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

[Son Of Coco]

Yeah. That would be nice. Cheers!

I would have preferred him to write 10000 words on how we are better, including at least a paragraph on each player who has featured so far for Australia and the ways in which they are physically and morally superior, but I will take the abridged version over nothing.

 

[Son Of Coco]

I just went back and looked at the scorecard for India's 2nd innings as I am a bit tired this morning and needed a laugh.

I hadn't noticed before that only 2 players had scored more than 9. Rohit was the 3rd highest scorer...yet they want to drop him. If he scores 9 in each innings in the last test, there's a better than average chance he will be in the top 10 scorers in each innings for India, yet they want to jettison him like he isn't contributing to the team. If Rohit had scored a duck India would have only got 146, and the 3rd highest score would have been Deep with 7. The opening partnership would have only been 16.

It's madness.

Actually, I take all of this back as the actual 3rd highest score was a bloke called E.Xtras with 12. Rohit is rubbish and should retire, open a Dunkin Donuts, and disappear for 5 years. The next time we see him, they will be winching him out of his house through the roof while he yells incoherently about the deficiencies of DRS, spraying donut crumbs everywhere in the process.

 

[Arachnödouche2.0]

Rohit's a donut vortex, not a donut vendor

 

[Burgey]

 

[Daemon]

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I knew it. Cheating *****.

 

[Burgey]

I wish I’d known about this when I edged one to third in a final about 20 years back, would have stood there insisting the Magnus Effect had done me in rather than lack of ability.

 

[TheJediBrah]

I told you all. Sunny G isn't an elderly confused racist, he's a man of science

 

[honestbharani]

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He just means Jaiswal's eyes are that powerful that it can make the ball deviate. If you have seen enough south Indian movies, you know its true.

 

[wellAlbidarned]

someone pls explain why we don't yet have a tiny accelerometer inside the ball which can detect changes in angular and linear momentum when the ball hits the bat?

Or just use an ultra HD super slow-mo camera like they do to measure spin rates in baseball. Should be pretty obvious when a nick occurs as the spin rate will change.

 

[TheJediBrah]

Or just use an ultra HD super slow-mo camera like they do to measure spin rates in baseball. Should be pretty obvious when a nick occurs as the spin rate will change.

I dare say the huge change in trajectory as the ball was hit by the bat and gloves was obvious enough

 

[the big bambino]

Why don't we just force a confession out of the batsman like they used to do to political prisoners in the old Soviet?

 

[silentstriker]

Wait does the pitch already look different?

 

[Prince EWS]

Wait does the pitch already look different?

It looks like a chucker to me.

 

[wellAlbidarned]

I dare say the huge change in trajectory as the ball was hit by the bat and gloves was obvious enough

duhr I mean for subtler nicks

 

[Son Of Coco]

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Jaiswal's wagon wheel is proof of this effect taking place: