**Official** 2nd Test @Adelaide, 6th-10th December

[Arachnödouche2.0]

Lol Smutty

 

[Kirkut]

How??

 

[ankitj]

Bring on Ashwin. He got Smith with a beauty last time at Adelaide.

Or Bumrah will do

 

[morgieb]

Ouch.

I don't care how good he was, if we actually had batting depth he'd be first out of the team at this point. Has he even done anything apart from that Brisbane Test (where Australia still lost) in the last 18 months?

 

[Nintendo]

Ouch.

I don't care how good he was, if we actually had batting depth he'd be first out of the team at this point. Has he even done anything apart from that Brisbane Test (where Australia still lost) in the last 18 months?

Last serious contribution was in England. 2 match winning hundreds and twin 50's to nearly get australia over the line in the 5th test. Khawaja in a similar boat.

 

[Kirkut]

Or Bumrah will do

Even Vinay Kumar could have got a wicket like that. Smith is mentally shot right now.

 

[Gnske]

Finally some intent against this chucking fraud

 

[Arachnödouche2.0]

Pant looks so heavy-footed keeping. Literally moving like a not particularly fit 50 yr old

 

[Son Of Coco]

****ing hell Steve. **** shot to a **** ball.

 

[King Kane]

It's Bumrah vs Australia

 

[honestbharani]

Head looking bloody ominous out there.

 

[Calm_profit]

Smith is done.

 

[Gnske]

Watching JFM on the other stream just to see what its like to have a batsman with intent in this country against world class bowling (Gabe Bell and Larry Neil-Smith)

 

[Shady Slim]

workshopping a new take to make everyone really mad:
you can say travis head is a hack, you can say travis head is good. you can say bazball’s hackish, you can say it’s good. but you can’t say one is good and the other not. put another way, head was an early adopter of the t20 aggressive batting at the test level to steamroll and demoralise bowling attacks approach which baz had copied and brought as a team wide ethos to the english squad. should call it headball bc he was doing it first.

 

[Shady Slim]

bumrah out for rana is not the play

 

[morgieb]

Last serious contribution was in England. 2 match winning hundreds and twin 50's to nearly get australia over the line in the 5th test. Khawaja in a similar boat.

It's tough to determine who'd be in the most trouble out of the two. On the one hand, Khawaja arguably looks worse and his rep is nowhere near as strong. But up until the Ashes Khawaja was killing it, and it's also harder to find replacement openers than middle-order bats.

Ultimately, I can't see either of them being dropped. But if Australia go 2-0 down, there'll definitely be questions asked especially if Marnus has a good knock here.

 

[Kirkut]

Pant looks so heavy-footed keeping. Literally moving like a not particularly fit 50 yr old

I won't be too judgemental with him, he's playing international cricket after that PTSD inducing car crash, that itself is an achievement.

 

[Gnske]

Langer doing a presentation on Marnus and doesn't have the intelligence to shadow bat right handed

What a gnome

 

[King Kane]

Smith is done.

Yeah he probably is but I reckon he will still get a farewell tour next summer for the Ashes series unless he decides to pull the pin before that.

There aren't many test quality batsmen in the Sheffield Shield banging down the door to replace him.

 

[Gnske]

There aren't many test quality batsmen in the Sheffield Shield banging down the door to replace him.

You're implying there are any whomstve exist

JFM is the key to everything. Bethell is like a poor mans JFM and he almost destroyed test cricket by hitting a ton today

Need to unleash him