honestbharani
Whatever it takes!!!
Interesting to see who first responded to this as well
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**Official** 5th Test at Sydney, 3-7 Jan 2025
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honestbharani
Whatever it takes!!!
Picking out a part of a post where it was literally just a post script is even more interesting.
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subshakerz
Hall of Fame Member
I think between Smith, Labu and Head they need 100 runs from them.
GotSpin
Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
India are on the bad end each time...Seriously, the victimhood is patheticPicking out a part of a post where it was literally just say post script is even more interesting.
honestbharani
Whatever it takes!!!
sucks to suck, GS.
subshakerz
Hall of Fame Member
I'm not sure what the big deal is.
End of the day, they only lost Khawaja who always seemed vulnerable against Bumrah.
Day could have ended far worse for Australia.
GotSpin
Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Yeah…well, played
sucks to suck, GS.
SillyCowCorner1
Moooo
Any chance this make it out of day 3?
Singh Is King
School Boy/Girl Cricketer
It's very obvious and it's been mentioned a few times .... in the last 2 India tours previous to this Australia produced normal Aussie wickets (flat, great for the batsman), and India won 2 test series in a row on traditional batting wickets.
So Australia can't risk a flat batting pitch in a Test they can't afford to lose, so they produced the greenest wicket EVER seen in Australia. Coincidence? Not even a stubborn Aussie thinks it's not a coincidence that the greenest wicket ever seen in an Aussie test match is during the final game of the series when india need to win.
Yet when an Asian team do things like that Aussies turn into a bunch of border line racists. Double standards, it will never be forgotten. Yes an Asian doctored wicket means shite spinners do well, it doesn't quite work like that for seam bowlers on a green wicket - that doesn't mean Aussies are doing exactly what india have done with their pitches.
Son Of Coco
Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Please.
We've produced bowler-friendly wickets for the whole series.
Bumrah is the leading wicket taker in the series by a country mile.
If we were doctoring pitches, this one would be flat as a tack to ensure we come away with a 2-1 series win. Instead, it is a deck we could easily lose the game on.
Because producing a flat wicket to protect a lead would be a dog act, as many of us know.
subshakerz
Hall of Fame Member
India totally did that at home in 2023. They prepared a draw test just as Australia seemed to be threatening them in the last test.
I am glad Australia didn't go that direction this time. Would have been a disappointing end to a good series.
Spark
Global Moderator
There have definitely been wickets greener than this in the last three years alone, even if we restrict ourselves to international level (there have been some ridiculous wickets at Shield level). SA in particular would laugh at the idea that this was the greenest wicket ever seen after what they had to deal with at Brisbane a few years back.
Singh Is King
School Boy/Girl Cricketer
So the Greenest wicket ever seen in an Aussie Test (your own pundits said this as well), is a coincidence?? Why? Aussies play the game with honour?
SillyCowCorner1
Moooo
Where is the ViV mentality in this?
play who you wanna play (and on any type of wicket), we are still gonna kick your asses
play who you wanna play (and on any type of wicket), we are still gonna kick your asses
subshakerz
Hall of Fame Member
How does a green wicket ensure an Aussie victory? It evens the odds.
honestbharani
Whatever it takes!!!
I think @Singh Is King has a larger point that is absolutely true but honestly, making a green seamer where it evens the playing field when all Australia need is a draw is just not something I think they would have ordered, if they had the choice. Now, they may well think this will flatten out over the next few days, but SCG does not have drop in wickets like the other grounds, does it?
Spark
Global Moderator
It doesn't, but they've had pretty consistent problems with pitch preparation there in the last few years.
This pitch is slightly actually reminiscent of the pitch in this Shield game: https://www.espncricinfo.com/series...vs-tasmania-17th-match-1391786/full-scorecard - this was an absolute minefield, completely impossible to bat on normally by about halfway through Day 2 (which is why I'm somewhat concerned with respect to this game). Tim Paine gave the SCG curator a proper spray on radio after this game and rightly so.
It's been pitches like that or some of the slowest, most turgid puddings you can imagine, with little in between. I really don't think they know what they're doing up there right now.
silentstriker
The Wheel is Forever
I mean the wickets prepared for NZ series didn’t help india either. They neutralized their best bowler and removed the quality difference between the spinners too.