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

[Spark]

Yeah I know today's drops probably cost us this game but I am gonna back to the start of day 2. Had we bowled better with better tactics this would still be a 200 chase at best.

That and the half hour of madness at the end of Day 2. The way Jaiswal and Kohli looked, they probably threw away a first innings lead there

 

[Silver Silva]

Yeah I know today's drops probably cost us this game but I am gonna back to the start of day 2. Had we bowled better with better tactics this would still be a 200 chase at best.

Kohli run out cost India 100 runs imo

 

[Qlder]

They have more than enough already so any runs here is arguably just wasting time.

Nice try, 277 not enough yet and heaps of time left

 

[halba]

Nice try, 277 not enough yet and heaps of time left

Need 300 at least for a par score. Not a lot of movement detected past few overs which suggests the batters don't have much technique

 

[Spark]

Nice try, 277 not enough yet and heaps of time left

All depends on whether the movement we saw earlier in the day persists/gets more significant or was just a passing mirage

 

[honestbharani]

That and the half hour of madness at the end of Day 2. The way Jaiswal and Kohli looked, they probably threw away a first innings lead there

Yeah.. but I just feel bad bowling tactics is something you should be able to recover from, far better than batting lollapses out of nowhere. Simply because you are far more in control of setting the field differently, changing the bowling etc. even if you have had a bad 30 mins or so.

 

[OverratedSanity]

Nice try, 277 not enough yet and heaps of time left

I'm not saying Australia should declare. I'm saying india won't chase this. There's a difference.

 

[Spark]

Need 300 at least for a par score. Not a lot of movement detected past few overs which suggests the batters don't have much technique

Or the ball is 60 overs old?

 

[Spark]

Disappointing way to go

 

[morgieb]

Need 300 at least for a par score. Not a lot of movement detected past few overs which suggests the batters don't have much technique

It's a 60 over ball, of course it was going to die at some point. Still doing more than it did.

Damn. Fair knock though.

 

[stephen]

Top innings Cummins. Still not enough runs to secure the draw/ win. Cracker of a test.

 

[halba]

Jadeja would be straight into any modern day post 90s/2000s Test XI surely as the all rounder? He's very high quality in all facets

 

[Qlder]

Well done Cummins. He now has more runs this series than Khawaja and Pant

 

[KungFu_Kallis]

This game keeps giving. We won't have to do the whole declaration debate once again (probably)

 

[GotSpin]

Shame to get out that way honestly

 

[cnerd123]

thank **** Rohit does something

Get Boland quick please

 

[SkyBlue]

280-290 is still a really difficult score to chase no matter what

Fat Rohit's career is on the line and I have a bad feeling he'll fail miserably again which will trigger the collapse

Realistically we cannot survive the whole day with our lower middle order

 

[honestbharani]

And look, you gotta be good enough to make 275 in the last innings on a track that has some help for bowlers but nothing untoward and will most likely flatten out even more with the sun here. I think Aus are definitely 75-25 favorites but as a batting side, you gotta back yourself to score 280 on this track batting 4th. Else, you shouldn't be playing at this level.

 

[Qlder]

All depends on whether the movement we saw earlier in the day persists/gets more significant or was just a passing mirage

Or just a lucky well picked ball?

 

[KungFu_Kallis]

Bumrah basically has to bowl at one end till he dies now