Australia tour of India (Feb '17/Mar '17)

[asprin]

He was a sitting duck against Amir and Junaid when it was swinging

Agreed. But you wont get those kind of conditions in India. I've to agree with Steve Waugh when he said Warner will pile on the runs on this tour irrespective of his team's outcome.

 

[CerealKiller]

Agreed. But you wont get those kind of conditions in India. I've to agree with Steve Waugh when he said Warner will pile on the runs on this tour irrespective of his team's outcome.

He's too impatient. He needs to play more cautiously if he is going to "pile on the runs".

 

[Aoun13]

Hmmm...Warner?

My definition for worldclass is someone who can play well in almost every condition.
Warner is great where there is little pace in the pitch, basically Australian or South African conditions. Although he has improved a lot in last few years but to me he doesn't have that patience which you need on subcontinental pitches.

 

[CerealKiller]

Agreed. But you wont get those kind of conditions in India. I've to agree with Steve Waugh when he said Warner will pile on the runs on this tour irrespective of his team's outcome.

Also, all of his Test hundreds have come in Australia or South Africa, except one, which was in Dubai, one of the flattest wickets in Asia.

 

[Bigby Wolf]

Well I am excited to see how will Maxwell play ? In the last series he made his debut and looked clueless against spin - he doesn't even have a proper defense to play test matches.

 

[Bigby Wolf]

Also, all of his Test hundreds have come in Australia or South Africa, except one, which was in Dubai, one of the flattest wickets in Asia.

He can be susceptible with new ball against Bhuvi and Umesh - both have troubled him in the past.

 

[asprin]

He needs to play more cautiously if he is going to "pile on the runs"

On the contrary, I think he will not curb his natural instincts. Scoring at a faster rate is an effective way of putting the opposition on the defensive. That's what I'm really interested to see. How would Virat react when he scores a quick 50 or two.

 

[CerealKiller]

On the contrary, I think he will not curb his natural instincts. Scoring at a faster rate is an effective way of putting the opposition on the defensive. That's what I'm really interested to see. How would Virat react when he scores a quick 50 or two.

A quick fifty or two will be useless if he gets out slogging afterwards. You need to go really big in the subcontinent if you want to put real pressure on the home side

 

[Bigby Wolf]

On the contrary, I think he will not curb his natural instincts. Scoring at a faster rate is an effective way of putting the opposition on the defensive. That's what I'm really interested to see. How would Virat react when he scores a quick 50 or two.

He can be susceptible with new ball against Bhuvi and Umesh - both have troubled him in the past.

In my opinion new ball will be a equally big challenge for him with SG red ball so as Spin.

 

[Velocity]

It'd be interesting to see how Starc fares in these tracks. Over the course, India has made too much spin-friendly wickets for their benefit, they will likely to go that way in this series too. India is looking favorite and clear winner but lets what happens

I think either this guy didn't watch the matches or he's jealous of the Indian team's sucess and then blames it on the
"many spin friendly pitches" that is responsible for the opposition's slumps. If you compare these pitches to 2015, these pitches are SO much better than 2015 where what this guy said about the "spin friendly pitches" makes sense. This home season, there hasn't been insane turn and the pitches have been good. These have been good pitches for batting and useful for the bowlers too, but not rank turners. The reason for India doing so well in the second innings is the oppositions technique aganist spin and how well they play it. The English really didn't play spin well in the second innings as they either threw their wickets away or the bowling was too good. Look to the recent Bangladesh Test match, in the second innings. They made the Indians toil and fight hard for the wickets as they had good technique and they played Ash and Jaddu very well, knowing when to block amd when to attack. But, in that second innings, so many fell not due to being insane spin,but bad shots is w ha t Bangladesh went down, such as Musfiqur Rahim when he tried going down over extra cover, which was absolutely unnessecery. Shakib's wicket, well was because of sharp turn, but you are always going to have a dismissal like that. But my point is clear. It's stupid saying they make "so many spin-friendly pitches" if you haven't even watched what went on there. It's more appropiate to say our spinners were a lot better than the opposition when picking 20 wickets. Our batsmen and bowlers had to work for the runs and wickets, mind you.

 

[zwarrior]

Australia going good. Both the openers dismissed, 128-2

 

[asprin]

Hardik Pandya again not being economical.

 

[zwarrior]

Smith started the tour with a century and I have a feeling he will get couple of those in next four matches.

 

[Bigby Wolf]

Hardik Pandya again not being economical.

I don't understand why is he in the team (both India and the A team) that too playing as a captain for the latter ,i doubt whether he has played any first class games yet (possibly played in A tour of Australia).Looks horrible for me in the most testing format of the game with the economy of 4.29 which was 6 with the new ball is pretty ordinary and was same against the Bangladesh warmup as well.

 

[Satan666]

Lmao at all the posts predicting a whitewash against Aussies! Not gonna happen!