3rd Test: India v Australia @ Indore March 1-5, 2023

[Bazal]

Is Swepson back, has he missed his chance now?

Another one chewed up and spat out by the Cult of the BOAT.

Was way too late into his career for him to debit given his limitations, but the obsession with a bald medium paver robbed him of the opportunities he probably needed to develop. A leggie with no wrongun at age 23 can go away and develop one, but at age 29 it's pointless pretty much. And the Shield is so shit he barely needs one

 

[T-Boon]

Have hndscombe keep and bring in another batsman. Carey needs to be out of the team

 

[T-Boon]

Handscomb was a keeper a few years back right?

 

[AlwaysGreen]

Is Swepson back, has he missed his chance now?

If he changed his name to Sweepson he'd be in the team for the next 40 years.

 

[Fangs]

Now Haze is gone. Potentially Warner too:

https://www.news.com.au/sport/cricket/pat-cummins-flying-home-from-india-tour-due-to-family-illness/news-story/f3f81a3f9f0e1cf4bfa4c398a0b437a5

Now even more damning news has struck the Aussie camp with two more stars set to join Cummins on a plane home. Hazlewood has failed to overcome the achilles injury which has seen him sidelined since the New Year’s Test in Sydney, he’ll be ruled out entirely for the remainder of the series.

News Corp’s Peter Lalor is reporting David Warner could join the duo in flying home from India in order to recover from a fractured elbow injury he sustained during the first innings of the second Test, putting his spot in the series for the remaining two Tests well and truly up in the air.

 

[mozza91]

4-0 looming. JL must be reinstated!!!!

 

[TheParraboy]

SOS Marcus Harris and Peter Siddle ?

Now Haze is gone. Potentially Warner too:

https://www.news.com.au/sport/cricket/pat-cummins-flying-home-from-india-tour-due-to-family-illness/news-story/f3f81a3f9f0e1cf4bfa4c398a0b437a5

Now even more damning news has struck the Aussie camp with two more stars set to join Cummins on a plane home. Hazlewood has failed to overcome the achilles injury which has seen him sidelined since the New Year’s Test in Sydney, he’ll be ruled out entirely for the remainder of the series.

News Corp’s Peter Lalor is reporting David Warner could join the duo in flying home from India in order to recover from a fractured elbow injury he sustained during the first innings of the second Test, putting his spot in the series for the remaining two Tests well and truly up in the air.

 

[AlwaysGreen]

Surely they would have known Hazlewood wasn't going to be right.

 

[Parra]

Are they going to go

Khawaja
Head
Labushchagne
Smith
Handscombe
Green
Carey
Cummins
Starc/Hazelwood
Lyon

seems the best XI in the conditions - but won't work in England
Maybe they could make Green open the batting

Ditch Cummins for Boland.

 

[hineyrulz]

It’s f**king comedy capers.

 

[Twizzle]

putting Starc in for one of the spinners might give them 10 extra runs to defend and make no difference to their bowling effectiveness

but.....the footmarks

 

[icewind]

could upgrade and get James Dyson

no need, we suck enough.

 

[icewind]

I don't think anyone is begrudging Cummins for going home for personal reasons. But he's best off just staying there. While it's no fault of his, we need someone who will be here the next 10 days and somehow lift us off the mat.

 

[Cheese sandwich]

This is where we turn the corner and flog the pants off them.

The Rishabh Pants?

 

[Canard]

The Aussies just need to sweep that loss under the rug and move on.

 

[King-Gutho94]

This tour is looming as big a disaster as the 2013 debacle that basically got Mickey Arthur sacked.

 

[King-Gutho94]

Hazlewood longevity must be in question now.

What is it like 8 tests in the past 4 years he has played and got injured in 3 of them.

 

[simmo1]

This tour is looming as big a disaster as the 2013 debacle that basically got Mickey Arthur sacked.

This tour is just par for the course for Australia in the subcontinent. I am a little surprised the reaction is so strong on social media given this has been happening frequently for about 15-20 years. Perhaps just jaded JL fans who have been waiting a year to sink the boot in.

The worst series in recent memory is the home series loss to India's reserve team a couple of years ago.

 

[icewind]

yes, 95% of the public are just "jaded JL fans". We had the potential to make a real fist of this series and I think that is what the majority the public are upset at, at how we hammed this up so badly, and opportunities like this don't come around often.

 

[Valheru]

They should have the balls to use this opportunity to reinstall Smith as captain full time, f**k the haters.

Cummins is a very good bowler but is lacking as a leader.