Australia v India
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What a wild session. How good is test cricket. At 4/149 with Smith and Green at the crease, and a lead of 180, I'd say you'd rather be Australia than India... but you'd have to think about it.
We need one partnership, just one. If Smith can stay there then a lead of at least 250 beckons, which will be a tough chase on a pitch that seems to have a little bit of life.
I've been so impressed with Green. He seems so poised. Not the complete package yet, but bats like a veteran.
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@MN5 said in Australia v India:
All this talk of Wade......don’t forget Marcus Harris sucks arse as well but I suppose he might have time to get better.
he's only there because mini-badger is injured though.
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@barbarian Yeah - Mark Waugh, I think, talking about 280 by the end of the next session or shortly after as being probably enough.
He's probably right, but I don't think Paine will be happy to set India 280 in 4 sessions with the series on the line.
I reckon the situation demands quite a lot of caution for the next hour or so. Get Smith early in the session and suddenly there's the prospect of India chasing something quite gettable.
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@Chris-B i reckon the timing of the next wicket determines the whole series (jesus i sound like Bruce McAvaney)
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@mariner4life I think it's a tad more specific - it's when Smith gets out. I can see Green going but Paine and the tail sticking with Smith and them putting on another 100 or so.
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@mariner4life said in Australia v India:
@Chris-B i reckon the timing of the next wicket determines the whole series (jesus i sound like Bruce McAvaney)
I going full Warnie - "there's more twists to come yet"!
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@barbarian i can still see a scenario where Paine locks an end while Green hits out.
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@Chris-B said in Australia v India:
@mariner4life said in Australia v India:
@Chris-B i reckon the timing of the next wicket determines the whole series (jesus i sound like Bruce McAvaney)
I going full Warnie - "there's more twists to come yet"!
Wait for the Indian chase to pull out the Bill Lawry classic "they're close enough if they're good enough"
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It's been such a fun series, mainly because the balance between bat and ball has been about right in every test. Weird to think there's only been three centuries - Smith, Marnus, Rahane.
So many batsmen on both sides have done the hard yards and then thrown their wicket away between 30 and 50.
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@barbarian said in Australia v India:
It's been such a fun series, mainly because the balance between bat and ball has been about right in every test. Weird to think there's only been three centuries - Smith, Marnus, Rahane.
So many batsmen on both sides have done the hard yards and then thrown their wicket away between 30 and 50.
It's funny that a lot of people (definitely including me) thought that this series was a write-off once they got rolled for 36 and Kohli poking on off.
The really fortified them though. It's been an incredible series to watch. I don't miss rugby one little bit at the moment.
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@Hooroo said in Australia v India:
@barbarian said in Australia v India:
It's been such a fun series, mainly because the balance between bat and ball has been about right in every test. Weird to think there's only been three centuries - Smith, Marnus, Rahane.
So many batsmen on both sides have done the hard yards and then thrown their wicket away between 30 and 50.
It's funny that a lot of people (definitely including me) thought that this series was a write-off once they got rolled for 36 and Kohli poking on off.
India have been very good this series. Even in the first test, they were marginally ahead before getting rolled batting. Surviving a hundred or so overs against this pace attack takes some doing. Much respect - they have really dug in and battled hard. Great cricket to watch generally.
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@Hooroo said in Australia v India:
It's funny that a lot of people (definitely including me) thought that this series was a write-off once they got rolled for 36 and Kohli poking on off.
I guess that score was such an anomaly it was easier to recover from, rather than say 80 or 90.
The Aussie bowlers haven't been anywhere near that good since.
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@mariner4life said in Australia v India:
@Chris-B i reckon the timing of the next wicket determines the whole series (jesus i sound like Bruce McAvaney)
Siraj wouldn't have wanted to have been reading that in the lunch break!
Shades of Herschelle Gibbs dropping the WC?
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@KiwiMurph Not quite as easy as Herschelle's ,but that might be the series right there.
And now they've dropped Green.
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@KiwiMurph Smith can't make them pay as much as Steve Waugh did in any event.
