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

[eltrain]

Indian lower order doing all the heavy lifting as per usual

 

[Run n Spread]

Why does cricket still have 12th men running drinks? It's ridiculous. A physio/coaching/professional staff should be doing it. Just a relic of the sport.
Humiliating for boland and whatever kid they've got doing it. They should be playing

 

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

Bouncer barrage incoming

 

[TubbsFarquhar]

Reddy looks like he's no slouch with the bat.

 

[Pakenhamsaint]

We have let the pressure off big time

 

[RoughysMullet]

Trouble here for Australia- our batting lineup is fragile

 

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

I wonder what cricket purists thought the first time someone played a sweep shot back in the day?

 

[LukeParkerno1]

That’s what happens when you drop catches

 

[TubbsFarquhar]

Pant...so good.

Watching Pant pull off ridiculous shots like that makes you think that Maxwell should've played more red ball cricket. Rarely played Shield after around 2017 because he was always selected for white ball tours/series.

His FC record is more than decent too, so I feel there was some wasted potential.

 

[TubbsFarquhar]

Trouble here for Australia- our batting lineup is fragile

No more than India's.

 

[dumb]

pitch has flattened out and the indian tail will guide their team to 500 on this disgraceful road unless cummins pulls his thumb out of his ass

 

[Adelaide Hawk]

I wonder what cricket purists thought the first time someone played a sweep shot back in the day?

Can't imagine. I began watching and learning cricket in the mid-1960s and the sweep was a legitimate cricket shot back then.

 

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

Big error not reviewing

They're 6 down

Surely we would think we're not needing to save the review for later

Burning a review there is no biggie

 

[RookiePick]

We have let the pressure off big time

Muffed reviews and dropped catch definitely seems to have taken the sting out of us. Cummins should have stayed in bed judging by his day so far

 

[Plugger35]

I wonder what cricket purists thought the first time someone played a sweep shot back in the day?

I can still remember when Ryan Campbell played one of the first ramp shots, now ramp shots are just a regulation cricket shot.

 

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

Can't imagine. I began watching and learning cricket in the mid-1960s and the sweep was a legitimate cricket shot back then.

Guessing of course but I suspect it would have been similar to the reaction of purists now to reverse sweeps, ramps, switch hits etc

 

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

I can still remember when Ryan Campbell played one of the first ramp shots, now ramp shots are just a regulation cricket shot.

I've mentioned this before on here but supposedly Ryan Campbell invented that shot spontaneously because he was trying to hit Darren Berry in the face

 

[spike101]

Muffed reviews and dropped catch definitely seems to have taken the sting out of us. Cummins should have stayed in bed judging by his day so far

Bowling Lyon big error too, let them off the hook so far

 

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

Bowling Lyon big error too, let them off the hook so far

Good tactics from India

Lyon Day 1 is there to contain and freshen up our quicks

They hit him out of the attack so we've had to keep the quicks rolling

 

[Nuggetz]

I was expecting a bigger crowd

 

[hawkman]

Bowling Lyon big error too, let them off the hook so far

You can't just keep the pace bowlers going all day. Plus the over rate is horrific as it is

 

[Gethelred]

Need the tail to wag just long enough for the pitch to settle down

I think it's just a new ball deck, and you've got to play conservatively to the first 30 odd overs while the ball's hard and getting a little extra bounce. Wait for the bad ball or the short one, and don't go chasing wide shit on the front foot.

It's looking fairly innocuous - if still bouncy - at present.

 

[Gough]

I can still remember when Ryan Campbell played one of the first ramp shots, now ramp shots are just a regulation cricket shot.

First person I saw do that type of thing is a mate who's genuinely ambidextrous, and he was mucking about with changing stance and swapping his hands playing indoor in the early 90s.

 

[Adelaide Hawk]

Big error not reviewing

They're 6 down

Surely we would think we're not needing to save the review for later

Burning a review there is no biggie

All I can say to that is not having a review left lost us that Test Match when Stokes belted us around.

 

[TubbsFarquhar]

Well done Pat.