3rd Test Border Gavaskar Trophy December 14-18 1050hrs @ The Gabba

[Stax on the mill]

Not a great shot Travis.

 

[k31th]

Head out, too... don't have to try to hit every ball, even in an attacking-only sort of situation...

 

[Pakenhamsaint]

We are going to give them 250 to chase.

 

[Iceman!]

Can't believe i am spending my last day off before Christmas watching this shit

 

[Jimthegreat]

What type of idiocy is this.

 

[Iceman!]

Head out, too... don't have to try to hit every ball, even in an attacking-only sort of situation...

He scores naturally so fast by playing good cricket strokes, he does not need to play shots like that rubbish.

 

[1990crow]

WTF are we actually doing

 

[danielnajdek]

Thank god we don't play Bazball every test. We'd get bowled out for 50.

 

[Xtreme]

Head is human after all

 

[Greenstar5]

Haha hope they bowl us out and chase it down.


Might get some changes to this team.

 

[Tugga27]

Surely Marsh can’t play next test Webster in if you need the bowling.

Konstas in for McSweeney.

If it wasn’t for the changes already you would say drop Lab for Inglis to.

Surely you don't drop McSweeney and keep an out of form 38 year old.

 

[hawkman]

Just dumb batting. You can milk a run a ball with this field

 

[PonsfordMagpie]

You just have to laugh at this point.

 

[lmach]

I hope Tim Lane will be commentating AFL next season now that he's at 7. Reminds me of the old Channel 10 days.

 

[Magma]

i get wanting to score quick runs but surely you have to still be smart about it. a bit of game sense guys. at this rate you're gonna fall short of the runs to get/overs left balance.

 

[JimmyBC]

We are going to give them 250 to chase.

the number is between 250 and 280 I'd say.

 

[Smoooothy]

rain bomb only about 15 mins away i reckon

 

[ptrg]

Settle down, we won't lose this.

Even if all else fails and goes wrong, this is test cricket and not a ODI/t20.

So many ways to kill a chase without the limited overs restrictions

 

[Carn The Berries]

I'm all for trying to move the game along, but there is a balance. This is slogging for the sake of it and we'll set them 250 off 50ish overs (assuming we get them in). You want to dangle a carrot, but this could be gettable... It's not a shield game, the risk reward is much different here.

 

[TubbsFarquhar]

Another needless T20 shot.

We don't want to actually give them a sniff as unlikely as that result would be.

 

[CakeEater]

They must have a number in mind

 

[010203]

India might bat again in this match afterall. Today was an opportunity for the batsmen who could do with some runs to get some form confidence with Melbourne in mind and its been wasted.

 

[Blues_Man]

Shouldn't get rid of McSweeney. We're going to need all the promising mid/late 20s talent we can get going forward.

Khawaja looks like he's truly getting to the end so there'll be an opening for Konstas and/or [Insert other young-ish opening option here] coming up very soon anyway.

What talent exactly has mcsweeney shown ?

 

[Tugga27]

At what point does the best 'clubman' the 'nice guy' get dropped?

I know he is the Alan Border medallist but its the white ball form that won him the medal.

Still got a Hard-on for MM I see.

 

[Burtonsgottago]

Is rain coming?