Indian Team Discussion Thread

[Shady Slim]

Quietly optimistic about this. I think we'll smash them.

daemon with all due respect unless hazlewood, cummins, starc, neser, sabba, pattinson, and green have a covid party and miss the match this batting lineup;

Test
Rohit/Shaw once rohit fails in the first two tests
Agarwal
Pujara
Kohli (C)/ Gill once kohli leaves
Rahane / (C) once kohli leaves
Viharu
Pant +
Jadeja
Ishant/Saini pending Ishant's fitness
Shami
Bumrah.

will struggle to surpass 300 even on the highway that is the MCG

 

[Burgey]

Quietly optimistic about this. I think we'll smash them.

 

[trundler]

daemon with all due respect unless hazlewood, cummins, starc, neser, sabba, pattinson, and green have a covid party and miss the match this batting lineup;


will struggle to surpass 300 even on the highway that is the MCG

This is an exaggeration. Last time Australia were severely disappointing. They didn't get as much movement, weren't as belligerent and weren't as organised as the Indian attack. Yeah, one side had to bowl to Langer's little brother but letting the #7 feast is always an indictment on the bowling attack. Only Cummins came out of that series with his reputation not soaked in piss. India's batting kicking on sans Kohli looks unlikely though and I'd love to see 2 great attacks pwning h4x like Warner and Rohit.

 

[Shady Slim]

This is an exaggeration. Last time Australia were severely disappointing. They didn't get as much movement, weren't as belligerent and weren't as organised as the Indian attack. Yeah, one side had to bowl to Langer's little brother but letting the #7 feast is always an indictment on the bowling attack. Only Cummins came out of that series with his reputation not soaked in piss. India's batting kicking on sans Kohli looks unlikely though and I'd love to see 2 great attacks pwning h4x like Warner and Rohit.

i feel that only backs my point though because while you're entirely right that's totally not going to happen again

see pujara could make 299 every innings and i still wouldn't back that india batting lineup in to score 300

 

[Daemon]

That was obviously tongue in cheek, I think we'll do ok but still lose. Don't think we'll embarrass ourselves like the rest of the world (bar SA) tend to when they visit.

 

[Flem274*]

yea soz based on what i saw last summer with aus v nz then india v nz you're gonna get dicked

that doesn't make you a bad team, you've just got easily exploitable weaknesses in the southern hemisphere and australia are h4x at home.

 

[trundler]

NZ mentally disintegrate in a unique fashion when they tour Australia though

 

[honestbharani]

And apart from 2011 tour, India usually up their game in Australia too.

 

[Daemon]

yea soz based on what i saw last summer with aus v nz then india v nz you're gonna get dicked

that doesn't make you a bad team, you've just got easily exploitable weaknesses in the southern hemisphere and australia are h4x at home.

Nah definitely don't think we'll do as badly as NZ/Pak/WI/SL/Eng typically do. I read somewhere the other day that Pakistan hasn't even drawn a single test match in Australia since like 1999.

 

[Flem274*]

im not so sure. pujara/kohli gonna be in at 2/10 a lot. rohit and agarwal are not guys you want opening in aus.

when kohli leaves...oof

i hope rahane scores some runs. he's fun.

 

[harsh.ag]

im not so sure. pujara/kohli gonna be in at 2/10 a lot. rohit and agarwal are not guys you want opening in aus.

Scored 195 runs @65 last time in Oz

 

[honestbharani]

agarwal are not guys you want opening in aus.

Yeah who wants a guy averaging 65 as an opener in Australia opening the batting in Australia...

 

[Flem274*]

fair play, good on him i completely forgot that.

he's still going to get hit in the head a lot.

 

[Daemon]

Quietly optimistic about this. I think we'll smash them.

Ishant will miss the first two tests. https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/...ant-sharma-rohit-sharma-ruled-first-two-tests

Optimism has gone down a bit, we will win 3-0 imo.

 

[honestbharani]

Ishant is a huge loss.. much bigger than Rohit.

 

[Arachnodouche]

Series outcome most likely would have been decided before they're fit to play. Might as well not take them and give some other guys a full series.

 

[ishqiya]

daemon with all due respect unless hazlewood, cummins, starc, neser, sabba, pattinson, and green have a covid party and miss the match this batting lineup;


will struggle to surpass 300 even on the highway that is the MCG

averages in australia

kohli - 55
pujara - 55
pant - 58
rahane - 44
agarwal - 65
jadeja - 30

bowling averages of australian bowlers vs india in australia

lyon - 33.94
hazlewood - 30
starc - 32.12
cummins - 27.78

there is nothing that indicates that these set of batsmen will struggle against these same set of bowlers when it hasn't happened in the last 4-8 matches.

 

[ishqiya]

im not so sure. pujara/kohli gonna be in at 2/10 a lot. rohit and agarwal are not guys you want opening in aus.

when kohli leaves...oof

i hope rahane scores some runs. he's fun.

you are confusing australia with england/nz. india always scores runs in australia. it's in swinging conditions that india's batting struggles.

 

[Burgey]

Haze will average <25 with the ball this series. Get on it.

 

[h_hurricane]

Yep, 3 wickets at 24.67