4th Test at the Gabba, Brisbane, 15 - 19 Jan 2021

[weldone]

I just woke up. What happened in terms of further injuries? Both Saini and Shardul out for rest of the match?

 

[stephen]

Personally I think Lyon is going to take a ten wicket haul this test. The pitch looks very well suited to his bowling.

 

[stephen]

Siraj can hold his head high. He didn't disgrace himself and generally bowled good lines at good pace. Certainly the pick of the bowlers for me.

Hard to give any praise to the batting. Barely at standard given the circumstances. Can you imagine Hayden/ Ponting against this attack? They'd be at risk of smashing all records. But through a mixture of soft dismissals and incompetence Australia is somehow 5 down and haven't even crossed 300. Testament to a lack of discipline and ruthlessness. Wade and Labuschagne really the worst offenders. Labuschagne seems to lose concentration when his partner goes. It was right after Smith got out that he was dropped and then as soon as Wade went, he did too.

 

[Starfighter]

Personally I think Lyon is going to take a ten wicket haul this test. The pitch looks very well suited to his bowling.

I think how Lyon goes depends more on if he can overcome his line and action.

 

[honestbharani]

Overall, with the exception of Shardul,

What about that one over when he morphed into Malcolm Marshall but somehow dropped a catch off his own bowling?

 

[vicleggie]

I just woke up. What happened in terms of further injuries? Both Saini and Shardul out for rest of the match?

This is a joke right?

 

[honestbharani]

Saini is injured and taken for scans. Shardul I think rammed his foot or something, possibly a scratch in his feet that is bleeding. But I dont think his participation is in question or anything.

 

[Burgey]

I think how Lyon goes depends more on if he can overcome his line and action.

I don’t think it will matter a lot how he goes, unless it rains a lot

 

[Arachnodouche]

Could've been better after we had them at 213/5 but these are not really Test standard bowlers, at least not endurance-wise. Respectable enough at the end, hope they get some rest and bowl Aus out under 350 tomorrow.

 

[Senile Sentry]

Yeah I think they were flustered by the 5th hour of the match, understandable as well.

Called up to bowl 20 overs a day with almost nil conditioning or overs under the belt and yet delivering this is nothing short of very good.

Also whoever is in charge of batting coaching and fitness in the team need to be fired ASAP. One or two I can understand, but this is a sick joke and some accountability has to be there.

 

[harsh.ag]

Yeah I think they were flustered by the 5th hour of the match, understandable as well.

Called up to bowl 20 overs a day with almost nil conditioning or overs under the belt and yet delivering this is nothing short of very good.

Also whoever is in charge of batting coaching and fitness in the team need to be fired ASAP. One or two I can understand, but this is a sick joke and some accountability has to be there.

Do you answer - "Are you senile?" - with a yes or a no?

 

[Daemon]

I suspect Nattu, Shardul and Sundar are going to wake up stiff af () tomorrow morning.

Could be in for a frustrating day with the ball.

 

[Daemon]

Yeah that's how it works on this tour. Indian bowlers who ascend to being Test standard go off injured. Siraj must have done a deal with the devil.

Did you just imply Thakur ascended to being Test standard

 

[TheJediBrah]

Wade and Labuschagne really the worst offenders.

If I were to face those exact same deliveries tomorrow and didn't put them into the stand/over the clubrooms I'd be bitterly disappointed, and I'm not exaggerating one bit

 

[Senile Sentry]

Do you answer - "Are you senile?" - with a yes or a no?

Harsh.

 

[irfan]

	India	India A	India B
1​	R Sharma	M Agarwal	P Shaw
2​	S Gill	S Dhawan ©	M Vijay ©
3​	C Pujara	KL Rahul	D Karthik
4​	V Kohli ©	M Pandey	S Iyer
5​	A Rahane	H Vihari	K Jadhav
6​	R Pant (k)	H Pandya	P Patel (k)
7​	R Jadeja	W Saha (k)	W Sundar
8​	R Ashwin	B Kumar	S Nadeem
9​	I Sharma	U Yadav	S Thakur
10​	M Shami	K Yadav	N Saini
11​	J Bumrah	M Siraj	T Natarajan

 

[irfan]

Did a little exercise to see how bench our bowling line-up really is. Players are ones that have recently played Tests for India with a couple of contracted LO players to fill in the gaps (i.e. Iyer, Pandey etc)

We are basically playing with our best batting lineup (bar Kohli) with an India B bowling attach (bar Siraj).

 

[Daemon]

It’s not even our B attack because Sundar wasn’t anywhere near the Test side.

 

[silentstriker]

Sundar wouldn’t make the B attack.

And agreed - some tough questions need to be asked about India’s strength and conditioning program. This is insanity.

 

[Arachnodouche]

A lot of it is also down to how much work the individual players have put in over the last year. You have to take some responsibility for your fitness under lockdown; safe to say a few of them looked appreciably underdone by the time the IPL rolled around.