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

[SkyBlue]

Bumrah 31
Shami 34
Siraj 30

These are your first team regulars, two of whom are injury prone and then you have mid-tier/backup bowlers like

Akash 28
Prasidh 28
Harshit 23

This is not a good look at all. Need to lay the foundation on a post Bumrah bowling lineup right about now. Can't rely on just one bowler to win you test matches.

Maybe get guys like Arshdeep and Mayank to play red ball cricket idk but a bowling attack without Bumrah looks super mediocre.

 

[Spark]

Prasidh looks tired here

 

[halba]

Game over. Man of series - Bumrah. Man of match Scott Boland.

 

[OverratedSanity]

Prasidh scamming his way to 5 wickets is an indictment on this pitch. He's largely bowled utter rubbish.

 

[morgieb]

it’s possible that smith was in all-world form between 2013 and 2017 while benefitting to some degree from certain pitches being the bouncy roads that aussie batsmen boss and overseas pacers can strugggle with - like it’s so obviously both

I'd agree with this if it wasn't for his away performances. Very few batsmen throughout history even have one series where he just out and out dominates against a good bowling unit on tricky decks, let alone two.

 

[Spark]

Prasidh scamming his way to 5 wickets is an indictment on this pitch. He's largely bowled utter rubbish.

If this doesn't get a "poor" rating then honestly just scrap the system

 

[halba]

Bumrah 31
Shami 34
Siraj 30

These are your first team regulars, two of whom are injury prone and then you have mid-tier/backup bowlers like

Akash 28
Prasidh 28
Harshit 23

This is not a good look at all. Need to lay the foundation on a post Bumrah bowling lineup right about now. Can't rely on just one bowler to win you test matches.

Maybe get guys like Arshdeep and Mayank to play red ball cricket idk but a bowling attack without Bumrah looks super mediocre.

Isn't Mukesh also there.

 

[Starfighter]

The umpires should be stopping the Indian hangers on throwing the ball back like that. It's unfair on Australia that their fielders are not having to chase the ball. A few penalty runs wouldn't go awry, like when the guy picked the ball up before it reached the boundary.

 

[morgieb]

Prasidh scamming his way to 5 wickets is an indictment on this pitch. He's largely bowled utter rubbish.

*6

 

[halba]

Oh dear that's big. Another wicket.

Beau Webster in. This could go down to the wire

 

[Spikey]

Oof. Didn't get up I think?

 

[cnerd123]

they've given up

 

[Son Of Coco]

Man...just when you start getting comfortable.

 

[Spark]

Gah

 

[Skipper Pup]

Game over. Man of series - Bumrah. Man of match Scott Boland.

Man of the Series - Head or Cummins*

 

[KungFu_Kallis]

Lol commentators curse again. Just when they wrote off India again. Keep doing it lads. Love your work

 

[Kraken]

This is only 40* but this is genuinely a top class innings so far. Maybe it was literally just Bumrah all along.

on the radio before Australia’s innings started, they mentioned Khawaja averaged 60 against the other bowlers and under 10 against Bumrah

 

[cnerd123]

they've given up

Uzzie giving false hope now

 

[Shady Slim]

obviously all the talk is about bumrah being missing at the moment but that india have been able to do this, to get this close, despite absence for the entire series of shami, is also a big deal

india’s #3 has had to do the job of the deputy all series long and it’s meant their #4 #5 and #6 seamers have had to enter the fray too

 

[Spark]

Should still be fine, one more partnership would do it - but really only needed a few more overs and the game is dead