**Official** 5th Test at Sydney, 3-7 Jan 2025

[King Kane]

Pant should get a taxi back to Sydney airport after that shot,

Now Reddy gone next ball.

 

[OverratedSanity]

Hope he gets bowled out asap so we can get bumrah out there tbh

 

[GoodAreasShane]

Well this is good

 

[Starfighter]

Relief to get rid of India's most dangerous batsman first ball.

 

[sayon basak]

A decent innings.

 

[Burgey]

That is why not looking to score on a deck like this is counterproductive. It’s not the same as the flat tracks of four years ago

 

[smellcricketintheair]

lol. All that media coverage screwed up his discipline and concentration.

 

[SkyBlue]

Real chance to bowl out under 150 here

 

[PlayerComparisons]

Hope Aus pick Cummins, Hazlewood, and Boland on these spicy pitches against Eng

 

[silentstriker]

And another collapse.


Oh look, what a surprise, a man averaging 23 in FC cricket with the bat not scoring again with the bat. Blokes averaging 50 in FC cricket who aren't getting a shot be like.....

 

[Darwin Award]

... Australia FINALLY send Nitish cheaply on his way in the 1st innings.

He was much as a nuisance for them as Axar Patel was in India when he kept churning out runs against them.

 

[Spark]

Hope he gets bowled out asap so we can get bumrah out there tbh

Yeah ngl I'm more than a little concerned about what Bumrah will do on this thing...

 

[Spark]

And another collapse.


Oh look, what a surprise, a man averaging 23 in FC cricket with the bat not scoring again with the bat. Blokes averaging 50 in FC cricket who aren't getting a shot be like.....

Hahaha this is just shameless

 

[Spark]

****ing hell

 

[silentstriker]

Hahaha this is just shameless

Not his fault, and of course he has done better than basically all top order bats so you can't drop him either. But also probably not going to be a surprise if he regresses towards his mean.

 

[Starfighter]

That is why not looking to score on a deck like this is counterproductive. It’s not the same as the flat tracks of four years ago

I think with the techniques batsmen have these days anyway to be good at shorter forms, a more aggressive style of play does have something to it, even if not going full BazBall.

 

[Gnske]

Pant = 80% idiot with a lucky streak

 

[GotSpin]

Yeah ngl I'm more than a little concerned about what Bumrah will do on this thing...

Bumrah is gonna be a handful but honestly, the Indian batsmen have looked scared all innings. You can't let all those half trackers and half volleys go unpunished

 

[Daemon]

Starc shouldn’t start over Boland anymore should he? Muh variety only makes sense up to a certain point.

 

[Nintendo]

And another collapse.


Oh look, what a surprise, a man averaging 23 in FC cricket with the bat not scoring again with the bat. Blokes averaging 50 in FC cricket who aren't getting a shot be like.....

Dude made a match turning 100 last Test and is India's second leading run scorer. Chill out lol