Aussie Cricket
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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?
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@mariner4life said in Aussie Cricket:
@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?
For then, not us
It’s good for us now..
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