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#791
02-09-2023, 04:28 AM
How Warner keeps getting on overseas' tours beggars belief.
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#792
02-09-2023, 05:03 AM
(01-16-2023, 09:01 PM)Professer E link Wrote:Familiar script....win toss, bat for two days in a heat wave, the pitch deteriorates rapidly from mid test and later innings are over in two sessions.  Four-nil India, because we can't bat time.

And some squeal when some grass is left on a pitch.
Some of us dont mind a bit of grass on the pitch Proff.
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#793
02-09-2023, 05:29 AM
From what has been shown about this pitch in Nagpur, the thing looks incredibly suspect. The side for right handers has been watered and grassed to last, but the left hand side is already bare and breaking up. Very suspicious.
Wonder if it has anything t do with our preponderance of left handers ...
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#794
02-09-2023, 07:09 AM
Don't have the bats or spinners to win here..
You need spinners who bowl a lot of sliders (not an effective ball in Oz so our spinners don't bowl it) and craptruck left hand batters are USELESS in India. We're playing short with this side.
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#795
02-09-2023, 09:34 AM
Innings and 400 run loss coming up. 

Pathetic effort this far.
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02-09-2023, 10:15 AM (This post was last modified: 02-09-2023, 11:06 AM by DJC.)
Scotty Boland will rip the heart out of the Indian team and a decent batting effort in the 2nd dig should set us up for a close fought win.
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#797
02-09-2023, 10:42 AM
He won't get enough support.  Too many softies from north of the Murray.
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#798
02-09-2023, 08:58 PM (This post was last modified: 02-09-2023, 09:10 PM by LP.)
Well that was a short series, and we aren't even on the pitches yet that favour the Indians!

Dead and buried at selection ............. yet again!

PS: Can you imagine the outrage if Warner was seen handing Lyon a substance to put on his spinning finger, yet crickets about Jadeja's magic finger mix?
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02-10-2023, 12:27 AM
100%. Totally and completely illegal.  You just can't do it and he must be sanctioned.  It was so he could bowl with a newish pill, so that's getting an unfair advantage.

Where our blokes get into trouble with spinners is the straight one - Ashwin's arm ball or the slider from Jadeja.  Few of of our wickets were from balls that deviated from the line - you miss those, they're too good.  Bowl one early in the over as a set up then attack the line of the stumps.
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02-10-2023, 02:14 AM
(02-10-2023, 12:27 AM)Professer E date Wrote:100%. Totally and completely illegal.  You just can't do it and he must be sanctioned.  It was so he could bowl with a newish pill, so that's getting an unfair advantage.
Jadeja is claiming he has a sore finger, but if I recall correctly just recently Lyon and Starc were required by match referees to remove dressings and other coatings from their fingers before bowling, so much so Starc was forced to carry a towel to soak up blood dripping from his finger.

Dodgy wicket preparation, dodgy bowling tactics, piss-weak response from officials, this is how money corrupts!
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