Australia v India, 1st Test at Adelaide Oval Dec 6-10.

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Australia are not struggling because they are focusing on being nice. They are just not very good.
Pretty much, the quality just isn't there with a lot of these bats. One who is (Khawaja), a few who could blossom in it, and a no hoper.

Of course for the ones who could blossom into it, at some point they need to make the step at some point. Hopefully for both Handscombe and Head this is the innings which starts it.
 

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Australia are not struggling because they are focusing on being nice. They are just not very good.
The atmosphere in recent times would have an impact on these players.

These are young blokes not robots and it must be a terrible time for new players to be coming into the side but yeah the bigger issue is we have three world class batsmen and two are gone, how many times did we say it's Smith or bust in this innings? We would be saying it right now at 4/100 but he isn't here to bail us out.
 

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What's your take on the Indian series where he was one of our best batsmen then dropped because he needed to "train smarter"?
Maxy was great in that series then dropped for no reason he’s a better player then either darsh brother but given not even 15% the amount of chances
 

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Haha, Seven commentary just talking about the glory days of watching McGrath and Martyn bat instead of the current game. I'd rather be thinking about that myself to be fair.
 

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Finch is a garbage version of warner, Warner is a barely passable test batsmen. Can we please put a bullet in the test careers of Finch.
LOL he averages 48+ over a 60 test sample size.
 
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