*Official* Australia in India 2023

[Daemon]

The wickets they prepped to train on in Sydney might have been closer to what they got than they would have got in any practice games though

This has been disproven earlier in the thread. On Australia's last 2 tours they nearly lost a game or two against domestic spinners within 2 days or something.

 

[slippy888]

need to make a legit pitch 4th test match or we risk in losing 4th test match, i dont think our batsman can play the sharp turning ball with confidence so we better off making pitch that is set for 4 days of cricket at least

 

[social]

If the Ashes were starting tomorrow, England can choose from Jimmeh, Broad, Robinson, Archer & Wood

Stick Head at 5 and let him beat up Leach & Stokes, forcing England to over bowl the quicks

Worked last time so no need to complicate things

 

[sphynx]

Come on now they were chasing 76. Realistically once they got to about 1/30 the intensity went out of the game completely.

India scratched to 160 with a tail that bats to 10.

Australia have been 6-all out this entire series. They lost 6-20 in the first innings in about 5 overs.

Marnus was bogged down and couldn’t score.

If India got through to Handscomb/Green and bowled another 20 overs (which was a possibility at that scoring rate), the result could have been different.

Heads innings was as much a match winning one as Khawaja’s

 

[social]

Lyon is 35 and looks as if he could easily play for another 5 years

 

[ankitj]

Why are you tagging me ? I never said it . I am more of 3-0 or 3-1 .

My bad.

It was Shri. Always the ****

no

they collapsed twice and have already missed chance to win series

now no captain

morale will be low and it will be a monumental task to avoid 4-0

 

[subshakerz]

Gotta say, watching Ashwin and Lyon bowling so beautifully from around the wicket to righthanders this series has been an unexpected pleasure.

Also, massive credit to Kuhnemann and Murphy for bowling so well this test.

 

[Burgey]

i think that he is a hack. doesn't mean i don't think he can't be a useful roleplayer!

You don’t make run a ball tons on a green top against a pace attack stacked with blokes averaging between 20 and 25 if you’re a hack

 

[Spark]

India scratched to 160 with a tail that bats to 10.

Australia have been 6-all out this entire series. They lost 6-20 in the first innings in about 5 overs.

Marnus was bogged down and couldn’t score.

If India got through to Handscomb/Green and bowled another 20 overs (which was a possibility at that scoring rate), the result could have been different.

Heads innings was as much a match winning one as Khawaja’s

Mate 76 would have been a Test record for lowest defended total. Realistically when the total is that low, once you scrape your way to 30 the game is done, the simple lack of scoreboard pressure makes it trivial past the initial burst.

It's literally never been done. Head played well this morning but 76 is just too low to defend. You can break the chase in ten minutes.

This has been disproven earlier in the thread. On Australia's last 2 tours they nearly lost a game or two against domestic spinners within 2 days or something.

I seem to remember seeing actual pictures of the pitch they were playing on in 2017 though and it was greeeen

 

[Kenneth Viljoen]

You don’t make run a ball tons on a green top against a pace attack stacked with blokes averaging between 20 and 25 if you’re a hack

Wasn't Travis Head voted Man of the series in the last Ashes ?

 

[subshakerz]

need to make a legit pitch 4th test match or we risk in losing 4th test match, i dont think our batsman can play the sharp turning ball with confidence so we better off making pitch that is set for 4 days of cricket at least

Yeah will be interesting to see what direction India take the pitch. Too flat and then the Aussies bats are also back in the game.

 

[social]

Mate 76 would have been a Test record for lowest defended total. Realistically when the total is that low, once you scrape your way to 30 the game is done, the simple lack of scoreboard pressure makes it trivial past the initial burst.

It's literally never been done. Head played well this morning but 76 is just too low to defend. You can break the chase in ten minutes.

Yep

Not to mention that the first innings lead was the equivalent of substantially more under normal conditions

India were facing scoreboard pressure from midway through the Australian innings

 

[Spark]

Yep

Not to mention that the first innings lead was the equivalent of substantially more under normal conditions

India were facing scoreboard pressure from midway through the Australian innings

Basically as soon as Head hit those two boundaries against Ashwin, you could tell the game was basically done. That doesn't happen with a more normal sized target.

 

[Sunil1z]

@Shri is our @chris.hinton . Don’t go hard at him @ankitj

 

[Spark]

Marsh, Smith post tons in tour match | cricket.com.au

Left-hander boosts chances of Test recall with unbeaten century, while the skipper also tons up

www.cricket.com.au

This is the tour match in 2017. You can't tell me that's a normal Indian pitch with that amount of grass on it

 

[Daemon]

I seem to remember seeing actual pictures of the pitch they were playing on in 2017 though and it was greeeen

Was it as green as the pictures of this wicket that came out a day before the game lol

 

[Spark]

Was it as green as the pictures of this wicket that came out a day before the game lol

Yep, except those pictures came during the actual match involving play

 

[Daemon]

Marsh, Smith post tons in tour match | cricket.com.au

Left-hander boosts chances of Test recall with unbeaten century, while the skipper also tons up

www.cricket.com.au

This is the tour match in 2017. You can't tell me that's a normal Indian pitch with that amount of grass on it

Yeah fair enough

Previous tour was the one where they got real pitches

 

[Sunil1z]

Yep, except those pictures came during the actual match involving play

In 2013 , Aus lost nearly twice on spin friendly wickets in practice matches

 

[Spark]

In 2013 , Aus lost nearly twice on spin friendly wickets in practice matches

In fairness though that Aus team was genuine trash outside of Australia and would have lost on just about anything that wasn't a bouncy SA deck. We lost on slow roads, we lost on greentops, we lost on spinning tracks - that side really wasn't much good pre-Johnson outside of Australia. Like, Clarke aside, that team would have struggled at FC tier in India.