*Official* Australia in India 2023

[JonoWalls]

Thurs 9.12 am I wrote: "Nagpur, geographically almost dead centre of India. Is there a sinkhole there? And Renshaw ahead of Head?" If there wasn't a sinkhole Australia has now dug one for themselves. Renshaw: well...Head's in his head.

 

[Socerer 01]

Aussies sinking without a trace

 

[Line and Length]

It’s the curse of the Victorians

Or the lack of West Aussies. Hang on. I just saw the Shield score.

 

[duffer]

Or the lack of West Aussies. Hang on. I just saw the Shield score.

Yeah, we need the Marsh lads back pronto

 

[karan_fromthestands]

The ball that dips, the ball that skids,
The ball that turns, the ball that bids,
Adieu to stumps, to bails, to all,
And leaves the Aussies in a fall.

 

[anil1405]

Will be hilarious if this is done before tea.

 

[Spark]

...

 

[centurymaker]

But we were only 180/5 cos our top 5 bar Rohit are ****, so swings and roundabouts.

When India was 5-180, India's best two batsmen Rohit & Jadeja were batting. Plus had Bharat, Axar and Shami to come. So there was enough batting left to take a minimum 100 run lead which wud have been enough.

 

[Test fan]

Sweeper gone

 

[Howe_zat]

That's one for the worst reviews ever thread

 

[artvandalay]

This is a spin bowling clinic tbh. Not like Head would have done anything substantial instead of Renshaw here.

 

[Test fan]

Smith is looking clueless against Jadeja

 

[R!TTER]

Aussies looking to skip the afternoon tea?

 

[subshakerz]

Smith surviving as Australia get wrapped up below 100 will be the ultimate depressing image. Right up there with Hobart 2016 against SA.

 

[JonoWalls]

I wanted to add: this could be an innings where Smith carries his bat through and still only makes 22.

 

[subshakerz]

Ashwin is pissed that Jadeja stole his thunder in the first innings.

 

[R!TTER]

Smith surviving as Australia get wrapped up below 100 will be the ultimate depressing image. Right up there with Hobart 2016 against SA.

Except there's no redemption arc in the second test, unlike 2016 vs SA. Their batting is going downhill fast, at this rate the next few tests will get even worse! I know hard to imagine but just check Eng post first innings on a flatbed at Chennai.

 

[Kenneth Viljoen]

If I'm Steve Smith I'm doing a Chanderpaul and remaining not out ..This is a hopeless situation kinda like how we Saffas felt in Australia lol

 

[BazBall21]

An Australian overseas batting collapse:

 

[Spikey]

a lot of people think fixing this is as simple as picking Green but it's gonna take more than Chris Green to fix this

we'll need to drop a couple of victorians too