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

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If Mitch Marsh cashes in on this pitch I won’t post in the cricket forums again until this series is over.
India have this won already. I’ve seen enough to convince me that this pitch is tough to score on and will become nearly impossible to survive on by Day 4. My prediction of 200 runs average per day for the Test might have been optimistic.
I'd be more concerned about Australia folding under scoreboard pressure rather than any particular demons in the pitch.
 

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im sure the 10k at the ground will be enthralled
You reckon it's going to Blunderstone Arena or whatever it is called? I'm not against it, as it is about time our Tasmanian brethren got something.

Adelaide is my bet personally. Very safe 50k for all 5 days, and best ground/pitch in the country as well so there won't be any poor ratings from the ICC.
 

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This pitch truly is a piece of shit. Lucky to have 20 wickets this test match. MCG will be lucky to escape a 'poor' rating for the pitch this time around.
If the ICC gave the Perth Stadium an average rating for what was entertaining cricket they're going to wack this one hard.
 

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Can you? Zoehrer was already out of the picture in terms of test selection by the time Healy was selected. The keeper he replaced at test level was Greg Dyer. So yeah, any reason for WA patrons to boo Healy? I was at the Shield match WA v Qld where Healy was playing just after being announced as keeper for the Pakistan tour. There was no booing then.
I think people have their stories mixed up. It was Gilchrist who replaced Zoehrer as keeper for WA in 1994-95 and many locals weren't very happy about it, so Gilly copped a bit of flack from the WA crowd. It was also Gilly who replaced Healy as Test keeper and he copped flack from the Brisbane crowd in the 1st Test against Pakistan in 1999-2000.
 
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I think people have their stories mixed up. It was Gilchrist who replaced Zoehrer as keeper for WA in 1994-95 and many locals were very happy about it, so Gilly copped a bit of flack from the WA crowd. It was also Gilly who replaced Healy and he copped flack from the Brisbane crowd in the 1st Test against Pakistan in 1999-2000.
Healy himself comes across as extremely salty about getting dropped to this day, I dimly recall reading that he tried to claim he was as good a bat as Gilly at the time but that his average was worse because he selflessly slogged for the side. I'm sure every All-Time XI list with Gilchrist eats away at him.
 

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Selfish prick who batted for his own statistics and couldn't care less about the side. Off the top of my head one anecdote I recall is that he figured out how to pick Australian mystery spinner Gleesons variation ball out of the hand but declined to let his teammates know how. Another infamous one is that England were in the position to win a Test with some aggressive batting, but Boycott stuck with his slow defensive style, so Ian Botham deliberately ran him out for the good of the side. Also screwed a lot of people in his domestic side over.

Sentiment of the period was that Boycott and Lawry were going to kill Test cricket.
I came across the scorecard http://www.espncricinfo.com/series/...-2nd-test-england-tour-of-new-zealand-1977-78

I looked at the balls per over it says 8 balls. How is this possible
 

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I came across the scorecard http://www.espncricinfo.com/series/...-2nd-test-england-tour-of-new-zealand-1977-78

I looked at the balls per over it says 8 balls. How is this possible
Because Australia and New Zealand bowled 8 balls over at that time. Australia changed to 6 balls in 1979-80.
For the record, from 1850-51 to 1888-89, the were 4 balls per over in Australia. From 1889-90 to 1914-15 there were 6 balls. From 1918-19 to 1978-79 there were 8 balls per over.
 

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Because Australia and New Zealand bowled 8 balls over. Australia changed to 6 balls in 1979-80.
For the record, from 1850-51 to 1888-89, the were 4 balls per over in Australia. From 1889-90 to 1914-15 there were 6 balls. From 1918-19 to 1978-79 there were 8 balls per over.
Must have been a lot of council workers playing cricket.
 

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Who cares if Warner is a dickhead, at least he's entertaining.

Sometimes test cricket forgets that's it's only purpose, to entertain the public.
You are confusing T20 and ODI cricket with Test match cricket.

Thats not its purpose per se.
 
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