*Official* Australia in India 2023

[Shady Slim]

great stuff by pujara to essentially bore india to a win

 

[Shri]

we have chased 115 with our tail here

 

[anil1405]

Axar for MOM

 

[Sam Handwich]

A real pity most of the Australian batting had a collective brain fart. Could have been a great chase.

 

[Zinzan]

Assuming Maxwell would have been a horses for courses selection had he been fit. His bowling would have been useful of this track.

 

[Arachnodouche]

Lol Headchucker

Maybeee not.

 

[srbhkshk]

Australia really needed to set at least 315, didn't even need our real batting to get this.

 

[Spark]

Feel like the commentators are right that Australia overdid the sweeps but I think the kind of sweeps they were trying were dumb too. Against Jadeja, trying to constantly sweep conventionally square/in front of square is really hard. Surely against him if you do want to sweep, the paddle would be a better option. Try and use his pace against him. Even for the reverse sweep your hands need to go through all kinds of contortions before the ball gets to you, the paddle gives you so much more time.

Smith's sweep was so bad and so ill-advised I basically never want him to play the shot again.

 

[OverratedSanity]

Chasing this without Jadeja Ashwin Axar having to do anything is a wonderful surprise tbh.

 

[slippy888]

India win so Rahul survives and plays 3rd test match

 

[OverratedSanity]

Cute finish by ChePu. Really pleased for him.

 

[Shri]

trophy retained

 

[social]

Can’t think of another time where the world’s best bowler hasn’t bowled in these circumstances

Lost the plot

 

[OverratedSanity]

Australia gave this test away tbh. The Axar-Ashwin partnership was the obvious turning point, but they didn't bowl badly there. The batting today was harebrained, unforgivable nonsense. If they set us even 150-170 here, it'd have been really tough.

 

[artvandalay]

Phew we won that and batted well in the fourth innings. Australia were ahead for most of this match so in that sense this game feels a lot like the Adelaide 36/9 one.

 

[srbhkshk]

I don't even blame Australia for not getting a big lead yesterday, jaddu, axar, Ashwin are good batsman in India and one of them will do well more often than not.

Today's play however was brain-dead extraordinaire.

 

[Daniel CC]

4-0 is absolutely locked in.

The WTC final in England will be a good game though

 

[GotSpin]

Pathetic

 

[Shri]

Australia gave this test away tbh. The Axar-Ashwin partnership was the obvious turning point, but they didn't bowl badly there. The batting today was harebrained, unforgivable nonsense. If they set us even 150-170 here, it'd have been really tough.

nah they needed to set us 300 and even that wasn't likely enough

 

[Zinzan]

Can’t think of another time where the world’s best bowler hasn’t bowled in these circumstances

Lost the plot

Not really, they always needed to open with spin at both ends after what happened in Australia's innings. Maybe there was an argument to give Cummins a few at one stage, but you honestly think he would have been as threatening as the spinners on this wicket?