*Official* India Tour of Australia 2018/19

[Bijed]

Lyon always seems to cop an unfair amount of flak on here after one unimpressive performance, whereas lots of other bowlers can do really quite badly for a little while and we let it slide.

Edit: I gather there were 3 drops off his bowling this innings too

 

[GotSpin]

His formative years were with Wade behind the stumps we must remember

 

[Hicheal Michael]

Matthew Wade made Nathan Lyon.

 

[social]

Shows how little there’s to talk about when people are criticising Lyon

He’s just about the least of our concerns

 

[Midwinter]

excitement building at the G

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

Brilliance is what occupies a bald man's head.

Nathan 'goat turn' Lyon

 

[GoodAreasShane]

Nice to see Ian Gould doing his job properly, picked up Ishant overstepping. Good umpiring

 

[Midwinter]

2 slips gully and point for Finch facing Sharma

 

[Gnske]

See *****, you don't need machines to catch no-balls. Good people can do it too.

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

There we go

 

[Midwinter]

delay while Bumrah tightens his bootstuds prior to bowling his first over of the day.

 

[BSM]

The draw is probably the favourite result at the moment but both teams probably still have a decent enough chance of winning. Neither really pushing ahead at this point, and the pitch could well break up given the groundsmen would have had the ramifications of it not doing so in their heads in the buildup.

It just never changed last year for whatever reason. I remember a few Aus batsmen chopped on which gave the impression that it was keeping low which it really wasn't. Didn't help that an England attack consisting of Anderson as the lone quality bowler had to bowl and try to push a result. If we'd have batted first Aus probably would have won.

At the very least this series has provided a variety of scores so far. High scorers are pretty entertaining when they happen every now and then

 

[Burgey]

Decent #intent here.

 

[Ausage]

Geez some catch that.

 

[Midwinter]

nice catch
Finch didnt turn the face of the bat.

 

[vicleggie]

That's how you catch, no hopers.

 

[Daemon]

Yesss

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

Lol oh lord

 

[stephen]

Imagine picking s guy who couldn't hack it as a first class opener to open in tests for you.

 

[stephen]

This really is an atrocious Australian batting lineup.

Harris looks decent without being special. Finch is batting out of position. Khawaja is quality but had family issues distracting him at the moment. S Marsh is the definition of long term mediocrity. Head is young and talented but still very raw. M Marsh holds all sorts of records no-one wants to hold, like having the worst treat match average for an Australian top six batsman ever. Paine hasn't scored a first class hundred in a decade.

Woeful.