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***Official*** Australia in India 2017

viriya

viriya

International Captain
Just watched the highlights.. India cry wolf with their appeals so much that umpires ignore actual outs.. funny/sad part is they also fool themselves into not reviewing (maxwell reprieve).
 
harsh.ag

harsh.ag

Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
viriya said:
Just watched the highlights.. India cry wolf with their appeals so much that umpires ignore actual outs.. funny/sad part is they also fool themselves into not reviewing (maxwell reprieve).
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I think you will find this to be a fairly recent phenomena.

Fairly recent here refers to < 24 hours.
 
Spark

Spark

Global Moderator
I was following the score mostly sporadically through radio/cricinfo while I was at uni, and at one point I swear to god I did a double-take and noticed Smith was on, like, 55. Just completely snuck up on me.
 
theegyptian

theegyptian

International Vice-Captain
Kohli's getting a load of abuse here but I doubt India win that last test without him (even with him scoring a total of 27 runs). He doubled down on the aggression in the field when India were behind in the game and low on confidence and he as captain turned it around imo. It takes some serious balls and confidence to do that when your struggling and under pressure. Easy when your dominating or know your the best team, but impressive when your struggling for confidence. The guy's a winner. They suffered today when he wasn't around in the field. Tactically he's still pretty **** as a captain though and needs to tone it down with his own players on occasion or they will get fed up with him. Australia would love Kohli if he was Australian.

And I'd also have Smith more in the wrong than Kohli last test. Smith was the guy who was trying to cheat the DRS process. It's no surprise that Kohli and India were suspicious and pissed off as a result although I'm sure there was an element of the Mourinho/Trump type blustre about it (although Kohli was probably just pissed that he hadn't thought of the idea first).

Smith and Australia rightly getting plenty of praise for their cricket so no need for me to do similar.
 
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Daemon

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theegyptian said:
Kohli's getting a load of abuse here but I doubt India win that last test without him (even with him scoring a total of 27 runs). He doubled down on the aggression in the field when India were behind in the game and low on confidence and he as captain turned it around imo. It takes some serious balls and confidence to do that when your struggling and under pressure. Easy when your dominating or know your the best team, but impressive when your struggling for confidence. The guy's a winner. They suffered today when he wasn't around in the field. Tactically he's still pretty **** as a captain though and needs to tone it down with his own players on occasion or they will get fed up with him. Australia would love Kohli if he was Australian.

And I'd also have Smith more in the wrong than Kohli last test. Smith was the guy who was trying to cheat the DRS process. It's no surprise that Kohli and India were suspicious and pissed off as a result although I'm sure there was an element of the Mourinho/Trump type blustre about it (although Kohli was probably just pissed that he hadn't thought of the idea first).

Smith and Australia rightly getting plenty of praise for their cricket so no need for me to do similar.
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How did he as a captain turn it around? We didn't double down on aggression or whatever, he stupidly refused to bowl Jadeja and nearly cost us the game. Was horrible in the slips as well.
 
Spark

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Daemon said:
How did he as a captain turn it around? We didn't double down on aggression or whatever, he stupidly refused to bowl Jadeja and nearly cost us the game. Was horrible in the slips as well.
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Yeah, Pujara and Rahane is what brought India back into the game, Kohli had ****-all to do with that.
 
harsh.ag

harsh.ag

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OverratedSanity said:
Well, according to this bloke, Kohli won't take the field again and probably won't be able to bat.

https://twitter.com/vikrantgupta73/status/842380986457366529

He was batting like **** but this is a massive blow. Rahane is meek as **** and no way can he lead us to a win this series if Kohli is done. Means we're batting with 10 batsmen now as well.

Not. Good.
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Damn. Would need something incredible for India to win this now.

This game was so ripe for a Smith vs Kohli one-on-one showdown. Such a shame.
 
theegyptian

theegyptian

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Daemon said:
How did he as a captain turn it around? We didn't double down on aggression or whatever, he stupidly refused to bowl Jadeja and nearly cost us the game. Was horrible in the slips as well.
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Super aggressive with sledging and positive body mannerisms. Other indian teams would of meekly gone into their shells being behind in the game and series against an alpha dominant team like Australia. Kohli and by extension his team did the opposite.
 
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theegyptian said:
Super aggressive with sledging and positive body mannerisms. Other indian teams would of meekly gone into their shells being behind in the game and series against an alpha dominant team like Australia. Kohli and by extension his team did the opposite.
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The two meekest guys in the lineup, Pujara and Rahane, led the fightback when it looked like the game (and the series, really) was done when we were 4 down with nothing on the board.

I do agree that having him on the field is better than having Rahane/Ashwin as captain, but didn't really contribute anything to that comeback.
 
Compton

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Kohli not being able to bat would be a big blow for India.

Saha, Ashwin, Jadeja doesn't look as intimidating when it starts at 6.
 
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harsh.ag said:
Damn. Would need something incredible for India to win this now.

This game was so ripe for a Smith vs Kohli one-on-one showdown. Such a shame.
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Sucks, doesn't it? From a batting standpoint it's a huge blow because he's the one guy I trust to really pile it on on a flat deck (not a diss at him at all). And only 10 men for the rest of the game. :(

Hope Nair triples up again, I suppose.
 
Stapel

Stapel

International Regular
The whole Kohli-Smith-yada-yada overshadows Maxwell's innings, not?

I realise it's early days, but Maxwell >> MMarsh, imho.
 
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