**Official** 4th Test at Melbourne, 26-30 Dec 2024

[Skyliner]

Kohli staging a palace coup. Rohit will be told that VK is taking over: he will be allowed to save face by being the ‘official captain’ but will have no actual power.

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

Australia 1-23

@ashley bach

 

[Line and Length]

A change of commentary and relief from Fleming's endless waffling.

 

[silentstriker]

Australia 1-23

@ashley bach

1-128*

 

[Skyliner]

The bowler should tell Kohli “you ****ing bowl it then if you think you know it all”.

 

[Qlder]

Kohli is going to be super fatigued by lunch. He's jumping around like he's just skulled 6 red bulls

 

[Skyliner]

Imagine if a goober goes to Kohli now and he shells it.

 

[KungFu_Kallis]

Tbh the commentary actually seems a lot more bearable when it's 2/3 ladies + Mr Cricket having a chat and not the endless waffling old blokes club.. Still wish they would go back to 2 commentators at a time though, so that there isn't a constant triangle of tripe.

 

[Window]

See if it’s still noisy at about 4pm if Aus is still batting and the lead is pushing 300 with Bumrah into his fourth spell.

I think that wouldn’t be too bad of an outcome for India tbh. That means Australia will likely bat all of today, leaving India 3 sessions tomorrow to draw the match. Bad situation for winning the match though.

 

[silentstriker]

I hate when commentators try to psychoanalyze players. Most of them have the emotional intelligence of a plant.

I want Ponting to talk about batting technique. I wanted Warne to talk about spin bowling or tactics. Benaud could talk about anything. if people really used their expertise as a baseline for their commentary, it would be so so much better.

 

[Daemon]

O’Keefe is actually a pretty decent commentator if you look past the jokey stuff

 

[halba]

Siraj looks ineffective and set to be dropped if he fails again.

 

[stephen]

A talented teenage batsman has holes in his game? I'm shocked I say, shocked. Well not that shocked.

 

[Qlder]

Declaration equation looks pretty simple. Australia bats until all out or making 295 for a 400 run lead.

To make 295 off 78 overs would be perfect, leaving 8 overs at India tonight plus a relatively still new ball tomorrow

 

[Spark]

O’Keefe is actually a pretty decent commentator if you look past the jokey stuff

He's one of the rare commentators you can actually trust to have taken his job as a professional seriously and watched lots of cricket not involving his country

 

[KungFu_Kallis]

O’Keefe is actually a pretty decent commentator if you look past the jokey stuff

So you mean ignore 85% of it

 

[Skyliner]

They’ll need to bring Bumrah back after a short rest. Otherwise the game is gone.

 

[stephen]

They’ll need to bring Bumrah back after a short rest. Otherwise the game is gone.

It's just a shame you can't bowl him from both ends until he breaks.

 

[Spark]

Slips are straight up decorative in this match. How many have dropped short, twenty?

 

[slowfinger]

i love Mark Nicholas who's on right now. The classiest of Brits.