5th Test Border Gavaskar Trophy January 3-7 1000hrs @ the SCG

[Dubai Quacker]

For as long as David Warner “graces” Australian cricket, we can’t take the moral high ground, no matter what the Indians carry on with.

And in any event, the entire Indian team (Bumrah aside), selectors & coaches will be lynched by the Indian public - so of course they need to give the media something else to talk about.

It’s self preservation really.

 

[Struggle]

I think this one was pretty good mostly. Media pumping it up out of proportion

the way the media jumped on such a nothing moment between Head and Siraj was a joke. They were desperate for some kind of conflict

 

[Jim Prideaux]

"evidence"

Australia registered a lower first Innings total but were "miles ahead" somehow?

Ok Chief Wiggum. Keep digging Up!

Inability to call it as it is, is not a strength.

I'm incredibly happy Bumrah pulled out. That injury was massive to the eventual result.

End of Ind 1st innings - Aus ahead
End of Aus 1st - Ind ahead
End of Ind 2nd - Aus ahead
End of Aus 2nd - Aus ahead

 

[Xtreme]

According to who?

media

End of Ind 2nd - Aus ahead

If that were true they wouldn't have had to bat again to win!

 

[revo333]

I gotta say, this series has been the most fun to watch for me since the 06/07 ashes series.

It's good against India as long as it doesn't get to the dark place it got to in 07/08 ever again.

Nice to see both teams tamed down the celebrations of wickets on day 2 after things looked like that could boil over for the rest of the game after day 1.

 

[JackFlash]

Henry Hunt, Kurtis Patterson, Spencer Johnson, Jhye Richardson, Lance Morris, Todd Murphy just some waiting in the wings. Reasonable choices. Like them to come in gradually with some senior blokes there, not all at once.

Marnus teased us with good glimpses but way too unreliable, Smith showed he might have one more in him, time to retire Ussie, a nice score and the BGT is good one to go out with. What's Starc going to be like in a year? That an interesting one for selectors. Died in his arse again the last 2 Tests. That one might be time. There's 6 Tests over winter, SL, West Indies and the WTC Final, so we might find out. I'm thinking he might hit a wall by the Ashes.

I like Cooper Conolly the best out of those who wasn't mentioned!

 

[AlwaysHawks15]

England had absolute roads last Ashes series. That will favour us in our conditions and they also don't have a bowler like Bumrah, not even close in fact. They will rely heavily on scoring 450 every time they bat as Plan A and than bowl us out for 350 as an example and make us chase a score batting last which puts pressure on the batsman even if it's a benign pitch. It's been there modus operandi since Bazball began. Someone like Boland will revel down here with the way they play. He would have learnt a bit from the last Ashes series of where not to bowl and id back him in to cause real problems for them if they don't adjust to it.

I don’t think you can write off our fast bowling cartel just yet. Boland should get a chance against England. I’d not say he is ineffective against attacking batsmen. He deserves another crack.

An

 

[Gavin Excell]

Thanks Meow, I tried to get that across but maybe I was too obtuse. Choosing g to bat and getting g rolled for 180 is never good, but that’s ok, teams recover from it. India did until they didn’t.

Anyway, test cricket is pretty great - series like this prove it for me. Some will say that both batting line ups were fragile, but god there was some beautiful bowling.

Test cricket for me is always far better when bowlers dominate

 

[AlwaysHawks15]

I like Cooper Conolly the best out of those who wasn't mentioned!

Connelly will be a 1 day and T20 regular within 12 months. He's just about the most consistent BBL batsman this year so far and he's only going to get better. Looks a real talent.

 

[Gavin Excell]

England had absolute roads last Ashes series. That will favour us in our conditions and they also don't have a bowler like Bumrah, not even close in fact. They will rely heavily on scoring 450 every time they bat as Plan A and than bowl us out for 350 as an example and make us chase a score batting last which puts pressure on the batsman even if it's a benign pitch. It's been there modus operandi since Bazball began. Someone like Boland will revel down here with the way they play. He would have learnt a bit from the last Ashes series of where not to bowl and id back him in to cause real problems for them if they don't adjust to it.

An

England have hearts like peas, give up when going gets tough and are delusional
I expect them to throw the towel in like they always do out here

 

[Jim Prideaux]

Test cricket for me is always far better when bowlers dominate

Yeah, I’d largely agree. I think this series was a dash too much, but still better than a bat dominated series.

But it was still damn lovely

 

[ElliottsMaggies]

media

Not from what I've read.

 

[MJG14]

And i think the vast majority of Indian supporters are brilliant generally. A small minority are terrible but we'd have the same like every country

Yeah I went to Day 5 at the MCG and was surrounded by Indian supporters. Very passionate and fanatical but no behavioural issues and they seemed like nice people.

They certainly contributed to the good atmosphere and made it a more fun day at the cricket.

 

[Gavin Excell]

Yeah I went to Day 5 at the MCG and was surrounded by Indian supporters. Very passionate and fanatical but no behavioural issues and they seemed like nice people.

They certainly contributed to the good atmosphere and made it a more fun day at the cricket.

Same
They clearly love the sport

 

[Stottzy]

I think this one was pretty good mostly. Media pumping it up out of proportion

Reckon the last 2 test have been pretty poor. From fans especially.

 

[tugga]

I like Cooper Conolly the best out of those who wasn't mentioned!

Absolute agree.
Ollie Peake will be playing for Aus in 3 years as well.

 

[revo333]

I thought it might have been Gavaskar's call to not present the trophy but he seemed to want to be up there too. He should have been included alongside Border considering that the trophy is also named after him. Feel like it would have been a nice moment because they won't be around forever, and AB is facing health challenges as well.

I feel like he knows when he says the optical illusion and stuff about the pitch that it get's Aussies riled up.

If he doesn't want to be up there because India has lost then his name shouldn't be on the trophy.

But my gut feel is that he would have wanted to be presenting the trophy with his name on it with AB.

 

[Woody15]

I’d probably be trying to protect my legacy at this point…

I actually found this funny. I like a bit of banter between crowds and players.

I remember the Barmy Army asking Warner to show them his pockets. He flipped his pockets, showed the crowd and everyone laughed.

And you know, we kind of brought it on ourselves..

 

[Pakenhamsaint]

King Kohli with a sense of humour

get around him

Trying to find where all his runs have gone.

 

[Woody15]

I feel like he knows when he says the optical illusion and stuff about the pitch that it get's Aussies riled up.

If he doesn't want to be up there because India has lost then his name shouldn't be on the trophy.

But my gut feel is that he would have wanted to be presenting the trophy with his name on it with AB.

Sunny has come out and said he did. He wanted to be up there with his friend AB. Not sure if been mentioned. Disappointing by CA if thats the case.

 

[ABAB]

I’d probably be trying to protect my legacy at this point…

The first comment was hilarious after everyone gave him facts and no response from him lol.

 

[damochandler]

Still issues, opener really both, the middle order has holes in it. Is starts body starting to fall apart with Hazlewood? Lyon did nothing this summer as well

 

[HirdsTheWord]

End of Ind 1st innings - Aus ahead
End of Aus 1st - Ind ahead
End of Ind 2nd - Aus ahead
End of Aus 2nd - Aus ahead

Nope, you didn't just say ahead you said "miles ahead". We weren't "miles" ahead at all, at any stage until probably Bumrah left the game before Australia's 2nd innings.

End of Indian 1st Innings 55/45 Australia's way.
End of Australian 1st Innings 50/50
End of India 2nd Innings - Australia 70/30 (after Burmah left game)

that's basically what Winviz had throughout.

Again, suggesting Australia were miles ahead after Indias 1st innings, was and still is an incorrect statement as it proven when Australia registered a lower score in their 1st innings.

 

[Mick F]

Sunny has come out and said he did. He wanted to be up there with his friend AB. Not sure if been mentioned. Disappointing by CA if thats the case.

Has been discussed on this thread.

 

[Andrew Mc]

Sunny has come out and said he did. He wanted to be up there with his friend AB. Not sure if been mentioned. Disappointing by CA if thats the case.

The presentation wasn't exactly secret. If he'd wanted to present the trophy and not just deflect about the India loss, he'd have been there to do so.

But it'd seem that he and Gambhir just want to deflect the 3-1 series loss.