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[Mister Le Chiffre]

India's tour started this morning. 3x T20, 4x Test and 3x ODI.

First T20 at the Gabba, Australia currently 75-3 still hapless again spin

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Maxwell laying into K Pandya crushing the SLA for sixes with ridiculous ease

[rickjames]

Those Lynn sixes earlier were lovely.

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Australia edge India in a thrilling contest. A rare win for the aussies

[Mfarank]

The same "C team" that were clean swept by pakistan few weeks ago

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Australia Test squad for the first two matches. Good old Marsh brothers still in the mix...
Renshaw axed.

Pat Cummins, Aaron Finch, Peter Handscomb, Marcus Harris, Josh Hazlewood (VC), Travis Head, Usman Khawaja, Nathan Lyon, Mitchell Marsh (VC), Shaun Marsh, Tim Paine (C), Peter Siddle, Mitchell Starc, Chris Tremain

[mo_town]

Giving Krunal a chance in overseas conditions cost India the match. Chahal would have been the better option.

Also, I hate the fact that India do not allocate enough days for the team to acclimatize before starting the tour. Ideally they should have played at least 1 practice T20 before the series.

[stevat]

Giving Krunal a chance in overseas conditions cost India the match. Chahal would have been the better option.

Also, I hate the fact that India do not allocate enough days for the team to acclimatize before starting the tour. Ideally they should have played at least 1 practice T20 before the series.

Their schedule is incredible.  I mean they are well rewarded, but the timing of their tours make it such that their first game is effectively their warm up match.  Should probably be looked at, though I see they've talked about resting players - but that is not going to go down well with the fans who want to see their best team each match.

On Australia, Harris I really like, tidy player, but all his Shield runs came in one game (innings) and Doolan and a couple of others seem to be in better nick generally.  Be interesting to see how he goes.  Lot of left-handers in there.

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King Kohli scores unbeaten 61* so ensure India tie the T20 series 1-1, second game was rained off. Kohli was different class, ominous signs ahead of the Test series

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Prithvi Shaw out of the first Test in Adelaide after suffering a severe ankle injury in the Indians warm up game.

[stevat]

Prithvi Shaw out of the first Test in Adelaide after suffering a severe ankle injury in the Indians warm up game.

Yeah, watched that on a stream, went over trying to stop a ball crossing the rope and struggled to get back to his feet.  Shame as he's in good form and was hoping to see how he'd fare overseas.

[rickjames]

For anyone who wants to see the injury, although I'd strongly advise not to https://preview.redd.it/v8vgs5x76d121.jpg?width=607&auto=webp&s=7b1eeb3b22d0dad886317b11c18ea4a44a8fdd4e

Y U C K

[Mister Le Chiffre]

Can't see Shaw playing before the third Test tbh, saw an image of him on crutches. Anyway his misfortune is Australia's gain. Rahul played a horrible shot and recently jettisoned Vijay are the only openers left in the squad

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Also looks like Handscombe may well leapfrog Head for the number 5 slot

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Looks like Rahul and Vijay will open in the first Test, the former with a morale boosting half century in the second innings and the latter a dazzling century. Albeit against a modest attack.

Elsewhere Matthew Renshaw scored a triple century in grade cricket...still he's not from WA so langer won't be impressed