2nd Test: Australia v India at MCG Dec 26-30 2020

[Old tiger 79]

The key to this test is our pace attack. If our boys can repeat the effort from Adelaide than we win

 

[TheParraboy]

Burns is the equivalent of boxers who’ve fought south East Asian nobody’s to accumulate a record to try and get a shot at a title. He’s scored runs against nuff nuffs. When he has actually scored runs...

Wade (amongst other things) has gone abroad and and been a vital cog in claiming the Ashes on English Soil for the first time since 2001. Something Sleepy Joe Burns could only dream of and never achieve..

Wade brings more to the team than Burns. Burns is a genuine opener but couldnt open a jar of vegemite all summer. To pick him rewards mediocrity. To keep him accepts it. Far more deserving openers available than Sleepy Joe.

Well said mate

Outstanding ashes series

Averages 45.00 batting at 5, his rightful spot

I reckon since he became a father couple of years back or so, he has become a good bloke

 

[TheParraboy]

No surprise regarding Shami, out for the series


https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/...ia-test-series-with-fractured-forearm-1244749

Fast bowler Mohammed Shami has been ruled out of the rest of India's tour of Australia. It is understood Shami has suffered a fracture on his right forearm, which was revealed after he underwent scans immediately after the Adelaide Test ended. The news will come as a crushing blow for India, who lost that Test inside three days after being bowled out for their lowest Test total ever.

The BCCI is yet to make an announcement on the development. As for Shami's replacement, the team management has to pick one from the trio of players: Kartik Tyagi, T Natarajan and Shardul Thakur. Incidentally neither of these three fast men were part of the original Test squad. Both Natarajan and Thakur stayed back after the white-ball leg of the Australia tour to join Tyagi as net bowlers.


The Indian team management has a difficult choice to make on who should replace Shami in the Test squad. Thakur, who plays for Mumbai, is the most experienced seamer among the reserves, with 206 wickets at an average of 28.55 in first-class cricket. Natarajan, a left-arm seamer, forced his way into India's limited-overs squads for the Australian tour on the back of his impressive performances in the IPL for Sunrirsers Hyderabad. In first-class cricket, Natarajan, who represents Tamil Nadu, has limited experience having picked up 64 wickets in 20 matches at 27.03.

Twenty-year-old Tyagi was part of the India Under-19 side that made the World Cup final in South Africa earlier this year. A right-arm fast bowler, Tyagi played for the Indians in the first warm-up match against Australia A recently, going wicketless. He has played two matches for Uttar Pradesh in the Ranji Trophy, picking up three wickets.

 

[JJ]

Well said mate

Outstanding ashes series

Averages 45.00 batting at 5, his rightful spot

I reckon since he became a father couple of years back or so, he has become a good bloke

Australia has always gone well with two garden gnomes in the top 6... Wadey and Davey are this generation’s Boon and Border, or Langer and Ponting

 

[The Mad Hatter]

Back to back Tests for Melbourne now. Why can’t they cancel Sydney and take it to Perth?

 

[hineyrulz]

f**k Melbourne and their drop in highway of a pitch

 

[TheParraboy]

Back to back Tests for Melbourne now. Why can’t they cancel Sydney and take it to Perth?

Source?

They are still discussing it


https://wwos.nine.com.au/cricket/cr...outbreak/bb3fb1ab-25b3-4bc0-9bc8-825041d398b1

Sydney's COVID-19 outbreak has caused Cricket Australia to weigh up moving the New Year's Test to Melbourne or Brisbane in a fixture re-shuffle.

The SCG's plans to host the traditional New Year's fixture have been thrown into turmoil in recent days with states progressively closing their borders to New South Wales after the Northern Beaches cluster.

CA's coronavirus working group was to meet on Sunday to discuss the prospect of moving the third Test of the India series.

 

[The Mad Hatter]

Source?

They are still discussing it


https://wwos.nine.com.au/cricket/cr...outbreak/bb3fb1ab-25b3-4bc0-9bc8-825041d398b1

Sydney's COVID-19 outbreak has caused Cricket Australia to weigh up moving the New Year's Test to Melbourne or Brisbane in a fixture re-shuffle.

The SCG's plans to host the traditional New Year's fixture have been thrown into turmoil in recent days with states progressively closing their borders to New South Wales after the Northern Beaches cluster.

CA's coronavirus working group was to meet on Sunday to discuss the prospect of moving the third Test of the India series.

Thought I heard it on Triple M news. Mind you, was half asleep and saw a SMH headline stating something similar.

Happy to be corrected, as I actually bought my tickets when they went on sale last Thursday.

 

[JJ]

Team selections will be interesting... Australia might make more unforced changes than India, despite the calamity...

 

[TheParraboy]

Team selections will be interesting... Australia might make more unforced changes than India, despite the calamity...

Considering there is a 7 day break (maybe longer if India self destruct again) before the 3rd test, unlikely we need to make more than one unforced change (if Warner fit)

Not sure the logic making multiple unforced changes

 

[JJ]

Considering there is a 7 day break (maybe longer if India self destruct again) before the 3rd test, unlikely we need to make more than one unforced change (if Warner fit)

Not sure the logic making multiple unforced changes

Was really just thinking the openers... India have to make two changes, whether they'll make any more will be interesting - given the pounding they took you'd think at least Shaw and Saha would be looked closely at

 

[lockyno1]

Was really just thinking the openers... India have to make two changes, whether they'll make any more will be interesting - given the pounding they took you'd think at least Shaw and Saha would be looked closely at

Think Shaw will survive more for the reason once they picked him to drop him after 1 test is harsh. Shubman Gill comes in for Kholi. KL Rahul is surely considered even for someone like Vilhari.

 

[jargan83]

Back to back Tests for Melbourne now. Why can’t they cancel Sydney and take it to Perth?

Because the BBL is in Perth on those dates.

How dare a Test series think they can cancel Clive Rose and Tim David

 

[lockyno1]

f**k Melbourne and their drop in highway of a pitch

Sydney has been no better lately

The only two decent pitches are Adelaide and Perth

 

[JJ]

Think Shaw will survive more for the reason once they picked him to drop him after 1 test is harsh. Shubman Gill comes in for Kholi. KL Rahul is surely considered even for someone like Vilhari.

Wtf? So everyone in both teams that played the first test should play the second because dropping anyone would make them sad?

 

[lockyno1]

Wtf? So everyone in both teams that played the first test should play the second because dropping anyone would make them sad?

Look Shaw looks like a crab but he does average 50 in test level. One failure (first innings) doesn’t change that. His second innings he got a peach

 

[TheParraboy]

Same side as Test 1 firming me thinks


https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/...big-selection-call-likely-in-new-year-1244856

David Warner unlikely for Boxing Day, big selection call likely in New Year

It is looking as though Australia will have an unchanged side for the second Test

David Warner is unlikely to be fit for the Boxing Day Test which means the decision on who will make way when he returns is set to be delayed until the third game of the series in the New Year.

Warner, who was swiftly moved to Melbourne earlier this week due to the Covid-19 outbreak in Sydney, has been out of action since injuring his groin in the second ODI at the SCG last month and despite an extensive rehabilitation programme, which has including using an oxygen chamber, the time frame looks too tight for him to be available.

In Warner's absence - and that of Will Pucovski who is also set to miss the second Test as he continues his recovery from concussion - Joe Burns and Matthew Wade formed a new opening partnership. Burns was coming off the back of a horrid run of form while Wade had never done the job previously in first-class cricket, but they added 70 in the second innings after repelling the new ball for 14 overs in the first.

 

[JJ]

Look Shaw looks like a crab but he does average 50 in test level. One failure (first innings) doesn’t change that. His second innings he got a peach

Couldn't score in NZ either - will go ok once a road is prepared - seriously, maybe you should actually have a look before you say shit - he's done well against the Windies in India lol

https://stats.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/player/1070168.html?class=1;template=results;type=allround

 

[hineyrulz]

I hope Shaw plays, he looks a walking wicket. You could fit a truck through his bat and pad when he’s playing a forward defensive shot.

 

[The Mad Hatter]

Steve Smith doesn’t want to play twice in Melbourne.

Says the squad’s preference is Sydney.

Source : Triple M radio news