Starfighter
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I think the calls for Head to open all the time are premature unless we plan to go BazBall. I think he'd still nick off in England and he's been superb counter-attacking down the order.
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*Official* Australia in India 2023
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Shady Slim
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oh? so you're telling me on a really difficult pitch against finger spinners travis head opened the batting and was able to counterattack and throw the fingerspinners off their line and length and engine australia to a win? oh? that's such a novel concept, i wish i'd thought of it myself!
OverratedSanity
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Bro they chased 76 calm down. Australia won this primary because of Khawajas innings and Lyons spell. Head's innings was a nice finish but it wasn't a difference maker.
Burgey
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Yeah he should go back to five for the Ashes imo.
Gob
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Well you can say that now but given the monumental collapses and the way India were bowling for a while, I'm sure most of them must be shitting bricks after Khawaja got out
GoodAreasShane
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You spent 2-3 years swearing black and blue Head wasn't international class at all and that literally anyone would do a better job. Pipe down champ.
Shady Slim
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i think that he is a hack. doesn't mean i don't think he can't be a useful roleplayer!
Shady Slim
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fwiw i do think @Starfighter's right and that head shouldn't be the fulltime opener, my calls were for a special purpose deployment for this series
Completely disagree, he showed on possibly the most difficult home pitch on a decade that he has the game for the moving ball.
Sunil1z
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Why are you tagging me ? I never said it . I am more of 3-0 or 3-1 .
Spark
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Who are the other options, realistically? Bancroft? TBF he's had a very good Shield season. Renshaw's probably played himself out of the side though, he looked abject in the first two games.
Easy to say that in hindsight.
India’s odds after the 3rd ball were into $3.00.
At 1/7 off of about 7 overs it was similar.
Heads innings was a match winning one.
the big bambino
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As holders of the BG maybe India went into dead rubber mode early but I have to say Australia did bowl well and they seemed to be thinking more clearly in the field. Batting collapses still a problem for us though.
Spark
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I mean I don't think there's a lot we can do about the non-existent tail other than hope they improve somehow. It's not as if we can just pick an entirely different attack based on the batting, not least because none of the other options are much good with the bat either.
Sunil1z
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If that was the case , IND wouldn’t have been bowled out for 163 in 2nd innings. IND’s batting is finished.
Spark
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Come on now they were chasing 76. Realistically once they got to about 1/30 the intensity went out of the game completely.