*Official* Australia in India 2023

[Sunil1z]

**** that. we don't care if kohli's average drops to 45 unlike azam

These type of pitches won’t be helpful when our batsmen have to play longer innings overseas .
We should prepare 2000 type pitches to give our batsmen some confidence. We have won this series 90% . Let’s give our batsmen some match practice.

 

[artvandalay]

Nothing bazball about Aus today morning. They swept as a coping mechanism for their inability to trust their conventional game. It wasn't a mode of attack or a way of unsettling the bowlers. They imagined demons in the track that never existed or not to the extent they imagined them anyway and came out looking foolish for their troubles.

Sweeping itself as a go to strategy is not a bad one, even if not the best one always, but the way and the extent to which they premeditated it seemed like they were in a panic to get as many as possible before they would inevitably be dismissed cheaply. Even the tail enders all got out to such shots.

 

[Senile Sentry]

@Xix2565 by the way i must cordially apologise for thinking you were senile sentry
given he is now back i've seen the two of you in a room together. genuine apology on my part

He is me, from another timeline

 

[artvandalay]

2013-14 Australia won 4/4 and batted first. Lost 4-0. England 2016/17, won 4/5 batted first, lost series 4-0. Australia in 2017, won 3/4, batted first, lost 2-1. England 2021, won 3-4 batted first, lost 3-1. Australia won 2/2 tosses in 2023, batted first, down 2-0

Tbh smart money is on those teams losing even more handily if they hadn't won those tosses.

 

[R!TTER]

And also would look flat if India batted first

That's the concerning part - Oz are only competing by winning the toss/batting first. They haven't won a test losing the toss since 1998, didn't win a test batting second since 2001 - surprisingly they batting second in Mumbai after winning the toss. Eventually that luck will run out & who knows what carnage awaits them.

Australia have lost both matches in the head - no pun - and that's shown in their collapses.

This goes to my point above - they're losing at least half the game in their heads, even before the toss! Tbf we haven't won too many tests chasing big totals ourselves. If we had to face Jadeja/Ashwin with this lineup (of course without Aswin/Jadeja/Axar facing their bowling clones) I wouldn't back them to chase 50 in the last innings.

Also the bowling isn't consistent enough to win multiple sessions in succession.

 

[Fuller Pilch]

@Xix2565 by the way i must cordially apologise for thinking you were senile sentry
given he is now back i've seen the two of you in a room together. genuine apology on my part

Split screen, 2 log ins. Easy. Do it all the time when I'm short on likes or when I want votes for drafts.

I really enjoyed inventing chris hinton and my favourite was that Saffa bikini model.

 

[Xix2565]

Split screen, 2 log ins. Easy. Do it all the time when I'm short on likes or when I want votes for drafts.

I really enjoyed inventing chris hinton and my favourite was that Saffa bikini model.

Shame how the bikini model imploded though.

 

[Senile Sentry]

Batting averages in India in the last decade.

Just incredible gulf that

 

[Fuller Pilch]

Shame how the bikini model imploded though.

What actually happened there? I avoided "her??!!" threads

 

[R!TTER]

England's avg is boosted higher by the flat wickets in 2016 series, otherwise they'd be fair way below Oz.

 

[Senile Sentry]

Another incredible stat

Only 12 times has a visiting team made a score of 300+ in India (all of them in their first innings) in the last ten years (of 87 innings overall)

 

[Fuller Pilch]

Batting averages in India in the last decade.

Just incredible gulf that

Was I in a coma for 5 days at some stage in the last 10 years? When did the West Indies win a test in India?


Or was it against Afghanistan?

 

[Godard]

Is this Indian team the most dominant home team ever bat Lloyd and Richards’s WI and maybe Waugh’s Aus?

 

[Godard]

Was I in a coma for 5 days at some stage in the last 10 years? When did the West Indies win a test in India?

It’s also showing Afg won a test here

 

[R!TTER]

Is this Indian team the most dominant home team ever bat Lloyd and Richards’s WI and maybe Waugh’s Aus?

We're better, but WI & then Oz has longer unbeaten runs! 20(22?) & 15-16 years respectively.

 

[Fuller Pilch]

It’s also showing Afg won a test here

Must be Afghanistan tests as they were played in India (now will be in the UAE).
That will be an Afghanistan win over Ireland. Worked it out now.

 

[Xix2565]

What actually happened there? I avoided "her??!!" threads

Got exposed IIRC, but I've also forgotten by now.

 

[Howe_zat]

Batting averages in India in the last decade.

The rarity of that one England win in Chennai is doomed to be forgotten about, isn't it?

All you hear about England now is how crap they were before the Stokes/McCullum revolution, but I wouldn't put much money on the new side doing better than 1 win out of 5 in India, where semingly no one can touch India at all.

The 2020-21 side also backed that up with series wins in South Africa and Sri Lanka. They weren't good, but they had their moments.

 

[CricAddict]

Batting averages in India in the last decade.

Just incredible gulf that

It includes matches India hosted on behalf of Afghanistan. Can you repost excluding it pls.

 

[Fuller Pilch]

Batting averages in India in the last decade.

Just incredible gulf that

It really is sad that the geopolitical situation makes Pakistan-India bilaterals impossible. I would love to see Babar Azam try to uncode the Ravis and while he's a dreadful keeper, Sarfaraz is an absolute genius against spinners.