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Pies4shaw wrote:Test batting averages in India for the players in that squad:
Smith - 60.00
(Starc - 32.87)
Renshaw - 29.00
Handscomb - 28.28
Warner - 24.25
None of the other bastmen have played a Test there.
Australia had best hope that SpecialK can reproduce what he displayed in Pakistan and that Marnus is a good player in India, otherwise it's going to be a long tour, watching wickets fall all around Smith (who has been, naturally, Australia's best-performed player in India this century).
In that context, it is worth observing that SpecialK at least recently excelled in sub-continental conditions (averaging 99.2 in Australia's tour of Pakistan). Marnus, on the other hand, shows all the signs of being just another one in the long line of Australian batsmen who are not much use on the sub-continent (he averages 70.5 here and 50.42 in England, albeit from a small sample, but just 34.00 in Pakistan and 24.25 in the UAE).
What you see is what you get, really. It's a concern when the absence of Starc takes away one of Australia's top performers with the bat in Indian Tests.
Murphy has another. 6/87. India is 8/342. The rest of the bowling has been ineffective, although at least Boland and Lyon have bowled economically. Cummins is still going at 4+ an over for the innings.
^ And Murphy was spinning the ball about a foot to 18 inches. The game has been finished for some tinme. It just needs to work its way through to the appalling end.
