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[coolcucumber_1]

Definitely not a road ....  a sporting track i would say as you have to get your defense straight otherwise its lights out ...atleast when jadeja is bowling.

[Felix Tito]

Lyon's lack of talent exposed yet again. Offers absolutely nothing. Australia better off playing Hazlewood Cummins Bird plus SoK

[Number4]

India all over the Aussies now and all but certain to win

[ProCricketer1982]

And warner goes - time to drop him? He's had enough failures on the sub continent now

Sure he's crap on non roads but he scores so many on roads his avg will always be high enough that he won't be dropped.

[ProCricketer1982]

Definitely not a road ....  a sporting track i would say as you have to get your defense straight otherwise its lights out ...atleast when jadeja is bowling.

1000 runs ?? It's a road

[gaurav23]

1000 runs ?? It's a road

Batsmen grinding at less than 3/over and you call it a road ?? Well,it's a forum again ;-)

[Buzz]

When Aus are cleaned up for 120 tomorrow will it still be a road?

[sanredrose]

When Aus are cleaned up for 120 tomorrow will it still be a road?

Well it remains to be seen if that happens ... given the way ball is turning for Jadeja, i am giving that a 60% chance !

[ProCricketer1982]

When Aus are cleaned up for 120 tomorrow will it still be a road?

Tbf buzz I would put it more down to tiredness and a sheer unwillingness to just bat more than the wicket. Wicket is doing very little and it's day 5

[ppccopener]

The wicket was turning today day 4. For India to bat past Australia is a pretty big effort and they may well get their rewards tommorow with a win.
It's test cricket it's supposed to be hard over 5 days

From what I have seen the track actually has more pace in it than normal Indian tracks, Cummins is quick and he was getting it thou with decent pace and bounce when he was at full tilt.

Certainly wouldn't describe this wicket as a road.

[CrickFreak]

Only pitch which can be labelled as "road" was the one produced by Rajkot against England. this is typical Indian pitch which deteriorates as game progresses and sometimes rapidly after day 3.
India win is a huge possibility unless couple of aussies can anchor down and bat couple of sessions.
this is a great display of how to bat second in India if you lose the toss. Most of the visitors would have mentally lost it after seeing 451 on the board and fold for 200 or less.
Visitors need to learn to do this and take toss out of the equation.
VK has failed so far and wont be too long we see a big score from him. Hopefully he does in last test and win 3-1 (assuming India wont have to bat again in this test  ).
Day 5....

[t2ylo]

Really enjoying this series.
Normal intimidating & exhausting volume of runs service looks to have resumed thanks to Pujara.
Aussies have taken actual spinners rather than part timers which makes them more competitive
But main difference from India's utter dominance of England is Kohli's lack of runs - just goes to show that even at the very top of the game one truly sensational player is often the difference between the sides.
We are seeing India (without VK) being taken to the wire by an Aussie side that is not their most tremendous... in India!!!

[CrickFreak]

Really enjoying this series.
Normal intimidating & exhausting volume of runs service looks to have resumed thanks to Pujara.
Aussies have taken actual spinners rather than part timers which makes them more competitive
But main difference from India's utter dominance of England is Kohli's lack of runs - just goes to show that even at the very top of the game one truly sensational player is often the difference between the sides.
We are seeing India (without VK) being taken to the wire by an Aussie side that is not their most tremendous... in India!!!

He is captain and a batsman. Its always going to be tough when one of the top 4 batter fails 5 times back to back. and being one of the most prolific scorer in the team, it hurts more...

[csnew]

Not sure anyone who's watched the last few overs can call it a road now - the 2 wickets that fell turned.
Don't think India can ever win in terms of what wickets they produce, they'll always be criticism particularly on this forum.

Think India are still pretty defensive in there method, other sides would have got on with it a bit earlier and given themselves 20 overs at the end. India did the same against England and still won, but if they have the aussies 9 down and run out of time then they'll look back. Eventually it will cost them

[Shinpathy]

LOL no way Aussies will last the whole day.