Australia v India, 3rd Test at the MCG Dec 26-30

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Marsh should just attack he does not have the technique to block he want last

He should play his shots
Maybe, just maybe, he should adjust his game to the conditions and the scoreboard. He is the vice captain and batting with his captain. Throwing his wicket away on a terrible shot at 5 for 95 is not what he should be doing.

Excusing a player for playing a more defensive approach on the basis it isn't his natural game is risible in the context of the game.
 

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I’ve said it before and I will say it again. Can we just make up a team of 10 bowlers and a wicket keeper?

I will back them to make more runs than our batsmen and then we have countless options in our bowling attack to bowl the opposition out cheaply.
would be a great experiment to play 10 bowlers v 10 batsmen
 

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The structural problems in Australian cricket are being laid bare for all to see. CA has become a dollar chasing business, rather than the overseer of the game of cricket.

The Sheffield Shield has been reduced to a second-rate competition, bookending the almighty BBL. As has the domestic one-day competition.

As a result, we have barely any batsman in the Shield pressing for Test selection, and even if there were - they wouldn't be elevated to the side from Shield competition, as it isn't being played at the moment.

CA is ruining the game in this country, it's as simple as that.
Kids largely just don't care about Test or ODI cricket anymore. From an admittedly small sample size of younger siblings/cousins and their friends who play cricket - they can't stand Test or ODI cricket. Yet, they lap up the BBL as if it's AFL. If young cricketers don't even watch cricket, what hope is there for the game? I'm only mid-20s but their attitudes make me feel old. We would watch hours of Test match cricket each summer. Even those kids who didn't play cricket would listen on the radio in the backyard, etc.
 
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