Australia v India

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@Snowy said in Australia v India:

@No-Quarter said in Australia v India:

BMac didn't even look like hitting it, the ball was just way too good for him.

He openly blames himself for that one. Says that he broke his own very simple golden rule - watch the ball.

Coney (I think) was talking about it during last England test.

Yeah. Ball wasn't that good. (Edit: it was good, full inswinger, but should gave been defended.) Down to BMac playing across the line. Can see why it excited the Aussies though.

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@MN5 said in Australia v India:

Are there any good Indian commentators over at the moment ? Harsha Bogle is always great value and Wasim Akram was brilliant when Pakistan toured

Harsha is on comms for ABC radio at the moment. He's good but tends toward waxing lyrical about everything, which I think is probably natural in the highly competitive India Cricket Journalist market.

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I’m in that awkward holding pattern between lunchtime and evening drinks….found this on FB

Some questionable spelling and not sure about the batting order but hard to fault this team. Maybe Starc ahead of Johnson ? Not sure any other country could put out a team to compete with this lot

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Notch in the 2013-4 series is pretty much unparalleled. Ever.

It's everything outside those 5 Tests that is the issue.

[Chris B.]

@MN5 The Indians could field e.g.:

Sehwag, Rohit Sharma, Dravid, Tendulkar, Kohli, VVS, Dhoni, Jadeja, Ashwin, Shami, Bumrah

They struggle a bit to find a third seamer to match the Aussies, but on the other hand, the Aussies struggle a bit to find a second spinner to match the Indians - and Warnie was somewhat ineffective against them.

Doh - and I've overlooked the obvious that the second spinner would by Lyon - in fact arguably he'd play ahead of Warnie vs India.

[Chris B.]

Australia 1 Usman Khawaja, 2 Sam Konstas, 3 Marnus Labuschagne, 4 Steven Smith, 5 Travis Head, 6 Mitchell Marsh, 7 Alex Carey (wk), 8 Pat Cummins (capt), 9 Mitchell Starc, 10 Nathan Lyon, 11 Scott Boland

India 1 Yashasvi Jaiswal, 2 KL Rahul, 3 Rohit Sharma (capt), 4 Virat Kohli, 5 Rishabh Pant (wk), 6 Ravindra Jadeja, 7 Nitesh Kumar Reddy, 8 Washington Sundar, 9 Akash Deep, 10 Jasprit Bumrah, 11 Mohammed Siraj

Indians have stacked the bowling - look light on specialist batsmen - and especially batsmen with form!

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New kid about to sing the anthem in front of a packed G on a day that'll reach 38°C

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And shit anthem singing from the Aussie guy. Bad sign

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Konstas survives Bumrah's first over - about all you can say.

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@Chris-B said in Australia v India:

Konstas survives Bumrah's first over - about all you can say.

Great over. Huge nuts on the young man to face the first 6 and probably lucky

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Siraj starts well against the Waj as well!

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Fuck me reverse ramp? This kid doesn't give a fuck.

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India burn a review early. Should just trust Gough - Mark Waugh instantly said height and was right.

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@Chris-B was well out of his crease

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@NTA said in Australia v India:

This kid doesn't give a fuck.

Repeat this X 3

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Times 4

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TIMES FIVE

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Well, Konstas is going to either be a raging success, or an abject failure. No middle ground likely...