**Official** 2nd Test @Adelaide, 6th-10th December

[ma1978]

Historically India has done well against the tier 1 bowler and failed against the understudies. We are finished

 

[centurymaker]

Historically India has done well against the tier 1 bowler and failed against the understudies. We are finished

So true!

 

[ataraxia]

So true!

Nah this anomaly of a phenomenon is due to stop next test. It can't keep happening!

 

[NotMcKenzie]

I like how the India supporters here are really grasping at straws... in their attempts to be negative.

 

[silentstriker]

Current odds. They sound about right.



Australia clear favorites but not overwhelmingly so by any means. India with a very good chance.

 

[GoodAreasShane]

Bowlers not in the squad who are better than Abbott and Doggett:

Tremain, Bartlett, Sketetee, McAndrew, Johnson, O'Neill, Sutherland, Paris, Richardson, Morris. Might be forgetting some more too.

Admittedly some of those are injured, but still....

As far as I can tell, of that list only Steketee, O'Neill and Paris aren't either injured or still being heavily workload managed (and with the way Steketee has bowled this season, he's frankly lucky Queensland haven't given him a spell). So Abbott's selection, while not the way I would have gone myself, isn't as unreasonable as people are saying imo. Paris is definitely seriously stiff though.

Doggett being there is harder to understand though

 

[Jarquis]

Are there many bowlers with a better record than Paris to have not played a Test for Australia?

 

[the big bambino]

Current odds. They sound about right.

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Australia clear favorites but not overwhelmingly so by any means. India with a very good chance.

I think this is reflective of the collective delusion of punters and not the reality that one team just smacked the other by about 400 runs (and a declaration).

 

[silentstriker]

I think this is reflective of the collective delusion of punters and not the reality that one team just smacked the other by about 400 runs (and a declaration).

You could make a lot of money if you wanted if that were true.


It makes sense to me. Australia have been dominant in pink ball Tests. Shami is still not available. Australia still have a fantastic all around attack. And they are exceptionally difficult to beat at home, especially twice in a row. Last time they lost two in a row was in 2011 Ashes?

On the other hand, it's closer than it would have been prior to last week because the Indian batting lineup showed some semblance of form when they had been out of it, and Bumrah is making a case to be on the short list of the greatest fast bowlers of all time. So I think it's fair.

Australia favorites but India certainly in with a big chance.

 

[vicleggie]

Bumrah could take 7/9 with the pink ball at night and skittle the Aussies for 34, tbf.

 

[centurymaker]

It makes sense to me. Australia have been dominant in pink ball Tests. Shami is still not available. Australia still have a fantastic all around attack. And they are exceptionally difficult to beat at home, especially twice in a row. Last time they lost two in a row was in 2011 Ashes?

2016 vs SA.
Lost the first two tests and then won the last one in Adelaide, which happened to be a pink ball test lol

 

[RossTaylorsBox]

Are there many bowlers with a better record than Paris to have not played a Test for Australia?

Jasprit Bumrah