*Official* World Test Championship Final at The Oval – June 7–11, 2023

[Neil Young]

Aw man - the one member of the Australian top order that I actually enjoy watching bat.

Maybe an unpopular opinion but I enjoy watching Smith bat out of all the Australians.

 

[Adorable Asshole]

Only if Bumrah was playing

 

[TheJediBrah]

Missing leg by a mile

"That's close" lol

 

[Ashes81]

Excellent start from India, maybe Shami could have bowled a touch fuller but Aus just need to survive this next hour without too much damage.

 

[Burgey]

Did I see that same fella who paints himself in the Indian flag at a lot of home tests in the crowd there? FMD there's some supporters who get about a lot. There's that Australian bloke who's been following our team around for decades as well. I dunno how they get the time to do it.

 

[Starfighter]

Leave the fricking camera still when they're bowling for Pete's sake. Makes it really hard to tell where the ball's heading.

 

[Kenneth Viljoen]

Maybe an unpopular opinion but I enjoy watching Smith bat out of all the Australians.

X2 ..There is just something reassuring about a batsman that knows how to score huge volumes of runs consistently

 

[Fuller Pilch]

India with Pant would have snarfed this match pretty easy, but it feels like this could go either way.

They've routinely dicked Australia at home and away for the past six years or so after all.

Pant is a far inferior keeper to Bharat though

 

[Burgey]

Man 7Plus is a good 90 seconds behind. Going to get really annoying trying to follow the thread.

Yeah same thing here for me. ****ing annoying tbh.

 

[Starfighter]

Pant is a far inferior keeper to Bharat though

Not the way Bharat kept in the Border-Gavaskar.

 

[Gnske]

Pant is a far inferior keeper to Bharat though

I watched the BG series champ, that's a load of baloney.

 

[Burgey]

Pant is a far inferior keeper to Bharat though

Did Bharat keep in the recent series between these two sides? I thought he was ok but not great tbh. Like didn't really think he was miles ahead of where Pant was the last time i saw him with the gloves.

 

[TheJediBrah]

Warner is so tentative these days. Couldn't be more different to Warner from 5-10 years ago

 

[GoodAreasShane]

Case in point

 

[Son Of Coco]

Good to see Khawaja hiding his weapons from England by getting out early.

Don't want to give away too much.

 

[Starfighter]

Aaand he's let one through.

 

[Prince EWS]

Not the way Bharat kept in the Border-Gavaskar.

Yeah Pant's keeping is crap but he was definitely getting better and despite having a reputation as a good keeper Bharat has been far from impressive so far in Tests.

 

[TheJediBrah]

Did Bharat keep in the recent series between these two sides? I thought he was ok but not great tbh. Like didn't really think he was miles ahead of where Pant was the last time i saw him with the gloves.

Seems to be doing an ok job but his technique is horrible to watch. Doesn't really look like a proper keeper

 

[GoodAreasShane]

Aaand he's let one through.

Was some good timing that

 

[Gnske]

Fuller Pitch calls that good keeping btw guys