*Official* Australia in India 2023

[honestbharani]

Its better to wait till the morning of the game before deciding what the pitch is or isn't like IMO.

 

[halba]

likely XI's my prediction

india

RAHUL
ROHIT
PUJ
KOHLI
SKY
JADEJA
BHARAT
ASHWIN
AXAR/KULDEEP
SIRAJ
UMESH YADAV

AUS

KHAWAJA
WARNER
LABUSCHAGNE
SMITH
HEAD
CAREY
CUMMINS
BOLAND
MURPHY/AGAR
LYON
SWEPSON

need that wrist spinner -if conditions spin.

 

[Gob]

likely XI's my prediction

india

RAHUL
ROHIT
PUJ
KOHLI
SKY
JADEJA
BHARAT
ASHWIN
AXAR/KULDEEP
SIRAJ
UMESH YADAV

AUS

KHAWAJA
WARNER
LABUSCHAGNE
SMITH
HEAD
CAREY
CUMMINS
BOLAND
MURPHY/AGAR
LYON
SWEPSON

need that wrist spinner -if conditions spin.

Turn off the ****ing caps

Also horrible teams

 

[sphynx]

Probably the most disgraceful pitch prep I've just about ever seen tbh.

If ever there was a time for the ICC to come down on the BCCI.

Otherwise it should just be open season on pitch prep.

Take to the GABBA with sledge hammers an hour before the test on a good length.

 

[Spark]

both teams have to play on the same surface. If one team is better suited to it than the other then so be it. This is literally how cricket has worked for 100s of years and it's naïve to pretend otherwise.

Oh yeah it's just a pure coincidence, just sheer luck that it happened to have one spot on it prepared totally differently to everywhere else

 

[duffer]

Not exactly. It's obvious they are leaving certain parts of the wicket dry (out side the left handers off stump) to take advantage of the left handed heavy Aust batting line up. Making the whole pitch dry I get it but I have not seen this before

I don't think this is right but couldn't be ****ed to argue about it

They don' need to doctor the pitch to get Aussie LHBs out, they have Anna for that

 

[Spark]

They don' need to doctor the pitch to get Aussie LHBs out, they have Anna for that

Great, so we should all have no issues saying that deliberately taking different approaches to different parts of a pitch is not part of proper pitch preparation.

 

[RossTaylorsBox]

Drilling a 10cm hole on a good length just outside off

 

[honestbharani]

Pretty sure the cracks were open and visible on a right handers good length from day 1 at the Gabba in 2021.

 

[Spark]

Drilling a 10cm hole on a good length just outside off

sAmE fOr bOtH sIdEs

 

[duffer]

If it's this spicy in here before a ball is bowled.....

 

[RossTaylorsBox]

Pretty sure the cracks were open and visible on a right handers good length from day 1 at the Gabba in 2021.

I'm kind of whatever on the pitch thing but surely you see how that's different than what's happening here.

 

[cnerd123]

Oh yeah it's just a pure coincidence, just sheer luck that it happened to have one spot on it prepared totally differently to everywhere else

Not at all. The home team always makes the pitches, and if they're skilled enough to produce a deck that behaves differently for lefties than to righties then full power to them. Again, you're acting as if this is a new thing. Home teams rig decks to suit them all the time and if the visiting team can't cope then that's their loss.

 

[RossTaylorsBox]

Surrounding the popping crease with a moat filled with piranhas, the piranhas have been trained to go to sleep whenever the home team is batting.

 

[Spark]

Not at all. The home team always makes the pitches, and if they're skilled enough to produce a deck that behaves differently for lefties than to righties then full power to them. Again, you're acting as if this is a new thing.

Yes the skill of not watering one part of the pitch. Such arcane and esoteric knowledge, this storied ability to stop two metres short of a white line. Incredible how this is beyond the capability of mere mortals.

Home teams rig decks to suit them all the time and if the visiting team can't cope then that's their loss.

My complaint is very specifically about (supposedly, this is all hypothetical at this stage) different parts of the pitch prepared differently. If you can find one (one) example of that happening in the last ten years then I'd be fascinated because this sure is a first for me. Prepare a raging turner all you like, that's fine.

 

[Son Of Coco]

Genuinely have no idea how Boland would adapt to a raging turner, that is the one set of conditions that simply does not exist in Shield cricket. Guess we will all find out soon enough if Nagpur plays as expected

Got no worries about him on a flat one though, Boland has bowled on plenty of those for Victoria and has consistently done the job on them. Likely won't produce the rush of wickets we have seen in his Test career to date (honestly that was never really his MO domestically anyway) but can be relied upon to get through plenty of overs and keep things tight while doing so

Boland will take 6/7 bowling left-arm unorthodox on a turner.

 

[OverratedSanity]

Not at all. The home team always makes the pitches, and if they're skilled enough to produce a deck that behaves differently for lefties than to righties then full power to them. Again, you're acting as if this is a new thing. Home teams rig decks to suit them all the time and if the visiting team can't cope then that's their loss.

Lol come on, I generally share this view but rigging it to this specific extent is taking the piss.

It's objectively funny though and it'd be even more hilarious if we lost.

 

[Burgey]

Marnus dumping them in the rough and bowling seven right handers around their legs would be hilarious.

 

[Burgey]

Lol come on, I generally share this view but rigging it to this specific extent is taking the piss.

It's objectively funny though and it'd be even more hilarious if we lost.

If that's what's doing (and no one will really know til tomorrow) I'm actually surprised India is sufficiently worried about this particular Aus line up to do it.

 

[RossTaylorsBox]

A pressure-activated switch at a half-volley length outside the stumps of the left-hander, which releases a spray of Lynx Africa directly in the batsman's eyes.