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1st Test, Aus vs India, Adelaide oval 17th-21st December

NotMcKenzie

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It's just common sense, format that's likely to have lowest dot ball percentage will have the slowest over rate not taking into account external factors.
Maybe or maybe not, but simply repeating what you said before is not addressing what I said. Furthermore, we don't actually know the amount different things contribute. T20 also seems to be much more conducive to standing around discussing whether or not Ben Laughlin should continue bowling full-tosses on leg stump (to give an example of the sort of benefit these long captain-bowler conversations tend to have—little). The amount of time fussing around with such things, checking the field one last time, etc., seems to me to be a lot longer than the amount of time it takes to fetch the ball and throw it back in.
 

morgieb

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Where's the mythical h00ping under lights? This all-star Australian attack continues to disappoint against India. Grim.
Old ball isn't helping. New ball could be one to behold.

In fairness it's always a gamble as to whether the ball hoops or not. I remember a couple of days in the Adelaide 2017 test there was no swing but on Night 3 it was hooping.
 

cnerd123

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Seems like Starc's pulling his length back more frequently. Get these two on the backfoot, then dismiss them with the sucker ball full and straight
 

stephen

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Where's the mythical h00ping under lights? This all-star Australian attack continues to disappoint against India. Grim.
With the exception of South Africa, India have been by far the most competitive team against Australia since 1994. Even our dominant sides found India challenging.
 

trundler

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With the exception of South Africa, India have been by far the most competitive team against Australia since 1994. Even our dominant sides found India challenging.
Being competitive in NZ is where it's at clearly
 

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