*Official* Australia in India 2023

[centurymaker]

Unusual way of spelling 'Smith'.

None of the top batsmen at present including Smith are even slightly close.

Bradman had a high strike rate, batted fast like Sehwag. The current lot have nothing in common with Bradman- technique nor style- nothing!

 

[Sunil1z]

Time for Amazing Ahmedabad Test .
Fun fact: In Mohali Test 2013 IND lead by 91 runs after 2nd innings and chased down 136 in the 2nd last over of the 5th Day?

 

[Gob]

None of the top batsmen at present including Smith are even slightly close.

Bradman had a high strike rate, batted fast like Sehwag. The current lot have nothing in common with Bradman- technique nor style- nothing!

Haha this is probably only the second high profile series Smith failed to make a significant impact and all the other batsmen with a claim to the BAB have as many if not more. You are just a reactive idiot with such a small memory span

 

[Chrish]

Quite content with the way things turned out. Now if we bury the bazball for good, this team will leave home record streak that will be difficult to suppress for years to come..

 

[Sunil1z]

Quite content with the way things turned out. Now if we bury the bazball for good, this team will leave home record streak that will be difficult to suppress for years to come..

Australia will decide the fate of Bazball .
If England win Ashes with Bazball , result of India tour doesn’t matter

 

[Shri]

starc what a joke

 

[slippy888]

Kholi is top run scorer for India this series, all his woes are forgiven.

 

[Sunil1z]

Someone please ban @slippy888 again.

 

[Howe_zat]

I wonder what odds you'd have gotten on a Head-Kuhnemann opening partnership at the start of the series

 

[centurymaker]

Haha this is probably only the second high profile series Smith failed to make a significant impact and all the other batsmen with a claim to the BAB have as many if not more. You are just a reactive idiot with such a small memory span

You are the idiot with the small memory span. He has failed in several high profile series, including Ashes as well as vs South Africa multiple times. Just like others. Check his record and then come again and the longer he plays the quicker the list will grow. And he has played only little over 'half as many' test matches as Ponting, yet he is being seen above him. Get Smith to play 170 Tests first and watch his record take a nose dive. It's easy to rate someone very highly over a significantly smaller sample size. Let his sample size grow to capture his downs as well. He is aging (34 soon) and in a slow terminal decline. Ashes will be his next ordinary series (he will average 30ish). He is not that same batsman anymore. The way he is batting thesedays, it is so evident. His hand and eye coordination & concentration are just not at the same levels. He is making more and more mistakes than he did before. His dismissals are telling a story, he would never have got out to deliveries that he's succumbing to recently.

So chill the **** out. I called his failure in BGT before it happened (yet the same lot were referencing his record in India ..an avg of 60 in India and what not, despite small sample size. Guess what, his avg is less than 50 in India now. This is not unexpected. It is returning closer to the norm for top players over bigger sample size. So I am calling an ordinary return for Ashes as well. So just wait and reply back in 6 months.

 

[Sunil1z]

@centurymaker won’t rest unless Smith has another Ashes series where he scores 800 runs .

 

[Ashes81]

Australia will decide the fate of Bazball .
If England win Ashes with Bazball , result of India tour doesn’t matter

As long as McCullum is in charge we'll play attacking cricket irrespective of results.

 

[PaulLennon]

Steve Smith is far from the peak era Smith. Post that he has many bad series - Ashes, Pak in Australia, this one.

He has been helped by playing on some flatties at home (even in the 2020-21 BGT he failed in Adelaide and MCG and only scored runs later on the flatter tracks).

2013-2019 he was great though. He's still quite decent but people expecting 2017 BGT or 2019 Ashes version currently are delusional.

 

[Sunil1z]

As long as McCullum is in charge we'll play attacking cricket irrespective of results.

And if England lose Ashes at home , McCullum will no longer be in charge.

 

[Spark]

And if England lose Ashes at home , McCullum will no longer be in charge.

He'll be in charge for as long as Rob Key wants him IMO

Pak in Australia

Calling that series a failure is weird. "Surplus to requirements" is a more accurate way of putting it.

And he has played only little over 'half as many' test matches as Ponting, yet he is being seen above him.

Even if he does, he still would probably have a strong case to be seen above Ponting on the basis of a catalogue of dominant away series performances in difficult conditions that Ponting can't quite match.

 

[Sunil1z]

Under-rating Ponting a bit here . His performance against SA in 2005 and 2006 was unbelievable. If Smith has ordinary Ashes and he isn’t able to dominate in SA , then it will be close call between Smith and Ponting.

 

[Spark]

Under-rating Ponting a bit here . His performance against SA in 2005 and 2006 was unbelievable. If Smith has ordinary Ashes and he isn’t able to dominate in SA , then it will be close call between Smith and Ponting.

Right but I'm saying that it's not all about the average. He has the performances that count too. He's almost certainly finish close to 10000 Test runs even if he doesn't quite make it, there's no qualms about his longevity afaic.

 

[Sunil1z]

Smith is already ATG . His performance in next few years will decide his overall position.
Smith like Steyn is so much ahead of his peers .

 

[Ashes81]

And if England lose Ashes at home , McCullum will no longer be in charge.

It depends on the scale of the loss.

If we get beat 4 or 5 nil then any coach's position would be under serious threat.

But if we get beat by the odd test and we're competitive in the series, then there's no chance of him being dismissed.

 

[Raz0r6ack]

FLASHBLACK: Virat Kohli 105 vs. touring Australian side in 2008.

Bowling attack of Brett Lee, Stuart Clark, Peter Siddle, Mitchell Johnson and Jason Krejza

Rohit Sharma was playing as well and also scored a 100.