Given his indifferent form he has been impeccable in judgement today. Vintage stuff. Won't say he is back to his best. Not close. But he is good at picking the lenght. He is generally good on bouncy wickets. His issue is movement with 7the stump line.
Elgar sooked the most in that test about the pitch. Imagine wanting to stop a home test match due to not being able to encounter a pitch against a subcon team.
NZ pitches aer luck based. Sometimes they arebatting beauties depending on when you bat. But SA does the worst. Sometimes it backfires. Sreesanth's dismissal of Jacque kallis is legendary. Ball just reared off from a good length and Kallis had no answer. SA bowled out for 84 runs.
Yes, he and Amla wanted to walk off while Indians were adamant to continue the game. Indians under Kohli-Shastri were always there for a fight.
SA got 0-3 last two times in India. 0-3 and 0-2 whitewashes in SL. 0-2 whitewash in Pak.
Also Remember kohli’s chiding of Vijay to continue playing in the middle and not show any discomfort while being hit on the fingers/body.
How can he sook about Indian pitches when he can't even bat properly on his own pitches?
Yep. Some of these guys always have got the gall to be over critical of our pitches while being silent on their less than ideal and at times dangerous for batters pitches.
Funny thing is Kohli scored an unbeaten 250. Rohit 3 daddy 100s in 3 tests and along with Mayank was giving 300 run opening partnerships. Even Rahane was smashing them. Ashwin was the leading wicket taker but Shami and Umesh almost matched him in wickets tally unlike in SA where spinner doesn't even get a bowl.
Make it “Disisun”Philander’s way of saying “sion” as “sun” is getting on my nerves
Eg., Decision becomes Decisun
To be honest to Pakistan, they've played really well on the day 1 of SCG test
fancy Aussies getting bowled out for 350 ?
This. Always goes missing after playing 1 good innings in the opening test
Disagree, Australia is number one right now.
No wonder, they are nowhere near the top in any of the formats.
Really poor of Jay Shah to continue with Dravid.
Ashwin bowled well in Centurion. Got unlucky with a couple of drops.
Also Rohit underbowled him and over bowled Thakur and Prasidh.
I thought only Kohli was a bad selector in tests but this Rohit-Dravid combo doesn't know how to select teams in test cricket.
Rohit is totally out of depth as a test captain.
So its correct that only reason Ashwin played in that test was due to Jadeja being unfit!
30 more overs left in the day. We could see 25-30 wickets falling on day 1.
Useless with bat toI would love to see Prasidh bat. Utter useless with the ball
Indian batting for you
