3rd Test at the SCG, Sydney, 7 Jan - 11 Jan 2021

[Pup Clarke]

A Saffer by birth, so should theoretically turn out for the English

 

[NotMcKenzie]

Or New Zealand

 

[Shady Slim]

i think we will take this series if we have to play with a 10 man side tbh

au batting is so woeful

sunny gavaskar is down here for channel seven, couldn't hurt as an opening option - certainly would do better than rohit tbh

 

[Gnske]

Rohit will change the very nature of the game when it comes to batting in Australia these next two tests. It'll make David Warner look like he's still in the iron age.

 

[Pup Clarke]

Rohit will change the very nature of the game when it comes to batting in Australia these next two tests.

By taking quick singles?

 

[stephen]

This is the Aussie pecking order:

Cummins
Hazlewood
Starc
Pattinson
J Richardson
Neser
Bird
Abbott

After that it gets a bit murky but you're probably looking at Wildermuth and Meredith being considered and maybe a couple of others.

 

[Gnske]

By taking quick singles?

Hitting sixes and getting out when his only reasonable option would be to admit defeat and pluck singles.

 

[aussie tragic]

This is the Aussie pecking order:

Cummins
Hazlewood
Starc
Pattinson
J Richardson
Neser
Bird
Abbott

Richardson has been injured so long, no way he's above Neser. In fact Neser is pushing Pattinson for next in line as he out bowled him in the shield and the A game.

Selectors also have a different opinion about Abbott as he is in the Test squad while Bird and Richardson are not.

 

[Gnske]

I think Bird is nothing but feed now.

 

[Gob]

Coota- Nile ?

 

[Gob]

This is the Aussie pecking order:

Cummins
Hazlewood
Starc
Pattinson
J Richardson
Neser
Bird
Abbott

After that it gets a bit murky but you're probably looking at Wildermuth and Meredith being considered and maybe a couple of others.

Would Jimmy Anderson make in to Australia's second xi?

Food for thought

 

[DriveClub]

When was the last time Jhye richardson bowled in shield?

 

[aussie tragic]

When was the last time Jhye richardson bowled in shield?

He played the first 3 shield matches last season, so hasn't played a FC match in 14 months (since 2 Nov 2019). He's only just turned 24 though, so heaps of time to come back.

 

[GotSpin]

Yadav out is pretty massive I reckon. Was bowling so well

Obviously India didn't even need him in the second innings, but if one bowler leaks run then it just may relieve that constant pressure faced by the Aussie batsmen.

 

[aussie tragic]

Siraj, Saini, Natarajan, Ashwin, Jadeja

That would be the bowling line-up for 3rd Test if the umps could find their protractor

Seriously though if Australia can't bat well against Siraj and Saini with one test between them then they deserve to lose.

Will Bumrah be bowled into the ground to compensate?

 

[Gnske]

Siraj, Saini, Natarajan, Ashwin, Jadeja

That would be the bowling line-up for 3rd Test if the umps could find their protractor

Seriously though if Australia can't bat well against Siraj and Saini with one test between them then they deserve to lose.

Will Bumrah be bowled into the ground to compensate?

Any bowling lineup with Bumrah makes me want to throw up.

 

[Senile Sentry]

Tyagi is also there i think. He got Pucovski injured in the practise match

 

[DriveClub]

Tyagi is also there i think. He got Pucovski injured in the practise match

Did you see him bowl? He barely looked like a net bowler

 

[DriveClub]

Siraj, Saini, Natarajan, Ashwin, Jadeja

That would be the bowling line-up for 3rd Test if the umps could find their protractor

Seriously though if Australia can't bat well against Siraj and Saini with one test between them then they deserve to lose.

Will Bumrah be bowled into the ground to compensate?

Wonder how a bowling lineup of Neser, Bird, Abbott, Green and Lyon would do against that

 

[GoodAreasShane]

Wonder how a bowling lineup of Neser, Bird, Abbott, Green and Lyon would do against that

Not brilliantly I suspect.

Garry has been a touch underwhelming this series, not awful but definitely below his best. I do back him to turn that around, but for Australia's sake that probably needs to happen for this test