*Official* India Tour of Australia 2018/19

[TheJediBrah]

Not true
Reason Ind beaten in eng because no warm up match before test series

AUS not provides any even one vs now vs ordinary bowlers

yes true
Reason Ind beaten in eng because England better team outside Asia than Ind are
AUS provide best bowlers available and Ind could have come earlier and organised as many matches as they wanted (same with the tour of England)

 

[Borges]

This must be a true joke attack if first Pujara and then Vihari are scoring at close to four runs an over. After losing the toss and being asked to bat first.

 

[harsh.ag]

yes true
Reason Ind beaten in eng because England better team outside Asia than Ind are
AUS provide best bowlers available and Ind could have come earlier and organised as many matches as they wanted (same with the tour of England)

Elite honesty on display.

 

[harsh.ag]

Harry Conway is playing for NSW in Perth. Something which no touring bowler to Australia since imran khan has been good enough to do.

After reading this post, CA decided Conway was too good and hence decided not to bowl him at all. Elite Honesty #2.

 

[TheJediBrah]

This must be a true joke attack if first Pujara and then Vihari are scoring at close to four runs an over. After losing the toss and being asked to bat first.

Yeah definitely not Shield standard, though most of them have played state cricket this year.

We used to have tour matches against full strength state sides and Aus A sides but since T20 has come in and the Big Bash takes up 2 months a year it's become impossible, because the Shield needs to be shoved in wherever it can and you can't just take a week off here and there to play a tour game.

As long as the host side is fielding something close to the strongest team available for selection, and they aren't deliberately providing unrepresentative conditions then I don't think there's really much to complain about.

 

[TheJediBrah]

Just noticed D'arcy Short is playing, was he left out of the WA side?

 

[Burgey]

You can tell an India series is coming up, when the normally languid harsh starts to get a bit antsy.

 

[ankitj]

Everyone scored in the warm up today. Rahul failed again. It's becoming frustrating now.

 

[Burgey]

India bowled out in a day by a club attack. Decent scoring rate though, so must have been a bit of #intent about.

 

[OverratedSanity]

Have the CA boys done enough to play Shaw and Rahane into the test side for India yet?

Never thought I'd see the day Australians being relieved at not having to bowl to Rohit Sharma in the tests .

 

[Borges]

Australian Miyagis are right in being wary of Nohit; Australia is the one away country where he could actually do quite well.

 

[Burgey]

Never thought I'd see the day Australians being relieved at not having to bowl to Rohit Sharma in the tests .

Australia has a long and proud history of playing opposition players into test sides. No less than Garry Sobers refereed to the practice in his autobio.

 

[Burgey]

Australian Miyagis are right in being wary of Nohit; Australia is the one away country where he could actually do quite well.

Lol

 

[Burgey]

Did anyone bop Md Shami’s last ball over long on for six today?

 

[mr_mister]

Nobody fears Nohit

 

[TheJediBrah]

Nobody fears Nohit

I do. He's alpha af.

 

[jimmy101]

Aussies should be fearing Prithvi. Just watch, just learn.

 

[Daemon]

Poor hosting from Australia. Apparently they served vegemite for lunch.

 

[Bijed]

I do. He's alpha af.

The only way in which Nohit the test match batsman could be considered alpha is in the sense that the alpha version of a piece of software is unreliable, has many flaws and is basically not ready for its intended purpose

 

[weldone]

What do you guys think about batting coach Sanjay Bangar's recent attack on Rahul? He has lashed out at Rahul publicly after today's dismissal - saying Rahul finds new ways of getting out and needs to be more responsible after having played 30 test matches.