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

[Skyliner]

Konstas ‘gets under the Indians skin’ which is winning him a lot of fans, but his other main job still must be run scoring.

 

[morgieb]

Oh ****. That might be the game.

 

[TimAngas]

**** sake.

 

[SkyBlue]

That wicket was inevitable

Australia swapped a makeshift opener for a pinch hitter. It kinda paid off in the last test but this experiment doesn't look like a good long term option just yet

 

[Spark]

Mm yeah this is bad

 

[smellcricketintheair]

Bravo Miya....

 

[SkyBlue]

Siraj's looked in amazing rhythm this morning

 

[Spikey]

I am backing Travis Head to score another series defining century. Arguably the greatest all format batter of all time since the advent of T20 cricket in 2007.

 

[cricman]

Surely this is parody and no one thinks this about 23 as a test opener

When your 4/40, with 150 deficit. 23 runs are useful

 

[ataraxia]

Betting odds please

 

[Spark]

We really needed to bowl India out for like 100 yesterday - we had the opportunities to do so as well

 

[morgieb]

What seems weird is that unlike yesterday I'm not sure the wicket is doing a hell lot. Maybe the fact that it's doing slightly less is making it trickier to bat but some of the shots seem completely unnecessary.

 

[TimAngas]

Time for the most in-form player in world cricket.

 

[silentstriker]

Aussies are still the favorites but india are closing the gap quickly here.

 

[Spark]

What seems weird is that unlike yesterday I'm not sure the wicket is doing a hell lot. Maybe the fact that it's doing slightly less is making it trickier to bat but some of the shots seem completely unnecessary.

It's quicker than it was yesterday morning and it's still doing more than enough

 

[vicleggie]

Wow wow wow!

 

[Kraken]

In SLUG we trust

 

[Prince EWS]

That wicket was inevitable

Australia swapped a makeshift opener for a pinch hitter. It kinda paid off in the last test but this experiment doesn't look like a good long term option just yet

Correction: they swapped a makeshift opener for a kid who'd only had one good game in his First Class career but was nevertheless a fairly traditional specialist opener, and then told him to be a pinch hitter anyway for some reason.

 

[SkyBlue]

Need a strong spell from Prasidh later on. Guy's known to leak runs as well

 

[thierry henry]

Konstas and **** gone NICKED OFF in the same over, the sport lives to fight another day