Cricket: International Discussion Thread

lead is now more than the first innings score.

will smith bat out or declare when the pitch starts going full Indian?
 
Baxteen said:
lead is now more than the first innings score.

will smith bat out or declare when the pitch starts going full Indian?
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I would make them sweat with the amount of time left in the game. Put them in tomorrow after lunch if I could bat that long.
 
Neoprod said:
I would make them sweat with the amount of time left in the game. Put them in tomorrow after lunch if I could bat that long.
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agreed. the Indians do not like playing test cricket for 5 days, and if they do they want to be bowling on day 5.
 
Just bat and bat and bat. There is still so much time left. Get that lead 450 or 500 mark and then just crowd the batsman. It's not in the Indians' nature to try pull a Faf. They will try play their shots which will lead to chances.
 
It's great...Aus are the underdogs here so one of the few times it's okay to root for them :D

These Indians needed a kick in the backside - they made the toss so important to win when we were there, it's nice to see them lose the toss and get their asses handed to them. Suck it, Ravi.
 
Wall said:
I'm ****ing loving it :D:D:D

Come on Aussies!!
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Neoprod said:
It's great...Aus are the underdogs here so one of the few times it's okay to root for them :D

These Indians needed a kick in the backside - they made the toss so important to win when we were there, it's nice to see them lose the toss and get their asses handed to them. Suck it, Ravi.
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True stories! However, Smith has shown that with a bit of application, you can guts out an innings. While with each completed over the Aussies' situation becomes more secure, they're not home and hosed yet.
 
Neoprod said:
It's great...Aus are the underdogs here so one of the few times it's okay to root for them :D

These Indians needed a kick in the backside - they made the toss so important to win when we were there, it's nice to see them lose the toss and get their asses handed to them. Suck it, Ravi.
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I hate India more due to the BCCI than the team themselves. Sometimes I want them to lose every match just to see the BCCI lose revenue.

I remember loving them in the late 90's, with Azharuddin, Tendulkar, Dravid, Ganguly, Jadeja, Sreenath, Kumble, Prasad etc. All respectable players, and none of this BCCI selfishness yet.
 
Been in a workshop the past 2 days, so only had the odd chance to catch up on the phone app. All but written the Aussies off after their first innings. Gutsy 50 by Starc. Respect. You can imagine my surprise and delight when seeing 90-something for 3 to implosion of epic proportions.

Aussies should hold on to win this, but with some much time left in the match, India could still put on a decent fight if the pitch holds. Obviously this all hinges heavily on the bookmakers :p
 
Ho3n3r said:
I hate India more due to the BCCI than the team themselves. Sometimes I want them to lose every match just to see the BCCI lose revenue.

I remember loving them in the late 90's, with Azharuddin, Tendulkar, Dravid, Ganguly, Jadeja, Sreenath, Kumble, Prasad etc. All respectable players, and none of this BCCI selfishness yet.
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I get you but that's not for me...it's all about what happens on the field and what kind of conditions we get when we play.

While the Indians might think we prepare pitches to suit our seamers, the advantage to the bowlers in SA usually last the morning session of day 1 and that's about it. From the afternoon on day 1, any good team should be able to bat here which England proved when they came out. India prepare bad pitches that just get worse from ball 1...if you bat first, you get an advantage of note because the other team is screwed before they start their innings. And it's all by design - the pitches in the test matches against us were specifically requested by Ravi Shastri and co.

So I hope they keep losing tosses and keep losing test matches at home...let the crowd get at them till they learn to prepare and play in conditions suitable for a good contest.
 
Neoprod said:
I get you but that's not for me...it's all about what happens on the field and what kind of conditions we get when we play.
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Good for you, but it is for me. If you can ignore the politics they employ off the field in order to get the global game to suit their own pockets, to the severe detriment of most other countries (except Australia and England, in the previous debacle, because they can milk them - een hand was die ander hand), then that's your prerogative, but I couldn't simply feel like nothing happened.
 
Haha India. How does your own medicine taste? Bowled out twice in less than 80 overs.
 
Time to burn some effigies perhaps? :D

Let's see if Ravi Shastri has a go at the groundsman this time :p
 
From Supersport.com

India frugal with praise for O'Keefe
27 February 2017, 09:21

Steve O'Keefe was instrumental in helping Australia record one of the most famous test victories in recent times but hosts India have been quick to put their heavy defeat down to the pitch in Pune rather than the 32-year-old spinner's performance.

Indian batsmen have built a reputation for their prowess against the turning ball over the years but left-armer O'Keefe shattered that aura as Australia bulldozed the world's top ranked test team inside three days.

O'Keefe's 12-wicket match haul, the best figures recorded by a visiting spinner on Indian soil, earned him the man-of-the-match award but little else in terms of praise from the vanquished hosts.

India captain Virat Kohli blamed his side's twin batting collapses on their recklessness, while others felt the turning track had backfired on them.

Out-of-favour offspinner Harbhajan Singh, who has had several run-ins with Australian players, said he was not convinced by O'Keefe's performance and would need to see him in action on a better track.

"I will have to see (O'Keefe) bowl on a good test match wicket. Not this one," the 36-year-old, who had predicted a 4-0 series defeat for Australia, told reporters. "Until then, I will reserve my comments."

O'Keefe and offspinner Nathan Lyon combined to claim all 10 Indian wickets in the second innings to skittle out the hosts for 107, two more runs than they managed in the first, at a venue making its test debut.

"To be honest, that wasn't a pitch," Singh, a veteran of 103 tests, said of the surface used for the series opener.

"Test cricket should last five days. You cannot play on such wickets where anyone runs in to bowl and takes wickets. I have played in over 100 tests, and I know how hard I had to work to earn every single wicket."

All O'Keefe had to do was to bowl faster through air and be accurate, Singh said.

"You don't need to flight the ball or anything. You just need to bowl fast and not give the batsmen room to either come down the track, or be able to manoeuvre the ball around.

"Bowling six deliveries in the same spot is all you need to get wickets on such tracks," he added.

Former coach Ravi Shastri also felt O'Keefe was richly rewarded for his accuracy against the leaden-footed Indian batsmen.

"Steve O'Keefe was controlled and accurate while his preys looked for spin which wasn't always there," the former test batsman wrote in a column that appeared in Monday's Times of India newspaper.

"They invariably ended up playing wrong lines. They didn't use their feet much either ... It's an issue which can't be left pending even on fair tracks as even they would scruff up in second innings.

"Indians must find a way to break O'Keefe's rhythm," added Shastri.
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Haha, but if Ashwin does it, he's a genius. Sit down Harbhajan! India made their bed, now they have to sleep in it.
 
Agent_Smith said:
From Supersport.com



Haha, but if Ashwin does it, he's a genius. Sit down Harbhajan! India made their bed, now they have to sleep in it.
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Exactly. Hahaha.

And "This is not a pitch". Dumbass comment of the week. I bet he would have been singing the praises of the groundstaff, had India won.

I wonder what we would have been able to do on that pitch with Tahir and Shamsi.
 
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