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

[Burgey]

Why even pick spinners if you're never going to use them

Finger spinners being a mere afterthought is how cricket should be

 

[Coronis]

Yeah I watched those games. Flat wicket era. Roads.

Still twice as good as the rest

 

[Shri]

lol we suck

 

[Coronis]

Head winning this would be just the cherry on top?

Daily reminder that Head > Wade

 

[halba]

lol we suck

Batting or bowling. Bowling is explained - Bumrah not playing. Batting only 1-2 good batters entire test isn't good enough. Guys like Gill etc are not test standard. He's the no.3 batsman.

 

[ajdude]

what on earth, Brayshaw just said that when he interviewed Gulden and Papley during the lunch break that he’d said if Head’s batting in an hour then Australia win. it was absolutely Papley that said that hahah

 

[Spark]

what on earth, Brayshaw just said that when he interviewed Gulden and Papley during the lunch break that he’d said if Head’s batting in an hour then Australia win. it was absolutely Papley that said that hahah

Did he ask them wtf happened three months ago

 

[SkyBlue]

Is this the end of Mitchell Marsh's test career? Most probably

 

[halba]

Siraj is a shadow of the bowler of the previous tour. Looks like he has effectively peaked as a bowler.

 

[ajdude]

Did he ask them wtf happened three months ago

it was his second question

 

[Qlder]

So we have an SCG test with only 9 overs of spin bowled between 2 spinners having 862 wkts between them (+ Sundar who didn't even bowl)

 

[halba]

Is this the end of Mitchell Marsh's test career? Most probably

Finished. Beau Webster is in the top 5 batters in the country. Forget about his bowling which only needs to be economical

 

[Anthony Clayden]

Webster and Green in the middle order?? Two all rounders, Know India would do it..

 

[KungFu_Kallis]

It took till the final stint but they finally got the best 3 commentators together imo. Or the 3 least awful. Although Mr Cricket is fine too

 

[Prince EWS]

I don't even blame Prasidh for this at this point. Why is he still bowling, this is sabotage

When even you want to show Prasidh leaniency it really says something.

Prasidh makes me low key mad. How can you be this **** on a pitch this helpful, even on debut? Shades of Vinay Kumar

I said this in the last game but I would honestly take Natarajan and Saini over Prasidh based on what I've seen of them. Yes, I know Prasidh has done well elsewhere but in the brief time I've seen him he's looked absolutely garbage.

Alright I just noticed that Prasidh is still in this India A team. Why? Why? What on earth do they see in him? The bloke isn't even in form, he hasn't taken more than two wickets an innings this year in FC cricket.

 

[Skipper Pup]

Is this the end of Mitchell Marsh's test career? Most probably

I was thinking this before. Never again should he be picked now that we have Webster.

 

[Daemon]

He’s back!

 

[nightprowler10]

Are they just punishing Prasidh now?

 

[Spark]

When even you want to show Prasidh leaniency it really shows something.

Haha he's still basically that bowler but he's been thrown under the bus by Kohli here. He looked cooked about half an hour ago, but yet here he is still bowling

 

[halba]

So we have an SCG test with only 9 overs of spin bowled between 2 spinners having 862 wkts between them (+ Sundar who didn't even bowl)

Its no longer a spin wicket it's now a seamers paradise.