India vs Australia 3rd Test: 16 to 20 March at Ranchi at 3pm (Mel/Syd)

[Happy Mastenator]

guessing that Pujara will be MOTM, unless they have this awards bullcrap/best player from each team etc

deservedly so

 

[The_Reaper]

Not sure why he is unfairly maligned. He is manifestly inconsistent. At 34 he's had a pedestrian first class career so his test figures don't lie.

If they serve up another road, Ussie deserves a go. He was dropped because of the his struggles in Asia, but Marsh has mainly failed. Who says Ussie could not have made runs on this featherbed? He might have played some shots too.

He is unfairly maligned because so many people at the moment lump the Marsh brothers together rather than recognising that since 2014, Shaun has been a good player and even if not best XI belongs in touring squads.

 

[DaRick]

Surely we must be into the last hour?

Stoked that we've survived for this long without losing another wicket TBH.

 

[Jatz]

Bring Stoinis in for Warner and move Marsh up to open

Marsh, Renshaw, Smith, Handscomb, Stoinis, Maxwell, Wade, Cummins, O'Keefe, Lyon, Hazelwood

Marsh struggles more against pace. I wouldn't be moving him to open.

 

[avishka5]

Bring Stoinis in for Warner and move Marsh up to open

Marsh, Renshaw, Smith, Handscomb, Stoinis, Maxwell, Wade, Cummins, O'Keefe, Lyon, Hazelwood

a guy averaging 17 @ shield level this season? stonis selection is dumb as mitch marsh selection.

 

[Gavin Excell]

Surely we must be into the last hour?

Stoked that we've survived for this long without losing another wicket TBH.

12 overs left

 

[Fat Nyfe]

Bring Stoinis in for Warner and move Marsh up to open

Marsh, Renshaw, Smith, Handscomb, Stoinis, Maxwell, Wade, Cummins, O'Keefe, Lyon, Hazelwood

Gross. How very Victorian of you

 

[Jimthegreat]

16 more min and they'll likely call it a draw.

 

[Cursed Cat]

Bring Stoinis in for Warner and move Marsh up to open

Marsh, Renshaw, Smith, Handscomb, Stoinis, Maxwell, Wade, Cummins, O'Keefe, Lyon, Hazelwood

Warner has rightly come in for criticism, and his record in the subcontinent is poor.
but I doubt the selectors will pull the trigger for the series decider; they've come this far with him, hopefully he is (over)due.

 

[Kram]

You're not actually suggesting we drop Marsh for Usman, are you?

The best thing for Usman's cred on BF by far was not playing in this series...

 

[PhatBoy]

he will but he essentially batted his team out of the game.

Yeah somehow I doubt they'll look and say 'well you should have scored faster when your side was 6-down and trailing by 130.

 

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

Judgement of error there from Lee

 

[Richard Pryor]

Bring Stoinis in for Warner and move Marsh up to open

Marsh, Renshaw, Smith, Handscomb, Stoinis, Maxwell, Wade, Cummins, O'Keefe, Lyon, Hazelwood

Stoinis should not get a game just on principle. Averaging under 20 with the bat and over 40 with the ball is barely domestic standard, let alone test standard.

 

[Cursed Cat]

16 more min and they'll likely call it a draw.

I like an earlier poster's comment that Smith should make the Indians stay out there ..

 

[matty lloyd the champ]

Once we feel safe enough, one of the two should try and go for a ton.

 

[SportsCentre]

An the big decider is going to be played with this backdrop.

How f***ing good is it going to be?

that looks straight out of the Don Bradman 17 stadium creator haha

 

[HBF]

I like an earlier poster's comment that Smith should make the Indians stay out there ..

I would as well.

 

[Scotland]

From Cricinfo:
"And I forgot to mention, if the teams want, they can agree on a draw and walk off any time they want"
Not likely sunshine.

Be tempting once the game was beyond doubt to keep goading Kohli into giving up, though.

 

[Demosthenes]

Not sure why he is unfairly maligned. He is manifestly inconsistent. At 34 he's had a pedestrian first class career so his test figures don't lie.

If they serve up another road, Ussie deserves a go. He was dropped because of the his struggles in Asia, but Marsh has mainly failed. Who says Ussie could not have made runs on this featherbed? He might have played some shots too.

Jeeze I hate uninformed s**t like this. Marsh is one of the best tourists we have - he averages 42 from 23 innings away from home and passes 50 roughly every 3 innings. That's plenty consistent, especially for someone who is chronically injured.

Personally I couldn't give a stuff if he doesn't score runs in Australia, literally every other batsman we have can do that. It's obscene that he gets exponentially more flak than downhill skiers like Warner and Khawaja, but I guess that's what happens when your average fan barely turns on the TV outside of the home summer.

 

[SportsCentre]

I had training for about 90 minutes. Left when we were 4-130. Come home and to see we are still 4- really pleases me.
You would hope that this innings is the innings Handscomb needed to really test his test match mettle.

 

[Andronicus]

Bring Stoinis in for Warner and move Marsh up to open

Marsh, Renshaw, Smith, Handscomb, Stoinis, Maxwell, Wade, Cummins, O'Keefe, Lyon, Hazelwood

Take Stoinis out of your post and it makes much more sense.

 

[TheWoodenSlug]

Warner is going to win us the next Test, and therefore the series. I can feel it.

 

[avishka5]

Hilton Cartwright is extremely stiff. He should have been there instead of stoinis.

 

[LukeParkerno1]

a guy averaging 17 @ shield level this season? stonis selection is dumb as mitch marsh selection.

No selection is as dumb as Mitch Marsh's

 

[Belnakor]

this is over they should actually call it off