***Official*** Australia in India 2017

[Shri]

 

[burr]

How long is he meant to be out for this time? Seven months last time for a stress fracture in the same foot sounds worrying.

In fairness to him, he's been really good recently.

 

[Gob]

How long is he meant to be out for this time? Seven months last time for a stress fracture in the same foot sounds worrying.

In fairness to him, he's been really good recently.

Read somewhere that he'll be fit for the all important champs trophy. Won't be counting on it

 

[Burgey]

What was an Australian official doing in the Indian dressing room? Is this regular?

It is all rather silly really. Why do people get all worked up by the news?

Better angle for looking at DRS decisions.

 

[centurymaker]

Its so damn obvious that Ranchi would have 2-3 different pitches ready given the situation of the series after the 1st Test and the subsequent possible scenarios..

There thinking would've been 'if India lose the 2nd Test as well, they are going to need to win the last two just to save the series..so 1 pitch has to be lottery bunsen..'
'If India happen to win the 2nd game.. maybe they'd want a flat pitch or perhaps they notice they have an advantage on low and slow pitches so maybe they'd like that'.. etc

Hence the different pitches available!

 

[veganbob]

I'd rather have a green seaming pitch with no spin that suits Australia 100% rather than having a batting friendly pitch. I'm so freaking tired of watching sessions where the biggest mystery is when the team will declare or what the strike rate of the next centurion will be. I prefer matches where there could be a wicket every delivery. If you don't like this type of wicket, fine. But please no batter friendly ones.

This.

As a neutral, the pitches for this series have been great. I find aussie pitches really dire these days where even tail enders getting fifties and 100s is possible. Its not a proper test if skill.

 

[social]

You know on second thought, hb's not wrong here at all. The article never actually mentions "indian team" or "kohli" when actually quoting the curator. In fact, both those telegraph articles read like something written by an angry child. Fmd look at some of those excerpts:











I mean, it reads like a parody. This is so ****ing over the top.Also, the video in question is positive tame, btw

It's the Telegraph ffs

 

[social]

Get in Henriques AND Faulkner and hedge your bets stacking your batting. The bowlers, or at least the seamers, are only there to give a break to the spinners anyways, esp. in Ranchi. Use Haze in short sharp bursts, get Henriques and Faulkner in the side to bowl dry when the spinners tire and you have decent batters all the way to #9 too.

This is what they should do but wont

Fair play to HB here

 

[centurymaker]

'BCCI didnt want to spoil the ratings for IPL as Smith will captain RPS and that to me was the main reason for the change of mind. Moreover, CA could have threated to pull out Smith if case was not withdrawn and all hell broke loose with IPL bosses.'

possible and would have been hard to prove the intent anyway.

 

[Burgey]

Its so damn obvious that Ranchi would have 2-3 different pitches ready given the situation of the series after the 1st Test and the subsequent possible scenarios..

There thinking would've been 'if India lose the 2nd Test as well, they are going to need to win the last two just to save the series..so 1 pitch has to be lottery bunsen..'
'If India happen to win the 2nd game.. maybe they'd want a flat pitch or perhaps they notice they have an advantage on low and slow pitches so maybe they'd like that'.. etc

Hence the different pitches available!

They should just leave pitch preparations to nature

 

[Black_Warrior]

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

It's home advantage for a reason

Home advantage is okay when we have it.

Also, giving different pitches in training or warm up is also a widely followed practice. Pakistan were given a totally different pitch for their warm up in Cairns than the ones they got in the test series.

I know it's Daily Telegraph but still the hypocrisy is unfathomable

 

[Black_Warrior]

Yeah, absolutely. Worst written article I have read in ages.

The funny thing about these jingoism fuelled articles is the moral outrage expressed at incidents that Australian players themselves have done over the past.

Kohli hit an Australian official
Warner hit Root

Broad nicked and doesn't walk. He becomes Stuart Fraud.
Langer, Smith, Ponting (list continues) nicked and doesn't walk.


"Look all I'm saying is, it's okay when when we do it"

 

[Dan]

Look, don't take the Daily Telegraph seriously ffs. It's a daily newspaper written in the language of 12 year olds for the living, breathing embodiment of Facebook comments.

 

[TNT]

The funny thing about these jingoism fuelled articles is the moral outrage expressed at incidents that Australian players themselves have done over the past.

Kohli hit an Australian official
Warner hit Root

Broad nicked and doesn't walk. He becomes Stuart Fraud.
Langer, Smith, Ponting (list continues) nicked and doesn't walk.


"Look all I'm saying is, it's okay when when we do it"

Bit unfair to compare what players say to what journalists say and then criticize the players.

 

[Midwinter]

Gideon Haigh's bit in the paper this morning will stir the pot

 

[Hennybogan]

The mention of Broad reminds me of that banner doing the rounds at the cricket grounds.

 

[Hennybogan]

If you can't Cook and you're a dud Root then you're Broad will surely cheat.

 

[Zinzan]

It's the Telegraph ffs

I don't think OS knows about the Telegraph tbf.

 

[Burgey]

Gideon Haigh's bit in the paper this morning will stir the pot

Got a link?

 

[Burgey]

I don't think OS knows about the Telegraph tbf.

He's all the richer for it too. Horrible rag.