Australia v India
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The Pujara LBW led to India winning the test. As good as he had been, he's not the type of player that can just put the foot down. Washington coming out and hitting a breezy 20 odd, which took the pressure off Pant, got them over the line.
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Shubman Gill's innings was particularly noteworthy. Hell of a strike rate and positivity when batting out the day was a very feasible strategy.
There's a lot of empty talk about batting positively and playing each ball but fuck all teams and batters actually do it.5 or 6 years ago McCullum was largely scoffed at for his continual mentioning of it, with what appeared to be good reason at the time.A wee bit akin to running it in your own half for 60 minutes of 80 in rugby.
Never have I seen a team actually follow through on these words like India did on day 5, and against the best bowling quartet in the world, maybe ever.
That last day gets even more remarkable the more you think about it.
And no shame to the Aussies at all. Perhaps a bit different field for Lyon at stages but that's about it
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This bothers me:
You'll have to scroll forward to the 50 second mark.
Now, there are some obvious instances of not playing a shot but this one isn't so cut and dry. His technique is fine for a turning, bouncing off spin delivery and I'll argue that Pujara not playing a shot is not definitely clear and obvious. Sure when playing from the crease but not many advance out of the crease only to use your pad. In fact I'll argue that nobody does.
Didn't like that the no shot clause got so readily adjudicated in this instance.
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Indians fans sure got carried away...
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@Bovidae said in Australia v India:
Indians fans sure got carried away...
He should be thrilled someone thinks a New Zealander footballer is relevant
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@NTA said in Australia v India:
The bigger issue is that Indian cricket fans are as big a set of dickheads as any cricket fans.
100%. They're up there with kiwi fans with over the top chips on their shoulders about Australian cricketers whose main crime is they're Australian cricketers who are good.
I mean, bar Brad Haddin of course, some of them seem like pretty decent blokes.
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@NTA said in Australia v India:
The bigger issue is that Indian cricket fans are as big a set of dickheads as any cricket fans.
The problem with that is that it is probably a similar percentage of dickheads, which means there are millions of dickheads.
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@nzzp said in Australia v India:
@NTA said in Australia v India:
@Snowy either way, that's a lot of dickheads
a bag full?
Imperial bag at that
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@NTA said in Australia v India:
@nzzp said in Australia v India:
@NTA said in Australia v India:
@Snowy either way, that's a lot of dickheads
a bag full?
Imperial bag at that
Someone is obviously drinking a few craft beers today
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@MN5 said in Australia v India:
@NTA said in Australia v India:
@nzzp said in Australia v India:
@NTA said in Australia v India:
@Snowy either way, that's a lot of dickheads
a bag full?
Imperial bag at that
Someone is obviously drinking a few craft beers today
Yeah should have had a nap as well. Those 6.5% IPAs make me sleepy, along with the 37°C weather.
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@NTA said in Australia v India:
@MN5 said in Australia v India:
@NTA said in Australia v India:
@nzzp said in Australia v India:
@NTA said in Australia v India:
@Snowy either way, that's a lot of dickheads
a bag full?
Imperial bag at that
Someone is obviously drinking a few craft beers today
Yeah should have had a nap as well. Those 6.5% IPAs make me sleepy, along with the 37°C weather.
Fuck all of that......( the weather, not the beer )
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@MN5 said in Australia v India:
@NTA said in Australia v India:
@MN5 said in Australia v India:
@NTA said in Australia v India:
@nzzp said in Australia v India:
@NTA said in Australia v India:
@Snowy either way, that's a lot of dickheads
a bag full?
Imperial bag at that
Someone is obviously drinking a few craft beers today
Yeah should have had a nap as well. Those 6.5% IPAs make me sleepy, along with the 37°C weather.
Fuck all of that......( the weather, not the beer )
Not so bad in the pool
