*Official* Australia in India 2023

[Ashes81]

Harris being ruled out on the eve of the 2015 series was a massive deal. Granted, his knee had basically disintegrated by that point, that wasn't really "luck" per se.

And then who can forget a certain fast bowler rolling his ankle on a cricket ball 17 years ago...

The McGrath incident helped to turn the 2005 Ashes.

My post was obviously tongue in cheek but whenever we tour Australia, it turns to a shambles. Key players get injured, there always seem to be off the field issues as well. Plus the Aussies are always at full strength. When they tour England, it always seem to go as smooth as silk.

What we need is the chaos of this Indian tour to roll over to the Ashes but it'll never happen. ?

 

[Shri]

there always seem to be off the field issues as well

yes anderson off the field after every spell

 

[centurymaker]

If Murphy's injury persists, then Swepson for him would actually make it a reasonably varied attack with Starc, Cummins, Green, Lyon and Swepson all bowling different varieties as such with Head and Labu for support.

I like this attack!

 

[Arachnodouche]

Damn, it's been 17 years...

Anyway, I guess lifting the WTC trophy at the Oval will be revenge enough for this debacle. Really don't see us doing any better than last time.

 

[Ashes81]

yes anderson off the field after every spell

Of course we're the only team to do this ?

Same old England always cheating ?

 

[trundler]

Same old England always cheating ?

But never showering

 

[Ashes81]

But never showering

Thats just a myth mate - we shower regularly- never miss a week

 

[slippy888]

Who will India play in the world test championship final

 

[Sunil1z]

Who will India play in the world test championship final

Steve Smith

 

[Spark]

Thats just a myth mate - we shower regularly- never miss a week

v good this

 

[slippy888]

KL Rahul is becoming a meme online

 

[Socerer 01]

KL Rahul is becoming a meme online

as if he already wasn’t. has been a meme since 2019

 

[Victor Ian]

Spin isn't real anymore man. They're getting out to straighties

If they knew what spin looked like, they could assess the straighties for what they are and smash them to the boundaries instead of falling lbw to them.

 

[Gob]

I don't think the players are good enough in terms of skill playing in India against Jadeja and Ashwin.

The Aussies are a fine test team, but they're not equipped to play high quality spin bowling on helpful pitches - no team in the world is which is why India haven't been beaten at home for so long.

I think in this test the Aussie batsmen got themselves in a mess by sweeping so much but that's because the more conventional methods didn't work in the 1st test.

The Aussies know deep down as a unit they can't cope with Ashwin and Jadeja and the Indians know it as well.

It sort of worked in the first innings though atleast to get a decent score and that was all they needed here. Smith is definitely capable of scoring runs in that situation which is why it's even more disappointing to see him getting out sweeping it's certainly not something he usually does. They genuinely got themselves in to two winning positions and let it slip which will hurt more than the first test where they were hopeless from the second session of day 1

 

[Arachnodouche]

If they knew what spin looked like, they could assess the straighties for what they are and smash them to the boundaries instead of falling lbw to them.

It's the threat implied that gets you

 

[Ashes81]

It sort of worked in the first innings though atleast to get a decent score and that was all they needed here. Smith is definitely capable of scoring runs in that situation which is why it's even more disappointing to see him getting out sweeping it's certainly not something he usually does. They genuinely got themselves in to two winning positions and let it slip which will hurt more than the first test where they were hopeless from the second session of day 1

I wonder if Jadeja got in to Smith's head a little bit.

He cleaned bowl Smith twice in the 1st test, 1 was a no ball though, and maybe Smith thought he needed to go down the sweep route.

 

[Apex Predator]

In an ideal world , Aus would have prepared for India tour against WI by preparing slow wickets in their home summer

Similarly, India should prepare 2000 style wickets for the remaining 2 Tests . Allow our batsmen to get some confidence. Ashwin/Jadeja can’t hide our batting mess in WTC finals . Let batsmen have some runs under their belt.

A batting line up with Kela Kohli Gujara ain't winning WTC final. There is no point bothering about it.
If they decide to play Gill in middle order perhaps he can boost the fragile batting.
Gujara is past it & I don't know why was he brought back after the debacle in SA. He was dropped from SL test series but somehow came back smashing Division 2 county trundlers.

 

[Daemon]

 

[Nintendo]

I wonder if Jadeja got in to Smith's head a little bit.

He cleaned bowl Smith twice in the 1st test, 1 was a no ball though, and maybe Smith thought he needed to go down the sweep route.

I don't get why those Jadeja dismissals would send smith down the sweep route though. Those dismissals where completely against his 2017 methodology, feel like he would tried going back more to the 2017 methodology then going further away from it.

 

[Sunil1z]

I don't get why those Jadeja dismissals would send smith down the sweep route though. Those dismissals where completely against his 2017 methodology, feel like he would tried going back more to the 2017 methodology then going further away from it.

Is it possible that Smith is past his peak ? So he may score runs here and there but not as fluently as he did till 2019 ?