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

silentstriker

The Wheel is Forever
I can't imagine Pujara is so far gone that he wouldn't be better than this lot right now. He did score a 234 in October of 2024 in FC cricket....
 

Burgey

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Jadeja not allowed new gloves mid over, and rightly so. BCCI threatens to go home
 

Starfighter

Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
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
Not like Khawaja and Marnus at least won't do the same thing.
 

Darwin Award

U19 Vice-Captain
In all that excitement Nitish became Boland's 50 test wicket.... in 13 tests.

Not too shabby for a not-immediate selection for a bowler.
 

SkyBlue

U19 Vice-Captain
Shambolic batting performance this

2 runs an over and all that fight just to throw it away in the end

What a shame that probably the best overseas performance by an Indian bowler is going to end in a 3-1 series defeat
 

morgieb

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Starc shouldn’t start over Boland anymore should he? Muh variety only makes sense up to a certain point.
One thing that does play into Starc's hands was what happened in the last Ashes. Boland doesn't feel comfortable when he's being attacked, whereas that plays into Starc's strengths.

West Indies though is a different story.
 

SkyBlue

U19 Vice-Captain
And no way Australia are going to play this slowly

Prasidh and Siraj will go for a lot of runs

Time for a hard reset in test cricket.
 

TT Boy

Hall of Fame Member
Starc shouldn’t start over Boland anymore should he? Muh variety only makes sense up to a certain point.
You would fancy Starc in Sri Lanka. Historically, he's been very good there. At 35, will Boland play another test away from home?
 

Darwin Award

U19 Vice-Captain
Shambolic batting performance this

2 runs an over and all that fight just to throw it away in the end

What a shame that probably the best overseas performance by an Indian bowler is going to end in a 3-1 series defeat


Indian team should be thankful of that result if it transpires.

With a sure Australian victory snatched from them in Brisbane because of the weather & 1 good 2nd innings in the 1st test by India + 1 bad 2 innings performance by Australia with the bat they've been outplayed throughout.

Only dogged determination by lower order batsmen + the big Kahuna in Bumrah propping them up they've been begging to hit the canvas throughout the series.
 

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