I think Starc will be rushed in for Boland, which on paper would at least make the tail a bit more respectable.
Oh you mean something like Keshav to Smith? I remember that one time too. The days of May and Cowdrey padding their way through an innings effectively died when umpires started firing out players for moving a timid bat behind a protective bat before drs. I haven't been so inattentive to miss the many lbw controversies in matches, series and tours over the decades either. My favourite when Tennyson ignored his own instructions to his team to behave like ambassadors when he chewed out an umpire who gave Peter Smith out when he played the ball back up the wicket off the middle of his bat. Sometimes the controversy is because the umpires have been too liberal with lbws and drs proactively protects batsmen from those controversies (as do neutral umpires).
It should in theory but still can't see Starc making many against Ashwin
You'd think he would also get a bit of swing if there's any on offer. Neither Boland nor Cummins really swing it at all, but it was a real issue in Nagpur that none of the quicks has really bowled a ball in anger for a month, and it really showed with Cummins' first spell. He was better for the run day two, but by then the horse had bolted.
IMO Agar being our leftie was pre-ordained pretty much since O'Keefe chucked it in. Kuhnemann's new and wasn't getting games ahead of Swepson, and lack of recent FC experience has never stopped them picking players who've been around the international setup a while.
Trent Bridge 2015 would like a word with you.
Oh yeah, Broad ripping through Australia. That was probably worse as Aus was bowled out inside 20 overs.
'probably'
Yeah I say probably because sometimes it's better to watch them bat longer while still being clueless.
Eh, I can only assume you didn't see that innings live. It was like watching an airliner crashing.
Because that's BS though I wouldn't say it is Ashwin/Jadeja in particular they plan for. They prepare pitches where spin generally won't be a factor for us i.e. India & no one (other than the BCCI) does pitch tampering is also hilariously BS ?
Both of India's last tours of Australia the pitches have been distinctly more favourable towards India (dry, slow, low-bouncing) than normal, even accounting for two of the venues being Melbourne and Sydney.
Adelaide and Brisbane were dry, slow and low bouncing? That'll be news to the guys who were 36 all out and Pujara who copped like 50 blows to the body.
Yeah for sure. Id on't really rate him either, but if you pick a bloke in your squad after how he bowled in Sydney then must do so because you think he can do a job on tour. To bring someone else in over the top of him when he hasn't even played a game is both an admission you've got it wrong as selectors and just about as terrible player management as you could dream of.
