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

[imagifED]

4 quicks and Lyon for Sydney. Replace Marsh with a quick. Jhye for Starc. Carey 6. Cummins 7. Need to take 20 Indian wickets quickly.

 

[WalshistheGOAT]

Why does this campaigner never fkin nick the ball!??!?!?!?

 

[Stottzy]

I can’t speak for all those MCG test matches in the past, only for this one right now. Only one of the three innings has resulted in a score of less than three hundred.

That took what Mark Waugh described as the best spell of fast bowling he’d ever seen from Bumrah. Even then number ten and eleven plonked it around for fifty five runs. This is not a standard day five pitch. Once the ball gets soft at thirty five overs or so, batting loses most of its challenge.

A draw is not a win for India. If the last three tests result in three draws, with two from bad weather and one from a dead pitch, then that’s pretty much an act of god.

But now they go to Sydney with India only needing a draw to retain the trophy. I take your point, but I just reckon they could have sent them in late yesterday.

 

[freo_leo29]

Having no luck today.

Beaten the edge so many times

 

[Jimthegreat]

Why??????

 

[freo_leo29]

Why do we start with Head?

Well behind the over rate and can't afford to lost WTC points

 

[ABAB]

Short turnaround to the next Test I guess.

 

[Moonwatcher]

There you go, we are behind the over rate hence the spinners.

 

[Mr Meow]

Failed to bowl them out on the last day twice when they were last here, about to fail to do it again. Same 4 bowlers.

They've failed to get us out cheaply or quickly enough to get wins after the first Test as well.

Batting has started to get easier, bowlers haven't had a lot of luck and the bowling attacks have tired as the series and matches have gone on. For both sides. Simple as that.

 

[danielnajdek]

Yeah has to be because of the WTC and behind in the over rate.

 

[Plugger35]

Looks like Cummins has given up on winning this match if he is bowling Marnus and Head.

 

[dumb]

The head and marsh double failures have cost us time as well. Others have had to make the runs slower than they would have.

 

[Outtatym]

Looks like Cummins has given up on winning this match if he is bowling Marnus and Head.

Behind the over rate.

 

[The 747]

Well behind the over rate and can't afford to lost WTC points

Good to see our overpaid cricketers give the crowd less than their money's worth. As usual.

 

[Pakenhamsaint]

Sam Konstas in my fielding position.

Get out

 

[ioppolo]

With tactics, how much would be Cummins and how much would be Ronnie? This board likes to bag Cummins' captaincy but surely he's following the orders of Ronnie?

 

[danielnajdek]

India are clearly not going for the win.

 

[Mr Meow]

Those who think Boland is the greatest of all time have no feel for the game and are far too emotional when assessing bowlers.

Wait, who said that?

 

[dumb]

We've still got a new ball up our sleeve. Pat has twigged we need to bowl 80 overs in a day to try that.

 

[Golumless]

The interesting thing about DRS is the assumption that the umpire's guess is more likely to be correct than the computer's guess.

Is that really true?

I don't think that's the assumption at play, seeing it's been designed around making sure the umpires aren't fazed out of the game.

The principle underpinning DRS was to correct clear errors in the game whilst ensuring the role of the umpire as the decision-maker on the field of play was preserved, bearing in mind the element of prediction involved with the technology - Kumble 2021

To let umpires be that decision-maker, you have to allow a range of decisions where you're willing to disregard whatever DRS says (whether right or wrong). Ultimately, it's no different to what an umpiring decision is where it is completely irrelevant if it is hitting the stumps or not, if the umpire thinks it is hitting the stumps.

 

[Xtreme]

India need to go the tonk treat the match like a ODI. 7 runs an over makes the required target gettable.

 

[Jimthegreat]

Lyon's flighting it more and it's doing more. 2 hours ago would have been nice.

 

[Coasters7]

Give it more air Nathan

 

[Moonwatcher]

With tactics, how much would be Cummins and how much would be Ronnie? This board likes to bag Cummins' captaincy but surely he's following the orders of Ronnie?

Darth Ronnie strikes again

 

[RandB]

The pitch is not great but even Siraj (not just Bumrah) looked dangerous yesterday and that was with a 30+ over ball. Is the pitch that fundamentally different from yesterday?