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

[Black Diamond]

Curator sure got this track wrong, said it would favor the bat and turn as normal. Read a NC scribe describe it as the liveliest SCG pitch in 70 yrs!!

Yeah it is funny.

And the whinger Gavaskar was complaining. Does he not realise this is to India's advantage?

 

[CakeEater]

Catching practice for Jaiswal

 

[Andronicus]

For mine we need to be consistent. I/we complain when others do it, there is room to also criticise or question our own.

Well sure, if it becomes a habit.

How many times has he done it?

 

[k31th]

gee Marnus, that's not great...

 

[LukeParkerno1]

lol what a dud

Smithy time

 

[Pakenhamsaint]

Labs can **** off.

Needed to get to Lunch 1 down.

 

[Bedi]

FFS, ok so now we're under pressure

 

[Drakescoffeecake]

Why play at that

 

[ams4crows]

FFS Labs why are you even playing that ****ing shot

 

[catstorm]

**** me

 

[Stig O'Hara]

Uh oh.

That was catching practice.

 

[ptrg]

Marnus you dumb campaigner

 

[Southerntakeover]

****ing Marnus.

Comes in to a bowling attack in shambles, convinces them they're threatening.

You absolute bum, get the **** gone.

 

[braverobot]

Marnus... Lol wtf was that pea shot

 

[hawkman]

That is even dumber than Konstas' shot

 

[fuic08]

What the **** Marnus you idiot

 

[MJG14]

That's atrocious

 

[peternorth]

Knew that was gonna happen

 

[samFFC]

Yuckkkkk

 

[Toffee Lion]

Oh Marnus, that's awful.

 

[Headless]

Very similar to the drop from last game.

Makes it interesting.

 

[Cataholic]

while there's a couple of glaring issues to work on he has to stay in the side now. at such a young age he already has teams starting two fielders behind square on the boundary. they were terrified of his movement in the crease. it's a poor shot and clearly gets a bit too overconfident but he needs time in the middle at this level to learn

Wisdom comes with age and experience.

Experience is the learning from trial and error.

Age is the by-product of the time taken to learn by trial and error.

Until then you have the exuberance of youth.

 

[cats_09]

WTF Marnus

Thats almost a worse shot than Konstas - it looked like slips catching practice from before the start of play

 

[Westend]

ummm yeah

thats like every 2nd innings for marnus..but all good play on

 

[Coasters7]

Konstas has played pretty differently at shield and not this reckless.

I just feel the coaching staff need to have a word to get him to temper the aggression a bit. Feel like it’s a bit of a rush of blood more than anything.

Without Bumrah, India are a lot less threatening and can play much more on the bad balls, rather than trying to create scoring opportunities through aggression.

Still - orders might have been by coaching staff for Konstas to play aggressively much like India did, as the wicket is a bit of a minefield.

People here are pretty brutal on the kid. He’s again put good early pressure on and scored a good chunk of the tally. Got out going too hard, but he will learn. He plays Shield far more conservatively.

Yeah definitely feel like it’s going to his head a bit in front of home crowds and the spice really riling him up. We’ll see what he’s got in Sri Lanka with less eyes on him.