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2nd Test: Australia v India at Perth Dec 14-18 2018 - AUSTRALIA WON BY 146 RUNS

typicalfan

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I just got an alert on my phone - ‘Big changes for Perth test’.

The ‘big’ changes are - Finch is batting 5, Handscomb up to 4, Darsh to 3 and Uzi to open.

Talk about f**king deckchairs on the Titanic.
The batting order should be decided by a random number generator to add to the big changes
 

Eelectrica

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I hope CA learn that having a one man batting team is destined for failure. Might work short term.
We should never have been in a position to rely on Smith bailing us out every single time in the first place.
 

Twizzle

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and what will all that achieve exactly ?

failures in a different order, still adds up to the same amount of runs
 

Timbo

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The batting order should be decided by a random number generator to add to the big changes

My park side did that whenever we were forced to bat again to try to avoid outrights. You'd be surprised how often it worked.
 

TheParraboy

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and what will all that achieve ecactly ?

India 2-0?


Win the toss and bat over 5 sessions is our only hope (hottest days of the test)
Make India (in particular Pujara) cook out in the field

Cant see us winning otherwise
 

TheParraboy

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Rohit Sharma and R Ashwin ruled out of Perth.

http://www.espncricinfo.com/story/_/id/25521885/r-ashwin-rohit-sharma-ruled-second-test

India will have to tinker with their winning combination from Adelaide with Rohit Sharma and R Ashwin ruled out with back and side injuries respectively. Prithvi Shaw is yet to recover from the ankle injury he picked up during the warm-up game in Sydney.

Ravindra Jadeja, Umesh Yadav and Bhuvneshwar Kumar have been drafted into the thirteen named for the second Test.

Hanuma Vihari is the like-for-like replacement for the sixth batsman, Rohit. The incumbent openers, KL Rahul and M Vijay, should retain their spots. The final spot will be contested between Jadeja, Bhuvneshwar and Umesh.

The green pitch, "the bounciest possible" according to the curator, has everyone talking, and there might be temptation to play a fourth quick. However, there might also be grounds for playing a bowler who can bat. Bhvuneshwar has to be the frontrunner in that case.

If India do go in with four frontline quicks, it will not be the first time they have done so this year. They played four fast bowlers plus Hardik Pandya on the brutish Johannesburg surface earlier this year, winning the Test after having lost the series.



India beat South Africa on a green deck earlier in the year, playing 4 pacemen

we are doomed
 

Bazal

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We need to take a risk or two and make a statement to get on top in this series IMO, and Perth is the place to do it...

Obviously a lot depends on the pitch and I rarely trust early pics, because they might have a lot of work to do to it still. But if that's what it looks like tomorrow, and Paine wins the toss, I'd almost be hoping he sends India in.
 

JJ

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India are a much more rounded adaptable side than they've been historically - especially the bowlers, seems like Kohli has a lot to do with that. And while they don't have the plethora of great bats they've had in the past, again they are more committed to doing the job... still, your 3 quicks can be destructive so you'll have a chance... just hard to see where you're runs will come from...

While it's good to see Australia struggle a bit, it's kind of weird that you have one astonishingly good bat with an equally astonishing technique and literally nothing else aside from some flat track heroes... even in those 80s teams Border had some decent players, and decent young talent around him... Renshaw has looked (IMO) the best prospect, but TBH that's pretty sad because he's not all that... Is it the BBL? Started earlier though? Did systems etc become complacent? Like the great Windies teams just the expectation that further great players would emerge? Unlike the Windies, they will for you, but some of the basics need to be learned better (all that's with a grain of salt of course, as every country is in much the same boat, but for the most part the rest of us have a long history of being used to mediocrity... and TBH Smith aside your test bats just look not flash on anything but roads...

Still, Starc might be annoyed, and he can run through a side... any side... (and the other two are just always very good)
 

Bazal

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While it's good to see Australia struggle a bit, it's kind of weird that you have one astonishingly good bat with an equally astonishing technique and literally nothing else aside from some flat track heroes... even in those 80s teams Border had some decent players, and decent young talent around him... Renshaw has looked (IMO) the best prospect, but TBH that's pretty sad because he's not all that... Is it the BBL? Started earlier though? Did systems etc become complacent? Like the great Windies teams just the expectation that further great players would emerge? Unlike the Windies, they will for you, but some of the basics need to be learned better (all that's with a grain of salt of course, as every country is in much the same boat, but for the most part the rest of us have a long history of being used to mediocrity... and TBH Smith aside your test bats just look not flash on anything but roads...

Honestly? It's a bloody long discussion. You can talk about everything from grass roots problems, pitches, weird selection policies, a clueless high performance manager, cultural concerns, the continued devaluation of the Shield competition, stagnation and incompetence at an administrative level....and that's just the easy stuff to see.

Realistically, we've had the same folks in charge of the game since 2001, and all the new guys came form the same school as the ones they replaced. That's not a successful or sustainable model.
 

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