**Official** 5th Test at Sydney, 3-7 Jan 2025

[SkyBlue]

Someone said this looks like a South African pitch and I agree

Just looking at the color of the pitch on television,
this looks more like a Centurion pitch with some odd uneven bounce too

 

[govinda indian fan]

If khawaja retires who would open along with konstas in ashes. Macsweeny or tim ward

 

[vicleggie]

Thats the end of Usman Khawajas test career. what a flop he has become. he was never truly great anyway. always suspect player.

Usman Flopaja.

44 avg is flop? That's hyperbolic BS. He wasn't Warner or Smith, but he was decent

 

[Gob]

Australia's day but geez tomorrow morning could get ugly.

Not the pitch you want when you are 2 -1 up

 

[halba]

44 avg is flop? That's hyperbolic BS. He wasn't Warner or Smith, but he was decent

now he is a flop. like Virat. The big scores were made 1-2 years ago or more for Uzzie, and for Kohli were made in the 2012-2020 period.

Uzzies average in the past 12 months is barely over 20. At 37, hes completely done.

 

[Gob]

44 avg is flop? That's hyperbolic BS. He wasn't Warner or Smith, but he was decent

Try not reading posts from that blithering idiot

 

[TheJediBrah]

Thats the end of Usman Khawajas test career. what a flop he has become. he was never truly great anyway. always suspect player.

Usman Flopaja.

Unfortunately a lot of truth to this by , against halba's form. Will be remembered for having ~2 good years and a decade of being mediocre

 

[Gnske]

Kohli's only got like a couple of double hundreds though, he never made really important scores.

 

[Son Of Coco]

Australia's day but geez tomorrow morning could get ugly.

Not the pitch you want when you are 2 -1 up

Unfortunately, we don't doctor pitches when we are 2-1 up.

 

[halba]

Unfortunately a lot of truth to this by , against halba's form. Will be remembered for having ~2 good years and a decade of being mediocre

Yep thats correct. recently my analysis has been okay, e.g. consistent Criticism of Mitch marsh for instance. he was later dropped. I think khawaja is a mediocre player, especially against pace and the moving ball.

 

[vicleggie]

now he is a flop. like Virat. The big scores were made 1-2 years ago or more for Uzzie, and for Kohli were made in the 2012-2020 period.

Uzzies average in the past 12 months is barely over 20. At 37, hes completely done.

oh you mean now? Sure, yeah like Kohli, now he's a flop. I have zero faith that even if he got picked again, he'd be good enough next year to make the Ashes. He's done

 

[vicleggie]

Unfortunately, we don't doctor pitches when we are 2-1 up.

I'm happy with Ind winning and retaining the BG trophy so that you can whinge about being the more moral side for the next few years, tbh

 

[Daemon]

Somehow this game feels dead even which it shouldn't when the side batting first has been shot out for 180

Back off this is our thing

 

[Gnske]

oh you mean now? Sure, yeah like Kohli, now he's a flop. I have zero faith that even if he got picked again, he'd be good enough next year to make the Ashes. He's done

BAD from you.

Usman will feast on Woakes, Shoaib and Atkinson. Admittedly Carse will be their x factor strike bowler and will likely take 35 wickets, but plenty of runs in between.

 

[OverratedSanity]

Somehow this game feels dead even which it shouldn't when the side batting first has been shot out for 180

Yeah this is so shameless. The mod team can't complain about Gambhiring again.

 

[halba]

oh you mean now? Sure, yeah like Kohli, now he's a flop. I have zero faith that even if he got picked again, he'd be good enough next year to make the Ashes. He's done

Thats correct .Unlike other sports, there is a heavy emphasis on current form of the last 12 months. In other sports e.g. Soccer, u can still rock up to the world cup even if recent form is average, and have a good world cup for instance. In tennis, you can have bad years (e.g. Novak in 2017) and then suddenly come good for the next several years.

With cricket, once u are sliding in form at the Age of 37, im afraid thats it!

 

[Nintendo]

Can we just ban halba for general forum vibes? It's been done with others before AFAIK. I've had him ignored for ages but people keep replying to him and it's annoying. He adds nothing to any discussion he throws himself into (rich coming from me, I know).

 

[govinda indian fan]

If khawaja retires who would open along with konstas in ashes. Macsweeny or tim ward

Kohli's only got like a couple of double hundreds though, he never made really important scores.

Na he made 7 double hundreds more then sachin punter dravid smith root and kane

 

[The_CricketUmpire]

Thats the end of Usman Khawajas test career. what a flop he has become. he was never truly great anyway. always suspect player.

Usman Flopaja.

This is how Khawaja compares to past Australian batsman in the Openers Position in terms of final 40, 20 and 10 innings of career.

 

[govinda indian fan]

Kohli has made double hundred vs every test playing nation except pak( whom he never played unfortunately ) and aus( missed by 14 runs after being ran out of patners)