**Official** 4th Test at Melbourne, 26-30 Dec 2024

[Spark]

I think it shows just how valuable Pant and Jadeja are as cricketers, it enables an odd on-paper balance that actually works well for India.

Washington certainly isn't a 8, that's for sure

 

[alexaston71]

When is the rain coming?

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

WTF is wrong with this crowd bawling for Kohli?

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

When is the rain coming?

June in England

 

[Spark]

This looks like a wicket where Jaiswal could've had another 150 and we'd be looking at an even test match here

****ing Kohli man. Ruined everything

India really had zero business being 5 down for 150 here

 

[SkyBlue]

Harsha cleverly steering the conversation on Rohit away by talking about Australia's own batting problems

Looks like he doesn't want to get sacked by the BCCI/Mumbai lobby again

 

[silentstriker]

reddy has more than justified playing ahead of gill in this test

rohit hasn't

Rohit is so obviously done even if he manages to eke out a score in the next three innings. He just looks terrible even aside from the average of 11.

 

[Spark]

I'm honestly not sure how Lyon is trying to get Reddy out here. Very wide line which is all well and good but no one up in the ring?

 

[Gnske]

Harsha cleverly steering the conversation on Rohit away by talking about Australia's own batting problems

Looks like he doesn't want to get sacked by the BCCI/Mumbai lobby again

Harsha in prison would go up to the biggest guy and hit him with a Pujara treatise

 

[silentstriker]

India really had zero business being 5 down for 150 here

Absolutely. India are carrying too many players in their batting, and they don’t help themselves with their selection.

 

[Gob]

Can you not bowl lyon with a 13 over old ball?

 

[Daemon]

Sundar, Reddy, Jadeja, Thakur, Ashwin and Axar have all played more important knocks than Kohli in the last few years. Kohli’s had two good innings against SA, a 70 against NZ and a couple of low impact wanker tons.

Bit of a stretch to discount the tons but **** him

 

[Shri]

rohit and kohli deserve to be flogged for different reasons for the state of this game

 

[KungFu_Kallis]

This Reddy knock is technically of much higher cricketing quality than Konstas. But even if he gets a 100 it wont even get half the hype.

 

[subshakerz]

Great partnership for India. Cutting into that lead but adding frustration for Australia. Pitch is totally flat though clearly.

 

[Spark]

Don't see how Starc can play at Sydney at this rate - that was an extremely tired looking ball

 

[vicleggie]

Sundar shot by Washington

 

[Gnske]

This Reddy knock is technically of much higher cricketing quality than Konstas. But even if he gets a 100 it wont even get half the hype.

I reckon it's conservative, facing a worse attack and pretty uninspired tbh.

Never forget Yasir Shah has a ton here. viriya once invented a calculator of weighted ground runs, found that the MCG had the least weight and value to runs scored next to SSC.

 

[Gnske]

Oh dear a bit of a back pinch there too

He's gone

 

[Spark]

This Reddy knock is technically of much higher cricketing quality than Konstas. But even if he gets a 100 it wont even get half the hype.

Marginally different match situation