God help me - the Test Cricket thread

[Milhanna13]

Congratulations to India. They deserved to win with their concentration and effort.

Now, Australia: where do I start? I think I said a lot the other day.
[1] Coaching Staff and technology:
I have no idea what our coaching staff do, except that Langer is the boss. Fair enough: I'm not going to bag him as he has worked hard turning us around after we imploded a COUPLE of years back. He also has a reputation for success.
However:
(a) We never seem to have done enough homework on opposition players. Our field placings looks nice and standard, but the ball generally doesn't go to our players.
(b) If there is a crack or ridge in the pitch, we can never seem to find it. Not even with GPS and pitch radar. Not for the first time, our bowlers have come up short on the last day. The Indians found the cracks and the worn patches. We did not. We didn't even appear to be bowling towards them.
© I do not know how much technology we employ, or use in team meetings and training. But we need to do more, so we can actually bowl to where opponents might be vulnerable. We don't do that enough.
Note this test, where we had no idea where to bowl to Pant, Washington Sundar, Shadoul Thakur or Pujara. We have improved against Pujara, as he didn't dominate this series, but we still struggle to get him out. Pant loves playing us as we bowl to his strengths, not his weaknesses. Against other countries, he can't get a game.
(d) Our bowlers do not appear to have a plan, especially when they aren't getting wickets. That is not just the bowlers' fault, but something we need to train to improve.

Kerry OKeefe was on this from almost the start - he has been long praising the Indian's analystics department.  They had a set field and a set plan for every Aus batsman.  You are right in saying we just had the SAME field for every Indian batsman - doesnt look like much homework.  Esp considering many of our coaches and perifery (ie Ponting) have spent so much time in the IPL - surely we could get some first hand intel on all these guys?

The one thing that jumped out to me on the Amazon doc, was when Langer bought in an analtyics guy for the Ashes.  a) Why the fck did he have to bring one in, why isnt there one on staff, b) the Analytics guy basically said "hit the top of off" - no sht mate!!,  c) they didnt really seem to take him seriously

How many coaches, paid how much, with how much time with the team, and we dont seem to have decent plans for each batsman????