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

[OverratedSanity]

That was simply magnificent. Bumrah has been impossible to score off all tour and Smith just goes and plays him with such a beautiful, wristy cover drive. Just magnificent.

Bumrah is cooked now Tbf. Can the bowling team declare by giving 400 runs please ?

 

[OverratedSanity]

It's surprising India have managed to be competitive this series with half their options gone but the workload clearly taken a toll. Amazed that Vihari hasn't bowled at all. Let him roll his arm over, no point breaking bumrah hoping for a miracle.

 

[Burgey]

Ashwin at mid on is simultaneously hilarious and a genuine chance of a hammy every time the ball goes near him

 

[Spark]

Still think he's a bit cooked but that was a real quality over.

 

[vicleggie]

Zaheer looks fit in Hindi commentary. Any chance he can get a run in Brisbane?

 

[Gob]

 

[Gnske]

Remember that time Rohit blew up at Smith because he looked at him?

 

[Gob]

Rohit asking TPC about any chinese buffets nearby

 

[Gob]

Remember that time Rohit blew up at Smith because he looked at him?

You can look all you like but no touching

That's what she said to me while pivoting by the pole

 

[Burgey]

**** that’s crazy facing 56 balls at three in a test and only leaving one. Usually one of his strengths

 

[cnerd123]

Remember that time Rohit blew up at Smith because he looked at him?

any link?

 

[Gob]

any link?

Think it's that Adelaide game. TPC did more than watching iirc

 

[Gnske]

any link?

Terrible quality, but only one I could find. Apologies.

Oddly enough, there might have been a replay from down the wicket that showed Smith running his mouth. How aggro was this match though?

 

[Kirkut]

Bumrah is cooked now Tbf. Can the bowling team declare by giving 400 runs please ?

He's taking on too much responsibility which was otherwise balanced out by Shami and Ishant.

 

[NotMcKenzie]

The conduct of Waugh’s side in general (which I have long said was ordinary and far worse than under Ponting who copped a worse ragging for it) is a different question entirely to the “this is test cricket” attitude to intimidatory bowling. Which is something which was around for ages.

When I said 'culture', I meant the whole lot. They tie together and the wider culture reinforces that particular attitude compared to not having being in it. They are trotted out much more regularly particularly nowadays with relation to bowling short at tailenders, which is what I believe was occurring in the case Taufel mentioned and which we have been doing regularly, not that others don't also do so, they don't trot out such justifications quite so much, though. Taufel thought Waugh's opinion, expressed to an umpire during a match, was credible, but I believe he was overlooking that it sprung at least in part from the wider culture that brought Australian cricket into a certain amount of discredit. I believe you are watching Fox whereas I am watching 7: Taufel was basically saying, 'Yes there is this law, but listen also to this particular person's opinion on how to handle things'—i.e. not enforcing it. Cnerd's mention of commentators, fans, etc., dovetailed nicely with how Taufel decided to justify umpires not applying the laws as much as I believe they ought to, and certainly less than they are able to, because many have the same cultural set.

 

[cnerd123]

Terrible quality, but only one I could find. Apologies.

Oddly enough, there might have been a replay from down the wicket that showed Smith running his mouth. How aggro was this match though?

geoblocked

 

[Kirkut]

Anyways, winning a test series in Australia without Kohli, Shami and Ishant is too ambitious. Apart from South Africa, most teams struggle to win anything there with full strength sides.

 

[Burgey]

When I said 'culture', I meant the whole lot. They tie together and the wider culture reinforces that particular attitude compared to not having being in it. They are trotted out much more regularly particularly nowadays with relation to bowling short at tailenders, which is what I believe was occurring in the case Taufel mentioned. Taufel thought Waugh's opinion, expressed to an umpire during a match, was credible, but I believe he was overlooking that it sprung at least in part from the wider culture that brought Australian cricket into a certain amount of discredit. I believe you are watching Fox whereas I am watching 7: Taufel was basically saying, 'Yes there is this law, but listen also to this particular person's opinion on how to handle things'. Cnerd's mention of commentators, fans, etc., dovetailed nicely with how Taufel decided to justify umpires not applying the laws as much as I believe they ought to, and certainly less than they are able to, because many have the same cultural set.

This is a peculiar reasoning on your and his part for umpires not enforcing the law. How, for example, can an umpire not enforcing it at Cape Town in a test vs SL be put down to the big, bad, naughty Australian team?

 

[Fuller Pilch]

With so many Indians injured can the Poms somehow win in India and make the WTC final? Then do a few jammy things and win it?

 

[Burgey]

geoblocked

Wish CW geoblocked Honkers tbh