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Re: Australia vs India
« Reply #345 on: January 19, 2021, 07:52:33 AM »
To be fair to Paine, there wasn’t much he could do. Can’t take 10 wickets with Starc and Lyon both out of form. Absolutely tremendous effort from India - I suspect the real hero is Rahane... calm, and bold.
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« Reply #346 on: January 19, 2021, 07:53:16 AM »
Wow, brilliant. Cracking series, and a serious achievement from Australia to make India look like the plucky underdogs.
Wade and Paine to go, surely - how Wade gets anywhere near an Australian test XI is beyond me, and Paine was brought back as specialist keeper/good bloke but now drops everything and swears at umpires. Pat Cummins captain?

Some blokes would resign and give Rahane the captaincy, but you suspect Kohli is not one of them haha.
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« Reply #347 on: January 19, 2021, 07:56:12 AM »
Thriller thriller thriller. NEVER WATCHED A TEST LIKE THIS.(stokes and Leach's parternership I didn't watch live). Aus captaincy was questionable not giving Cummin last overs.

Made few young Indian player's careers
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Re: Australia vs India
« Reply #348 on: January 19, 2021, 08:01:01 AM »
Quote from: brokenbat on January 19, 2021, 07:52:33 AM
To be fair to Paine, there wasn’t much he could do. Can’t take 10 wickets with Starc and Lyon both out of form. Absolutely tremendous effort from India - I suspect the real hero is Rahane... calm, and bold.

Paine did nothing. He didnt keep men up in the ring as catchers or on the fence as boundary protectors. He had men halfway back allowing 1s&2s everywhere and at least 5 miscued shots went aerial through standard mid off/mid wicket/point and got to the fielder one or 2 bounce.

India needed well over a run a ball and Aus had just taken the new ball. Poor captaincy in my book
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Re: Australia vs India
« Reply #349 on: January 19, 2021, 08:04:14 AM »
India rubbing salt into Lyon’s wounds by presenting him with a signed shirt for his 100 test
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Re: Australia vs India
« Reply #350 on: January 19, 2021, 08:22:53 AM »
Quote from: csnew on January 19, 2021, 08:04:14 AM
India rubbing salt into Lyon’s wounds by presenting him with a signed shirt for his 100 test

It was a great gesture - you have a strange view of the world ;)
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Re: Australia vs India
« Reply #351 on: January 19, 2021, 09:38:56 AM »
watching the highlights now - amazing effort from india - love Pujara's bravery - loved him enough before for being an old faishoned test batsman - now even more!!
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Re: Australia vs India
« Reply #352 on: January 19, 2021, 09:42:40 AM »
Anywhere to watch the highlights other than BT sport chaps?
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Re: Australia vs India
« Reply #353 on: January 19, 2021, 10:18:23 AM »
Quote from: golders on January 19, 2021, 09:42:40 AM
Anywhere to watch the highlights other than BT sport chaps?

For a short highlights package you could watch on YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wY6UyatwVTA
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Re: Australia vs India
« Reply #354 on: January 19, 2021, 12:28:54 PM »
What a game....as during big tournaments they say a team peaked at the right time
This time everyone contributed in Team India....it was not one player's big innings
The morale for sure was high and players were in positive mindset
Pujara took so many blows but knew his job was to stay and not lose a wicket
Gill played superb and Pant finished the game like Ben Stokes did in 2019
For Australia - opening pair scored only in this innings otherwise it was all up to Marcus and Smith
And must be tiring for the bowlers to keep bowling short , trying to hit the crack till the very end of day 5

Amazing test series

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Re: Australia vs India
« Reply #355 on: January 19, 2021, 12:36:54 PM »
Really impressed with Siraj, surely he's part of their first choice pace attack after his performances this series. Thakur looks a very decent all-rounder and Sundar seems like a great option to replace Jadeja going forward. Depth they have is just unbelievable.
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Re: Australia vs India
« Reply #356 on: January 19, 2021, 12:45:50 PM »
Bumrah and Shami pick themselves in my opinion but they definitely have alot of guys queueing up for 3rd and 4th choice seamers away from Asia. Will be interesting to see how they go this summer in England. Got tickets for 2 Tests so will look forward to seeing them up close

I guess you tend to form a bit of strength in depth when you have 1.3 billion people all mad about the same sport!

Just seen Ashwin giving Paine a bit on Twitter  :D

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Re: Australia vs India
« Reply #357 on: January 19, 2021, 12:54:03 PM »
I'd have Siraj ahead of Ishant, Yadav or Saini anyway. Natarajan probably only gets a look in if you're looking for the left arm variety.
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Re: Australia vs India
« Reply #358 on: January 19, 2021, 02:12:36 PM »
wow what a series

what a win

india did what most could never have predicted

just shows, what a good domestic setup + strong IPL + lots of A Tours can help you achieve!

could they go on and dominate like the great Aussie and Windies sides of old?
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Re: Australia vs India
« Reply #359 on: January 19, 2021, 02:35:37 PM »
Wow what a mental series, unfortunately missed pretty much all of it - got bloody covid thought I was dying lol.
Looking at India’s reserves after years of only padding up their batting resources, the penny finally dropped that you need bowlers to be a dominant side.
Can you realistically imagine a side losing Ishant, Shami, Umesh, Bumrah, Ashwin and Jadeja and still staying in the contest.
This Siraj chap looks a top quality find, more remarkable that he stayed on the tour after his father died. Thakur looks a decent backup for Shami. Sundar is obviously the Ashwin clone.
All things being equal India’s bowling resources look pretty damn strong.
Aside from the Adelaide meltdown and some dodgy catching India most certainly dominated the series.
Australia pretty much put all their eggs on Smith, Marnus, Warner and Cummins. Think Starc is a massive hype job and should be ditched.
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