4-225.

What a recovery from India after being 2-8!

surprises me too. 

Vihari gone, good ball by Hazlewood. 

Pant now standing between the newish ball and the tail. This could be fun.

The openers are India's weakness without Shaw in the side, so losing them both quickly is bad but not as bad as in some teams

Well done Hazlewood, getting an outside edge to dismiss Vihari, caught Paine.

Hopefully, we get into the fragile Indian tail soon.

Josh Hazlewood! Almost had Kohli in previous over. A coat of varnish from a double blow before lunch.

Still have to remove Kohli. 

I’m surprised how fast Starc is bowling compared to Cummins.

A year and a half ago in Asia, Cummins was as quick as Starc is now - balls up to 150kph.

Yes. said the same. His pace has decelerated the last 12 months. Was his last injury the final straw to keeping his express pace?

There is just sufficient in this deck to keep the quicks interested. 

Bumrah has a batting average of 1.43.
I wonder who out of players who played a while has the lowest average?
Devon Malcolm was awful and he has an average of 6.
Bruce Reid an average of 4.65 with a high score of 13.

Actually we don't, just get Pant and the 4 bowlers quickly. Kohli can be not out.

This is what Starc should be doing more. Is lethal when he gets his radar spot on.
Starc to Kohli, no run, 147kph, short one, climbs off the shoulder of the bat in the air but it falls just short of point! That was a brutish delivery

http://www.howstat.com/cricket/Statistics/Batting/BattingAverages.asp?Stat=2

Player		Career	Mat	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	100s	50s		Avg
1	Mbangwa, M	Zimbabwe	1996-2000	15	25	8	34	8	0	0	2.00	17.62
2	Saunders, J V	Australia	1902-1908	14	23	6	39	11*	0	0	2.29	-
3	Martin, C S	New Zealand	2000-2013	71	104	52	123	12*	0	0	2.37	20.00
4	Ironmonger, H	Australia	1928-1933	14	21	5	42	12	0	0	2.63	-
5	McCarthy, C N	South Africa	1948-1951	15	24	15	28	5	0	0	3.11	-
6	Lawson, J J C	West Indies	2002-2005	13	21	6	52	14	0	0	3.47	29.38
7	King, R D	West Indies	1999-2005	19	27	8	66	12*	0	0	3.47	20.69
8	Manjural Islam	Bangladesh	2001-2004	17	33	11	81	21	0	0	3.68	21.66
9	Maninder Singh	India	1982-1993	35	38	12	99	15	0	0	3.81	-
10	Pradeep, N*	Sri Lanka	2011-	28	50	17	132	17*	0	0	4.00	36.57
11	Chandrasekhar, B S	India	1964-1979	58	80	39	167	22	0	0	4.07	-
12	Cuffy, C E	West Indies	1994-2002	15	23	9	58	15	0	0	4.14	22.75
13	Doshi, D R	India	1979-1983	33	38	10	129	20	0	0	4.61	-
14	Reid, B A	Australia	1985-1992	27	34	14	93	13	0	0	4.65	23.60
15	Valentine, A L	West Indies	1950-1962	36	51	21	141	14	0	0	4.70	-
16	Hayes, J A	New Zealand	1951-1958	15	22	7	73	19	0	0	4.87	-
17	Gabriel, S T*	West Indies	2012-	40	58	19	190	20*	0	0	4.87	39.42
18	Panesar, M S	England	2006-2013	50	68	23	220	26	0	0	4.89	29.37
19	Jones, E	Australia	1894-1902	19	26	1	126	20	0	0	5.04	-
20	Aaqib Javed	Pakistan	1989-1998	22	27	7	101	28*	0	0	5.05	31.17
21	Griffith, H C	West Indies	1928-1933	13	23	5	91	18	0	0	5.06	-
22	Tufnell, P C R	England	1990-2001	42	59	29	153	22*	0	0	5.10	22.17
23	Anurasiri, S D	Sri Lanka	1986-1998	18	22	5	91	24	0	0	5.35	-
24	Hirwani, N D	India	1988-1996	17	22	12	54	17	0	0	5.40	40.91
25	Adcock, N A T	South Africa	1953-1962	26	39	12	146	24	0	0	5.41	-
26	Olonga, H K	Zimbabwe	1995-2002	30	45	11	184	24	0	0	5.41	23.50
27	Nehra, A	India	1999-2004	17	25	11	77	19	0	0	5.50	30.08
28	Mullally, A D	England	1996-2001	19	27	4	127	24	0	0	5.52	41.37
29	Higgs, J D	Australia	1978-1981	22	36	16	111	16	0	0	5.55	-
30	Mohammad Asif	Pakistan	2005-2010	23	38	13	141	29	0	0	5.64	30.45
31	O'Connor, S B	New Zealand	1997-2001	19	26	8	103	20	0	0	5.72	19.85
32	Mpofu, C B*	Zimbabwe	2005-	15	28	10	105	33	0	0	5.83	42.17
33	Collins, P T	West Indies	1999-2006	32	47	7	235	24	0	0	5.88	33.52
34	Enamul Haque	Bangladesh	2003-2013	15	26	16	59	13	0	0	5.90	21.93
35	Hurst, A G	Australia	1974-1979	12	20	3	102	26	0	0	6.00	52.04
36	Malcolm, D E	England	1989-1997	40	58	19	236	29	0	0	6.05	45.83
37	Ramnarine, D	West Indies	1998-2002	12	21	4	106	35*	0	0	6.24	24.88
38	Pocock, P I	England	1968-1985	25	37	4	206	33	0	0	6.24	-
39	Bell, A J	South Africa	1929-1935	16	23	12	69	26*	0	0	6.27	-
40	Boock, S L	New Zealand	1978-1989	30	41	8	207	37	0	0	6.27	-
41	Gupte, S P	India	1951-1961	36	42	13	183	21	0	0	6.31	-
42	Sikander Bakht	Pakistan	1976-1983	26	35	12	146	22*	0	0	6.35	-
43	Wall, T W	Australia	1929-1934	18	24	5	121	20	0	0	6.37	-
44	Hendrick, M	England	1974-1981	30	35	15	128	15	0	0	6.40	29.84
45	Alderman, T M	Australia	1981-1991	41	53	22	203	26*	0	0	6.55	27.36
46	Edwards, F H	West Indies	2003-2012	55	88	28	394	30	0	0	6.57	28.20
47	Patterson, B P	West Indies	1986-1992	28	38	16	145	21*	0	0	6.59	35.89
48	Blair, R W	New Zealand	1953-1964	19	34	6	189	64*	0	1	6.75	-
49	Cummins, M L*	West Indies	2016-	13	20	6	95	24*	0	0	6.79	37.40
50	Gibbs, L R	West Indies	1958-1976	79	109	39	488	25	0	0	6.97	-

One more before lunch. Been a good morning for us nevertheless.

Baggers, maybe Cummins’ injuries have resulted in medical advice to bowl within himself?

If he keeps slowing down, we have plenty of fast medium line and length bowlers as alternatives.

There are also genuine pace bowlers to replace him like Stanlake, Richardson and Meredith.

Where's Pidge?

Brew I still prefer him over Tremain and the others on the fringe.

Richardson or Meredith yes. Stanlake no.

If we are picking an A side. Tremaine, Richardson would open my attack. Who would be your first change?

Pant is edging plenty but no to hand so far.

That is the money ball by Cummins. Induced Kohli to finally nick one.

Glenn McGrah averaged over 7.

Wickets tumbling now with another by Lyon. Should have a handy lead.

what 7.1?

we won a session which puts our noses back in front

hopefully we can get a decent lead here

7.36

7-252 for the session, means we took 4 for the session and won it!

I’m thinking Lyon is now a great, after taking yet another important wicket.

At the moment the trio are Bolland, Tremain and Richardson.

Siddle is too old for an A side even though he might still play a test or two.

Pattinson would be very close as well but Bolland and Tremain are out bowling him for Victoria. The Tasmanian quicks are interesting, perhaps Steketee from Queensland and Worrall from SA as others to consider.

Just think what the score could have been had Kohli nicked one of the many he missed.