*Official* India Tour of Australia 2018/19

[Second Spitter]

What are the chances of other bowlers no-balls going unnoticed if Ishant alone overstepped undetected 16 times? Quite high. The umpires should be docked part of their match fees.

If umpires were fined for poor performance, Asoka de Silva would have died in poverty.

 

[the big bambino]

Play the most nervous starter in the whole country as opener, it's been tried and has failed numerous times before

More nervous than Finch - yeah? Marsh is a bad starter anywhere he bats. I want Finch in the middle order and Usman to stay at 3. Someone has to move for that to happen. Its not as if we're blessed with options

 

[NotMcKenzie]

My alternative, if Aus bat first, is 12 wickets

 

[Flem274*]

open with starc and cummins and give them permission to tee off for lolz

 

[aussie tragic]

It's done guys, batting order for Perth is:

Finch
Harris
Khawaja
Smarsh
Hanscomb
Head

Finch out in 1st or 2nd over, Smarsh due for a less than 10

 

[andmark]

We need a table of likes received to posts posted. NSWranger would be CW's Bradman.

 

[TheJediBrah]

Every pitch is prepared with the idea of giving some kind of an advantage to the home team.
That is how cricket has always been played; there is nothing wrong in doing it, IMHO.

smh not this **** again

Absolute rubbish. Some countries do it as a matter of course, others rarely if ever do it.

Also pretty sure a greentop would suit India here more than Aus. If Aus wanted to make a pitch to help them it would be a hard, flat & bouncy with minimal lateral movement.

 

[Woodster]

It’s hard to see Finch succeeding at the top of the order with any degree of consistency. With only seven first-class centuries in 135 innings to his name (now at the age of 32) that in itself suggests that a place in the middle order when the ball isn’t doing as much would be a better fit for Finch.

I see the benefits of having a positive batsman like him going in at the top, but realistically he’s going to have a real impact only rarely, but someone has to open alongside Harris.

 

[srbhkshk]

They'll lose by 3 innings.

 

[Top_Cat]

It amazes me that bowlers can flirt so closely with the front line in tests, yet never go near the ****ing thing in LO matches.

Might need a free hit playing condition in tests to stop them from pushing it. Starc, for example, is usually a long way from no-balling. A lot of other blokes are too. It's pretty unprofessinoal from Sharma to be consistently that close to the line tbh.

It's just the most pointless thing ever isn't it? Even if most of your no-balls are Dharmasena'd, you know if you take a wicket the first thing any umpire worth his career will do is send it upstairs.

 

[Bolo]

smh not this **** again

Absolute rubbish. Some countries do it as a matter of course, others rarely if ever do it.

Also pretty sure a greentop would suit India here more than Aus. If Aus wanted to make a pitch to help them it would be a hard, flat & bouncy with minimal lateral movement.

IDK about England. Other than them, AUS is the only country that hadn't been openly doctoring to suit particular visitors in recent years. In AUS broadcasting money has been doing the doctoring.

Amusingly AUS, being the only country not actively trying to backhand an advantage has been the only country that has managed to gain one. Flat works.

Countries are learning from their mistakes and have seen that the doctoring they have been doing tends to randomise outcomes instead of working in their favour. The only countries who seem to consistently doctor are weak enough to accept randomisation as an acceptable outcome. I don't think they should be judged for this. Everyone else would be likely to do the same in their position.

 

[silentstriker]

I'm a little nervous with India going in with only fast bowling. I think Jadeja would probably get smashed, but I would kind of pick him anyway.

 

[silentstriker]

I'm super excited to see a real fast bowling pitch. That Wanderers pitch during the final Test between India-SA earlier this year was one of my favorites of all time.

 

[Kirkut]

Aus 45 all out, our bowling is not ATG yet so don't see that happening.

 

[Kilowatt]

A sporty pitch only serves to randomize the result and doesn't necessarily favor India as many seem to believe. That said odds of 50:50 in SENA countries are a substantial improvement for this Kohli-Shastri cabal compared to their usual rabble. I think the team that gets to use the best of the changing conditions; batting first or second, is likely to win. Losing the toss may not be worst idea.

That is unless they do exactly as I say starting with playing Jaddu-Bhuvi-Umesh in which case they have more than an even chance of victory.

 

[Kilowatt]

I think it can now also be pointed out that India have a better pace bowling unit than Australia. They outbowled the Aussies in India and outbowled them in the first test again so even if we lose the remaining three it's still 5-3.

Checkmate

 

[silentstriker]

What the hell is a SENA county? Like Shiv Sena?

 

[smash84]

What the hell is a SENA county? Like Shiv Sena?

Lol, that was my first thought too

Its South Africa, England, New Zealand, and Australia

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

Lost by -206 runs

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

Lol, that was my first thought too

Its South Africa, England, New Zealand, and Australia

Why can't it be SANE countries?