India's tour of Australia - December/January 2015
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When a player gets going against us, he keeps doing so for the entire series. Warner might be the Joe Root/Gary Ballance of this series. Had we got Warner now, it would`ve been a little tricky for Australia. They are well on top and look on course to setting a 400 run target here unless reverse swing can get a couple of wickets before the lead touches 275. I don`t expect that to happen with Ishit Sharma bowling his trademark lengths even with a reverse swinging ball.
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Too many no-balls. This needs to be fixed .. soon
Lead by 250. 26overs left in the day approx
Lead by 250. 26overs left in the day approx
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Does`nt look like Australia plan to declare setting up a gettable target. They might end up batting tomorrow and set us an impossible target which ensures they can go out all guns blazing throughout.
Ishant has bowled well today without much luck. He was probably our best bowler in that second session when everyone was looking down and out.
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From an Indian point of view, we tend to do better looking to score runs rather than defend. In that sense,by batting relatively slower Australia are taking the game to a point where India can only play for a draw. 350 in a day and India won`t look to win and that would play into the Aussie hands. 1-0 coming up just before tea tomorrow.
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That's an interesting point. South Africa did really well at Adelaide by defending, but that doesn't mean India will play the same. They're also in a different position partly because they sustained aggression in the first innings to make a good score. Australia can't afford to stop with less than 300 unless they bowl brilliantly, and they probably can't win with less than 80 overs to go unless they bowl brilliantly. So the final day will either be tense and interesting to the end, or horrifying.
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South Africa are the only side in world cricket who could`ve achieved that by dogged defending. This current lot of Indian batsmen don`t have the ability to do that. Australia would declare overnight or worst case push for another half an hour in the morning tomorrow. I guess they would look to leave India with 90 overs to survive and whatever target they could set with that in mind. I don`t think India will bat today. Australia are 300 ahead already and will easily be 350+ ahead by stumps. So an overnight declaration would work fine for them.
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I feel for Karn Sharma here. He has`nt played enough first class cricket and its showing here. He has been way too inconsistent with his lengths here and thats not the sort of control you expect from a frontline spinner. India would look to go with Ashwin again for the next test.
By the way, why is Kohli bowling his spinners with 10 minutes to go for stumps now. It suits Australia to have as many overs as possible tonight.
By the way, why is Kohli bowling his spinners with 10 minutes to go for stumps now. It suits Australia to have as many overs as possible tonight.
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Good that it happened to India (Your Board hates the DR'S and these things were quite common before DRS werent they and why should he walk back ?? Will Kohli walk back ? ??)
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Lol
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Right I missed the whole day's play, well after Ind got bowled out that is. 363 runs, is enough and I think Aus will declare overnight. Ind cannot look to just defend the whole day, they have no batsmen who can do that, except Pujara perhaps, and even likes to deal in boundaries once he is set.
If Ind look to block out the day its asking for trouble. For nothing else nad just for the fact that its the first test, just go for the chase. Even if they lose, 3 more tests to go after this. Vijay can play his normal game, let Dhawan and Kohli have a go at it, hell even promote Rohit at 3 with the license to attack, and hit everything. I know its not going to happen, but I really think Ind should go for the chase. I see India with no shot at holding out for a draw. The mind set has to be to go for it from the start.[DOUBLEPOST=1418374831][/DOUBLEPOST]Lol just saw the Warner incident, brilliant on Warner's part
Also the Rohit appeal incident, he was a bit of a d*ck there.
If Ind look to block out the day its asking for trouble. For nothing else nad just for the fact that its the first test, just go for the chase. Even if they lose, 3 more tests to go after this. Vijay can play his normal game, let Dhawan and Kohli have a go at it, hell even promote Rohit at 3 with the license to attack, and hit everything. I know its not going to happen, but I really think Ind should go for the chase. I see India with no shot at holding out for a draw. The mind set has to be to go for it from the start.[DOUBLEPOST=1418374831][/DOUBLEPOST]Lol just saw the Warner incident, brilliant on Warner's part
Also the Rohit appeal incident, he was a bit of a d*ck there.
Walking and not walking has 0 correlation to DRS (as seen by the Broad incident last year), so I don't even know why you brought that up.
Anyway, so because a board is against DRS, it's totally fine for decisions to go against players who I last checked weren't board of directors in said board, in what sick world is that even remotely fair and if appealing for dropped catches is cheating then so is not walking, it's just we've been accustomed to this form of cheating for so long that it's totally fine.
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Here we go again with useless discussion on DRS. Just because they haven't accepted DRS does not mean they are supposed to get a bad decision. These things were quite common before DRS but people used to show some spirit and walk most of the time. Will Kohli walk? I don't care now because there is no point in walking against these guys.
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A little too late there David.
