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

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Australian tactics against the tail never makes sense

Good enough to wreck the top order so let’s completely change tack against guys who can’t bat and it never works

 

[Burgey]

crowd will also be a lot more indian.

You can’t blame people for preferring those places to their homeland tbf

 

[Gnske]

Shut your ****ing bitch face you dog ****

btw this is the standard of interaction Spark has now set for the thread, so I feel this is a good point for us all to evaluate each other's posting today honestly.

 

[cnerd123]

india still relying on rain here. don't see these two batting much longer tomorrow. then Aus will smash us around for half a session and bowl us out with the time that's remaining

 

[King Kane]

I didn't give India much hope of avoiding the follow on when Jadeja got out, a great effort from Bumrah and Deep, that all but guarantees a draw now.

 

[Gnske]

You can’t blame people for preferring those places to their homeland tbf

@honestbharani @cnerd123

HMMMM quite interesting, thoughts???

FYI Burgey, watson could blame them

 

[Burgey]

india still relying on rain here. don't see these two batting much longer tomorrow. then Aus will smash us around for half a session and bowl us out with the time that's remaining

Michael Clarke with 3 in the final over to finish it off imo

 

[Shri]

weather forecast makes it look like there won't be much of a game post lunch tomorrow

hope our bowlers pick 3-4 wickets before lunch and feel good about themselves heading into the next match

 

[Number 11]

One of our frontline bowlers goes down and still only 2 overs from MMarsh. Please bin him.

 

[Spark]

I'm more thinking mentally. Somehow being stuck 5/80 after following-on at the end of Day 5 feels different to making Australia bat twice. Like India can feel they got themselves out of jail rather than having the weather save them, which may have not been the case if they got bowled out for 200 and struggled in the second dig.

Though yes, I think Australia would've cooked themselves with just three bowlers, all of whom have played three Tests on the trot. And if there was a great game-saving partnership on Day 5 the effect would've been the same.

Think Mitch Marsh has to go now if he still isn't properly fit. Having him there just ensures more legs into the pure bowlers and increases the risk that one breaks down. Who the **** comes in now if one of Cummins, Starc or Boland break down?

I really think this is all just stuff you're just sort of slathering onto the team with no real evidence that it applies. If it buckets down all of tomorrow then this entire discussion will look extremely silly.

 

[Gnske]

Michael Clarke with 3 in the final over to finish it off imo

3 lines of cocaine, 3 shots of fireball and 3 alimony payments

 

[Burgey]

Good god, so much hate for a piece of your own country. You're awesome, Burgey

Equal opportunity hater over here mate

 

[PaulLennon]

You can’t blame people for preferring those places to their homeland tbf

don't worry. in 50 years australia cricket team will be full of guys like jasbir sangha and salman munir.

 

[Spark]

btw this is the standard of interaction Spark has now set for the thread, so I feel this is a good point for us all to evaluate each other's posting today honestly.

I aim to please

 

[cnerd123]

@honestbharani @cnerd123

HMMMM quite interesting, thoughts???

FYI Burgey, watson could blame them

he's not wrong. Sydney is lovely.

Shame all the Indians there will be watching their team get smoked by 500 runs.

 

[Burgey]

One of our frontline bowlers goes down and still only 2 overs from MMarsh. Please bin him.

Yeah I think this is the biggest take out of the match for Aus tbh. Even if he wasn’t making runs but was bowling reasonable overs there would be a case for keeping him. As things stand he surely can’t play the last two tests

 

[Gnske]

he's not wrong. Sydney is lovely.

Shame all the Indians there will be watching their team get smoked by 500 runs.

This is a ridiculous post. You actually think India will get smoked by 500 runs? I've said this before and I'll say it again, if you've actually watched Sydney tests in the last 20 years you would know this to be a logical faux pas. This is a ridiculous point.

 

[morgieb]

Ultimately for all my rageposting there's probably three bigger reasons why the match will end in a draw:

1. Rain
2. Marsh and Hazlewood being picked despite not being 100%
3. Smith drop

Could also argue the way Australia batted the morning of Day 3 has a case too.

 

[Spark]

Yeah I think this is the biggest take out of the match for Aus tbh. Even if he wasn’t making runs but was bowling reasonable overs there would be a case for keeping him. As things stand he surely can’t play the last two tests

I'm honestly amazed that cricket media in this country - the Whateleys et al - haven't piled onto him more when it became blatantly obvious that he wasn't fit

 

[cnerd123]

This is a ridiculous post. You actually think India will get smoked by 500 runs? I've said this before and I'll say it again, if you've actually watched Sydney tests in the last 20 years you would know this to be a logical faux pas. This is a ridiculous point.

can you fix the links in the quotes in your sig. i want to read those posts.