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

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Let's see what comes of this test before making wholesale changes.

Day 1 in the afternoon, that poor hour or so when we let Pujara make some easy runs, might of had them a few less. Something to learn from.

Finch's dismissal didn't look great for a bloke opening, but let's see how he goes in his 2nd dig as well as Perth and Melbourne.

Harris looked solid. Nice start to his career. Would give him most of the summer.

Khawaja looked really good. Bit unlucky to have that flick the glove.

Marsh, poor shot but I would give him the Perth test. Played a SS game or 2 on the Perth Stadium wicket, makes sense to pick him for that.

Handscomb looked good too.

Head played really well, thought he might be the weak link, but proved me wrong. Needs to be there at the end of our innings if we want to get past their first dig. Gets most of the summer.

Paine and Cummins got really good balls.

Wade, Cooper, Doolan and Burns are the top SS run scorers this season so far( a long with Harris and SMarsh) so I guess of any changes are to be made to our batting line up it would be with them.

Anyways it's going to be a great 3 days of test cricket. Surely headed for a result.
 

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Twas a good evening, cricket was on at the bowlo so watched that during the consumption of cheap beer.
To this observer, unless a few quick dismissals occur in the first session today, the match will peter out to a draw. Not exactly a cracking run rate due to good bowling by both sides.
If anything, this Test will give headaches to the Australian selectors. Smarsh will get another gig next Test but he has no chance of retaining his place with another failure. Finch will play again but tighten up your defence.
Now back to sleep before pennant starts at 1.
 

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Wait, people are saying Handscomb scraping his way to 30 and then playing the dumbest shot of the day once in is now 'good'? Maybe against the spinners but looked very average against India's average quicks.
 

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Not exactly a road out there. The Indian bowlers have hit very good areas.

Game on as far as i'm concerned.
How many were out to good balls? Cummins didn’t play a shot. Handscomb, finch and marsh threw their wickets away. Only really Paine and usman got good balls. Harris needed to forward more
 

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Don't be lazy. Have a look yourself and tell me there's no-one at State level, who's 25 and under who couldn't replace a 35 year old plodder.
What's the obsession with 25 and under? Surely pick the in form middle order batsmen (whoever it is). Mike hussey was over 30 when he debuted. People are so obsessed with age rather than form.

If anything id rather let the young player play 2 or 3 seasons averaging 50 in shield and make them earn it. Too often we promote a young player only for them to fail and turn to shit. It either means they weren't good enough and were never going to be good enough or we promoted them too early and destroyed their confidence.

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Wait, people are saying Handscomb scraping his way to 30 and then playing the dumbest shot of the day once in is now 'good'? Maybe against the spinners but looked very average against India's average quicks.
Yes, he looked scratchy but at least he made 30 odd and helped Australia regain some momentum. I think he looks scratchy because of his technique. But a scratchy 30 is much better than looking more traditional, making no runs and adding pressure to your team like S.Marsh
 

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We trail by 60 runs with 3 wickets in hand, it's far from unwinnable. They key is Starc/Head digging in for an hour tomorrow morning and bridging the gap.

The other big issue is you can't see Kohli failing twice
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This. Cannot see him failing twice.
 

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Twas a good evening, cricket was on at the bowlo so watched that during the consumption of cheap beer.
To this observer, unless a few quick dismissals occur in the first session today, the match will peter out to a draw. Not exactly a cracking run rate due to good bowling by both sides.
If anything, this Test will give headaches to the Australian selectors. Smarsh will get another gig next Test but he has no chance of retaining his place with another failure. Finch will play again but tighten up your defence.
Now back to sleep before pennant starts at 1.
A draw? You know India have already batted right? Its more likely to be over in 4 than to be a draw.
 

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Handscomb has to stay.
Handscomb's batting technique is horrible and has previously been exposed at Test level, sure he deserves another chance given how bad the bad the batting stocks are but other than wearing a Bushranger hat makes him some sort of automatic 'lock' for the side?
 

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Handscomb's batting technique is horrible and has previously been exposed at Test level, sure he deserves another chance given how bad the bad the batting stocks are but other than wearing a Bushranger hat makes him some sort of automatic 'lock' for the side?
This vendetta against all things Victorian is getting tiresome.
 

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This vendetta against all things Victorian is getting tiresome.
Oh have you stopped having a sook over getting called out your mindless cheerleading on the politics board?

I don't care where payers come from in the country, nothing wrong with calling out other that quite obviously do.
 
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