My most unpopular opinions relative to this threads are that I think Vaughan is a great commentator, and KL Rahul is a good test batterwe also feel the same.
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I would give a young, raw player an opportunity rather than keep playing an inconsistent player. He is the worst Indian bowler among the bowlers there have been over the past few years. He definitely has support either from senior players or from the upper echelon of govt/selectors.
He's a good test batter but not effective. so you are right and you are wrong. In my opinion. He's a huge talent.. his brains is like Rashford (unpopular opinion as well)
Bingo
Senior meaning just one - Virat Kohli.
I think he gets moved around a lot and is the first sacrificial lamb. In England away he was fantastic opening. His defensive game allows the ball to get older and brings our middle order into play.
He was fantastic in the middle order at home v australia few years back. He is great at adapting but he should be treated like a top order player and they keep moving him to 6.
I expect a good series for him here. Unfortunately I think they will move him to 6 here again despite him looking like our best bet for a plodder in the top 3
Yep that's the one. Better if Kohli and Sharma walk away next home season. Let the rebuild begin. Gambhir might not survive if we dont win this series. harsh but I dont think he's suited for the job.
Ideally he should be given a role of no.3 in Tests, and push that Prince Charming to #4. Find a different #5 than what we have right now and let Pant be a #6. if they have a better #7 (Washington e.g.) then Pant #6 if there's none than Pant to #5.
that's the way it should go. Give him a full Test cycle , every test. dont count on him for T20. And let him get established.
Agreed on all three. Sharma needs to go. Kohli definitely needs to go. And Gambhir isn’t good enough for the coaching role.
Agreed.
Our best lineup for the next test actually looks a lot like what you wrote. But Virat not gonna move to 5.
last wicket hung around far too long but someone was going to eventually. 50 lead is excellent..
yeah he won't and that's one of the problems to prep for his eventual successor.
I'd still say this is 50-50 game. lead is good but I dont trust our batters.
Jaiswal needs to put his head down. Too often, in his short career, for an opener he thinks the way to win is to break the back of a small target.
That doesn’t work so well away. I wouldn’t be surprised if he’s thinking ‘right I get a 60 here and that’s the game’. He definitely has the talent to do it but on average he’d be better off playing the pitch
Yeah, he needs to get greedy to just score runs. I think he’s good enough to do so.
Really good batting.
We need someone like that at the top to fight back. It shouldn't be on him to curtail his natural game because our overpaid legendary middle order can't do crap. Every time our openers fail, our middle order fails too.
Let's not forget that one of India's best test players played up top with a similar attitude and he has been the only batsman to score 300 (twice).
I'm not saying Jaiswal should play better because the middle order is not good. I am saying he should play better because he'll make more runs.
Sehwag was a flat track bully who didn't do anything of note.
Jaiswal, thankfully, played very differently today.
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This is an insane turnaround. Body blow for Australia
Can’t remember Australia going down 1-0 in a series at home..
2018 BGT, 2003-04 BGT immediately come to mind
Amazing turnaround considering India’s first innings. This is also some sold old school opening batting as well.
a great start, will make the late collapse to leave the match evenly poised hard to swallow
Almost there...
Strange stat: Rohit Sharma has 4200 test runs. Jaiswal has 1500 and most of it came this year.
How has the pitch improved so suddenly? It’s quite a turnaround from both first innings.
maybe with the old ball it's always been like this? we just never got to top order batters playing the old ball on day 1
Good batting by these two. Might need to bat most of tomorrow considering comparatively flat nature of pitch today.
He's far from bad. He's just crap in Indian conditions.
At home, 19 wickets in 14 matches @ 37. Away from home, 58 wickets in 17 matches @ 27.
How does Australian cricket commentary even work if they're getting battered at home? Do they just sit in silence?
It feels like the entire setup is modelled for Australia battering teams, all the ultra confident banter and jokes. It must all completely break down if it's Australia getting pummeled
Nice one India!
It feels like the entire setup is modelled for Australia battering teams, all the ultra confident banter and jokes. It must all completely break down if it's Australia getting pummeled
Nice one India!
Many of the commentators on Australian broadcasters aren’t Aussie. It’s a really good, unbiased bunch. Highlights being Hussey, Isa Guha, Gilly, and a few others.How does Australian cricket commentary even work if they're getting battered at home? Do they just sit in silence?
It feels like the entire setup is modelled for Australia battering teams, all the ultra confident banter and jokes. It must all completely break down if it's Australia getting pummeled
Nice one India!
Thank you - India.
If Pant has licence when he comes in, it could get really messy for Australia.
I still remember that Perth game when SA chased down 414, ABD century was just awesome. Would want India to set up as high of a target as possible, and tire these quicks. Its a long series and would come in handy in 4th or 5th test
Yeah India will want 350 minimum, 400+ really.
India winning this first test really would setup the series brilliantly as despite their great record in Aus of late noone particularly fancied them this time around.
India winning this first test really would setup the series brilliantly as despite their great record in Aus of late noone particularly fancied them this time around.
Except then you get dickheads like Vaughn talking absolute shit about how the Aussie’s are complacent and not trying…
The Australian cricket team is the highest pressure environment in Australian sport. This is our only summer sport and we’re pretty bloody good at it along with holding arguably the goats of batting and bowling. There is always pressure.
Maybe when you consider batting averages of 40 to be world class you might hold that opinion but unless you’re 50+ (Gilchrist the exception) you don’t get a sniff in Aussie cricket folk-law
Are we not allowed to criticize Australia?
I thought we'd need 450, and that we weren't as ahead of the game as the popular opinion indicated. Pitch seemed flat enough for Australia to chase down < 400
But I now think we are going to get to 450 comfortably.
But I now think we are going to get to 450 comfortably.
Hope Jaiswal gets a daddy double hundred
Padikkal won't play for India again.