Australia A vs India A (2 "Unofficial Tests")

[nobbyiscool]

Surprised to see there's no thread for this given the interest in the bat-off for the Test team's opening spot.

Here's the squads:

Australia A: Nathan McSweeney (c), Cameron Bancroft, Scott Boland, Jordan Buckingham, Cooper Connolly, Ollie Davies, Brendan Doggett, Marcus Harris, Sam Konstas, Nathan McAndrew, Michael Neser, Todd Murphy, Fergus O’Neill, Jimmy Peirson, Josh Philippe, Corey Rocchiccioli, Beau Webster

India A: Ruturaj Gaikwad (c), Abhimanyu Easwaran (vc), Sai Sudharsan, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Devdutt Padikkal, Ricky Bhui, Baba Indrajith, Ishan Kishan (wk), Abishek Porel (wk), Mukesh Kumar, Khaleel Ahmed, Yash Dayal, Navdeep Saini, Manav Suthar, Tanush Kotian

First game has already kicked off today in Mackay, with India in deep shit at 7-79 and Brendan Doggett bowling hand grenades.

 

[Plugger35]

Doggett with 5 wickets, he is putting his hand up to replace one of Cummins, Hazlewood or Starc for the first test against India.

 

[Outshined]

Doggett with a Michelle, not bad at all. Is the pitch a minefield or has the batting been suspect?

Interesting to see how the bat-off goes. My guess is the top 4 names flop and Beau Webster blasts a ton.

 

[akkaps]

Is something going on with the pitch? Surely we can’t be this shit

 

[Lia]

Not much resistance here from India A. Pitch isn't anything out of the ordinary.

 

[nobbyiscool]

Doggett with a Michelle, not bad at all. Is the pitch a minefield or has the batting been suspect?

The one that got Padikkal, who is about the only bat who's looked set, was an absolute peach. The perfect fast bowler's delivery, swinging it back to the left hander, landing it on a perfect length, then nipping it away off the seam. ****ing sex for fast bowlers.

 

[RookiePick]

Hopefully setting up the next generation of Indian players to be Headf***ed playing Australia in big matches

#Waituntilbothsideshavebatted

 

[Moonwatcher]

Agent Doggett with 6

 

[Jim Prideaux]

Agent Doggett with 6

Bloody hell, get busy at work for a moment and Doggett goes whack

 

[Jim Prideaux]

All done, O’Neill gets Saini. 107

 

[Jim Prideaux]

Now the fun starts

 

[Plugger35]

Konstas gone for a duck.

So much for the great white hope.

 

[Rabish Binney]

Konstas gone for a duck.

Pretty soft dismissal

 

[RookiePick]

Bancroft with his last chance here you would think. Can he grasp it?

 

[Jim Prideaux]

Konstas gone for a duck.

Yeah, not a great start to his audition. Hope he gets another crack, may have to wait for Melbourne though

 

[Jim Prideaux]

Bancroft with his last chance here you would think. Can he grasp it?

Hope he does well, Harris too. I’ve no dislike for either

 

[SAweagle]

Konstas aint it bruh. Neither is Harris or Bancroft for that matter.

Australia is serious trouble for batting, Smith Khawaja are nearly done. We've got head and the inconsistant labuschangne to build around.

 

[Moonwatcher]

RIP Konstas

 

[Jim Prideaux]

Konstas aint it bruh. Neither is Harris or Bancroft for that matter.

Australia is serious trouble for batting, Smith Khawaja are nearly done. We've got head and the inconsistant labuschangne to build around.

Bruh, the kid is brand new, how can you possibly know what he is or isn’t.

 

[Rabish Binney]

Bancroft a bit lucky??

 

[Plugger35]

Bancroft isn't looking too convincing either, India A thought they had him out with a big appeal, no reviews in this game though.

 

[Moonwatcher]

LOL now Bancroft. We're in serious trouble finding an opener.

 

[Soups]

Banger can’t take a trick

 

[Rabish Binney]

Given out off the thigh pad......

Maybe a square up for the previous decision......

 

[dumb]

stage set for harris to open by default

kind of morbid, but i would love to see south africa bat again against bangladesh and see how many runs they can win by