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+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+xHow are relations between CA and BCCI? This may sour them. Hoping CA has stopped kow towing to them and will now produce decks that dont boost Kohli and co's averages. India is now top of the pile so no freebies. CA and BCCI get along like two peas in a pod. CA beats India (and everyone bar Safrica) on roads with its fastmen, India beats CA (and everyone else) on dustbowls - further helped by the fact that they don't ever play Pakistan anymore. But when Bangladesh turn up in India - they get a fast bouncy track that had the ball carrying through like the Gabba. I still chuckle at this. I mean - India would probably beat Bangladesh in a dustbowl, but they knew that they'd thrash them on a fast bouncy Australian-type track. Preparing favourable tracks for home advantage is very universal. It has nothing to do with kow towing. England keeps its greenies for swing bowlers. Bangladesh and SL dustbowl it. Safrica spice it up for swing and seam. WI has just gone to greenie swing and Dukes after years of failing with spinning tracks... It is all about home advantage. Nothing to do with helping Kohli's average. That guy just scored runs in Eng and SA on the worst pitches imaginable. He is like ABdV - he just finds a way to make runs when the rest of team is disintegrating around him. I personally think NZ should green it up like England, but NZC is more timid. 4 tests in 2 years will do that to a Board. Now where BCCI bent CA over and smacked its bottom in dictating terms was over the Day/Night test at Adelaide with its "no thanks - we'll play in the day time". Which I have to day is incredibly daft of BCCI - because this is when conditions would have been more favourable for them. That said, they were worried about the pink ball and Australia's greater pink-ball experience. They would have seen Aus had won all its day night tests and thought - not worth it. This home advantage is unfair for Oz because we cant reciprocate as we no longer have traditional Oz tracks. That is hard, bouncy decks with some (1) lateral movement for quality quicks like Hazlewood. Most of our recent Test decks have been drop in roads. It was these we dished up 4 years ago to Kohli and Rahane..and they feasted on them. The only time Kohli failed was on the bouncy Gabba. (2) India did not have traditional decks on which to bat last time they toured England . The UK was going thru a heatwave (3) and the tracks were more like here in Oz than England. (4)That was why he prospered. Give him the (5)t raditional, damp, overcast English conditions where swing and lateral movement is prominent and he comes back to the field as was proven on the previous tour. So our only chance to provide a home advantage with the day/nite Adelaide Test was stymied by the BCCI. CA should have showed some intestinal fortitude. (6) Who schedules the Tests.. the hosts. Is that correct? (1) For lateral movement, I'll take Kumar, Shami and Bumrah over Hazelwood. (2) Those England conditions were swinging around corners, like England has done forever... See Woakes and Curran let alone Anderson... (3) No England swung around corners, all the England batsmen were sucking to swing - bar Curran who scored at a series winning average of 36.5.(4) No Kohli prospered because despite his entire team sucking, he scored centuries. It was brilliant batting in the worst conditions. Easily the best batsman by a mile of both teams. (in both SA and Eng). (5) It swung so much in England, the English bowlers were putting their keys in the bowl... (6) A contract requires an offer and acceptance. It needs to be agreed. You seem to be in an imaginary land. Kohli in the worst batting conditions ever, outshone ABdV and Amla (and everyone else) in SA, and Cook, Root, Curran and all the England team in England in the worst swinging conditions ever. You seem to be in denial. The Indian mistake was waiting too long to call up Pant ahead of Karthik. Could have changed the series entirely... #seriously... Aus may win in Australia this year. Because Indian bowlers lack pace. But to try and say it was not swinging in England this year is just imaginary and laughable. How else did I Sharma - the worst bowler to tour Australia - rip the England team apart? You're dreaming Baggers... Just dreaming... Kohli ripped it up in SA and Eng (his batsmen in the top order did not stand by him) - and there's no way Jimmy took all those Indian wickets in AUs like conditions... That's just laughable. Jimmy sucks in Australia - he rules in swing. And it was swinging. Just look at the wickets S Curran (a 10 pace trundler swinger took). (He really sucked in NZ last summer without swing - watched it myself). Where is this post going? Who or what are you trying to attack? Kohli? I watched a good spell of the series. It was a jekyll and hyde type series.. lowish scores first two tests with swinging conditions. last three produced far larger scores which suggests batting conditions had improved due to the heatwave hitting hard on the decks and drying them.. even parching them. I recall the comm saying these are very un English conditions. This was when Kohli really thrived and the wickets from swing dropped.. replaced by spin. We all know Indians feast on spin. I dont deny Kohli is India's premier batsman.. what I am saying is he is vulnerable to the moving ball.. and the steepling ball. I disagree - with respect.
1st test - Kohli scores 200 runs in a shoot out of a match. Ball is hooping with swing.2nd test - India rolled over. Woakes gets a century, and its game over.. http://www.espncricinfo.com/series/18018/scorecard/1119550/england-vs-india-2nd-test-ind-in-eng-20183rd test - Pandya gets a 5/for in a 6 over spell. That is how much the ball was swinging. England were thrashed. Kohli scores 200 runs again. http://www.espncricinfo.com/series/18018/scorecard/1119551/england-vs-india-3rd-test-ind-in-eng-20184th test - Shami had the ball hooping around corners. Ali recalled to the team - sliced through India bowling into the footmarks given to him by the Indian seamers who had swinging it from around the wicket. Kohli again makes runs as India are obliterated. Swing bowler Curran gets him with a ball across him in the first (Kohli plays for inswing), Ali gets him with spin in the second. This I might add - was selection genius to recall Ali. Because Shami and Sharma had been bowling around the wicket a lot. Suddenly there was a big rough patch outside the off stump for a right handed batsman. Ali just kept firing the ball at it - and it spun like it was an Indian dustbowl but variably so. This causes Ashwin to get dropped, because he was unable to replicate it. http://www.espncricinfo.com/series/18018/scorecard/1119552/england-vs-india-4th-test-ind-in-eng-20185th test did have better batting conditions. I agree. Kohli makes a duck :P England had already won the series and was farewelling Cook - who had failed all series till he makes a final farewell 70 and 140 odd century. http://www.espncricinfo.com/series/18018/scorecard/1119553/england-vs-india-5th-test-ind-in-eng-2018in my opinion, Kohli was the best batsman I have seen play in England for a very long time this year, and easily the best on show in South Africa this year by a mile. And of course he is good in Asia. And the last time in Aus he scored like nearly 600 runs. He passed every test. Kohli and Anderson's personal battle - that dates back to India when Anderson challenged Kohli to make runs in England - Kohli won it. Anderson did not get him once all series. For Kohli, like so many great batsmen before him, has now passed every challenge, the question is solely now - how long will he keep it up for? When will he start to decline? And he poses a dilemma for the passionate Indian fan worship of Tendulkar. Because Kohli looks like he will, in odi least, seriously break a lot of records... Between you and me - if I had to choose between Tendulkar or Kohli to bat for my life, I think I would take Kohli based on what I saw this year... Not every challenge. Has yet to conquer the true OZ conditions.. pace and bounce. Probably never will as those decks have now gone the way of the dinosaur. Those 600 runs he scored in 14/15 were on roads. Even the WACA was hospitable. Like I say his only failure was on the bouncy Gabba. Well I agree that they were certainly roads of pitches. But I think that they were fast and bouncy. Certainly more so than anything else in the world. Problem is - a fast pitch is easier to play than a slow pitch, so the only issue for the batsman to overcome is the bounce. This is where many an Asian, English and NZ batsman has struggled. I've found the WACA to be fairly high scoring until the cracks open up. All that WACA bounce typically took so many lbws and bowleds out of play - that the batsman once in, stayed in and made runs. Those cracks were nasty - I do not like watching variable bounce at 150km/h.I'd rather watch something more genial - like MMA fight to death or something :P I like Hobart, that is where Australia often produces something a bit more spicy and sporting. +xWhy are some state coaches not supporting NPS scholars in making the next step in their careers. David Grant is a promising bowler but he has played just 4 FC matches in two years. His numbers in FL have been more than respectable without being brilliant while he has always acquitted himself well for CAX1 sides. But the kid.. actually he is now 23..has to be given some confidence that he has the game to reach the next level and beyond. Being stuck in the lower tier he appears to have been forgotten by the SACA selectors. Luckily CA still rates him. This r/a seamer is good. I saw him give Hashim Amla a real workout before shattering his stumps with a pearler. He took a coupla more Saffer wickets that day if memory serves. He would have been 20 then. At that stage he should have been given a decent run in FC cricket to cement his position. Just heard Grant has been replaced in CAX1 squad by his SA team mate Luke Robins who castled Pujara with a ripper. Grants rotten luck continues. Plenty of grass on this SCG deck but not noticing a lot of movement. A good degree of overcast too should at least be inducing some swing.
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+xWhich kid will get the prize wicket of Kohli? Former U19 rep Aaron Hardie bowls and catches Kohli.. Plenty of grass on this SCG deck but not noticing a lot of movement. A good degree of overcast too should at least be inducing some swing. Anyone ever tell Darcy Short he is an ordinary red ball cricketer. @22 bat @35 ball.. does not exactly scream our quality.
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+x+xWhich kid will get the prize wicket of Kohli? Former U19 rep Aaron Hardie bowls and catches Kohli.. Plenty of grass on this SCG deck but not noticing a lot of movement. A good degree of overcast too should at least be inducing some swing. Anyone ever tell Darcy Short he is an ordinary red ball cricketer. @22 bat @35 ball.. does not exactly scream our quality. I think he's going to end up being a fairly ordinary limited overs cricketer too. Struggled in England and Asia so far. Rajasthan Royals released him.
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+x+x+xWhich kid will get the prize wicket of Kohli? Former U19 rep Aaron Hardie bowls and catches Kohli.. Plenty of grass on this SCG deck but not noticing a lot of movement. A good degree of overcast too should at least be inducing some swing. Anyone ever tell Darcy Short he is an ordinary red ball cricketer. @22 bat @35 ball.. does not exactly scream our quality. I think he's going to end up being a fairly ordinary limited overs cricketer too. Struggled in England and Asia so far. Rajasthan Royals released him. Hardie and Robins have impressed with the ball for the CA boys. Hardie just out of Oz U19s. The knuckledragger Summers sucks.
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+x+x+x+xWhich kid will get the prize wicket of Kohli? Former U19 rep Aaron Hardie bowls and catches Kohli.. Plenty of grass on this SCG deck but not noticing a lot of movement. A good degree of overcast too should at least be inducing some swing. Anyone ever tell Darcy Short he is an ordinary red ball cricketer. @22 bat @35 ball.. does not exactly scream our quality. I think he's going to end up being a fairly ordinary limited overs cricketer too. Struggled in England and Asia so far. Rajasthan Royals released him. Hardie and Robins have impressed with the ball for the CA boys. Hardie just out of Oz U19s. The knuckledragger Summers sucks. India all out 358. Extra time added for the lost day yesterday.
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Privthi Shaw could cause us some big problems this summer. Very classy batting for an 18 year old.
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Coupla white ball sluggers, Short and Bryant opening for CA.
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+xCoupla white ball sluggers, Short and Bryant opening for CA. A lot of Aaron Finch in Bryant.
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Stumps! Surely they could play for another hour. Heaps of time to make up.
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Just noticed that while my ICC definitions do not stick
- but my knuckledragger defintions does - time after time.
I'm taking this as a win....
This is for all the knuckledraggers everywhere...
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I'd correct my plural grammar - but this website is having a meltdown on edit mode....
So I CBF...
#No offence #elitehonesty...
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Good to see Sydney's iconic ground pitch with some life in it. Hoping it is similar for the Test match.
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Wizz kid Shaw has picked up what looks like a serious leg injury trying to catch Bryant on the boundary.
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+xWizz kid Shaw has picked up what looks like a serious leg injury trying to catch Bryant on the boundary. The burly NSW -born Qlder has a half century against the world #1 Indians.
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+x+xWizz kid Shaw has picked up what looks like a serious leg injury trying to catch Bryant on the boundary. The burly NSW -born Qlder has a half century against the world #1 Indians. For someone who is yet to play FC cricket Bryant is impressing. Has a passable technique and looks safe in defence. When he see a ball in his hitting zone he does not hold back.
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+x+x+xWizz kid Shaw has picked up what looks like a serious leg injury trying to catch Bryant on the boundary. The burly NSW -born Qlder has a half century against the world #1 Indians. For someone who is yet to play FC cricket Bryant is no white ball slugger. He has a passable technique and seems to know how to build an innings. Just when you praise a bloke he makes you look foolish. A rush of blood trying to deposit Ashwin into the stands brings about his downfall for an entertaining 62.
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+x+x+x+xWizz kid Shaw has picked up what looks like a serious leg injury trying to catch Bryant on the boundary. The burly NSW -born Qlder has a half century against the world #1 Indians. For someone who is yet to play FC cricket Bryant is no white ball slugger. He has a passable technique and seems to know how to build an innings. Just when you praise a bloke he makes you look foolish. A rush of blood trying to deposit Ashwin into the stands brings about his downfall for an entertaining 62. Commentator's curse...
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Meanwhile Short has survived some streaky shots to reach his own half ton.
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+x+x+x+x+xWizz kid Shaw has picked up what looks like a serious leg injury trying to catch Bryant on the boundary. The burly NSW -born Qlder has a half century against the world #1 Indians. For someone who is yet to play FC cricket Bryant is no white ball slugger. He has a passable technique and seems to know how to build an innings. Just when you praise a bloke he makes you look foolish. A rush of blood trying to deposit Ashwin into the stands brings about his downfall for an entertaining 62. Commentator's curse... Yep. You watching mate?
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+x+x+x+x+x+xWizz kid Shaw has picked up what looks like a serious leg injury trying to catch Bryant on the boundary. The burly NSW -born Qlder has a half century against the world #1 Indians. For someone who is yet to play FC cricket Bryant is no white ball slugger. He has a passable technique and seems to know how to build an innings. Just when you praise a bloke he makes you look foolish. A rush of blood trying to deposit Ashwin into the stands brings about his downfall for an entertaining 62. Commentator's curse... Yep. You watching mate? Nopes. Is it worth watching? Post the URL if so...
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+x+x+x+x+x+xWizz kid Shaw has picked up what looks like a serious leg injury trying to catch Bryant on the boundary. The burly NSW -born Qlder has a half century against the world #1 Indians. For someone who is yet to play FC cricket Bryant is no white ball slugger. He has a passable technique and seems to know how to build an innings. Just when you praise a bloke he makes you look foolish. A rush of blood trying to deposit Ashwin into the stands brings about his downfall for an entertaining 62. Commentator's curse... Yep. You watching mate? I am thinking Shaw has done a ACL
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+x+x+x+x+x+x+xWizz kid Shaw has picked up what looks like a serious leg injury trying to catch Bryant on the boundary. The burly NSW -born Qlder has a half century against the world #1 Indians. For someone who is yet to play FC cricket Bryant is no white ball slugger. He has a passable technique and seems to know how to build an innings. Just when you praise a bloke he makes you look foolish. A rush of blood trying to deposit Ashwin into the stands brings about his downfall for an entertaining 62. Commentator's curse... Yep. You watching mate? Nopes. Is it worth watching? Post the URL if so... https://live.cricket.com.au/match/2198/43849/cricket-australia-xi-men-vs-india-men-india-tour-of-australia-mens/scorecard
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+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+xWizz kid Shaw has picked up what looks like a serious leg injury trying to catch Bryant on the boundary. The burly NSW -born Qlder has a half century against the world #1 Indians. For someone who is yet to play FC cricket Bryant is no white ball slugger. He has a passable technique and seems to know how to build an innings. Just when you praise a bloke he makes you look foolish. A rush of blood trying to deposit Ashwin into the stands brings about his downfall for an entertaining 62. Commentator's curse... Yep. You watching mate? Nopes. Is it worth watching? Post the URL if so... https://live.cricket.com.au/match/2198/43849/cricket-australia-xi-men-vs-india-men-india-tour-of-australia-mens/scorecard You get it? You have to be a ACF member to watch.
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+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+xWizz kid Shaw has picked up what looks like a serious leg injury trying to catch Bryant on the boundary. The burly NSW -born Qlder has a half century against the world #1 Indians. For someone who is yet to play FC cricket Bryant is no white ball slugger. He has a passable technique and seems to know how to build an innings. Just when you praise a bloke he makes you look foolish. A rush of blood trying to deposit Ashwin into the stands brings about his downfall for an entertaining 62. Commentator's curse... Yep. You watching mate? Nopes. Is it worth watching? Post the URL if so... https://live.cricket.com.au/match/2198/43849/cricket-australia-xi-men-vs-india-men-india-tour-of-australia-mens/scorecard You get it? I think NZ is regionally blocked. I could load a VPN but all mine are freebies so it will be crap quality. Next year after the summer, I am cancelling pay tv and going willow with paid vpn... :D I know I'll regret not doing it before Pak vs SA - but I want to watch NZ's domestic t20 comp so I at least know what the NZC players look like. Cricket coverage in NZ is a disgrace. Would it be so hard to give us the SA games ffs... NZ, Ind, Aus, and Eng - that's all we get...
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+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+xWizz kid Shaw has picked up what looks like a serious leg injury trying to catch Bryant on the boundary. The burly NSW -born Qlder has a half century against the world #1 Indians. For someone who is yet to play FC cricket Bryant is no white ball slugger. He has a passable technique and seems to know how to build an innings. Just when you praise a bloke he makes you look foolish. A rush of blood trying to deposit Ashwin into the stands brings about his downfall for an entertaining 62. Commentator's curse... Yep. You watching mate? Nopes. Is it worth watching? Post the URL if so... https://live.cricket.com.au/match/2198/43849/cricket-australia-xi-men-vs-india-men-india-tour-of-australia-mens/scorecard You get it? I think NZ is regionally blocked. I could load a VPN but all mine a freebies so it will be crap quality. Next year after the summer, I cancelling pay tv and going willow with paid vpn... :D I know I'll regret not doing it before Pak vs SA - but I want to watch NZ's domestic t20 comp so I at least know what the NZC players look like. Sounds like a smart idea.
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Shami and Yadav sucking in Australia. No surprises.
Sharma sucking is a problem for the Indians. A big problem. Despite his history of sucking there.
They need his height and accuracy.
Everything in their bowling arsenal relies on Bumrah it would seem.
Bhuvi will only play in lateral conditions I imagine... Of which Australia will have none for India I bet...
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+x+x+x+x+x+x+xWizz kid Shaw has picked up what looks like a serious leg injury trying to catch Bryant on the boundary. The burly NSW -born Qlder has a half century against the world #1 Indians. For someone who is yet to play FC cricket Bryant is no white ball slugger. He has a passable technique and seems to know how to build an innings. Just when you praise a bloke he makes you look foolish. A rush of blood trying to deposit Ashwin into the stands brings about his downfall for an entertaining 62. Commentator's curse... Yep. You watching mate? I am thinking Shaw has done a ACL What the hell? This tour is going badly for BCCI in the best chances of winning they've ever had. Post sandpapergate - first Hardik - not now Shaw as well?? Dear oh dear..
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Ishant Sharma @62
Umesh Yadav @43
That is their averages in Australia. Holy heck..
Shami a lot better at @22 Bhuvi has only played the one match here .. with 1 wicket at @168. India you are in a heapof. Both spinners will play likely given that sorry lot.
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+xIshant Sharma @62 Umesh Yadav @43 That is their averages in Australia. Holy heck.. Yeah - they have not mastered the art of road bowling. Sharma despite sucking in Aus, has looked likely at times but unable to seal the deal. Yadav is just a knuckledragger but not good enough at knuckledragging for Aus' roads... I really don't rate him at all - but I fear Bhuvi (who I do rate) is too slow and there is nothing for him to exploit in Aus with his swing skills. He rules in Eng and SA, but in India and Aus - there's nothing for him at all...
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+x+xIshant Sharma @62 Umesh Yadav @43 That is their averages in Australia. Holy heck.. Yeah - they have not mastered the art of road bowling. Sharma despite sucking in Aus, has looked likely at times but unable to seal the deal. Yadav is just a knuckledragger but not good enough at knuckledragging for Aus' roads... I really don't rate him at all - but I fear Bhuvi (who I do rate) is too slow and there is nothing for him to exploit in Aus with his swing skills. This sorry pace attack is making Short look good.
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