Certified Legendary Thread 4th Test Border Gavaskar Trophy December 26-30 1000hrs @ the MCG

[Moonwatcher]

About time an umpires call went Indias way, but no way any umpire should be giving those not out.

That's my feel too. Clipping by less than 10% of the ball and you hope the umpire's call was not out.

 

[Stax on the mill]

Your Mrs has a good eye.

Well, she picked Mitchell Madness to marry. So she must have a good eye.

 

[JasRulz63]

Was saying the same thing live.

Umps very trigger happy and we are on the wrong end of the 50/50 Umps call.

Good review and Marnus is stiff to go out to that.

Except yesterday where Nitish? was hit on the back pad and the umpires had no interest.

 

[gtrxuone]

Throw the bat now lads, no point trying to defend and prod around

Time for the BBL tail innings.
Wont last too long with Bumrah.

 

[Hawks1523]

Tend to agree. Was surprised DRS had it so close.

Live I thought it was smashing middle. Replay thought oh it might be high. Clipping top of middle, can’t argue it really.

 

[Moonwatcher]

400+ is still my 'safe' score.

 

[Dogsman16]

If Boland can get the same nibble of the deck in the last innings he very well could win us this game.

 

[Spirit Level]

They seem to be emotionally immature, the BCCI protects them, and their simp supporters can't see any wrong in being a child.

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They're a bunch of ****en children, get spoon fed everything and still can't win the world cup on their own soil

 

[BGman]

Marnus falls in 70s for second time in match. Fair to say he is back in form. Can the tail lift the lead to 300.

 

[The hands of stone]

Konstas really has got in their head hasn't he ?
Copying him revving the crowd now

 

[Gough]

Tied test brewing here

Mo' Lyon to trap Siraj lbw for the last wicket with Ravi Shastri commentating (pretty sure Ravi was the not out non-striker from 1986)

The first Simmo-less tied Test.

 

[AlwaysHawks15]

Hawkeye's nuts. No way was that going over like that.

He was hit out of his crease above the knee roll. More often than not that's missing. There basing it on the fact the pitch doesn't have the bounce in it based on what's happened during the match.

 

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

if he stands up straight after getting hit it might not get given

"Framing" to borrow a baseball term

 

[Gethelred]

India helped themselves to a 127 run partnership when their 8th wicket pair was in yesterday… can we have one of those please?

It'd be nice, wouldn't it?

 

[barrackers]

Pretty sure it's already like that but just isn't shown on the graphic - the ball hitting represents a 50% likelihood that it would hit the stumps.

Pitching in line should also never have umpires call as its factual rather than predictive.

Currently there can be a different result for the same percentage of ball hitting based on the umpires decision. Either it’s hitting or it’s not for mine

 

[Westend]

If Boland can get the same nibble of the deck in the last innings he very well could win us this game.

need people down at the G tomorrow getting behind him when he bowls

 

[JimmyBC]

Live I thought it was smashing middle. Replay thought oh it might be high. Clipping top of middle, can’t argue it really.

Yea I'm not sure why people are losing their minds over it, it's a correct call unless you want all umpires to be gutless wonders.

 

[Pakenhamsaint]

Konstas really has got in their head hasn't he ?
Copying him revving the crowd now

India will never admit it but he's rattled the entire side.
Kohli, Siraj even Bumrah have all acted like dickheads at times.

 

[Stax on the mill]

Can we somehow eke out a lead of 300?

 

[kickazz]

KnowLess ball hitting the stumps than there was ball pitching in-line on one Australia reviewed earlier in the match. Need to do away with umpires call and move it a system where a percentage of the ball is hitting

For the millionth time umpires call accounts for the inherent error margin of the technology.

That is, there's no known percentage of the ball that was hitting. It's in the margin where it could have hit or could have missed, so we defer to the judgement of the human.

 

[KennyHuntersBlues]

Konstas’s revving of the crowd up has seemingly got to India

That’s because their the only ones that are allowed to do it in their eyes

 

[AlwaysHawks15]

270+ will still take some chasing. I'd still expect the target to more than 300.

Were not getting 300 up. 270-280 is where it will be at best. Still challenging but 1-2 good partnership will put them in the box seat.

 

[Dogsman16]

need people down at the G getting behind him when he bowls

He’s done it plenty of times at shield level with about 50 spectators. At this very ground.

I think he’s the key to victory.

 

[Moonwatcher]

If Boland can get the same nibble of the deck in the last innings he very well could win us this game.

We'll need to catch everything

 

[H00t]

Our batters struggling against Bumrah at least makes sense as he is one of the best of all time.

Them struggling against Siraj shows how poor their techniques are and how much they can struggle against some very average bowling.

Luckily they don’t have to come up against a pace attack like SA’s back in 09/10.

This team would struggle to make more than 50 in any innings of a series against a line up of Steyn, Philander and Morkel.