***Official*** Australia in India 2017

[stephen]

Cummins
Pattinson
Sayers

 

[harsh.ag]

https://twitter.com/BenHorne8/status/840133275112812544

Indian doctors are always the best.

What the ****! This is way past the line.

No Cookies | Daily Telegraph

 

[Hennybogan]

Spirit of the game right? No problem for the Aussies, they'll have a crack

 

[Burgey]

****s. All of you

I love you guys

 

[Gob]

****s. All of you

I love you guys

Weldone

 

[Daemon]

****s. All of you

I love you guys

https://thumbs.dreamstime.com/x/retired-man-drinking-****tail-beach-18495103.jpg

Just spotted Burgey at the beach on the way to the shops

 

[Spark]

I don't really mind Kohli being able to pick the pitch, so long as he has to tell the Australians which pitch he's picked the moment he picks one. You can't be having one side privy to vital information that the other side doesn't have.

 

[Black_Warrior]

I'm actually much more interested in talking about whether it should be legal or not. If it turns out Australia did this then there should be some sort of fine or something because it's against the rules.. but should it be against the rules?

I actually really dislike the fact that players have to pseudo-umpires out on the ground, and that the ability to batsmen to adjudicate their own decisions on balls they've been beaten by and the ability of captains to effectively umpire from slip or mid off or wherever else could actually decide the outcome of the game, and I only put up with it because I think it's the worth the trade-off in greatly reducing the impact bad decisions can have on the game in general. The only reason it's in the players' hands to review at the moment is that if we left it to others it'd just take way too much time in an already slow game.. but if the players/staff back in the pavilion can get some sort of signal out there in the time frame we've already got, I think that should be fine. To me it'd only improve the process and we'd get more decisions right without wasting any more time. That's what we want, no?

Obviously this shouldn't really have any bearing on whether or not Smith or CA or whoever ends up punished if evidence of this does actually turn up.. but I think it's a more interesting discussion than that.

Excellent discussion for sure but this should have taken place independently of the incident in the second test though. Looks kinda dubious when someone gets caught and response is "well the rules were never really great anyway"

This should be part of the larger discussion on DRS which has happened countless times on CW and in the larger cricketing community.

 

[Daemon]

I don't really mind Kohli being able to pick the pitch, so long as he has to tell the Australians which pitch he's picked the moment he picks one. You can't be having one side privy to vital information that the other side doesn't have.

I personally hope the groundsman scratches "lol jk" on the pitch that's picked by Kohli and uses another one on the day of the game.

 

[harsh.ag]

I don't really mind Kohli being able to pick the pitch, so long as he has to tell the Australians which pitch he's picked the moment he picks one. You can't be having one side privy to vital information that the other side doesn't have.

Nah it's ****ed up.

 

[Black_Warrior]

I was not trying to equate. My only point was that influence from the dressing room is nothing new. It got castigated then as not right and subsequently made illegal. Difference here is it was already illegal. Era is irrelevant though and amount of influence is not relevant either. If it influences the game in anyway it can change the outcome, big or small.

Disagree.

Dressing rooms send inputs all the time - whether through substitute fielders, the drinks guy or some excuse or the other. That's an acceptable part of the game because of the degree of influence.

 

[Black_Warrior]

A far far more honest and sane response to this matter than the national flag bearing jingoism that has been on offer from both sides

We were horrified when Steven Smith looked up for DRS - David Saker | Cricket | ESPN Cricinfo

 

[social]

Looking over the shield candidates, and you overlook Pattinson and Cummins then it has to be Behrendorf.

They are all injury prone and for the future

 

[Gob]

I don't really mind Kohli being able to pick the pitch, so long as he has to tell the Australians which pitch he's picked the moment he picks one. You can't be having one side privy to vital information that the other side doesn't have.

He'll lie

 

[indiaholic]

Viva la raza! He lies, he cheats, he steals

 

[cnerd123]

What's wrong with letting the home side pick what pitch they want?

It's home advantage for a reason

 

[indiaholic]

Allow Kohli to pick the pitch and Smith gets to decide whether he wants to bat or field first. Keep their decisions secret from one another while they are making it. They can then hire scaly piscine to do some game theory.

 

[honestbharani]

https://twitter.com/BenHorne8/status/840133275112812544

Indian doctors are always the best.

Lol.. he said "the team" will choose. He could very well mean his groundstaff and head if the BCCI Pitches committee. I am guessing Gnske and the twitter idiiot who posted it are just as good as the Indian doctors, if not better.

 

[social]

What's wrong with letting the home side pick what pitch they want?

It's home advantage for a reason

I have no problem with it and the Australians knew what was coming their way which is why they had a camp in Dubai

However, when India tour Australia, they get the flattest of roads because channel 9 demands that games last more than a couple of days

Unfortunately, the touring team still whinges & bitches about bounce

 

[indiaholic]

Lol.. he said "the team" will choose. He could very well mean his groundstaff and head if the BCCI Pitches committee. I am guessing Gnske and the twitter idiiot who posted it are just as good as the Indian doctors, if not better.

You actually believe that?