Fair to assume the new cluster is actually Des’ fault???....

At this stage, 64 overs odd, India are playing this pretty smart. Old school late 80’s style. Try to get 200 and change in a day with wickets in hand.

This is pink ball Test Cricket. 250 plus 1st inns is a winning score.

And Des told the Aussies not to refer the Kolhi decision.

Am loving it... It’s everything the shortest form of the game is not... The ultimate test of a players skill, concentration and stamina...

Have said a thousand times Virat scares the hell out of me... He has played smart putting the drive away picking off the badish balls... 

Crazy considering we have 3 challenges this test... 

Needed that!!!... and just in time for the new cherry...

Kolhi is blaming Des.

Hahahahahaha..... Douglas!!!!

This is gonna be fun!!!...

Don't bother facing Virat in the change rooms, time to hit the bar.

He’s got such a smooth bowling action does Noni Hazelhurst

How do we call a challenge for LBW when Paine is standing at leg slip to take the ball???....

It didn't even look close...

Noni strikes...

They will be burning pictures of Des all over India, both sides are rightly blaming him.

Need one more tonight to make it our day...

I have it even at end of day 1 though could say Virat&co slightly ahead.....

Solid second session and good run rate in the 3rd under. Lights...

We have too often let 7th and  8th wicket partnerships + the tail meander along to add 100+ runs when in front...

Hoping with the new ball we can strike early and be batting by drinks and only 1-2 down by drinks in the last session... 

Drinks.... drinks.... last session.... Dman, seriously, that’s your favourite part of the sport isn’t it?

I would say that it is pretty even.

The dismissal of Kolhi undid a lot of solid work the Indians had done.

Now the first sessipn is important, the team that wins it is on top.

If we don't didmiss them in the first session, India are on top. 

Trent Barrett does the best interviews I can remember from any footy coach. A great speaker and a genuinely nice bloke. 

Its weird...  you have the 2 best coaches of all time in Bellamy and Bennett who struggle to express themselves. You then have coaches who are good speakers but dont have success (Arthur, Holbrook) and those in between who talk alot and have had some success but you dont know if it was pot luck or their doing (Green, Flanagan). There are also the ones that sound like garbage and give you no confidence whatsoever (Des, Mal etc)

A good talker doesnt necessarily mean they can coach success. Some are better as assistant coaches. Not sure what Barrett is. But all I can say is most people would have more faith in a coach that speaks well rather than 1 that doesnt.

They should change the DRS rules where if you question the umpire and get it wrong, you lose 10 runs.....

I'm sick of players like Wade who had no intentions of not reviewing decisions on a plumb decision. He should know well and truly that once the umpire has given him out, the only way it can be overturned is if it was a no ball or a howler by the ump.

He knew it hit him in line, he knew it hit him just above the knee roll and he knows he's short. WTF was his thinking, other than the fact that he's in the team for his batting now and was worried low runs might cost his place?

Take the decision to review off the players and have the umpires use it as necessary.  If they use it as a prop and avoid decisions deem them unfit to umpire

Very predictable contribution from our openers.

Actually they just had Simon Taufel advise that AUS gets to retain their DRS but I didnt quite hear why..... I assume it is because it wasnt clear cut decision (I.e pitched outside the line).

So in retrospect, it wasnt such a bad review as AUS didnt lose the review even though the wicket stands.

I didnt realised they introduced this rule.

Its stupid to say the least. 

This is India's best chance to win a test, surely we have better openers next test.

There’s a guy that lives in the shire who’s currently available.....

Piss off.
Tolman is not good at anything.

Actually cricket involves a lot of standing around, Tols is a natural.