*Official* Australia in India 2023

[Starfighter]

Nah 50 above par for mine.

Joking aside, If Ashwin and Jadeja aren't licking their lips over bowling here they never will. I'd give the pacers one over each and if they don't break through (or look extremely likely) revert straight to spin.

Surely one of them will open, if not both.

 

[Spark]

I honestly think it would be a 200 par wicket. Sometimes the first session dampness and some accurate bowling can end up creating such run throughs.

Yeah I do think the pitch settled down a bit after that opening hour. We have seen a pattern in this series where the pitch has looked much more difficult in the morning sessions than it has in the afternoon and evening.

 

[Xix2565]

The real problem with 109 is that it won't take a lot of runs before Rohit has to start setting fields to conserve runs. Basically asking for Ashwin/Jadeja/Axar to get Australia to 36-5 or such scores.

 

[Zinzan]

Surely one of them will open, if not both.

Or that.

India wasted far too much time with the pacers opening spells in the last test.

 

[Burgey]

I don't know why I thought Ashwin was still a lot younger than 36. Now I think about it he's been around ages.

 

[Socerer 01]

Dude, since England's victory a decade ago India have lost two test matches at home and generally smashed teams. Settle down.

can’t be resting on your laurels asking others to do your job for you too though

 

[honestbharani]

I don't know why I thought Ashwin was still a lot younger than 36. Now I think about it he's been around ages.

Think he only debuted when he was 25/26.

 

[Gnske]

Good lengths there from Ashwin, bowling short filth is just what the game situation demands

 

[social]

The real problem with 109 is that it won't take a lot of runs before Rohit has to start setting fields to conserve runs. Basically asking for Ashwin/Jadeja/Axar to get Australia to 36-5 or such scores.

So above par for us then

 

[Burgey]

Think he only debuted when he was 25/26.

I remember his first tour out here which iirc was Tendulkar's last. And Tendulkar refused to do a press conference at all and Ashwin basically did every one of them for the whole series.

 

[Starfighter]

Or that.

India wasted far too much time with the pacers opening spells in the last test.

I think you could argue Australia did the same here.

 

[Starfighter]

I remember his first tour out here which iirc was Tendulkar's last. And Tendulkar refused to do a press conference at all so Ashwin basically did every one of them for the whole series.

Wasn't just Tendulkar. None of the senior Indians.

 

[social]

I don't know why I thought Ashwin was still a lot younger than 36. Now I think about it he's been around ages.

Yeah can’t believe that

Thought that he was 30 or so

 

[Burgey]

Usman basically only hitting balls in the air to Indian openers this series it seems

 

[honestbharani]

@Burgey and @Spark - lol yeah.

And Ash's entire first over there was him thinking one of Head or Khawaja were gonna come down the track every ball. There are times when the brain overthinks. Hopefully he settles down.

 

[Spark]

Well that looked stone dead to me

 

[Gnske]

I remember his first tour out here which iirc was Tendulkar's last. And Tendulkar refused to do a press conference at all and Ashwin basically did every one of them for the whole series.

Ah that's right. Don't get Tendulkar to play chinese whispers. Dude's a born liar and refused to ever take responsibility for his lies during Monkeygate.

Bet he never came clean to Roy before his end.

 

[Burgey]

Jeez I think that's a very good shout.

 

[Daemon]

this is a terrible start from us. 10% of the total gone already.

 

[social]

Looks out