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

[stephen]

Heard it's meant to get to 30 by Monday, though yes the next couple of days will be pretty mild.

30 is not really hot without humidity though.

 

[Starfighter]

Heard it's meant to get to 30 by Monday, though yes the next couple of days will be pretty mild.

What happens on Monday will probably be pretty irrelevant though.

 

[Spark]

Pointing talking about Australian domestic rubbish.

I don't even know where he'd have batted against a lot of spin, virtually all the pitches he's played on have been so tilted in the favour of quicks that spinners are just bit players. Is he talking about grade?

 

[sayon basak]

He got out the same way to an ordinary left arm spinner in his 1st BBL

It's indeed hard for a 19 y/o to play indifting offies. I can tell.

 

[Son Of Coco]

Ok selectors...you were right this time with Konstas.

I missed the whole innings cause I went to hit golf balls, but it seems the #intent option paid off.

 

[cover drive man]

Historic visit from that lad though isn't it?

Also Kholi is a right bellend but then he sees himself as the heir to Tendulkar so I suppose he's following suit.

 

[Gnske]

Time for Marnus and Khawaja to take the excitement and dilute it into a weak simmer

 

[vicleggie]

Can see Jaddu cleaning up today a bit. 4-5 wickets I'm predicting

 

[stephen]

I don't even know where he'd have batted against a lot of spin, virtually all the pitches he's played on have been so tilted in the favour of quicks that spinners are just bit players. Is he talking about grade?

I imagine Ponting saw him advance to a part timer in the BBL and just assumed he was good.

 

[silentstriker]

I think Kohli should be banned for two matches and Rohit should be banned for one match for allowing that.


Five years later it comes out BCCI pressured officials for the ban so they wouldn't have to drop them.

 

[Daemon]

Strange field to Khawaja. Silly point should be at leg gully or short leg. No need for long on.

 

[Son Of Coco]

And Kohli...once again proving the Indian cricket team are the worst kind of guest.

 

[honestbharani]

Also think the pitch is far better for batting than what was thought initially. They obviously cut a LOT of the grass off and it looks a very good track right now.

 

[Starfighter]

I don't even know where he'd have batted against a lot of spin, virtually all the pitches he's played on have been so tilted in the favour of quicks that spinners are just bit players. Is he talking about grade?

Yeah, it's quite likely that he's faced very little quality spin at this point in his career. I hope he works on it because currently he's Ollie Pope bad.

 

[Spark]

Yeah, it's quite likely that he's faced very little quality spin at this point in his career. I hope he works on it because currently he's Ollie Pope bad.

Tbf if Usman Khawaja can turn himself from basically that into the best batsman in a series full of rank turners...

 

[Spark]

Also think the pitch is far better for batting than what was thought initially. They obviously cut a LOT of the grass off and it looks a very good track right now.

Still seems to be movement out there for the quicks but yeah this is much less spicy than a lot of MCG pitches of late.

 

[quincywagstaff]

In all that's gone on, easy to overlook that Akash has done well to be so miserly in his spell.

 

[KungFu_Kallis]

"Konstas goes bananas against the MVP"

 

[Gnske]

And Kohli...once again proving the Indian cricket team are the worst kind of guest.

That's exactly it, isn't it? Every tour they spit on our generosity.

Ever since Harbhajan was a racist and Tendulkar sanctioned it, lied about it and the BCCI protected them both India has kept the feeling in this series quite poor.

Never apologized for that either.

 

[stephen]

Marnus and Usman both looking like different players after Konstas' fireworks.