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**Official** 1st Test @ Perth, 22nd-26th November

Nintendo

Nintendo

Cricketer Of The Year
Rahul's such a weird player. He's a subcontinent batsmen but I feel like he's at his best opening outside of Asia. Did well in ENG in 21/22, made that brilliant century second last time india toured SA, and has looked good here aswell. Think he got runs in the middle order in the more recent SA series aswell.
 
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Arachnödouche2.0

Cricket Spectator
Nintendo said:
Nah he's actually pretty spot on. Since the end of the second test in that ashes cummins has played 12 tests (including this one) and averaged 27, compared to 22 before that. He's not been horrible, but he's gone from rivalling McGrath to a kemar roach tier bowler (purely on average).
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His biggest asset was his control of length which made him such a sustained threat over long spells. That's not as good now. He gives hit-me balls once every two overs or so on avg. A slight drop in pace hasn't helped either; don't think he's hurried anybody even on this wicket.
 
PaulLennon

PaulLennon

U19 Cricketer
Nintendo said:
Rahul's such a weird player. He's a subcontinent batsmen but I feel like he's at his best opening outside of Asia. Did well in ENG in 21/22, made that brilliant century second last time india toured SA, and has looked good here aswell. Think he got runs in the middle order in the more recent SA series aswell.
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Yeah he hit a 100 in the recent SA series as well.

Think if he has a 35 averaging series with 3 50's this series, it would be very good.

If both Kohli and Rohit have that output it would hold India in good stead in this series.

Cause this series will be won on the back of 250ish totals.
 
GotSpin

GotSpin

Hall of Fame Member
Look for a supposedly important series the Australian prep has just been terrible and its showing. Wtf was our test captain warming up with T20s or Smith cbf playing more than one shield
 
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Arachnödouche2.0

Cricket Spectator
PaulLennon said:
Yeah he hit a 100 in the recent SA series as well.

Think if he has a 35 averaging series with 3 50's this series, it would be very good.

If both Kohli and Rohit have that output it would hold India in good stead in this series.
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He'd be very disappointed averaging 35 the way he's looked so far. Could/has to be India's MVP.
 
morgieb

morgieb

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I know a lot of Indians were worried this was going to be their 2011/12 all over again.

Instead this looks like 2010/11 for Australia (although in that series it was both bowling and batting that went belly up - this is mostly a batting failure).
 
PaulLennon

PaulLennon

U19 Cricketer
morgieb said:
I know a lot of Indians were worried this was going to be their 2011/12 all over again.

Instead this looks like 2010/11 for Australia (although in that series it was both bowling and batting that went belly up - this is mostly a batting failure).
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Thing is this Indian team is more like 2014/15 (young team post-transition) compared to 2011/12 (old team pre-transition).
 
PaulLennon

PaulLennon

U19 Cricketer
Next tour in Australia might be like 2018-19 though.

This Indian batting should be stronger with Jaiswal/Gill/Pant at their peaks. Bumrah will be at the last days of his.

Australia will have a youngish team.
 
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