**Official** 1st Test @ Perth, 22nd-26th November

[Window]

lol why is Kohli alongside Cummins in that head-to-head graphic? For shame, Aussie broadcasters

All the commentators still go on about King Kohli. Still stuck in 2020. They think it’s easy pandering.

 

[King Kane]

Embarrassing for the rest of the Aussie batsmen that Starc and Hazlewood have now put together the biggest partnership of the innings.

 

[silentstriker]

Why does India have someone bowling at Irfan Pathan speeds.

 

[quincywagstaff]

Well done to this pair for fighting it out as long as this. Probably as well due to ball getting a bit older and a bit of less juice in the pitch today.

 

[Arachnödouche2.0]

Sundar probably the better option, give the tailenders something different. Reddy's innocuous.

 

[silentstriker]

Bumrah, get Reddy out of the attack or I’ll bring the wheel back. Yeah that’s a threat and a promise.

 

[trundler]

Have these mooks heard of the yorker

 

[Window]

Bumrah, get Reddy out of the attack or I’ll bring the wheel back. Yeah that’s a threat and a promise.

This is Bumrah’s way of punishing the team for dropping catches off his bowling.

 

[Spark]

Obviously part of this is that they're turning down singles but it still doesn't necessarily look easy to score. Very few aggressive shots connecting successfully, all just nudges and nurdles

 

[RossTaylorsBox]

More like Purpley

 

[honestbharani]

Yeah I feel with the brittleness of the Indian batting lineup, Pujara or a Pujara-esque batsman would be extremely helpful.

Funnily enough, the guy best placed to do that job is the guy we dropped for Sundar.. Jaddu. No one right now in our side is as good as Pujara in terms of technique but Jaddu has the temperament and usually figures out a way to stay put in most pitches against hostile fast bowling. He kinda sucks at that job in spinning tracks funnily enough but on these tracks, I would probably bet Jaddu will last an hour and let the batsmen at the other end get some runs around him.

Though, tbf, Sundar is very much in that mould as a batsman too.

 

[quincywagstaff]

All the commentators still go on about King Kohli. Still stuck in 2020. They think it’s easy pandering.

And now Brayshaw drooling about the 'King' and his 2018 century... just conviently ignoring how he's played this decade.

 

[silentstriker]

if you’re a fast bowlers and comms can’t tell if that was a slower ball or your normal pace ball, you should probably not be a fast bowler anymore.

 

[honestbharani]

if you’re a fast bowlers and comms can’t tell if that was a slower ball or your normal pace ball, you should probably not be a fast bowler anymore.

Chill out dude.. Medium pace is still a valid type of bowling and he is an allrounder FFS.

 

[silentstriker]

Medium pace triggers my PTSD from childhood and I will never accept it as a valid type of bowling.

 

[Spark]

I think India have got their lengths quite wrong today. Had they bowled these lengths yesterday they would be in big trouble in this game.

 

[Arachnödouche2.0]

if you’re a fast bowlers and comms can’t tell if that was a slower ball or your normal pace ball, you should probably not be a fast bowler anymore.

Stfu already. He's a part-timer.

 

[honestbharani]

Medium pace triggers my PTSD from childhood and I will never accept it as a valid type of bowling.

You can think the earth is flat too. You would be just as right.

 

[ashley bach]

9-99 @SillyCowCorner1

 

[Nintendo]

You can think the earth is flat too. You would be just as right.

The earth is flat though. Go to your nearest beach and look out at the horizion. It's flat, not curved.