Aussie Cricket
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@nta said in Aussie Cricket:
Pujara must be frustrated
And kohli. At least he went to a screamer of a catch. Everyone else is playing park cricket in a rush to beat the approaching storm.
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@nta said in Aussie Cricket:
They won't be this shit second time around. Pujara will probably save their arses on Day 1 and look to build, if his partners stay around.
THis session will sort the men from the boys. Forecast is for "fuck that" today and tomorrow.
Pujara saved them alright. Kept them in the game, some pressure on the Aus lineup now as they won't want to be chasing much in the 4th.
And fuck those temperatures, which will be even hotter out in the middle.
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@donsteppa I'm going to shamelessly continue spruiking India in this series, till the Aussies do what they nearly always do ( cough, South Africa) and win a test series at home, comfortably.
India were good in England, but took 2 games to get the conditions. Started poorly. Pretty similar this time round as you rightly say.
My confidence in India comes from Kohli ( Shastri must be a factor too) and I sensed his team had a different swagger in England where 4-1 was flattering to the home team, they scored runs from test 3.
Today Aus actually didn't bowl too many Indian batsmen out. The Kohli team will surely get a dressing down for those top order wafts and Pujara laid the blueprint for all to follow, which my bias suggests is ominous.
A great start by Aus, just the fillip a low on confidence team needs, but jeez they were given edges. Still, 2 sessions won well although 250 seems less reward than they probably deserved.
Indian steamers will have to be better than any team before them to pull off the series, so that'll be worth keeping an eye on.
Aussies will fight this tooth and nail, despite whatever happens, to question the effort would be churlish in the extreme and we'll see some real passion, nearly apologetic to a chastising public
But the batting without Smith and Mr Self Aware is the spice in this fight. Finch? Tiny terrors brother? Head at last? Half of everyone's favourite twins? No one? 😉
Day 1 had heaps, this series will be well worth the watch!
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@nta said in Aussie Cricket:
@mn5 said in Aussie Cricket:
What's wrong with Warnie as a commentator?
Besides being a giant fucking douchecopter who basically bags everyone but himself out while talking about which pizza he's going to stuff down the fake-white maw stuck in his oompah-loompah tanned face under the "Yeah yeah!" hair?
Nothing.
Great player. Average human.
You don't play 145 tests for Australia by being a good human now do you?
Warne, like almost every tenured Aussie cricketer has a boatload of opinions and many axes to grind. The fact that he has thicker skin than most and isn't shy about giving those opinions is to his credit.
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@siam said in Aussie Cricket:
Today Aus actually didn't bowl too many Indian batsmen out. The Kohli team will surely get a dressing down for those top order wafts and Pujara laid the blueprint for all to follow, which my bias suggests is ominous.
I actually disagree with this assessment. If you just watched the wickets themselves, it would be easy to think that Australia were handed 4-6 wickets simply by poor Indian shots.
But what it didn't show were the 5-6 over spells where Cummins, Starc and Hazelwood had the ball on a string, and tied the Indian top order down. There was barely a ball wasted. When they pushed the ball wider, they enticed the Indians into poor shots to try and relieve the pressure that had built up.
It really was great cricket. Can they produce that effort consistently? I'm not sure. But it's promising to be a cracking series. I feel like previous Indian teams may have capitulated completely, but Pujara is class and the tail stuck with him well.
The play of the day, though, was Cummins run out. On the second last ball of the day, in extreme heat, after bowling 19 overs... wow. That is a simply amazing piece of play. For those that missed it:
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@barbarian the first four wickets happened inside 21 overs. India didn't even try to settle, with both openers playing like number 5 batsmen in a T20 game. It was pure arrogance.
Yes there was lots of good bowling later, but that first session was idiocy. Chasing a swinging ball, angling across at points, with big lusty hoiks outside a second set of stumps? Tell 'em they're dreamin'
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@barbarian that's a fair call mate. Highlights and live are different things. Aus bowling team is still fine but those wickets at 4 f or 40 odd is pretty easily remedied, it's a tough argument to convince that the Indians were forced to play those shits inside 2-3 hours of the first test (but they did get out so what do I know)
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@barbarian said in Aussie Cricket:
Khawaja and Harris steadying the ship well. 1/45 approaching lunch.
Doh!
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That's the weakest Aussie batting lineup probably in my entire lifetime. Heavily reliant on Waj to score big, and he's not even that great.
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@no-quarter said in Aussie Cricket:
That's the weakest Aussie batting lineup probably in my entire lifetime. Heavily reliant on Waj to score big, and he's not even that great.
Remember the good ole days where guys would plunder 10,000 runs in the Sheffield Shield @ over 50 and still not be good enough to get picked..
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@virgil said in Aussie Cricket:
@no-quarter said in Aussie Cricket:
That's the weakest Aussie batting lineup probably in my entire lifetime. Heavily reliant on Waj to score big, and he's not even that great.
Remember the good ole days where guys would plunder 10,000 runs in the Sheffield Shield @ over 50 and still not be good enough to get picked..
good?
