1st Test Border Gavaskar Trophy November 22-26 1350hrs @ Perth Stadium

[Adelaide Hawk]

That scoreboard at the bottom of the screen is as slow as a wet week. It's starting to annoy me

 

[Ivelisse]

Need a 6

 

[Cleavy]

Marnus will be itching to have a bowl

 

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

Pant will sneak a handy 70-80 or more here. Bloody good player

Love players who counter-attack

 

[Nuggetz]

Marnus will be itching to have a bowl

He wants to win the Etherum bet with Fletch

 

[SuperSteele22]

Pant will sneak a handy 70-80 or more here. Bloody good player

His shots aren't exactly textbook but he has a knack of being able to put good balls away with ease and strikes it bloody hard as well. It was a mission getting him out last time they were over here as well

 

[Bob Neil]

Just realised that Mitch Marsh is now in the 2000 runs / 50 wickets test all rounder category. Good effort given his career could have been over five years ago.

 

[big_e]

England debuted 11 players in the 1990s who played 50 tests and 30 who played 5 or fewer. They put our ordinary XIs for years and turned over players like nobody's business. Even now they have a lot more test players than we do. We'll pick anyone to have a go at white ball cricket but generally we don't hand out test caps so quickly. This Summer's discussion was who would replace Warner who retired. With Cam Green injured it was known months in advance who 10 of the 11 would be today.

In the same era we had Stuart Law, Michael Bevan, Matthew Hayden etc. who either couldn't get into the test team or were fringe selections. Haydos the nuffy that he is played 96 tests from 2000-2009 and 7 from 1994-1999. Even someone like Mike Hussey played 79 tests from age 30 to 37 because the side was that hard to get into for so long. Meanwhile England were picking the Hollioakes (RIP Ben) who were about as English as I am and as close to test standard.

Worth noting England has also played 200 more tests than we have.

 

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

Wow

 

[k31th]

now that was a weird shot from Pant, but 6 runs nonetheless

 

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

The dive roll flick

That was as good as the Smith kneeling down drive

 

[Plugger35]

Incredible shot from Pant, the falling over lap sweep for six.

Not the first time he has played it either, that was no fluke.

 

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

Tough to set a field for that

 

[Magma]

that is mental

 

[Whiskers]

That’s just not test cricket.

 

[HBF]

Thats an amazing shot.

 

[Nuggetz]

flipping love pant

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

Cant remember ever seeing a shot like that before in test cricket.

Didnt quite stick the landing.

 

[Gough]

Two hundred and a bit could put us under some pressure.

 

[RookiePick]

Pant...so good.

 

[Around the Wicket]

Pants a ****ing good player hey... fearless..

 

[HBF]

Time to come back over the wicket Pat

 

[Gethelred]

...

That's a ludicrous shot. He's as much of a chance to go out hit wicket as to hit that for six.

 

[Adelaide Hawk]

That wasn't a slog from Pant, although he was doing a somersault at the time, he never took his eye off the ball.

 

[Nuggetz]

Two hundred and a bit could put us under some pressure.

na, think india will need 300+. Bowling isn't as good & pitch is good for batting.