewer overs. Captain and vice captain should also be executed if it happens again.

 

[cnerd123]

good. should have penalised them 8 points IMO.

 

[Manee]

good. should have penalised them 8 points IMO.

I think rounding up to 10 seems sensible.

 

[social]

Indian cricket fans are such sensitive little flowers

Gill is 21 ffs and will obviously have technical flaws

Good news is that he’s a lot younger than Burns, Harris & Head whom are baaaad

 

[ankitj]

"Australia has been fined 40 per cent of their match fee and penalised four World Test Championship points for a slow over-rate against India in the second Test."

Talk about kick them when they're down, all for being slow 2 overs, like it mattered

This makes no sense.

 

[Manee]

Serves them right for trying to kill test cricket by bowling 2 fewer overs. Captain and vice captain should also be executed if it happens again.

On the topic, I went to see the excellent comedian and cricket statistician, Andy Zaltzman do a show last year and he pointed out fantastically that Steve Smith cried to the nation after the ball tampering scandal and after Brexit, David Cameron "whistled" (

).

 

[Manee]

Indian cricket fans are such sensitive little flowers

Gill is 21 ffs and will obviously have technical flaws

Good news is that he’s a lot younger than Burns, Harris & Head whom are baaaad

How dare you call me a sensitive little flowe...fair enough!

 

[trundler]

"Australia has been fined 40 per cent of their match fee and penalised four World Test Championship points for a slow over-rate against India in the second Test."

Talk about kick them when they're down, all for being slow 2 overs, like it mattered

That's stupid

 

[Son Of Coco]

Indian cricket fans are such sensitive little flowers

Gill is 21 ffs and will obviously have technical flaws

Good news is that he’s a lot younger than Burns, Harris & Head whom are baaaad

He's a little rich kid, so he needs a bit of criticism to bring him down to the level of us normal folk.

 

[Son Of Coco]

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

I'd move Wade to 5 and drop Head too.

 

[silentstriker]

Bring Rohit in for Vihari at 5 is fine. Forcing either Vihari or Lokesh to open in these conditions in order to accommodate Rohit at 5 is just garbage IMO. Forcing the newer younger players to do the hard yards while letting Rohit fill his boots against weaker attacks at home as opener is a terrible way to run a team.

that’s not the question. All of that is irrelevant. They’re big boys. They can deal. The question is which approach will result in higher batting totals for India. If that’s Rohit opening, that’s fine. If that’s rohit opening in India and batting at 11 overseas, that’s fine too. Surely the only consideration from team management should be which batting lineup will produce the maximum runs.

 

[Line and Length]

I'd move Wade to 5 and drop Head too.

Agreed. Those suggesting that Head be retained and Wade be dropped are totally overlooking their respective contributions in the first two Tests.

 

[aussie tragic]

This makes no sense.

Especially as India bowled only 72.3 overs on day 1 up to 5pm, so 17.3 overs left with 30 minutes to stumps, but no fine.

 

[Senile Sentry]

For those that watched 'The Test', the reason Australia's batting is so timid it's because of Langers rule that if your out in the nets you have to rotate out.

Khawaja was right to call him on it, how do you practice being aggressive in the nets if you have to leave the nets if you're out.

Didn't stop the batsmen from making merry against Pak, SL and NZ however. Come on mate, a nets rule however ******** it might be suddenly cannot make elite batsmen forget their craft.

Not can playing t20s as well (after making truckloads in ODIs).

India have got very good plans and executed even better against most of them. Simple as.

 

[Senile Sentry]

"Australia has been fined 40 per cent of their match fee and penalised four World Test Championship points for a slow over-rate against India in the second Test."

Talk about kick them when they're down, all for being slow 2 overs, like it mattered

Lol...