**Official** 3rd Test @Brisbane (Ewwwww), 14th-18th December

[Qlder]

Is Siraj with a batting average of 4.95 the worst #9 in Test history?

 

[capt_Luffy]

Is Siraj with a batting average of 4.95 the worst #9 in Test history?

For once, he should really bat at #11 for all intents and purposes. Both Bumrah and Akash Deep are easily better batsmen and definitely more reliable (already Siraj proved his reliability).

 

[Gnske]

Smart batting and strike rotation

 

[Betterpolo]

What's with the bloke shouting?

 

[capt_Luffy]

Siraj is a ****ing huge liability with the bat

 

[Burgey]

Having a good game thus far, Alex Carey

 

[cnerd123]

Can't believe we dropped Jadeja for the first two Tests

 

[Stapel]

Is Siraj with a batting average of 4.95 the worst #9 in Test history?

Possibly, but as others have said: he shouldn't bat there.

 

[Burgey]

Can't believe we dropped Jadeja for the first two Tests

Yeah I'd have thought he was a better bet here than the other two fellas.

 

[PlayerComparisons]

Can't believe we dropped Jadeja for the first two Tests

Can’t be dropping ATGs

 

[halba]

The increasing fragility of Haze makes Marsh's spot even more dicey. The pressure on the remaining 3 bowlers is increased because you can't trust Marsh to take up the extra overs needed. You can only really carry a dubiously fit Marsh if the main 4 are all solid fitness wise.

He's not a like for like replacement for Green. At his peak Green was the closest there was all round wise to Kallis, since Kallis retired. Green was consistently moving the ball at 130kph plus. Batters get no break to score.

Marsh doesn't have the confidence of the captain to be bowled even. He's injury prone

 

[Nintendo]

Can't believe we dropped Jadeja for the first two Tests

He should have been their on batting alone. Right now he's your most bankable middle order bat bar maybe pant. Forget his bowling.

 

[Burgey]

Is Deep really a worse bat than Siraj, let alone Bumrah?

 

[Burgey]

Fmd this is a good spell.

 

[Burgey]

Bison!!!!!!!

 

[halba]

Yeah I'd have thought he was a better bet here than the other two fellas.

He's a test no.6. Enough said.

 

[Gnske]

Swing your bat around like a moron now idiot

 

[Nintendo]

Is Deep really a worse bat than Siraj, let alone Bumrah?

Could have a niggle? He's definitely a better bat than bumrah and siraj normally. He's also a guy who tends to swing the bat, would be weird to hold him back till #11 with jadeja out there.

 

[OverratedSanity]

Good knock. I'm shocked that a better batsman than most of the specialist batsmen we selected has made runs. Gambhir's brain should be studied by scientists to understand the decision to leave him out.

 

[Spark]

So much time left still. Going to be a pretty embarrassing loss considering how much time has been lost to rain. Not that most of the players in the XI are capable of feeling embarrassment tbf.

I mean who knows how much time left there actually is. There could be 120 overs left or 20 overs remaining given how unpredictable the weather has been.