(12-27-2018, 09:52 AM)Professer E link Wrote:Piss weak tactics from the Indians. Grind for two days at at a snail's pace, wear out the other mob in the heat then try to cash in. That's been their modus operandi for fifty years and why they can't win away.
Yes it was like a time warp.
But having said that, did you notice as soon as the Bumrah and Sharma got out there the ball was swinging and moving sideways off the pitch. What happened when our lot had three new pills, not a deviation, even from the declared swing bowler Marsh and the supposed late swinging freak Starc!
Our lot might be good bowlers, but they are so far out of form it's not funny, and all we are hearing is that it's the pitches fault! Maybe not just out of form but over-rated! The pitched seemed to offer Sharma and Bumrah plenty, and Jadeja was turning the new ball plenty not that I'm blaming Lyon he just needs 10 new team-mates!
It's just too easy to stay in our test team, this culture of persisting with the squad no matter what is killing Australian cricket. They will have good patches when they are in good form, but those times are spread so thinly the majority of the time we will be sadly disappointed.
"Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck ....... Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck"