Nah, if the Aus attack hit their areas India won't make 300. I think it's harder to bat on than it was made to look yesterday by Head especially. Smith was hardly fluent and he makes hundreds here for breakfast.
So are you blaming English cricket, the groundskeepers, or the Indian seamers?
Left hand throw.
Was shardul+ash a realistic option coming into this match? Feels like that would have been the way to go in hindsight with umesh missing out but I never thought about it that way coming in.
Yeah I'm expecting an Aussie 1st innings lead of at least 100.
d) all of the above
It would help them bat deep too.
Look, he's done a fair few things wrong in his career, but he can always rest easy knowing he punched renowned at-best-racist-adjacent Joe Root in the face years before the whole Yorkshire thing came to light.
All nonsense. Kohli will score a double hundred by the end of day 2.
Huh?
Yeah your right. It's just frustrating watching this batting lineup throw away opportunities to grind sides into the dust and make 500+ on flatter decks. The amount of times I've seen them leave 100+runs out in the middle after a great platform is frustrating.
Yeah that's what I mean. I always had umesh locked in as the 3rd seamer and it felt like most of the discourse was about shardul vs ashwin as the #8.
green's the most wretched by far imho
Yeah it is an annoying habit they have, and it's largely down imo to 6-9 just not being where they were even going back to when Haddin was playing. Green and Carey are both still finding their way, and before Carey there was Paine and Nev who were both pretty average bats tstl. Wade was decent I suppose but a terrible keeper. Cummins has gone backwards with the bat and Starc is very hit and miss too. Probably only Lyon has actually improved with the bat in the Aus tail over the past 5 years or so. I really want to see Carey back himself with the bat - he has the game to score quickly and play some really important knocks with the tail.
