Haha Karn Sharma, now there's a name I'd forgotten until I watched highlights of that game. India's bowling that tour was all kinds of tragic, especially given that several of the names we now recognise as part of that post-2018 ATG-tier attack were there. Batting stood up massively though.
Oh yeah that's true. Straight off the thigh pad.
Watching it live, I think it was pretty safe to say it would have been an easy draw with Vijay and Virat batting the way they did. Vijay just got brain dead once he got to his 90s for some reason. Much like Jaddu in this series when he ran out Sarfraz.
Yeah, but like, the bloke got out playing across a straight one, not trying to slog. He could easily have gotten out stonewalling too. It's not like he was batting with any particular aggression, he was by far the more circumspect of the two. We'll never know tbh.
Fair enough but like I said, I am just sharing what I and most others thought watching it live. Pretty sure I was making the point you did in the match thread though. It was honestly refreshing to see a captain go for a target after MSD's defensive captaincy years.
Oh yeah it was the right call for sure, and I think it was actually better for them from a sheer survival view to have attacked Lyon so much and really gone for the target because by really attacking him out of that rough outside off it forced Lyon into his "bad" mode where he bowls too short and straight, whereas every batsman on that pitch was in deep trouble if he landed it there consistently and they tried to defend. But the timing of that clump of wickets was just awful, there was absolutely no hope that the tail would survive the new ball there.
His greatest legacy was honestly Stuart Broad's batting. Poor bloke certainly gave the rest of us a lot of laughs with some of his "efforts" at the crease in the years following that incident.
Lyon won Australia the game in Perth 2018.
Man win one game at home, subz praises him to high heaven.
careful you’ll now be added to the list of people who denigrate players to hype Ashwin
Look what I was responding to.
I mean, I don't know how else to put this, but Australia lost those series. And they were lost in no small part because of an inability to take twenty poles. That's on Lyon's shoulders in no small measure, just as it is on the rest of the bowlers, but Lyon especially because of the 4th innings games.
To clarify, I am not arguing that Lyon didnt outright fail in 2021. In 2018, he did win Australia a game in Perth and took 8 wickets I recall in the first test, it wasn't nearly as bad as a performance overall. I don't think any spinner can be expected to deliver every test in Australia.
says the guy who does just that when talking about Ashwin's bowling in Aus.Those are his home conditions, he should be expected to deliver - wtf…
True, on the other hand, Ashwin has had 2-3 attempts to finish off tests in 4th innings in Australia. He was successful once in Adelaide test 2018.
I don’t think any bowler should be expected to deliver in every test. Its just never gonna happen. Same with batsmen, even Bradman.
Yeah this is where @subshakerz lets the mask slip a bit. Guy waited around for months and when England won the first test, immediately started posting how Tom Hartley had won England a test in India so Ashwin/Jadeja's home achievements weren't really that great. Then went silent when India came back.