India tour to Australia

Meanwhile Hardik Pandya has taken a fiver against Mumbai in his comeback match and Shubman Gill is slaughtering TN bowlers in Ranji match.

Oh man, if we ever start with Shaw and Gill as openers in the next match :drool:
 
KM said:
Meanwhile Hardik Pandya has taken a fiver against Mumbai in his comeback match and Shubman Gill is slaughtering TN bowlers in Ranji match.

Oh man, if we ever start with Shaw and Gill as openers in the next match :drool:
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Probably worth finding a spot for Shreyas Iyer too, who is a better bowler than Vihari.
 
KM said:
Meanwhile Hardik Pandya has taken a fiver against Mumbai in his comeback match and Shubman Gill is slaughtering TN bowlers in Ranji match.

Oh man, if we ever start with Shaw and Gill as openers in the next match :drool:
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How? We can't change squad mid way.
 
crappycraperson said:
How? We can't change squad mid way.
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We can.

Didn't we sent Vijay back after the third test in England and brought in Shaw and Vihari. There's an eight day gap between this and Melbourne test. Enough time.
 
Brilliant day for us. Seems that all of us should avoid making pitch predictions after just one innings.
 
Two fantastic partnerships, and the current one looking really good and hungry for runs. Need to carry on for another session at least.

KM said:
Brilliant day for us. Seems that all of us should avoid making pitch predictions after just one innings.
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True but we've also been lucky with the weather today, as the pitch hasn't dried out.
 
KM said:
Brilliant day for us. Seems that all of us should avoid making pitch predictions after just one innings.
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Today was a good day to bat, yes. But the lack of persistent sun helped. You still get a feeling that by day 4, the cracks will reappear and widen, and it will be producing uneven bounce and unexpected turn.
 
Yup, India's day but two early wickets on day 3 will swing the balance of power back in favour of Australia.
 
India need at least two more such sessions. Right now we’re just one collapse away from disaster. Great batting by Kohli and Rahane and they need to go on for as long as possible. Don’t trust the rest of the batsmen to score much. Vihari is too new, Pant too unreliable, after that it’s the pacers and none of them can bat.

Australia did well to keep the score down. This is why India should have played Jadeja over Umesh.
 
http://www.espncricinfo.com/story/_/id/25532276/removed-my-spinner

The Kohli-Shastri captain-coach team has led India in 12 Tests outside Asia and the West Indies. Here is a non-results-based assessment of their team selections.

Adelaide 2014-15 - Play Karn Sharma - 66 first-class wickets in 34 matches at the time - ahead of R Ashwin. Karn goes for nearly five an over while opposition spinner Nathan Lyon takes 12 wickets.
Sydney 2014-15 - Drop Cheteshwar Pujara, who had just helped India draw a Test. Play out-of-sorts Suresh Raina.

Cape Town 2017-18 - Drop Ajinkya Rahane based on his form on slower pitches. Play Rohit Sharma.

Centurion 2017-18 - Continue excluding Rahane, and also drop Bhuvneshwar Kumar, India's best bowler and second-best batsman in the previous Test.

Johannesburg, 2017-18 - Finally get Rahane back, but play five bowlers on a brutish pitch where extra batting cover is required. Hardik Pandya is required to bowl only eight overs.

Birmingham 2018 - Shikhar Dhawan is picked again. Only one spinner when Ashwin takes wickets even on day one. Pandya required to bowl only 10 overs.

Lord's 2018 - Two spinners in a four-day Test on a pitch kept under covers and moist with the weather around.

Trent Bridge 2018 - Get it right.

Southampton 2018 - Play Ashwin, who has not yet fully recovered from an injury. Believed to be 75-80%.

The Oval 2018 - Pick Hanuma Vihari ahead of Karun Nair, who has been with the squad for ages and might never get to play a Test again.

Adelaide 2018-19 - Get it right. Perfect combination. Six batsmen on a difficult pitch, balanced attack of three best quicks and No. 1 spinner.
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Such a bullshit article. Picking Dhawan was a mistake at Lords at 2018 but somehow got it right at Trent Bridge when he played again just on the basis of result. The author has picked up the test matches we've lost and picked holes in it.

If we had lost the Adelaide test, then the article would have been didn't pick Jadeja who averages 70 with the bat and 21 with the ball in 2018 over Ashwin who averages 50 in Australia.
 
KM said:
Such a bullshit article. Picking Dhawan was a mistake at Lords at 2018 but somehow got it right at Trent Bridge when he played again just on the basis of result. The author has picked up the test matches we've lost and picked holes in it.

If we had lost the Adelaide test, then the article would have been didn't pick Jadeja who averages 70 with the bat and 21 with the ball in 2018 over Ashwin who averages 50 in Australia.
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Also Vihari on debut got a 50 and a 3-for.

Also, we're in a great position. Push for 400 and we can we this match.
 
Still precariously placed in Australia's favour. One wicket is all it takes for them to get back into the game. If Kohli Rahane are still there by the start of the second session, then we can think of 300 and removing the deficit.
 
As I said yesterday, just one batting collapse away. Now it’s all up to Kohli with hopefully Pant batting sensibly because we need to get a big lead.
 
Kohli _/\_

Shame that this amazing innings will likely not end in a happy story for us.
 
Well played. His best innings.

We've done really well to get this far, and it would be a big thing if we end the innings scores level.

Conceded too many in the first innings.
 
Didn’t look convincing to be honest, but Kohli is gone. Cue another collapse as no one else can bat.

What I want to know is, which moron decided that playing Jadeja or Bhuvi was a bad idea? At least those two can bat a bit.
 
That's that and a brilliant innings from Kohli ends in a soft dismissal. He did his part and much more. What a hundred that was, considering the circumstances.

Australia were also at 250-6, too. But on this pitch, watch our tail crumble without a whimper.
 
Australia again getting run of the green. Very hard to tell if that was a clean catch yet soft signal was given out, odd decision. As for.our tail enders, well not surprised at shami getting out 1st delivery. He cannot bat and yet is coming 6 down. Bad team selection may cost india the match
 
I'm not sure how the Umpire gave that out on soft signal.
 
AshRK said:
Australia again getting run of the green. Very hard to tell if that was a clean catch yet soft signal was given out, odd decision. As for.our tail enders, well not surprised at shami getting out 1st delivery. He cannot bat and yet is coming 6 down. Bad team selection may cost india the match
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Agreed. Bad team selection, and Vijay and Rahul both scoring nothing. Both should be benched.
 
KM said:
I'm not sure how the Umpire gave that out on soft signal.
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Serious wtf moment.

I do wish Kohli would have been more patient, there was an opportunity to really bat on for much longer.

Earlier, Rahane getting dismissed by Lyon was so predictable. Like Pujara he'll be mighty disappointed that he couldn't make a big one here.

And now it looks like we'll be batting for about 4 sessions to save the match in the last innings.
 
We got conned into not playing any spinner :lol:
If we had Bhuvi + Ashwin , our tail would probably score a few more too.
 
Varun said:
He's there precisely because he's useless and Kohli can run the show.
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True, but the board need to grow a pair and get someone in who is more assertive and persuasive. Doesn't have to be a complete authoritarian like Greg Chappel, but someone more balanced is required. I don't think Kohli would even mind that change too much once it's done. We're wasting chance after chance to get this team in the history books.
 
Get Dravid in as coach. He may not want to after the treatment Kumble got but I think he has a more hands off approach that might work better.
 
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