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

[cats_09]

Over Green? Or include both?

I'd go both

With Green returning from back surgery I'd be happy to see him playing primarily as a batsmen for the time being - he can replace Marnus

And then have Webster as an all rounder option

 

[kickazz]

Looking forward to every indian and the Australian media telling us how we always cheat and are terrible sportsmen. Especially the bully Konstas.

Senile Gavaskar already started.

Really? What's he saying now?

 

[Aussie in exile]

Looking forward to every indian and the Australian media telling us how we always cheat and are terrible sportsmen. Especially the bully Konstas.

Senile Gavaskar already started.

We won within the rules so that's the end of the matter

 

[cats_09]

 

[WalshistheGOAT]

Interesting to see who we've got lining up for us in the test squad in 10 or so years.

Sam Konstas - Needs to have half of Green's patience
Cam Green - Needs to have half of Konstas aggression
Nathan McSweeney - Just not opening the batting
Cooper Connolly - looks pretty good in shield and BBL but untested at test level thus far

Todd Murphy - Lyon replacement
Spencer Johnson - Looks the natural Starc replacement
Lance Morris - Not sure if he's got the skill for Red Ball, has the pace but doesn't move the ball much

Not sure on many others but I reckon we'll see a bit of this lot over the next 3-4 years as some of the old timers start being phased out

 

[Borisdog]

Any reason why you didn’t say this to him?

Fellow traveller

Green won't be fit for a while yet so still some time to make that decision.

I question whether Green will bowl for a while after his surgery.
And we clearly need some middle order batsmen eventually, so why not both of them if good enough

 

[SparklingAle69]

So where are all the bed wetters from yesterday?

Hand up here. I thought Pant had won it for them yesterday. Good morning in the field brought it back.

 

[FreoRicci]

He won't he'll be a BBL exclusive player within 36 months

Take it to the bank

People said that about Warner.
Let him develop and mature

 

[PiCkLeJuiCe]

Can someone explain this 'father' shit to me? Is it some weird Indian insult or something?

Who's your daddy?

 

[Mr Meow]

India will win the match and level the series

or

be defeated by the weather gods

Damn I'm already broke from taking this to the bank Xtreme , I don't have any more spare change to waste on your Konstas prediction.

 

[FreoRicci]

A great win, and I did say IF India got a lead of 250+ it would have been hard for us, but they didn't, and e won with ease

Probably the worst session/period of the whole series.
Jadeja and Washington had the chance to try a partnership of 50+. Crumbled within balls.

 

[Mr Meow]

Who's your daddy?

kickazz don't stand for that, he just disrespected you.

 

[CakeEater]

Probably nervous talking to Bumrah after what she called him

A human?

 

[Mr Meow]

flatly incorrect.

all whilst you were bleating Australia were "miles ahead" yesterday, you were told yesterday by multiple people the pitch is hard to bat on, and now Australia have batted on it that has proven true.

Cricket was swings in it sure, but you have an obvious complete misunderstanding of how pitches work. You said yesterday that India failed because they were all out for 180 odd, well that was actually a good score on this pitch, again and you were told at the time.

Australia were never "miles" Infront. Not yesterday and not today.

You can't claim a team is miles Infront until that same team has batted on the same wicket.

Just take the L and move on, digging up won't save you.

Wrong yesterday and you are wrong today.

Looks like Jim knew what he was talking about after all. Once a batting line up applied itself, they reached 160 odd quite comfortably.

India's failure to establish a significant first innings lead was costly in the end, so both their first and second innings batting collapses put them behind in the game.

 

[Andronicus]

Really? What's he saying now?

We doctored the pitch.

We won within the rules so that's the end of the matter

You'd like to think so, but we all know how this will play out.

 

[PiCkLeJuiCe]

i guess we know what 7 are going to show over the next two days

Every conceivable version of Border Xenophobia

 

[Iamspock]

Not exactly, he complained about being filmed whilst he was with his family and in particular his kids, which I think is fair enough

Which proved to be a wrong assumption. Apologised to the cameraman, not to the reporters.

 

[evolved2]

My thoughts from the series:

I'm loving
1. the bowler-friendly pitches that we've served up lately. Test cricket in Australia was slowly dying for a time.
2. Aggressive young batsmen - Jaiswal is a gun and I love what Konstas has shown thus far.

Not sure I like:
1. The batting of both sides doesn't fill me with confidence. England will be viewing both teams as beatable.
2. Our ageing stars. We don't transition the side well.

 

[Iamspock]

I'm so glad Kohli was part of the 'losing the trophy team'. So much better than if he had already retired, and had nothing to do with it.

 

[Portmagpies36]

Not exactly, he complained about being filmed whilst he was with his family and in particular his kids, which I think is fair enough

He was wrong his kids weren’t filmed

 

[hugecannon]

Over Green? Or include both?

If Labuschange can’t get out of this funk that’s been 2+ years now then potentially Green replaces him at 3 and Webster stays at 6.

 

[Achy Blakey Heart]

i guess we know what 7 are going to show over the next two days

Every conceivable version of Border Xenophobia

lol. Keep melting wokie xx

 

[Mr Meow]

A human?

I was highly offended.

Once I learned I was a mammal, I was even more outraged.

 

[Portmagpies36]

My thoughts from the series:

I'm loving
1. the bowler-friendly pitches that we've served up lately. Test cricket in Australia was slowly dying for a time.
2. Aggressive young batsmen - Jaiswal is a gun and I love what Konstas has shown thus far.

Not sure I like:
1. The batting of both sides doesn't fill me with confidence. England will be viewing both teams as beatable.
2. Our ageing stars. We don't transition the side well.

Every player in our side over 30 plus 1 teenager, need to flick a couple of them ASAP.

 

[kickazz]

We doctored the pitch.

But we had a 2 - 1 lead. A spicy pitch ensured a result (day 5 rain forecast) which is what gave India the best chance of keeping the trophy.

SG struggles with self awareness sometimes. He needs a Ricky Ponting "he's out now, he made forty" smackdown instead of brown nosing from Tim Lane.