4th Test at the Gabba, Brisbane, 15 - 19 Jan 2021

[silentstriker]

Washington Sundar has played 12 FC games in his life and his last one was more than 3 years ago.

Our entire bowling attack has less than 5 tests between them.

WTAF.

this is insanity. Bangladesh would beat this lot.

 

[OverratedSanity]

Sundar wtf i didn't think they'd actually pull the trigger on him. Australia should be embarrassed to not get 600 here.

 

[Starfighter]

No excuses for anything under 500 here.

That's what you'd hope, but when you look at who's actually in the line up you realise the if one of the big two don't fire we could end up with a lot less.

No Ashwin is a huge win for Australia, I haven't seen that much of Sundar but nothing to indicate he has the variations that have allowed Ashwin's strategy to succeed, nor does he have the experience.

 

[silentstriker]

Washington at 7??

he does have a first class century. What what it’s worth.

 

[trundler]

I don't think I've seen Sundar ever turn one. He's an Indian Imad Wasim, isn't he? Terribly out of place here.

 

[Teja.]

Steve Smith might break Lara's record here.

 

[silentstriker]

This might be the worst Indian team I’ve seen take the field since the 90s.

 

[trundler]

That's what you'd hope, but when you look at who's actually in the line up you realise the if one of the big two don't fire we could end up with a lot less.

Matthew Wade to prolong his career by another 2 years

 

[Cruxdude]

Why the hell is Kuldeep not playing. Surely he should play instead of Thakur.

 

[Burgey]

Is Thakur there to play the role of Wagner but with a bit of hitting ability down the order?

Everyone who knows anything about him keeps saying he's ****, but you all said that about Saini and he did ok, so you're all **** judges.

 

[Anil]

holy ****! is this our bowling attack?!

Washington Sundar, Shardul Thakur, Navdeep Saini, Mohammed Siraj, T Natarajan

A massacre on the cards, ****!

 

[Cruxdude]

Is Thakur there to play the role of Wagner but with a bit of hitting ability down the order?

Everyone who knows anything about him keeps saying he's ****, but you all said that about Saini and he did ok, so you're all **** judges.

He is there to play the role Vinay Kumar played in Perth against Warner. Cannon fodder.

 

[silentstriker]

No, i just went through some bad 90s lineups. This is definitely worse - by far the worst Indian team I’ve ever seen take the field. I wasn’t round when Gavaskar was opening the bowling, but at least in my cricket watching days, hard to imagine worse than this.

Smith to break Lara’s record.

 

[Starfighter]

Aside from team debuts (Afghanistan, Ireland etc.) and SA coming back from isolation when's the last time a team played a bowling attack with only four tests between them?

 

[trundler]

Aside from team debuts (Afghanistan, Ireland etc.) and SA coming back from isolation when's the last time a team played a bowling attack with only four tests between them?

Packer years?

 

[Cruxdude]

No, i just went through some bad 90s lineups. This is definitely worse - by far the worst Indian team I’ve ever seen take the field. I wasn’t round when Gavaskar was opening the bowling, but at least in my cricket watching days, hard to imagine worse than this.

Smith to break Lara’s record.

I think this team has more heart than anything we put out in the 90s. But ya this is going to be a rough test.

 

[silentstriker]

Why is Kuldeep not playing?

 

[Anil]

Smith to break Lara’s record.

this won't happen because their top 7 batsmen will all score centuries and paine will have to declare before any individual reaches any scoring landmarks...

 

[Starfighter]

No, i just went through some bad 90s lineups. This is definitely worse - by far the worst Indian team I’ve ever seen take the field. I wasn’t round when Gavaskar was opening the bowling, but at least in my cricket watching days, hard to imagine worse than this.

I doubt it's worse in quality, confident that at least Siraj and Saini are better than some of the spanners that you played then.

 

[Arachnodouche]

Why the hell is Kuldeep not playing. Surely he should play instead of Thakur.

Sundar's like for like for Ashwin. Both he and Thakur can hold a bat hence bolstering the batting.