**Official** 3rd Test @Brisbane (Ewwwww), 14th-18th December

[Spikey]

Hell yeah MMarsh is back

 

[King Kane]

Five wickets for Bumrah, too little too late though, the horse has bolted.

 

[Spark]

Also this is why Khawaja and McSweeney once again deserve a little more credit than their scores suggest for seeing out most of the new ball period. It was a huge difference today that play essentially started with a 15 over old ball rather than brand new

 

[Johan]

Wish Bumrah could get a tenfer, sadly Australia won't have to bat twice.

 

[morgieb]

In the same situation we'd be bowling short balls.

While I think Hazlewood is a better bowler than Boland, I do feel that whenever Boland does play our lengths seem to a lot better and less over-reliance on the short ball. Add the way Cummins bowled in Adelaide and I can see there being a really stupid lower-order partnership to make the game a real 50/50.

 

[subshakerz]

Bumrah really is a magician. Changing the match in a spell.

 

[Spark]

While I think Hazlewood is a better bowler than Boland, I do feel that whenever Boland does play our lengths seem to a lot better and less over-reliance on the short ball. Add the way Cummins bowled in Adelaide and I can see there being a really stupid lower-order partnership to make the game a real 50/50.

I have no problems with the way Cummins bowled in Adelaide. He shouldn't overdo the bouncers obviously but he's a far better bowler when he hammers that back of a length and pushes the batsmen back, scrambling their footwork when he then does push it further up. He simply isn't a full outswing bowler and he shouldn't try to be.

 

[Starfighter]

Honestly, so much talk about the top order and Marnus and selection etc but a plainly unfit, underdone Mitch Marsh - who isn't exactly worth making special exceptions for with his record - playing all three games so far is more ridiculous than all of that combined

He was our most reliable batsmen for a little period, but has looked like a tailender this series. And while he jagged a couple of wickets at Perth test, his bowling was atrocious last test. It's pretty ridiculous the instance of him playing when he's not fully fit.

 

[Starfighter]

This is why (though I have no problem with Haze's selection), Boland really should have played more games in these sorts of conditions; he is one bowler does get the ball to skid through consistently from a good/back of a length

While I think Hazlewood is a better bowler than Boland, I do feel that whenever Boland does play our lengths seem to a lot better and less over-reliance on the short ball. Add the way Cummins bowled in Adelaide and I can see there being a really stupid lower-order partnership to make the game a real 50/50.

It's why I've been wanting a guy who can target the stumps and isn't as hot-and-cold as Starc.

I have no problems with the way Cummins bowled in Adelaide. He shouldn't overdo the bouncers obviously but he's a far better bowler when he hammers that back of a length and pushes the batsmen back, scrambling their footwork when he then does push it further up. He simply isn't a full outswing bowler and he shouldn't try to be.

He was at the start of his career and even given all the changes to his action due to his back injuries I'm still surprised he's lost the ability to do it, though you do seem him bowl the odd one. I feel like he needs to bowl his inswinger more often at the tail, something he can do.

 

[social]

My prediction of 2-2 with MMarsh being dropped is still on

 

[social]

This game needs more quick runs and wickets

 

[Starfighter]

Cummins scores a four and for once it isn't down to third man.

 

[Spark]

Pat Cummins scoring runs early, and not behind point? Truly, Christmas is upon us

 

[slowfinger]

surely the game plan has to be to get Bumrah out of the attack and feast on the rest of the shiite?

 

[Qlder]

Maybe India just got a dud ball. 3/297 off 80 overs with old ball, then 3-30 off first 7 overs of new ball

 

[Spark]

Maybe India just got a dud ball. 3/297 off 80 overs with old ball, then 3-30 off first 7 overs of new ball

I did actually hear that India thought they got a dud ball yesterday, I think Brettig reported it

 

[Calm_profit]

It's why I've been wanting a guy who can target the stumps and isn't as hot-and-cold as Starc.


He was at the start of his career and even given all the changes to his action due to his back injuries I'm still surprised he's lost the ability to do it, though you do seem him bowl the odd one. I feel like he needs to bowl his inswinger more often at the tail, something he can do.

I think he did couple of times in 2022

 

[GoodAreasShane]

I don't want an eclair

 

[morgieb]

Not sure why Bumrah's bowling short here.

 

[social]

Don’t know why Pat doesn’t bowl it more often as it goes like a boomerang

Might hurt his back or something