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

[AlwaysHawks15]

Ravi and Harsha not so chirpy now.
Although I do like Ravi’s muscular style.
campaigners.

Ravi is generally balanced and will criticise India if it warrants it. The others they would have to kill someone before they say anything negative.

 

[Borisdog]

Cummins will get absolutely murdered in the papers if they hold on for a draw

Rightly so.

Hopefully the papers get the reason right though if it does happen.

 

[tombomb]

Marsh probably won't play in Sydney, but I hate the whole narrative from all the usual social media attention seekers about how now his test career over.

There is nothing about how our top order is batting lately that says to me that anyone's career is over if they can make consistent runs at first class level. No matter who they are or how old they are.

 

[F6Typhoon]

Methinks Goat is the key to us winning!… Day 5 MCG pitch should be right up his alley!
Can see a 5fer minimum

 

[Saint12]

A draw is better than a loss but still I would have tried to put them in tonight

Could work both ways...what if they are 0-30 at stumps?

 

[ABAB]

The older ball was moving and doing just a bit ,, new ball seems to do nothing ..
If Lyon and Cummins can make 40s i hope Kohli and Rohit can make 100s then

New ball did nothing, what were you watching?????

 

[Joffaboy]

Look if their top 4 gets going it's irrelevant as they would have chased 300 or 400 in that circumstance.
But if they lose a few wickets early and then finish 7 down late in the day that's when we will regret not going harder tonight and having the extra 10-15 overs. Jadeja in particular is the type who is likely to just block for a draw.

But with starc and Marsh cooked Cummins probably felt he couldn't risk it.

Love how you guys can predict exactly what will happen tomorrow.
Did you predict 4 for 11 and from 6-91 to be 330 ahead?
Lol anything can happen.

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[RightWingRoo]

Come back out and bat tomorrow and really try to drive the screws in.
And Gaz deserves the chance to get to 50. Would have to be right up there, for most runs made without one.

 

[Westend]

What was the guarantee they would be 2 down?

They could have been 0-25 and only had 250 odd to get tomorrow.

Of course could of been 0 50 but sometimes you have to gamble to win

And we are behind we need to win the test this one or the next one drawing is not going to help us

 

[tombomb]

Rightly so.

Hopefully the papers get the reason right though if it does happen.

I can't be bothered scrolling back through the forum, but what did Cummins do wrong?

For a large part of today, it looked like India would be chasing 230 and the series was likely over.

There was no need to panic today and declare like this is a must win game.

 

[Golumless]

3 bowlers down though, Starc has been shit and look a bit injured, Marsh is bowling 115-125km and spin doesn't look like playing a part on day 5 as usual.

Being shit for an innings doesn't count as a bowler down. Otherwise, India wouldn't have wasted any time with Siraj today.

There's 90 overs, and Starc and Lyon will certainly have a say in it.

 

[Syd_Bombay]

I think both teams and both boards would like draw here . So SCG test becomes decider and creates more hype .
BGT trophy win outright will have special feeling for both teams .
SCG has been always been kind to subcontinental teams .
Dont know how the SCG pitch plays nowadays ..but im sure it supports spin.

 

[Borisdog]

Could work both ways...what if they are 0-30 at stumps?

You’re right of course.

I think, though, that Rohit was NOT keen. And Jaiswal had a shocker today.

I’d have been inclined to try it.

But we should bat on now that we made it to stumps.

If only to give them the rushed changeover.

 

[dogs105]

Come back out and bat tomorrow and really try to drive the screws in.
And Gaz deserves the chance to get to 50. Would have to be right up there, for most runs made without one.

Leads that category by over 300 runs

 

[JackFlash]

Gee, Australia have just got out of Dodge with their pants on...great effort by Lyon and Boland. If India win from here they deserve it, but Australia has some middle order selection concerns, surely Marsh has played his last Test Match?

 

[Coasters7]

Don't we need every over possible?

We bat a couple over, lose a few from the change over. Why would we do that?

We only really have a 50 over window to do most of the damage anyway so making sure we can’t lose should be top priority

 

[Syd_Bombay]

New ball did nothing, what were you watching?????

Well i did watch older ball was moving just enough to beat top order batters . ..

 

[sherb]

Of course could of been 0 50 but sometimes you have to gamble to win

And we are behind we need to win the test this one or the next one drawing is not going to help us

We are not behind, the series is 1-1.

And drawing will help us more than losing will.

 

[Golumless]

Also on Bumrah watch, 140.3 overs in four matches and 230 overs since Sept 19. Could be looking at 180-ish come the time we finish this series and 270 since Sept 22. Cummins and Starc aren't far behind with 118 and 115 respectively, but had time off.

We'll see if the idea to grind him into the ground pays off in Sydney regardless what happens here.

 

[Mitchell Madness]

India are soft. Go hard early and watch them wilt (much like the first innings when we were batting)

 

[JimmyBC]

We can bowl them out in a day things can get jittery Day 5.

 

[Around the Wicket]

India are soft. Go hard early and watch them wilt (much like the first innings when we were batting)

Too reliant on one bowler

 

[Roosurgence]

333 lead

Declare overnight

Win

Nah nothing worse than having to go out and field and then run off to prepare to bat.

Having all morning to prepare to bat is to their advantage.

Every extra run Boland and Lyon make will hurt.

 

[tugga]

Gee, Australia have just got out of Dodge with their pants on...great effort by Lyon and Boland. If India win from here they deserve it, but Australia has some middle order selection concerns, surely Marsh has played his last Test Match?

Yep.
If we do pull off a win here I just hope it doesn’t mask over the obvious cracks in this side.

 

[Whiskers]

Just don’t lose the test. Make sure we can’t lose here, hope for the best with the ball but we can get them in Sydney.