Green: "I'm ready to go".
"Australia allrounder Cameron Green is ready and raring for the third Test against India in Indore, having gotten through some challenging net sessions with bat and ball"
CA.
Likely.
Khawaja
Head
Labu
Smith
Handscomb
Green
Carey
Starc
Murphy
Lyon
Boland or Kuhnemann
Oz tour of India. Tests & ODIs.
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lazzadesilva
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Much stronger Aussie team playing the test commencing today but will still struggle to beat India. My order of probable results are Indian win, draw, Aussie win, Tie, No result due to some interruption, Walkover.
I term the current Collingwood attack based strategy “Unceasing Waves” like on a stormy and windy day with rough seas. A Perfect Storm 
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stui magpie
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India 7/84 at Lunch. Starc should have had Rohit twice in 3 balls in the first over so he's seriously stiff to be wicketless.
Now the ticky part, don't let their tail wag, if we can be batting before Tea we'll have a great opportunity to get a first innings lead.
The tests are starting at 9:30 AM local Indian time so the first hour in the morning is the hardest time to bat.
Now the ticky part, don't let their tail wag, if we can be batting before Tea we'll have a great opportunity to get a first innings lead.
The tests are starting at 9:30 AM local Indian time so the first hour in the morning is the hardest time to bat.
Every dead body on Mt Everest was once a highly motivated person, so maybe just calm the **** down.
Might see just that this Test. It's like the 1st Test on the last Indian tour. Overcooked pitch. So it's a shootout. Then SO'K gets 12 wickets. Oz win.K wrote:Lazza, sadly we don't. We should. Every country should produce wickets that are fair to bowlers. Pace, spin, swing, I don't care. Flat decks are an existential threat to the game. ...lazzadesilva wrote:...we set up green, bouncy wickets in Perth and Brissy when India, Sri Lanka and Pakistan etc tour. Cuts both ways. Watching the way the Indians play spin compared to the Aussies is embarrassing. Chalk and Cheese. ...
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There was nothing wrong with the Delhi pitch. e.g. Look at Axar's innings. Nothing wrong with the Nagpur pitch either. India made 400 on that! How can it be "bad" for batters?? It's just bad for obese flat-track bullies, etc. They get found out.
Journos have said it and they're right. India don't want to produce dustbowl pitches. 'Cos if it's a dustbowl shootout Oz might win. India want to produce pitches that give just enough for spinners to be dangerous. Then they just sit around and watch hopeless FTBs' defective techniques destroyed.
This Test, maybe Kuhnemann does a SO'K. Gets 12 wickets. Oz win?
Normal Indian pitches are much better for India. A 600 1st-innings pitch. Dopey England or Oz batters get 400, think they're heroes. India laugh to themselves, get 600. India bowl out Dopey England or Oz on the 5th day for 150, win by an innings and 50 runs.
But those normal Indian pitches are bad for cricket. For cricket, it's much better if the pitch is overcooked than undercooked. The shamefully flat Oz pitches are an existential threat to the game. But when Brissy has a pitch that is accidentally good for cricket, everyone squeals like pigs.
That’s rubbish. I posted the stats which show that there has been a much greater proportion of results in Tests in Australia this century than in any other major Test country. If you don’t want to engage with the contrary opinion, perhaps you should just STFU. No-one wants to see you running a private conversation with yourself - still less one so ill-considered and completely contrary to the evidence.