Australian Cricket - Crisis, What Crisis ??

[ElwoodBlues1]

This pitch is so slow and lifeless it makes the MCG pitch  look sporting.  It is the rankest pitch possible.    Fair dinkum, it is coming off so poorly that after it lands Pant has time to walk across, wait for it and place it with impunity.

We should,  I write should, be able to bat for five days on this deck.  Any spin, bounce or reverse swing and I'd be checking the pill for "unnatural damage".  Any movement at all and I'd be very suspicious.

Marnus is a captain's nightmare... Half trackers,  pitches all over the shop - one outside leg,  next a foot outside off etc,  haven't seen any real turn and no wrong 'un.  Can't see why he was picked.

Starc gave it away today, he couldnt be bothered, I believe he and the wife Alyssa Healy have more interest in their property portfolio and have just added another property once owned by Jen Hawkins for close to 2 mill.
I dont expect him to stay in test cricket too long and maybe concentrate on the shorter formats of the game where he can make good money and continue adding to his investments.
India's bowlers already look like the wicket will suit them more...they have the three spinners and can use Bumrah/Shami in short spells...like the look of their chinaman bowler too...he can land them on line unlike Marnus who is very part time and you couldnt really call an allrounder..

India look so much better with Jadeja at No 8 and I reckon plenty of teams will struggle knocking them over cheaply with him and Pant coming in down the order...wicket keeping needs work but Pant has to be one of the better keeper/bats in world cricket....