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Australia (103/2) end Day 3 with a lead of 197 runs in the 3rd Test versus India

Ab Fan said:
Pujara's batting was fine in Adelaide in the pink ball test. But in this test, it was wrong move because Gill and Rohit already blunted the new bowl and with 96-2, your middle order should have made it count and post 350 on board.
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Cummins has Pujara out 4 times out of 5, and 3 of those dismissals were in a similar manner.

Ball coming in with the angle and leaving him enough where he has to play at it and take the edge. Unreal consistency from Cummins.
 
Smudger said:
Similarly Bumrah is also a bunny when Smith is batting
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Not sure about that, but he's looked off colour this spell. Basically India bowling with just Ashwin and Labu has handled him fairly well with the cushion of a 100 runs behind him :smith.

Am getting ready to throw in the towel and wait to see if Pujara can actually save the test for us.
 
UPDATE - Ravindra Jadeja suffered a blow to his left thumb while batting. He has been taken for scans.
 
I think the cricket gods are being unfair to India with all these injuries.😂😂😂. They need to give some of their blessings to the Aussies too.
 
UPDATE - Ravindra Jadeja suffered a blow to his left thumb while batting. He has been taken for scans.
 
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Aussies looking to extend their lead fast , so that they have more time to bowl at Indians.
 
This test match is over, Indians are a strike bowler down and a batsmen with Pant. Indians need to start preparing for the last test and try draw the series
 
It seems Aussies will declare after posting 300 runs tomorrow. So, expect a target of 400 with four and half sessions to spare.
 
Romali_rotti said:
This test match is over, Indians are a strike bowler down and a batsmen with Pant. Indians need to start preparing for the last test and try draw the series
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No hopes.
Australian unbeaten since 1988.

31 Consecutive matches in which Australia have been unbeaten at the Gabba.
The last time they lost a Gabba Test was way back in 1988 against West Indies.
 
King_Kohli said:
No hopes.
Australian unbeaten since 1988.

31 Consecutive matches in which Australia have been unbeaten at the Gabba.
The last time they lost a Gabba Test was way back in 1988 against West Indies.
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India can win at the Gabba, just like they became the only Asian team to win in WACA,Perth in 2008.
 
India stars Rishabh Pant and Ravindra Jadeja have both been sent for scans as the tourists scrambled to get 11 fit players on the park on day three of the third Vodafone Test against Australia.

At one point during the afternoon session, India had four substitute fielders on the ground as Pant, Jadeja, Jasprit Bumrah and Ravichandran Ashwin were all off the field.

While Bumrah and Ashwin returned, Pant and Jadeja have been sent for further assessment after being struck while batting earlier in the day.

Pant was hit on the elbow by a Pat Cummins thunderbolt and looked apprehensive during the rest of his innings before he edged one to first slip to be dismissed for 36.

Jadeja was then struck on the left thumb by a Mitchell Starc bouncer and while he too continued his innings, he did not take the field for Australia's second innings.

Both players were later sent for scans and with Pant absent, substitute fielder Wriddhiman Saha took the wicketkeeping gloves in the final session.

Between 1980 and 2017, substitute fielders were not permitted to keep wickets in the case of an injury, but the rule was changed and came into effect a little over three years ago.

Like all substitute fielders, Saha cannot bat in Pant's place and it's yet to be seen if Pant or Jadeja will be fit enough to bat in the second innings.

Only substitutes for a concussed player, a rule that was introduced in 2019, are able to bat, bowl or act as captain in place of the replaced player.

"It was felt that, if the original wicketkeeper was genuinely injured, then a substitute should be allowed to take over, but that the umpires should control the situation to prevent abuse," the Marylebone Cricket Club, the game’s law-makers, said at the time of the rule change.

"A substitute still cannot bowl, bat or act as captain."

Coincidentally, India were the first Test team to benefit from the new rule in 2018 when Dinesh Karthik donned the gloves in place of an injured Parthiv Patel during a Test against South Africa in Johannesburg.

More recently, West Indian Joshua Da Silva took the gloves from Shane Dowrich in a Test against England after Dowrich was injured.

India have been plagued by injury during this tour and have already seen Mohammad Shami and Umesh Yadav fly home due to injury while skipper Virat Kohli is also unavailable due to paternity leave.

Veteran quick Ishant Sharma has also missed the tour due to injury, while vice-captain Rohit Sharma missed the opening two Tests due to a hamstring problem.

https://www.cricket.com.au/news/ris...ute-australia-india-third-test-scg/2021-01-09
 
Aussies lead by 186 runs , with 17 overs to go Aussies will be looking for 260 runs lead today itself.
 
King_Kohli said:
shane warne and symonds making fun of lambu...they didnt realize camera was running...fox cricket issues apology
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Hilarious comments and pretty much what you feel when Labu acts like a third grade Smith copy.

Has a big mouth too when he's at short-leg
 
Quite a long discussion between the senior Indian players, including captain Rahane, the umpires & a security official at close of play. Looked like it was to do with something someone from the crowd had said to Mohammad Siraj who was at fine-leg at the Randwick end
 
pillionrider said:
Hilarious comments and pretty much what you feel when Labu acts like a third grade Smith copy.

Has a big mouth too when he's at short-leg
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Except he's not third grade - he averages 62 and has passed all tests since changing his game prior to the Ashes
 
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Most Test Wickets by a pacer on foreign soil since 2015:-

36: HAZLEWOOD in ENG
32: Broad in SA
29: Bumrah in AUS
29: Cummins in ENG
27: Anderson in WI
 
Disappointing day

Pujara tuk tuk approach costing us again.Scored 50 in 30 overs is way too slow
Vihari should be sacked too.Enough chances

Unlucky with injuries too .Missed Jadeja's bowling

Tomorrow they need to restrict the scoring rate and make them bat all day

Bumrah and Ashwin need to step up
 
We are gonna get thrashed black and blue.

Need a miracle at this point lol.

Still fuming at the stupidity of our batsman.
 
Mohammed Siraj ducks even before Pat Cummins releases ball, leaves Aussie pace amused

The battle between tailenders and pace bowlers is often an intriguing one. The pace bowlers often target the lesser-talented batters down the order with bouncers in search of early wickets and the same happened as Australia looked to wrap up India's tail at SCG on Day 3 of the third Test.

The likes of Mitchell Starc, Pat Cummins, and Josh Hazlewood troubled Indian tailenders with a barrage of bouncers. The strategy paid off as Starc got rid of Navdeep Saini using back-to-back bouncers. After a rapid fall of wickets, Mohammed Siraj found himself in the firing line.

Not confident enough about his abilities with the bat, as Siraj arrived on the pitch he knew that 140 kmph bouncers would be awaiting him. As Cummins ran towards him, Siraj ducked anticipating a bouncer on the very first delivery before the bowler even released the ball.

The entire incident left Cummins, Siraj himself, as well as the surrounding fielders, amused. A few smiles were exchanged between Cummins and Siraj over the incident. Soon the Indian batter gathered enough courage to face such bouncers. Siraj only lasted for 10 balls, scoring 6 runs before he was dismissed by Cummins.

Siraj's dismissal meant that India could only score 244 runs in the first innings while chasing Australia's first innings total of 338.

It turned out to be quite an eventful day in Sydney that saw India's No. 3 batsman Cheteshwar Pujara score the slowest half-century of his Test career, consuming 174 balls to do so. His previous slowest was 173 balls against South Africa that he made in Johannesburg in 2018.

https://www.timesnownews.com/sports...eleases-ball-leaves-aussie-pace-amused/705005
 
According to Australia media Daily Telegraph - Bumrah and Siraj were targeted with racial abuse by the SCG crowd.
 
Indians complain about ‘five-star jail’ as UK COVID-19 strain reaches Brisbane

The Indian contingent continued to press for relaxation in the strict biosecurity restrictions for the Brisbane Test, put in place by the Queensland government which is fighting an outbreak scare after a confirmed case of the UK strain of COVID-19.

While the players are allowed to mingle in the communal areas of their hotel during the ongoing third Test in Sydney, sources in the Indian contingent informed that they’ve been “told that we will be confined to our rooms” in Brisbane — the final stop on the Australia tour.

“No one is saying that they won’t follow rules but we need some relaxation. They are saying players won’t even be allowed in team rooms in Brisbane,” a member of the Indian contingent told The Indian Express. “We are told that we will not be allowed to step out of our rooms after we come back from practice. We will have to dine in our rooms. It’s turning out to be a five-star jail.”

While reports of give-and-take between BCCI and Cricket Australia (CA) over the hard quarantine at the end of a two-month tour continued on Thursday, there was no official comment from either board. The BCCI officials too remained tight-lipped when reached for comment.

“At least free access should be provided to players and team management inside the hotel. If players want to go to the pool area, they should be allowed. What if any player has to get a massage or meet a physiotherapist?” the source added. “In Sydney, we can’t go out of the hotel. In Melbourne, we were allowed to go out for a walk or dine in an open restaurant. Brisbane has stricter rules but the Indian team only wants relaxation in a few areas. They want fresh air at the end of the day.”

Outbreak scare

Earlier, Queensland’s chief health officer Dr Jeannette Young said that both the teams would be required to operate within a bubble for the Gabba Test.

“My rules are the standard rules I’ve used for sporting teams right from the start and they’ve worked very successfully for us, so that’s what we’ll continue to do,” Young told Fox Sports.

On Thursday, the Queensland health authorities sent aged care homes in parts of greater Brisbane into lockdown after a woman was confirmed to have contracted the highly-infectious UK strain of COVID-19. The woman, a quarantine worker in her 20s, was stationed at the Hotel Grand Chancellor in Brisbane that housed patients with the mutated strain.

https://indianexpress.com/article/s...-uk-covid-19-strain-reaches-brisbane-7137789/
 
Normal service resumed by Australia.

India’s spinners might win at Sydney, but this series will be 3-2 or perhaps 4-1 Australia.
 
Pat Cummins claims four as Australia dominate

Pat Cummins led a fantastic bowling performance by the hosts as India were bowled out for 244 before Australia made 103/2, extending their lead to 197 runs on day three of the third Test in Sydney.

Australia's quicks got the ball to talk on a pitch that appeared to be flat, putting their side in the driver's seat. Marnus Labuschagne and Steve Smith then made an unbeaten 68-run partnership to ensure the hosts finished the day well and truly on top.

The match hung in the balance at the start of day's play with India resuming at 96/2. Australia's bowlers, however, appeared determined to seize the initiative in the morning session. They tirelessly peppered Cheteshwar Pujara and Ajinkya Rahane with short stuff. The ploy worked when Rahane finally chopped a Cummins bouncer onto his stumps.

One brought two as Hanuma Vihari was run out in an instance of fielding brilliance by Josh Hazlewood. Vihari set off for a quick single after driving Lyon to mid-off but Hazlewood dived to cut the ball off, collected it cleanly, and then fired a direct-hit while still on the ground to catch Vihari just short.

Rishabh Pant and Cheteshwar Pujara played in contrasting styles to take India to lunch. Pant was happy to attack anything short or wide, while Pujara continued to hold the fort with caution. Things started changing quickly once the second new ball was taken early in the second session, however.

A Cummins bouncer kept low to beat Pant's pull and hit him on the elbow and while the 'keeper-batsman continued after treatment on the field, he didn't look quite as fluent and soon nicked off to Josh Hazlewood for 36. To make matters worse, Pant was unable to take the field in Australia's innings as he was taken to the hospital for scans. Cummins then produced a perfect away-seaming delivery to Pujara to have him dismissed for the fourth time this series just after the batsman brought up his fifty.

R Ashwin was the next to fall, run out for 10, after a spot of slightly lazy running. Australia had little trouble cleaning the tail up even as Ravindra Jadeja scored an attacking 26* at the other end. India would've probably scored a few more runs, were it not for another sensational direct-hit, this time by Labuschagne to catch Jasprit Bumrah short. In all, India suffered three run-outs in their innings of 244. Jadeja copped a blow to his gloves off a Mitchell Starc lifter and was also unable to take the field later, adding to India's growing injury concerns.

Australia looked to be positive after securing a healthy 94-run lead. Debutant Will Pucovski, who scored a fine fifty in Australia's first innings, got going with a cracking cut shot off Saini, but was soon dismissed for 10 by Siraj, with the bowler getting one to nip away and take the outside edge. His partner Warner fell for 13 when he looked to play a sweep off Ashwin only to be trapped in front.

The two wickets caused Labuschagne and Smith to adopt a slightly more conservative approach initially but they grew in confidence after spending time in the middle to blunt the new ball. Labuschagne played some superb shots, scoring freely on both sides of the wicket. He went to stumps only three short of a second fifty in the game, while first-innings centurion Smith went to close at 29*.

Australia will fancy their chances of going up 2-1 in the series, while India will mull over growing injury concerns as the teams head into day four.

https://www.icc-cricket.com/news/1968742
 
Boria Majumdar saying jadeja probably has dislocated or fractured his thumb. Will definitely be out for this series. There goes any chance we had. Was India's MVP this match.
 
Pant's injury is apparently not that serious and he should be able to bat.
 
battler said:
Boria Majumdar saying jadeja probably has dislocated or fractured his thumb. Will definitely be out for this series. There goes any chance we had. Was India's MVP this match.
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Well that sucks, a big blow for India. A shame really, was looking forward to a good contest.
 
battler said:
Boria Majumdar saying jadeja probably has dislocated or fractured his thumb. Will definitely be out for this series. There goes any chance we had. Was India's MVP this match.
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Well it did look like that live. It seemed like Mr Jadeja even tried to shove the dislocated thumb back in himself while waiting for the med guy :shezzy2
 
pillionrider said:
Well it did look like that live. It seemed like Mr Jadeja even tried to shove the dislocated thumb back in himself while waiting for the med guy :shezzy2
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Probably should call off the tour after this test. Injuries, covid quarantine, racist abuses. All getting out of hand. Feel the players are mentally shot at this point.
 
I feel if India were playing full strength, we would have won the series (going by the fight they are putting up against this full strength Oz side with a very weakened team)... This is a very handicapped Indian side, Aus got lucky here...
 
Depleted India's injury woes worsened on Saturday with senior all-rounder Ravindra Jadeja sustaining a left thumb dislocation and fracture which is likely to rule him out of the final Test in Brisbane, starting January 15. However, there is some good news for India as wicketkeeper-batsman Rishabh Pant's elbow injury is not serious and he will probably be available when India bat to save the Test match. Both players underwent scans after being hit by short balls from Australian pacers on third day of the Test match.

"Ravindra Jadeja has suffered a dislocation and fracture on his left thumb. It will be very difficult for him to wear those gloves and bat," a senior BCCI source told PTI on Saturday.

"In any case, he will be out of action for at least two to three weeks which rules him out of the final Test. Pant will be able to bat as his injury isn't that serious."

The visitors' first jolt came when Pant sustained an elbow injury after being hit by a Pat Cummins delivery.

Reserve wicketkeeper Wriddhiman Saha replaced Pant as per a recent amendment in the ICC playing conditions.

"Rishabh Pant was hit on the left elbow while batting in the second session on Saturday. He has been taken for scans," the BCCI had earlier stated in a release.

Pant, who looked good during his 36 off 67 balls on the third day of the match, was hit while trying to pull a short ball from Cummins.

He was in pain immediately and after on-field treatment that included strapping a bandage, he was back in action but lost the flow due to hindered movement as Josh Hazlewood had him caught behind.

If that was not enough, the Australian fast bowlers inflicted further pain on the Indians with Jadeja suffering a nasty blow to his left thumb.

He is unlikely to bowl in the Australian second innings after being taken for scans to ascertain the damage to his bowling hand.

Jadeja's 28-run knock allowed India to limit Australia's first-innings lead to less than 100 but towards the end, a short ball from Mitchell Starc hit him on the gloves and he needed immediate medical attention.

"Ravindra Jadeja suffered a blow to his left thumb while batting. He has been taken for scans," the visiting team's board stated in another media release after the injury.

Jadeja was in pain and once the team was back on the field for the second innings, his left thumb looked pretty swollen and the physio applied taping on it. He threw a few balls but then it was decided that it won't be possible for him to continue.

Coming into the Sydney Test, India had lost Ishant Sharma (before series started), Mohammed Shami (forearm), Umesh Yadav (calf muscle) and KL Rahul (wrist) to various injuries. Virat Kohli is on a paternity leave.
 
absolutely shocking batting display from india. this SCG pitch is a total pavement. if i was an india fan i'd be ashamed. you have been a batting obsessed nation for 50 years now. whats going on? your batting has regressed while your bowling has got better
 
Australia vs India, 3rd Test: Cheteshwar Pujara Is Almost Scared To Play A Shot, Says Allan Border

Cheteshwar Pujara registered his slowest fifty in Test cricket on Saturday, and former Australia skipper Allan Border feels the reason behind it was that the Indian batsman was playing to survive rather than keep the scoreboard moving. Border, who has 11,174 runs in the longest format of the game, claimed that Pujara was almost "scared" to play a shot on Day three of the Pink Test at Sydney Cricket Ground (SCG). "He's almost scared to play a shot, isn't he? He's playing to survive rather than looking to score," Fox Sports quoted Border as saying.

Pujara was the batting mainstay when the two sides locked horns Down Under in 2018-19, but in the ongoing series, the right-handed batsman has been struggling against Australia's pace battery. Pujara has been dismissed four times by Cummins.

"He's not had quite the same impact this series (as 2018-19) in that he's taken so long to score his runs, it''s like he's stagnated at the crease and it has had a bit of a ripple effect through the Indian batting. They can't seem to get on top of Australia's bowling," said Border.

Pujara has received a lot of flak for his slow approach during his sluggish half-century from the cricket pundits. Former Australia captain Ricky Ponting even went onto say that the slow approach turned the tables in favour of the hosts on day three.

The former skipper criticised India's "lacklustre" effort with the bat, pointing at visitors' batting mainstay Pujara.

Ponting said Pujara's slow batting created an unwanted pressure on the non-striker who had to compensate for his slow approach.

"I think (Pujara) has got to be better than that. He's 16 off his first 100 balls with no boundaries. That is -- and I don't care who you are -- if you're at the other end and someone is batting like that, so much more pressure comes back on you," cricket.com.au quoted Ponting as saying.

"Because you know you have to be the one that's going to keep the scoreboard ticking over (and) trying to get some momentum going your way as a team," he added.

Ponting highlighted that if a batsman wants to have the slow approach he must bat long enough to get 150 runs at least. The former skipper said Pujara's slow approach actually kept Australia in the game despite his fifty.

"If you're going to play that way and bat that long, he's got to back himself to make sure he gets 100, 150 at least," said Ponting.

"To bat like he did today, finally get a great ball from (fast bowler Pat) Cummins, although he got 50, he just hadn't hurt the Australians at all," he further said.

"In fact, batting like he did actually kept Australia in the game. Although Pujara got the 50 that he got, he's as guilty as anyone for slack, lacklustre batting," he added.

India's middle and lower-order failed to deliver and the visitors were bowled out for 244 in the second session, with Australia taking a 197-run lead by stumps on the third day.

https://sports.ndtv.com/australia-v...ared-to-play-a-shot-says-allan-border-2350144
 
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