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Our best players in the match all played BBL....Prep was garbage .
Making a sub continent replica deck for practice , hiring a fella who sort of bowls like ashwin to trundle net overs and then dropping an inform bat .
Most guys practice was in the big bash .
Not exactly a recipe for success .
Our best players in the match all played BBL....
saibciVWhy are we discussing Maxwell at all?
To blame the BBL is lazy analysis.Good post ******
prep for india is a long term thing surely? a practice match on some green top vs indians 4th stringers wont change anything, we rarely produce batsmen fit for these conditions and if we do how often is that due to our system or just more about that approach or training methods that particular player had growing up?Prep was garbage .
Making a sub continent replica deck for practice , hiring a fella who sort of bowls like ashwin to trundle net overs and then dropping an inform bat .
Most guys practice was in the big bash .
Not exactly a recipe for success .
To blame the BBL is lazy analysis.
Most of our players are s*t in India, and it's a problem we've had for decades. And a week's camp in India wouldn't have changed a ****** thing.
Ahead of the previous India tour in 2017 Australia’s stars spent a fortnight at a specially arranged training camp in Dubai and then flew to India and played a tour game before upsetting India in the opening Test of the series at Pune.
This time they had a week practicing on a scarified pitch at North Sydney Oval and then on spinning pitches in Bangalore before heading into the first Test at Nagpur. Australia lost inside three days by an innings and 132 runs on Saturday. They were bowled out for 91 in their second innings, Australia’s lowest total on Indian soil.
“There was a big push for the Big Bash,” a source close to Cricket Australia, who spoke on condition of anonymity, confirmed to the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age on Sunday. “It was comfortably the shortest preparation time we’ve ever had for a tour of India.”
The architect of the 2017 victory in Pune, still Australia’s only Test win in India for a generation, was Steve O’Keefe, who claimed match figures of 12-70. He endorsed the Dubai training camp leading into that series.
“We played a couple of trial games that just got the mentality right. ‘We’re over here, this means business. We’re over here to win. We are going to prepare and train really, really hard together as a group’,” O’Keefe recalled on Sunday.
Our batsmen are not good enough, apart from Steve Smith I have zero faith in any of the Top 7 in these conditions, there legit all flat trackers.
Any reason Labuschange gets lumped in with the rest after the 1st test?
How the Big Bash compromised Australia’s tour of India
The last time Australia toured India they prepared with a training camp in Dubai. This time the stars were playing in the Big Bash.www.brisbanetimes.com.au
So what you're saying is we still lost.2017 that had a camp in Dubai followed by a warm up game and we won the first game and was fairly competitive the whole series, Lost 2-1, third Test drawn.
So what you're saying is we still lost.
Lost competitively
We could have been 2-0 up, only set 188 in the 2nd Test but bowled out for 112
1st Test - Australia won by 333 runs
2nd Test - India won by 75 runs
3rd Test - Drawn
4th Test - India won by 8 wickets
Went down to the last Test, we'll lose this series 4-0.
If the next option is dropping the captain 1 test in they might as well fly home now and tell India “sorry something came up, see you in 4 years”
Lost competitively
We could have been 2-0 up, only set 188 in the 2nd Test but bowled out for 112
1st Test - Australia won by 333 runs
2nd Test - India won by 75 runs
3rd Test - Drawn
4th Test - India won by 8 wickets
Went down to the last Test, we'll lose this series 4-0.
If he was fit, he'd at least open up some new options for us.Why are we discussing Maxwell at all?
Why would you have Head opening and Usman in the middle order? Head has been at his best at no. 5 over the past 2 seasons.The side I would pick with the squad over there, which is a crap one.
Matt Renshaw
Travis Head
Marnus Labuschagne
Steven Smith
Usman Khawaja
Cameron Green
Alex Carey
Pat Cummins
Todd Murphy
Nathan Lyon
Matthew Kuhnemann
Reckon you’re right - CA wanted the big names playing BBL for as long as possibleAhead of the previous India tour in 2017 Australia’s stars spent a fortnight at a specially arranged training camp in Dubai and then flew to India and played a tour game before upsetting India in the opening Test of the series at Pune.
Then why didn't we do the same this time??? Failing that why not a two week spin camp up at the Academy on their practice decks that replicate typical India ones as they actually used imported Indian soil. Similar hot weather to the sub continent in Brissie this time of the year as well. One guess as to the reason why, a good few of our Test X1 were still playing hit & giggle. How in this universe is T20 good prep for Test cricket, even more so in India.
If Maxwell was available, I reckon Green, Maxwell, Head (and potentially one of the left arm orthodox spinners) for Renshaw, Handscomb, Warner (and an unlucky Boland) would have us looking stronger with more options in the 2nd Test.If he was fit, he'd at least open up some new options for us.
He can bat 7 and bowl spin, so we could play 3 quicks with him as the second spinner, or play with him as a third spinning option. Possibly even Green AND Maxwell if we wanted to stiffen the batting line-up while keeping 5 bowling options.