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*Official* Australia in India 2023

Sunil1z

International Regular
**** 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

State Vice-Captain
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.
 

artvandalay

State Vice-Captain
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

State Regular
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

Hall of Fame Member
@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.
 

Senile Sentry

International Debutant
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)
 

Howe_zat

Audio File
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.
 

Fuller Pilch

Hall of Fame Member
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.
 

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