The Brisbane Breakthrough

[anil1405]

This image randomly bumped into my social feed. I couldn't be arsed to find the relevant series thread.

That difference in quality on the bowling front is...

How did that even happen?

 

[the big bambino]

Any side will come up short against that 1988 team.

 

[ankitj]

We have never spoken about Brisbane 2021, have we?

 

[anil1405]

Any side will come up short against that 1988 team.

Yeah. But what's still baffling is Australia have gone unbeaten at GABBA for 32 years and then lost to that other side.

We have never spoken about Brisbane 2021, have we?

NEVER.

 

[NotMcKenzie]

Yeah. But what's still baffling is Australia have gone unbeaten at GABBA for 32 years and then lost to that other side.

In isolation, yes. In the context of the series, not really

 

[trundler]

In isolation, yes. In the context of the series, not really

It was baffling. @silentstriker called it the worst Indian team he'd ever seen in the thread at the toss. No one gave them a chance.

 

[_00_deathscar]

Any side will come up short against that 1988 team.

Not if India sends their F team

 

[RossTaylorsBox]

No Kohli makes all the difference.

 

[Shady Slim]

even crazier when you remember this wasn't 2019-20 pujara nor was it 2014-15 rahane they were packing

 

[duffer]

It was baffling. @silentstriker called it the worst Indian team he'd ever seen in the thread at the toss. No one gave them a chance.

Even now, on paper it looks substandard. Batting and bowling

 

[RossTaylorsBox]

Will Saini ever play for India again?

 

[Xix2565]

Tbf they both had great number 8s.

Will Saini ever play for India again?

Got a better chance than most of his other competition, since he actually has some Test experience along with his India A record.

 

[Xix2565]

Any side will come up short against that 1988 team.

We've never seen these two play against each other though.

 

[NotMcKenzie]

It was baffling. @silentstriker called it the worst Indian team he'd ever seen in the thread at the toss. No one gave them a chance.

It was baffling if you forgot that Australia lost in Melbourne with brittle batting and had failed to defeat a weakened Indian side in Sydney. It was also baffling if you engaged in a ton of exaggeration as to how bad the Indian team was relative to the Australian one, something a lot of the Indian posters did at the time and apparently still continue to do. It was not baffling when you saw how the two sides actually performed, especially in the previous match.

 

[honestbharani]

It's true.. Steve Smith or Labuschagne is no match for Natarajan.

 

[OverratedSanity]

We have never spoken about Brisbane 2021, have we?

We should speak about it more so people get salty about us speaking about it too much. It was fun the last time that happened.

 

[OverratedSanity]

It was baffling if you forgot that Australia lost in Melbourne with brittle batting and had failed to defeat a weakened Indian side in Sydney. It was also baffling if you engaged in a ton of exaggeration as to how bad the Indian team was relative to the Australian one, something a lot of the Indian posters did at the time and apparently still continue to do. It was not baffling when you saw how the two sides actually performed, especially in the previous match.

The Indian bowling lineup that test basically didn't have any of the guys who'd made the series competitive though (except Siraj).

 

[anil1405]

The Indian bowling lineup that test basically didn't have any of the guys who'd made the series competitive though (except Siraj).

The combined number of tests that the 5 man bowling attack played prior to Brisbane was a grand total of FOUR test matches.

 

[ankitj]

We should speak about it more so people get salty about us speaking about it too much. It was fun the last time that happened.

Yeah.

We lost before series: Ishant
We lost after Adelaide: Kohli, Shami
We lost after Melbourne: Umesh
We lost after Sydney: Bumrah, Ashwin, Jadeja, Vihari.

At least 6 out of those 8 would have played at Brisbane if they were available.

 

[Xix2565]

Yeah.

We lost before series: Ishant
We lost after Adelaide: Kohli, Shami
We lost after Melbourne: Umesh
We lost after Sydney: Bumrah, Ashwin, Jadeja, Vihari.

At least 6 out of those 8 would have played at Brisbane if they were available.

Would've been the WTC lineup lol.