4th test Australia v India at the Gabba 1030 AEDT

[ashep]

Utter embarrassment for Australia. India threw away a bunch of wickets and still cantered home.

 

[hoddo]

It’s easy to say to bring the field up but there was nothing happening. No balls lobbing up, no edges.. heck not even many that went past the bat. If the ball was darting around and jumping off a length then it’s a fair point but it was a dead pitch

True, the pitch wasn't helping much, but Australia was in the position where it needed to make things happen and having fieldsmen up around the batsmen can create implied pressure that makes the batsman bat differently and make mistakes.

 

[Adelaide Hawk]

One of those series that in years to come you'll bore the young 'uns about.

The T20 fans have forgotten it already

 

[to1994]

They got rolled for 36, lost half the side and didn't drop another game while winning two its one of the all time great fightbacks, admitting that won't make your head explode.

It's also worth admitting that if our bowling didn't fire on all cylinders in that innings we would have lost that game too.

It's not as if we thrashed them game 1 and they came back, they've been on top of us for a pretty large majority of the sessions in the series.

 

[BACCS]

Starc was mostly off since Adelaide agreed.

What frustrates me with him is he doesnt take enough time to find line and length. To do that you sometimes have to bowl slower for not just a couple of balls but for 2 or 3 overs. He doesn't give himself a chance to settle. If his line and length is off first over he just keeps trying to bowl fast over anything else.

He should be able to address this himself but after a few poor tests where's the guidance from captain and coaches?

He doesn’t seem to execute a yorker as consistently or as well as he does in limited overs cricket either, they’re deadly in those formats. Only saw him genuinely land one today and it very nearly got an LBW, so the ability is there, it just isn’t consistent and hasn’t been at Test level for a while. Surely Paine not using Starc at all in the last session says a bit about how the captain rates him?

 

[ABAB]

strong India bowling attack. are we watching the same series?

I was talking about Test 1-3.....I think Siraj has overtaken Ishant so their bowling attack will now be Bumrah, Shami, Siraj, Ashwin and Jadeja.

 

[CricketingErrors]

 

[Roosurgence]

Ashwin might have gone a bit early with him claiming a series in India would end Paine’s career.

Today at the Gabba should have done that job.

 

[BACCS]

It's also worth admitting that if our bowling didn't fire on all cylinders in that innings we would have lost that game too.

It's not as if we thrashed them game 1 and they came back, they've been on top of us for a pretty large majority of the sessions in the series.

Again, Ponting had the sessions as dead even coming into this Test, India would’ve gone ahead during Brisbane though. That’s about right. The only Test India truly dominated was Melbourne.

 

[Falcon27]

Warner
Pucovski
Labuschagne
Smith
?
Green
?
Cummins
?
Hazlewood
Lyon/?

Wouldn't necessarily have Warner in there either!

 

[CricketingErrors]

 

[Balls In]

The good news was the emergence of Petrovski and Green. If only the selectors had added Richardson.

 

[Kappa]

strong India bowling attack. are we watching the same series?

You don't rate Bumrah Siraj Ashwin I'm guessing? Clueless.

 

[Richard Pryor]

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To surprises Junior and Vaughan put it in the most dickheaded way.

 

[to1994]

I think Gill, Pant and Siraj might end up being exceptional.

If everyone's fit for the next Test they play 3 seamers with it'll be interesting to see what they do.

Bumrah and Shami with either Ishant or Siraj you would guess. Ishant has been consistent but gee it would be harsh on Siraj after this.

 

[Chuckie357]

Did a great job turning around his county side. Who’s ever done well at SA?

Who ever was coaching when we won the shield last

 

[Heeney2Franklin]

What a great summer of cricket thanks to both sides for a memorable test series.

India depth is incredible.

 

[onthehill24]

Wow
Surpose to win 4 nil
And get done 1-3
Some work to do
Best bowling attack ever
No no no

 

[BACCS]

Losing a Test series at home against a weakened opponent will definitely see change, even the Aussie selectors aren’t that stubborn.

 

[ABAB]

Too busy barracking Fleming and Brayshaw and laughing at Pujara for batting slowly but actually wearing our bowlers out

Even Ponting weren't critical at all on Starc or Lyon, only Hayden talked about Starc and that was the first I heard anyone finally rubbishing his form and that was the 4th innings of the last Test.

 

[BarryMorgan]

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Not enough eggs in the world for those faces.

 

[Gough]

The T20 fans have forgotten it already

Like the English footy team with penalty shoot outs, it would be nice to be on the winning side of a classic.

 

[BACCS]

Wow
Surpose to win 4 nil
And get done 1-3
Some work to do
Best bowling attack ever
No no no

It was 2-1

 

[frankrizzo]

It's also worth admitting that if our bowling didn't fire on all cylinders in that innings we would have lost that game too.

It's not as if we thrashed them game 1 and they came back, they've been on top of us for a pretty large majority of the sessions in the series.

yep our batting really cost us the first two test matches but we got bailed out by a freakish bowling display, india could have easily wrapped up the trophy after just two tests with how poorly we batted, the next two tests the pitches got easier but its the same old story marnus and smith do the heavy lifting a few others chip in.

 

[Santana]

This is the first time I have seen a Gabba test loss. Don't think it has sunk in yet. Weird feeling