Third Test: Australia Vs India @ Mohali (Mar 14-18 Thurs-Mon)

[damochandler]

geez i thought i was going to get in the fetal position and call for mummy if smith got his ton. good innings though and starc bad luck son

 

[Gough]

Good to see Sharma congratulate Starc as he walked off.
Series has been played in a good spirit.

 

[Bradesmaen]

Get screwed then mate, if you aren't devastated when a player in a team you support falls for 99, just piss off to another sport.

You can't say its not funny. I bet even Starc will laugh about it later. Grow up a little BACCS.

 

[Caesar]

not its not, regardless of their position it still measures their runs vs wicket ratio.

Im not debating the fact that they get more not outs

It is not a measure of runs per innings

I didn't say it's a measure of runs per innings. I said that their average is slightly misleading in terms of evaluating their contribution to the team's batting, due to their high percentage of not outs.

 

[Gray Day]

I'm impressed - the Aussies have batted 141 overs now.

 

[Patron]

Clarke calculating something declaration soon i feel.

 

[Sylvia Saint]

SO he doesn't get to raise the bat and his stats column is effected, but 99 runs is a mammoth effort from a bloke who is not in the side for his batting!! You have done your country proud Mitch!

 

[Gray Day]

Bullshit. Shakoor Rana would be proud of that quick finger-raise.

 

[Patron]

400 is decent.

 

[Caesar]

Clarke calculating something declaration soon i feel.

It's 11:20 local, what time is lunch?

EDIT: Never mind, Doherty solved the problem.

 

[Magma]

yeah dont think that was out.

umps probably tired.

 

[danielnajdek]

Didn't take him long to give that out.

Looked like it was going down leg but India are bowling so it must be out.

 

[Gak Attack]

That wouldn't of been out if it was a batsman. Given the quicker finger raise I think someone wanted a break.

 

[Stig O'Hara]

Bullshit. Shakoor Rana would be proud of that quick finger-raise.

Indeed, that trigger finger was up before the appeal.

 

[Badesumofu]

Starc and Patto aren't allrounders. Once you take out the 25%+ innings where they are Not Out, you realise that they don't actually score a ton of runs.

Definitely useful batsmen when they can play the occasional knock like this one, but putting pressure on them to contribute runs regularly would be terrible for their bowling.

Being not out a lot actually makes it harder to have a higher average. Consider the following scenarios for a batsman who is 50*: 1. The batsman, having gotten his eye in, as able to continue batting with quality partners and make a big score. 2. The batsman runs out of partners, and in order to make more runs, has to start a new innings and thus get his eye in all over again.

Being not out just means you have to start a new innings again to keep making runs. Starting a new innings is harder to do than continuing an existing one. Given that batting average is a relation of the likelihoods of making runs and being dismissed, there is no way in which being not-out artificially inflates the statistic.

This idea that being not-out a lot somehow invalidates a batsman's average is a complete fallacy.

 

[The Passenger]

Put someone decent in for Hughes and we're not so far away from having a reasonable looking batting line up.

That's a pretty optimistic argument. one good innings and we're all sorted?

Well done to smith. took his chance. it'll intresesting to see if he can carry on with it.

I hope we have a sports Psychologist.

if anything, we need less of that bollox.

 

[Gough]

Dhawan has some impressive facial hair.

 

[The Speaker]

Being not out a lot actually makes it harder to have a higher average. Consider the following scenarios for a batsman who is 50*: 1. The batsman, having gotten his eye in, as able to continue batting with quality partners and make a big score. 2. The batsman runs out of partners, and in order to make more runs, has to start a new innings and thus get his eye in all over again.

Being not out just means you have to start a new innings again to keep making runs. Starting a new innings is harder to do than continuing an existing one. Given that batting average is a relation of the likelihoods of making runs and being dismissed, there is no way in which being not-out artificially inflates the statistic.

This idea that being not-out a lot somehow invalidates a batsman's average is a complete fallacy.

Uh, by their very nature batting averages are inflated by not outs, because they are a measure of runs per dismissal. They have to start a new innings regardless of getting out or not.

 

[aussie1st]

Hozzat?

 

[Cousin Jed]

Appealing for that would have been a good thing for India/Australia cricket relations

 

[Badesumofu]

Uh, by their very nature batting averages are inflated by not outs, because they are a measure of runs per dismissal. They have to start a new innings regardless of getting out or not.

They are increased, not inflated.

Edit: totally should have appealed for that.

 

[Patron]

Run out?

 

[Mister B]

Appealing for that would have been a good thing for India/Australia cricket relations

Can bet your bottom dollar if the shoe was on the other foot the Indians would have appealed for sure.

 

[Cousin Jed]

Looks like that might be the only over Starc bowls for the innings.

Tremendous news

 

[Gordo453]

it was not out anyway because starc was in his delivery stride already