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Australia vs India | 2nd Test | Perth | Dec 14-18, 2018 | Day 4 Thread

Pitch is producing some unexpected bounce from good length as well. it isnt going to be easy to chase bere.
 
battler said:
Shami bouncing Australia out!
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To be honest its the pitch bouncing out the batsmen more than Shami. Shami is just bowling good length and short of good length, the pitch is generating bounce from unexpected lengths.
 
Pitch has become Unplayable. Might get reported by the ICC.

Anyways, I dont see India scoring 100 runs on this surface.
 
Titan24 said:
To be honest its the pitch bouncing out the batsmen more than Shami. Shami is just bowling good length and short of good length, the pitch is generating bounce from unexpected lengths.
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ALL of his wickets are from short....
 
Aussies are clear favourites even if they don't score another run.

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With this variable & at times alarming bounce , i hope every one is securely padded up & arm / chest guards are a must .
 
What a performance and turnaround by the Indian pacers! #respect

This could be one if India’s greatest overseas victories ever! Bowlers have certainly done their job!
 
Slog said:
I cannot fathom how Harsha Bhogle has been commentating for two decades and is still such a nerdy, mediocre commentator. Also how he still manages to get a gig
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He was good as an anchor and part time commie... I think he should have taken retirement at some stage... Now he is full time commie and that's very irritating!
 
This is best performance by an Asian pace attack in Australia since Asif and Sami in Sydney 2010
 
If India wins on this pitch and kohli scores a ton, India will be considered as the Windies of the 80s
 
If the pitch Keep behaving like this might work in India's favour, umpires might call of the game
 
Slog said:
This is best performance by an Asian pace attack in Australia since Asif and Sami in Sydney 2010
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Then you surely haven't watched them bowl at Cape Town earlier this year in the second innings. :afridi
 
Steven Smith will be thanking the ban for sitting this series out. Horrible playing conditions against a 90mph attack.
 
Ashraful_Rox said:
If India wins on this pitch and kohli scores a ton, India will be considered as the Windies of the 80s
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Prolly not

They got hammered in England recently so that will be there

Though they did well in SA despite loss
 
Stalin said:
Then you surely haven't watched them bowl at Cape Town earlier this year in the second innings. :afridi
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Is Cape Town in Australia? Did Australia colonise South Africa recently?
 
This is what I meant when I said the current Australian lot are as fragile as the Pakistanis. Whenever they are on top, they will conjure up a passage to play to hand the initiative back to the opposition. Australia were effectively 235/4 and ended up being 241/8. They had the chance to end India's chances by scoring 300-325 but they didn't. That's exactly what Pakistan does. [MENTION=79064]MMHS[/MENTION]
 
shariqnoor said:
This is what I meant when I said the current Australian lot are as fragile as the Pakistanis. Whenever they are on top, they will conjure up a passage to play to hand the initiative back to the opposition. Australia were effectively 235/4 and ended up being 241/8. They had the chance to end India's chances by scoring 300-325 but they didn't. That's exactly what Pakistan does. [MENTION=79064]MMHS[/MENTION]
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Well, they did almost win the 1st test doing the exact opposite of what you're describing.
 
shariqnoor said:
This is what I meant when I said the current Australian lot are as fragile as the Pakistanis. Whenever they are on top, they will conjure up a passage to play to hand the initiative back to the opposition. Australia were effectively 235/4 and ended up being 241/8. They had the chance to end India's chances by scoring 300-325 but they didn't. That's exactly what Pakistan does. [MENTION=79064]MMHS[/MENTION]
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Watch the dismissals & the alarming bounce before you take this thought any further . Visitors will lose by at least 100 runs here .
 
I am kinda terrified at the prospects of our batsmen facing Stac, Cummins and Hazlewood here. Hopefully no injuries to King Kohli.
 
Lol at everyone who is still having hope of an Indian win. Will do extremely well to avoid a defeat of 100 runs.
 
ILcricket said:
Watch the dismissals & the alarming bounce before you take this thought any further . Visitors will lose by at least 100 runs here .
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I believe the rollers come on before a new innings so debris will be removed and pitch to play a bit better for a while?
 
shariqnoor said:
This is what I meant when I said the current Australian lot are as fragile as the Pakistanis. Whenever they are on top, they will conjure up a passage to play to hand the initiative back to the opposition. Australia were effectively 235/4 and ended up being 241/8. They had the chance to end India's chances by scoring 300-325 but they didn't. That's exactly what Pakistan does. [MENTION=79064]MMHS[/MENTION]
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Australia batting still far better than Pakistan. Our batsmen can only score in flat pitches
 
Slog said:
I believe the rollers come on before a new innings so debris will be removed and pitch to play a bit better for a while?
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the effect of heavy rollers will get negated by the hard new ball . Do not see 150 in 4th innings . Just now backed Aus at 1.36 .
 
Shafi said:
Australia batting still far better than Pakistan. Our batsmen can only score in flat pitches
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At this moment Pakistan batting is head of Australia's. Azhar Ali, Babar Azam are miles better than the current Aussie batsmen
 
I know India have no chance to chase this down in this mine-field. But it's amusing to listen the nervous and uneasiness of Aussie commentators. They are saying, Vijay and Rahul are good players and will come good in 2nd innings, and Kohli is the key.
 
susantcbnu said:
I know India have no chance to chase this down in this mine-field. But it's amusing to listen the nervous and uneasiness of Aussie commentators. They are saying, Vijay and Rahul are good players and will come good in 2nd innings, and Kohli is the key.
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Rahul and Pujara are good. And pant has also been contributing
 
BlackShadow said:
It isn't now. We are not crossing 150 here.

Only hope we have is umpires making the right call and declaring this pitch unsafe.
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Wait so what happened immediately after lunch. It was playing fine before that
 
shariqnoor said:
This is what I meant when I said the current Australian lot are as fragile as the Pakistanis. Whenever they are on top, they will conjure up a passage to play to hand the initiative back to the opposition. Australia were effectively 235/4 and ended up being 241/8. They had the chance to end India's chances by scoring 300-325 but they didn't. That's exactly what Pakistan does. [MENTION=79064]MMHS[/MENTION]
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The way ball is behaving after lunch, I don't think any one can complain. On contrary, the way Paine & Usman batted a session before lunch, you can't expect that from Sarfraz and a top order. Since Ambrose & Bishop pair, I haven't see any pace attack using WACA (Perth) track like this. No comparison with Aussie resilience and PAK's weak mentality - even Aussie last pair is trying to survive here, and put whatever singles they can add - then think about Babar, Sarfraz, Bilal, Yasir & Hasan at Abu Dhabi (both Test).

No comparison.
 
It's just the first 25-30 overs India's gotta face carefully. The seam will die down after and they'll have have good 20 overs to score today then the roller in the morning will open another 20 over period to score, that's where they have to do damage.
 
MMHS said:
The way ball is behaving after lunch, I don't think any one can complain. On contrary, the way Paine & Usman batted a session before lunch, you can't expect that from Sarfraz and a top order. Since Ambrose & Bishop pair, I haven't see any pace attack using WACA (Perth) track like this. No comparison with Aussie resilience and PAK's weak mentality - even Aussie last pair is trying to survive here, and put whatever singles they can add - then think about Babar, Sarfraz, Bilal, Yasir & Hasan at Abu Dhabi (both Test).

No comparison.
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Its not that pakistan Tail did not have potential , but they never worked on that and took it casually.
rao Iftikhar , Umar Gul , Wahab Riaz , sami , yasir Shah etc all had potential to average around 17 - 18 in Test , but they never did that
 
Aussies have reached the critical target where 2nd ball will be in equation now. If IND is to win, they'll need to bat 90+ overs here.
 
Indians and Tailenders still a better love story than twilight!
They were 207-9 and now have shot up to 227-9. 20 very crucial runs!
 
Heading for a super finish? This could be a classic test match!
 
Bowlers doing all the good work and now throwing away the match with some dumb bowling!
 
Justcrazy said:
Its not that pakistan Tail did not have potential , but they never worked on that and took it casually.
rao Iftikhar , Umar Gul , Wahab Riaz , sami , yasir Shah etc all had potential to average around 17 - 18 in Test , but they never did that
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Separate discussion, but I wrote it last time - Yasir is a Category A player who plays 6-7 Tests in whole year and his batting from a 18-19 potential has come down to 10-12, when it should have been 23-25. This is pure complacence - these players are happy with their situation and PCB's management won't try new players. On contrary, now Mackenzi is making Taijul working really hard with bat and he has shown his batting improvement against WIN.
 
Under Kohli, India have time and again gottten batting lineups to 7,8 or 9 down but then end up giving away pointless runs which could be game changing.

This has happened so many times that neither is it bad luck nor is it funny.
 
MMHS said:
Separate discussion, but I wrote it last time - Yasir is a Category A player who plays 6-7 Tests in whole year and his batting from a 18-19 potential has come down to 10-12, when it should have been 23-25. This is pure complacence - these players are happy with their situation and PCB's management won't try new players. On contrary, now Mackenzi is making Taijul working really hard with bat and he has shown his batting improvement against WIN.
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That is the point , he is playing just one format , he has enough time to work on his batting.
 
Yadav is here bearing more gifts to Australia. This is great. They can get a 300 lead from here. Come on Starc n Haze!
 
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