***Official*** Australia in India 2017

[WindieWeathers]

Great stuff from the Aussies and having batsmen other than Smith do well will breed confidence in their dressing room. I must say though does this last day's play underline the notion that India simply don't have any world class pacers in their arsenal? Would the likes of SA have let Australia off the hook on that track? Or is it a little harsh to blame the india quicks?

Nevertheless it does set the last game up perfectly but after toiling all day you wonder how the Indian attack will cope if they are made to bowl first again. Should they freshen things up maybe?

 

[stephen]

Loved the result. Was am interesting test regardless of how slow scoring it was. This was a typical Indian wicket.

The first two pitches were problematic because they turned batting into a lottery, which is fun to watch (especially for neutrals) but doesn't make for good cricket. This pitch was problematic for the opposite reason - it gave nothing to the bowlers. It didn't give much to the batsmen either being so slow, but it really needs to break up on days 4 and 5 if it's going to be a road.

Still it was enjoyable for being different to the first two pitches. I don't know if my heart could take another Bangalore.

 

[indiaholic]

Their biggest challenge was the mental pressure that teams put themselves under... So points for not succumbing to that

Actually, the biggest challenge is fighting the belief that "playing your natural game" is the best response in these circumstances.

 

[Burgey]

Haha it's like bitching about Donald Bradman's batting on debut claiming he will never be test standard and then by the end of the his career saying you really meant he'd be above-test standard.

It really isn't like that at all, you know.

 

[indiaholic]

Loved the result. Was am interesting test regardless of how slow scoring it was. This was a typical Indian wicket.

The first two pitches were problematic because they turned batting into a lottery, which is fun to watch (especially for neutrals) but doesn't make for good cricket. This pitch was problematic for the opposite reason - it gave nothing to the bowlers. It didn't give much to the batsmen either being so slow, but it really needs to break up on days 4 and 5 if it's going to be a road.

Still it was enjoyable for being different to the first two pitches. I don't know if my heart could take another Bangalore.

Didn't feel Pune was a lottery tbh.. Agree about Bangalore

 

[Spark]

Great stuff from the Aussies and having batsmen other than Smith do well will breed confidence in their dressing room. I must say though does this last day's play underline the notion that India simply don't have any world class pacers in their arsenal? Would the likes of SA have let Australia off the hook on that track? Or is it a little harsh to blame the india quicks?

Nevertheless it does set the last game up perfectly but after toiling all day you wonder how the Indian attack will cope if they are made to bowl first again. Should they freshen things up maybe?

There was ****-all in it for the seamers, not fair to expect them to be running through a side on the 5th day.

 

[indiaholic]

Can guarantee WW didn't watch the game. Just showed up here to make a shitpost.

 

[StephenZA]

ah, come on! SA would have cruised to a draw on this pitch and so would Pakistan. I think people are influencing a mentally dead England folding in the last day as a indicator of what is usual. Australia would and should have been gutted if they lost here. There are no demons in this pitch.

We had a couple of not bad pitches in between the terrible ones and still did poorly, yes we were shell shocked but still; And no I don`t think that SA of right now could face up to Jadeja and Ashwin on this pitch. Cook, Duminy, Bavuma would all struggle.... The question is would Indian batsmen cope with Rabada and Morkel/Steyn with a reversing ball on this pitch. Aus missed Starc this match; as good as Cummins was but this is all theoretical and irrelevant.

 

[Spark]

We had a couple of not bad pitches in between the terrible ones and still did poorly, yes we were shell shocked but still; And no I don`t think that SA of right now could face up to Jadeja and Ashwin on this pitch. Cook, Duminy, Bavuma would all struggle.... The question is would Indian batsmen cope with Rabada and Morkel/Steyn with a reversing ball on this pitch. Aus missed Starc this match; as good as Cummins was but this is all theoretical and irrelevant.

I mean the preparation Aus put in pre-series and the very obvious benefits that's reaped should put paid to the idea of awful pitches being a valid excuse for a team being awful. Pitches like Bangalore and that deck where Dean Elgar got 5 are not good on their own merits, but if you get pantsed on them that's still primarily your own fault.

 

[Prince EWS]

Link to the single best post on any forum, ever

I was really tempted to either link to Throwing Stuff or GIMH's post in my sig when I saw this question, but I think he was referring to my first post in this thread:

http://www.cricketweb.net/forum/cricket-chat/59407-has-poster-cw-ever-made-you-change-your-mind.html

 

[StephenZA]

I mean the preparation Aus put in pre-series and the very obvious benefits that's reaped should put paid to the idea of awful pitches being a valid excuse for a team being awful. Pitches like Bangalore and that deck where Dean Elgar got 5 are not good on their own merits, but if you get pantsed on them that's still primarily your own fault.

Agreed... SA was not ready to face India on those pitches. I do think that we were the first team in awhile that faced those conditions, if you look at the previous couple of series in India it had been relatively flat wickets that slowly broke up or were roads, SA were caught unawares. But we were just not good enough to cope.

 

[WindieWeathers]

Can guarantee WW didn't watch the game. Just showed up here to make a shitpost.

Erm I did watch the game actually and it was boring as hell today. I just think quality pacers find a way to get wickets on these sort of tracks. Let's not act like it's never happened before.

 

[Burner]

We had a couple of not bad pitches in between the terrible ones and still did poorly, yes we were shell shocked but still; And no I don`t think that SA of right now could face up to Jadeja and Ashwin on this pitch. Cook, Duminy, Bavuma would all struggle.... The question is would Indian batsmen cope with Rabada and Morkel/Steyn with a reversing ball on this pitch. Aus missed Starc this match; as good as Cummins was but this is all theoretical and irrelevant.

Disagree. SA didn't get any pitches like this one. I mean I don't know how you can say that when the pitches SA played on were ones where neither of the two teams could score above 300. Yet they came close to drawing on a pitch that was considerably worse (better) than this one. 600 runs were scored on this by India.

 

[WindieWeathers]

There was ****-all in it for the seamers, not fair to expect them to be running through a side on the 5th day.

Not saying they should have ran through them. Just saying they should have created more chances that's all. It's pitches like that that tell us who the world class seamers are..I'm sure SA or even NZ's attack would have created more problems tbh.

 

[Burgey]

Ok

 

[StephenZA]

Disagree. SA didn't get any pitches like this one. I mean I don't know how you can say that when the pitches SA played on were ones where neither of the two teams could score above 300. Yet they came close to drawing on a pitch that was considerably worse (better) than this one. 600 runs were scored on this by India.

I think it was the Bangalore and Delhi pitches where not terrible....

 

[indiaholic]

I was really tempted to either link to Throwing Stuff or GIMH's post in my sig when I saw this question, but I think he was referring to my first post in this thread:

http://www.cricketweb.net/forum/cricket-chat/59407-has-poster-cw-ever-made-you-change-your-mind.html

That was actually very good. OS has good taste.

 

[WindieWeathers]

Ok

You disagree? You think no pace attack would have done well on that track?

 

[Daemon]

NDTV 24x7 - Kohli: "Pujara needs to work on his Strike Rate"

 

[Spark]

I'm watching Smith's presser and his mannerisms really are the weirdest ****ing thing.