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Ajinkya Rahane (104*) leads from the front as India reach 277/5 on Day 2 of 2nd Test vs Australia

WHATTTAYYYY KNOCK RAHANE

:bow: :bow: :bow:

This knock will be talked for decades.

Like his Lord's.

But this is EVEN better due to the context.

IPL 100s get forgotten the next day.

ODI 100s too.

But knocks like these will stay with you.

Breaks my heart that test cricket will probably die soon and all we will have is ODIs and T20s.

And even if its alive, the games will be too few that it won't be as much fun.

Need a miracle to save test cricket lol.
 
Rahane's 2nd ton at the MCG.

I remember another one in partnership with Kohli back in 2014.

The test Dhoni retired.
 
Looks like India is all set to hammer the Aussies in this match.

Rahane, what a text book player! Could have been a big star had he been in another team which had a dearth of batting talent
 
Shaw is a 21 year old baby in international cricket just like 23 year old Pant. He will make a comeback. Deserved at least 10 matches before getting dropped for 1 year. :inti

He certainly deserves a run and I guess your argument is fair because you didn't watch IPL this year.

If you would have watched, you would have known how easily pacers were troubling him with the new bowl. Except the first few games when everyone was rusty, he was barely able to survive and would get out in the first few overs against much inferior bowlers to what you see in test cricket.

The situation was such that at one point, he was dropped from his franchise team which has hardly happened with a young home team batsman. He was not in correct mental frame from then only and hence giving him chance at this point was pointless. His time will come and he will be backed then, not now.
 
Jadeja is looking so comfortable, long may it continue.
 
Absolute legend Rahane is

The true rock, unbelievable fortitude.

Amazing player
 
IPL 100s get forgotten the next day.

ODI 100s too.

But knocks like these will stay with you.

Breaks my heart that test cricket will probably die soon and all we will have is ODIs and T20s.

And even if its alive, the games will be too few that it won't be as much fun.

Need a miracle to save test cricket lol.

Socialism can help save test cricket... EU is talking about 4 day work week, Unilever in NZ is experimenting on it..
 
I still can't believe Rahane produced this master class given the iffy form he has been having for the last 3 years. May be the captaincy brought the best out of him.
 
Rahane with a cracking century and a captain's knock under pressure.
 
Dropping Shaw is actually good for him.

This is a mercy drop.

Backing him now would destroy his career.

He needs time out.
 
Jadeja will soon be a test cricket legend. Remarkable batting improvement
 
Dropping Shaw is actually good for him.

This is a mercy drop.

Backing him now would destroy his career.

He needs time out.

Yeah and people want him to be given 10 chances. There is difference in getting exposed to techncial weakness to just struggling with form.
 
Absolute legend Rahane is

The true rock, unbelievable fortitude.

Amazing player

What a hyperbole! This is his first defining innings after 5 years. He has played well today, yes.. but lets not forget his awful record in the last 5 years
 
They are a better team than Australia.

We aren't better. In Australian Condtions toss makes a difference. We are not full strengthm at full strength it's still about equal depending on toss in Australia

India is better in India obviously.
 
I am blown away by Jaddu's batting here.

Dude is so damn solid.

I know we all make light weight of Jadeja's triple centuries in domestic cricket but no one who scores a triple century at a competitive level should ever be underestimated and Jadeja has two of them iirc.
 
Socialism can help save test cricket... EU is talking about 4 day work week, Unilever in NZ is experimenting on it..

The BCCI need to find a way to make pink ball tests sustainable in India. That's the way forward for the next decade or two.
 
Only way if Indian can dream of winning is by batting OZ out of the game. But not possible with this batting. Once this pair is broken, then we have the tail. In no time they will roll them over.
 
Not really. We have outplayed and outsmarted them maybe but the quality of Australia is such that they can destroy us in 1 session as they showed us in the last match.

In pink ball. Not red ball. In their Condtions Australia is better if toss is in their favour. Vice versa for India in Australia.

In India, India is well ahead.

I am talking full strength ofcourse. Current team is weaker than Australia without our 3 best players.
 
5 catches dropped by the Australians in this innings, none of them particularly difficult.

India dropped 7 in the first test. Australia had all the luck in the world with bewda picking wrong combos and poor selections.

Plus they should have been all-out for 120.

Even in this game we dropped 2 and one run out not given. Plus lbw not given.

So Australia has had far far more luck overall. Don't bring up luck.
 
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