Dropping lyon because he couldn't win us the final day.
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***Official*** India in Australia 2014-5
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Spark
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McCullum isn't known for really outlandishly attacking declarations IIRC (his field placings are certainly excellent). Nuts early declarations is signature Clarke.
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Akash Chopra. I love you for pointing out Ravi Shastri's bull****.
Didn't take the new ball
Didn't set an attacking field.
Didn't try to force wickets.
But still, they played to win....... somehow.
Didn't take the new ball
Didn't set an attacking field.
Didn't try to force wickets.
But still, they played to win....... somehow.
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Swingpanzee
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Yeah. Even Baz played for a draw during the Wellington test.
It just pisses me off that so many people pretend to be gutsy and ballsy when in reality half of their criticism is in hindsight.
vic_orthdox
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What did he leave in the series vs India after his huge innings?
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Gavaskar ripping into his nonsense now. ****ing Shastri. Dumb****.
ODI is more batting centric than tests. You can win ODIs with mediocre bowlers and fantastic batsmen. As australia have shown ever since 2013 is that you can win tests with mediocre batsmen and fantastic bowlers.
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But how stupid was Manjrekar there? He said india didn't try hard enough, but Australia should've tried harder than India in the first session!!!!!!!!! WTF?!!! We were the ones who were fighting to keep the series alive!!!
Gnske
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Besides, it's only Smith's 2nd test as captain, been picking Clarke's brains sure but he's still got much to learn.
It's a hard life.
Gnske
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I did say 50/50, as in he might have but i'm not really convinced, better chance than the rest of the current Test captains anyway even if he isn't a bats**t crazy as Clarke.
Spark
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Yeah that really surprised at the time
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Would blame him a bit if he was actually out.
Daemon
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Did they show the hawkeye?
Spark
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there was so much time in the match though, and they were scoring really quickly anyway. their best chance was to just pile them on and go way past our total.
Let's keep in mind here that he has to rely on the indian bowling attack to take the final 10 wickets.