Border Gavaskar Trophy, India v Australia, 1st Test 9-13 Feb, 1430hrs at Nagpur

[FRUMPY]

Can't even bat out a session.

What the * did they do to prepare for this series?

Faced Nathan Lyon in the nets, they were super confident

Lyon could only get head out routinely apparently

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[Stig O'Hara]

I mean it doesn’t help we keep missing them

No one’s moving their feet, so they’re sitting ducks.

Spinners aren’t doing anything grand, they just bowl stump to stump at our guys.

 

[PhatBoy]

Everything is out now India is bowling

* off

What did you want the umpire to do. Give it double not out and THEN have it overturned twice?

 

[Achy Blakey Heart]

Now for all the tosspots in here potting Warner for not getting down the wicket but now sulking cos their vicco lovechild handscombe did the same…. What you should be calling for is more sweeping like Carey. But you wouldn’t know that cos you never played the game at a reasonable level.

 

[Adelaide Hawk]

This loss is going to cause a lot of damage to the psychology of the Australians, and I really can't see them coming back from this. We could be staring down the barrel at a 4-0 loss.

 

[LukeParkerno1]

When was the last time he played an attack like this in India?

Literally can’t go worse than warner

 

[Belnakor]

No one’s moving their feet, so they’re sitting ducks.

Only smith and handscomb. And handscomb was stiff then.

 

[FRUMPY]

As much as I want Green back in, he has looked shaky to LBW with his height

He could be out very quickly over there too

So what's the difference? Can't reward mediocrity like this by not dropping a few

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[chriso11]

Indian spinners look unplayable, meanwhile Lyon 1/500

 

[scoman]

It really is a 200-250 wicket I think. Thats certainly all we look capable of anyway. We needed to take our chances and it might help if the Goat does some homework on how to bowl in these conditions. It blows my mind that someone of his (supposed) calibre could bowl without troubling anybody for 50 odd overs. I would love to be a fly on the wall and see the preparation and the discussions that went into his bowling plans.

 

[danielnajdek]

That Handscomb lbw was a bit rough imo. I knew it'd be 3 red lights as soon as they reviewed it. You just knew it would.

 

[hawkman]

Is this worst Aus performance last few years?

The 2nd Sri Lanka test was worse than this

 

[freo_leo29]

He played very well in Sri Lanka playing the sweep.

Had one good score like Head did right?


And I don't overly rate Sri Lanka

edit: had a look and seems I misremebered for Head, he didn't even have a good score lol

 

[Ephemeral Hope]

Does the team have any pride allowing this to happen especially after they beat us at home?

 

[Westend]

Now for all the tosspots in here potting Warner for not getting down the wicket but now sulking cos their vicco lovechild handscombe did the same…. What you should be calling for is more sweeping like Carey. But you wouldn’t know that cos you never played the game at a reasonable level.

you really are being a knob and you have no clue

good luck to carey

 

[The Sultan]

I hope they get ABSOLUTELY massacred in the media after this. Don’t let them use any excuses other than “we are s**t”

Bullshit plenty of excuses

• Tired / long season
• No preparation
• Doctored pitch
• Weather
• Food

 

[Belnakor]

This loss is going to cause a lot of damage to the psychology of the Australians, and I really can't see them coming back from this. We could be staring down the barrel at a 4-0 loss.

Nah this is purely a batting performance problem which is easier fixed than bowling.

 

[Pistol Night]

It’s always an easy game when you are 12 deep on your couch

I’ve never been dismissed from the couch

 

[Dazza the Viking]

Is it me are all these ball tracking the ball seems seem to straighten when they look like spinning past the stumps, must be India’s ball tracking system

 

[rippersnipper]

Smith and Carey 400 run partnership, here we go.

 

[Dan87]

Good intent Carey

 

[swingdog]

do we need a specialist batting coach vs spin?

If we were at all serious about this tour, we would have had the squad playing nothing but spin on difficult pitches since the end of the Sydney test.

Not having a slap in the BBL.

 

[ABAB]

Nope. We’re just not good enough
Flat track bullies at home.

Exposed being able to play spin, nearly all wickets were LBW to spinners. India didn't have to make the pitch spin friendly at all lol.

 

[Scorpus]

Amazing that people want us to still play X or Y player based on their Australian form.

This test is clear evidence that Australian form doesn't mean shit in Asia. You have to pick guys elite against spin

 

[Kram]

As much as I want Green back in, he has looked shaky to LBW with his height

He could be out very quickly over there too

Would be a walking wicket I reckon.

Mind you Renshaw is anyway and at least Green can bowl.

Anyway all this is just shuffling Titanic deck chairs stuff.