SCG 4th Test: Australia v India on Jan 6-10, 2015

[Canard]

India going through the motions now, sucking all the competitiveness from this Test match.

Considering we are down to there tail now, its up to Australia to bowl them out, not let the bunnies stonewall you.

To get to 400 chasing a total of 570 is a lot better effort than I gave them credit for getting though.

 

[tomdl]

Starc bowls a 8 or 9 minute over and apparently it is entirely the batsmen's fault. f**k up Brayshaw

 

[KeepingTheFaith]

Red time, red time, red time.

 

[vvvrulz]

I don't understand India's game here, they are down 2-0 and clearly only looking for a draw which will give the series to Australia. The pitch is dead, they could have gone at 3-4 an over, matched Australia (or come close) and hoped Ashwin produced a miracle. But at this rate it will just plod on and on.

 

[JJ]

I don't understand India's game here, they are down 2-0 and clearly only looking for a draw which will give the series to Australia. The pitch is dead, they could have gone at 3-4 an over, matched Australia (or come close) and hoped Ashwin produced a miracle. But at this rate it will just plod on and on.

2-0 is better than 3-0, surely?

 

[KeepingTheFaith]

I thought the moment India named their team that the result wasn't their primary concern. No surprise here.

The pitch/fielding is the story here though. If either were slightly better India would be forced to fight for their lives rather than just play it out.

 

[vvvrulz]

2-0 is better than 3-0, surely?

They pretty much threw in the towel on the day 3 morning and decided to bat out the test match. I have a problem with that.

 

[JJ]

I thought the moment India named their team that the result wasn't their primary concern. No surprise here.

The pitch/fielding is the story here though. If either were slightly better India would be forced to fight for their lives rather than just play it out.

Yeah, looks that way - although if the pitch was better Australia wouldn't necessarily have scored 570 either

 

[Canard]

I don't understand India's game here, they are down 2-0 and clearly only looking for a draw which will give the series to Australia. The pitch is dead, they could have gone at 3-4 an over, matched Australia (or come close) and hoped Ashwin produced a miracle. But at this rate it will just plod on and on.

Everyone would be saying how they didnt' care and were hopeless if they went out and blasted away and got out for 250 runs.

They are trying to not lose, which is a legitimate tactic in Test cricket. To go home and say we lost 2 Nil is much better than 3 Nil.

 

[JJ]

They pretty much threw in the towel on the day 3 morning and decided to bat out the test match. I have a problem with that.

They probably saw Watson, Marsh, Rogers and Burns make runs and realised there was nothing that could be done on this wicket :?

But it started with their nonsensical selections, I still have no idea of the rationale there

 

[Red Bear]

You would be brain dead within a session of play!!

I feel like that anyway with Nein commentating at present

Baseballers make sense, they take fielding seriously - I don't recall Blewett as anything other than a decent fielder, so not sure why he's there... in his defence though, there's no Ponting, Symonds, Clarke, Martyn, Hayden etc there... pretty minimal talent to work with

Simpson was brilliant though...

Just on that, boy I would love to see Warner as a baseballer. He's a tad short, but his fielding is bang on and he could switch hit with a fair bit of power. Him at 2nd base would be good.

And yeah, baseball fielding is pretty slick. What you notice there is that it's not about the spectacular (even as the best are capable of the spectacular), rather alot of the best make it look very routine through their positioning and awareness.

Much like Punter and Symonds in their prime, I guess.

Starc getting stuck in. It's so hard to take aggressive Starc seriously, but he seems to get under people's skin enough

Especially when he starts mouthing off after putting a ball a foot down leg.

Cannot stand Starc.

 

[Dutchy]

1 –The number of no-balls Nathan Lyon has bowled in his Test career. Lyon was called for the extra due to three fielders being behind square on the leg side prior to bowling of the second ball of his 30th over. The off-spinner had gone 9,067 deliveries without being called for a no ball before then.

 

[JJ]

Everyone would be saying how they didnt' care and were hopeless if they went out and blasted away and got out for 250 runs.

They are trying to not lose, which is a legitimate tactic in Test cricket. To go home and say we lost 2 Nil is much better than 3 Nil.

That's what I reckon, and the wicket allows them to. Also, if a team scores nearly 600 in the first innings it makes it very unlikely the other team can win - although they're scoring slower than Australia, it's not a huge difference - take Warner out and it's be comparable - captain Kohli score as quick or quicker than everyone bar Warner

 

[Meth]

Especially when he starts mouthing off after putting a ball a foot down leg.

Cannot stand Starc.

I think that he was much more focussed on length and sledge than line and length

 

[The Charlatan]

I think that he was much more focussed on length and sledge than line and length

Probably took Warne a little too seriously.

 

[Meth]

wow an odi series between australia, india and england. should be enthralling...

 

[vvvrulz]

wow an odi series between australia, india and england. should be enthralling...

The worlds greatest sledge competition.

 

[BunniesMan]

The great wall of Kumar just middled a cover drive for 4. We're f**ked.

 

[BunniesMan]

The worlds greatest sledge competition.

Aussies and Indians will sledge and the English will cry.

 

[Meth]

What was the appeal for?

LBW going down leg

Didn't hit the bat.

Dropped it anyway