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India (262 & 118/4) defeat Australia (263 & 113) by 6 wickets - Take a 2-0 lead in the series

This Delhi pitch provides more bounce than the NZ test pitch where ball comes harmless to batsman after pitching.
 
Aussies need to keep going, attacking as much as possible. As it stands out, in this cobra alike pitch blocking will achieve nothing. Wickets will fall regularly,they need to score as much as possible & the way to do it would be to attack, not grind. It's a dangerous unpredictable wicket,anything over 250 will be handy.
 
VForVendetta said:
Aussies need to keep going, attacking as much as possible. As it stands out, in this cobra alike pitch blocking will achieve nothing. Wickets will fall regularly,they need to score as much as possible & the way to do it would be to attack, not grind. It's a dangerous unpredictable wicket,anything over 250 will be handy.
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Wicket is dangerous only for Australia. India's inning inbetween will be calm.
 
Got to get Aussies out before they score 200 runs in this dig.
 
JattMaula said:
Wicket is dangerous only for Australia. India's inning inbetween will be calm.
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I don't think Kohli, Pujara or the wk are going to do much in this track. I predict it will be once again Rohit or Rahul/Ayer & the allround trio who will score.
 
Khawaja is playing some deft sweeps albeit risky. But overall has found a way to combat sipnners here. He did have his issue against short ball though.
 
Smith has been very disappointing. Has looked very tentative and clearly been fearful of the conditions
 
Thats the problem you always feel India will get a wicket. Can see India scoring 500 on here.

Innings win on the cards again.
 
Ashwin takes out Carey now, thankfully Kohli pouched that.
 
VForVendetta said:
I don't think Kohli, Pujara or the wk are going to do much in this track. I predict it will be once again Rohit or Rahul/Ayer & the allround trio who will score.
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Former Kaptaan and ChePu are geriatric quota. Bharat will be ok. He can bat in these conditions.
 
This partnership is assuming dangerous proportions.
 
Would have been really nice to see Kuldeep in place of Axar but then he batted heroically in last test even though he was mostly toothless as a bowler in the last test.
 
Really weird approach from the aussies since new session. What exactly are they trying to achieve by simply hanging around & blocking?? Cummins really doesn't get it yet. Wickets will keep falling, such is the nature of the pitch & quality of bowlers. They were flourishing in the previous session by playing aggressively. That's the only way to tackle these spinners here. They messed up by going into over defensive mode.
 
VForVendetta said:
Really weird approach from the aussies since new session. What exactly are they trying to achieve by simply hanging around & blocking?? Cummins really doesn't get it yet. Wickets will keep falling, such is the nature of the pitch & quality of bowlers. They were flourishing in the previous session by playing aggressively. That's the only way to tackle these spinners here. They messed up by going into over defensive mode.
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The anti-bazball approach.
 
Just tuned in...not bad going by our guys, but then Aus have also maintained healthy run rate.
Handscombe playig well...
Did VK just drop one just now? generally it a good shakoon if he drops, we generally go o to win but he needs to be removed asap from close fielding, he is brilliant at cover, midwicket
 
Ferozshah Kotla has to be one of the ugliest stadiums going around. Its like a jigsaw put hru by someone who is mentally challenged, just a random assortment of ugly concrete. Add to this the pathetic low bounce pitch.....the DDCA were historically one massive bunch of venomous vipers each trying to outdo the other in their cheap one upmanship antics...surely the capital deserves better than this excuse of a stadium.

Havent been to Delhi for a long time but has the AQI improved? Thank heavens they are playing in Feb when the climate should be pleasant and the AQI somewhat close to human...shudder to think if this was dec...that would be an assault on human existence
 
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CrIc_Mystique said:
Ferozshah Kotla has to be one of the ugliest stadiums going around. Its like a jigsaw put hru by someone who is mentally challenged, just a random assortment of ugly concrete. Add to this the pathetic low bounce pitch.....the DDCA were historically one massive bunch of venomous vipers each trying to outdo the other in their cheap one upmanship antics...surely the capital deserves better than this excuse of a stadium.

Havent been to Delhi for a long time but has the AQI improved? Thank heavens they are playing in Feb when the climate should be pleasant and the AQI somewhat close to human...shudder to think if this was dec...that would be an assault on human existence
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Delhi truly is 20 year behind every other city.
 
Good fighting innings by handscombe, showed great ticker...
wonder why he does not get a regular gig in the aus test squad
 
Not sure what's happening here?

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JattMaula said:
Delhi truly is 20 year behind every other city.
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hmmm....if Delhi sorts out some priorities...no reason why it cant match several others....
startign with the pathetic parali back burning....
but coming back to the cricket...the pitch is so dead low bounce....why cant we prepare true bouncy wickets where each trade of bowlers can prosper...instead of the low slow bounce comatose wickets delhi produces year after year
 
As it turns out that was actually a very tight no-ball.
 
Australia bowled out for 263, Shami takes his 4th wicket of the innings.
 
Last chance for KL Rahul in this game perhaps, perform or perish. If he fails, Gill will be back next match.
 
9 overs to negotiate for us before stumps tonight.

Would be tricky for sure.
 
Jadeja needs to keep his foot in line. I know he has had a long break but come on! You're a spinner.
 
Very soon we are going to have a mass exodus
shami, ash, jads, ishant(already not in the mix), umesh
Where are our replacements? do we have a back up plan? where are the youngsters?
i dont see too much +ve stuff...maybe Umraan, Bumrah, siraj, prasidh, bishnoi, akshar
Cant see much forward planning by the BCCI money guzzling cement heads
 
Don't have any trust in our batting line up, ripe for taking by a decent enough bowling attack.
 
Possibly one of the very few times in history that Aus have opened the bowling on the opening day with a spinner and not pacer at both ends ...:ua
 
Big raps on KL to score big.
If he does'nt then Gill is waiting to take the place of Shetty khandaan ka damaad :)....
With KL, i always feel its his concentration that is lacking...
he has the game, the defence, the shots....but after so many years still not established in test cricket...
hope he goes big this time
 
India are batting at the fag end of the day.
aus have nothing to loose. pathetic captaincy by cummins, i would have fwd short leg and silly point straight away to a Left arm ortho bowler....
 
Australia bat first in India so many times still can't stretch the game to even the end of Day 3.

And we have expanded the Border Gavaskar trophy to 5 tests.
 
Overall, if you loose the toss and you shoot the opposition < 300, i guess you would be happier than the opposition.
I still thot fantastic innings by handscombe and cummins but other than UK , not much from the other guys. For all the hype about spin and pitches, DW is still falling to pace bowling.....u'd think for someone on pacy aussie wickets, he would monster the indian pace attack....
for tommorw, will be a game of attrition against their spin attack and cummins...hope our guys display the required patience and get a big one
 
jadeja helping smith (last match) and handscombe maintain their average by overstepping on wicket balls. get that damn foot behind the line dude.
 
The onus is on Australia's three-pronged spin attack to put the heat on India after the effect of Usman Khawaja and Peter Handscomb's fighting hands were minimised by a faltering top-order effort in Delhi.

Khawaja (81 off 125 balls) and Handscomb (72no off 142) each batted for more than three hours as the Aussies fumbled their way to 263 on an Arun Jaitley Stadium pitch that was challenging but not treacherous on the opening day of the second Test.

The visitors have picked just one specialist paceman for the first time since 2017, but the success of Mohammad Shami (4-60), along with fellow quick Mohammad Siraj striking multiple body blows to David Warner, suggests the track is far from a fast-bowling graveyard.

Nathan Lyon had a bat-pad dismissal of Rohit Sharma turned down in the final over of the day, while debutant Matthew Kuhnemann, who took the new ball, was the most dangerous of the Australian bowlers in the nine overs they bowled before stumps.

India were 0-21 at the close of play, with Rohit 13 not out and KL Rahul on four.

The selection of Kuhnemann, despite the left-armer only arriving in the country earlier this week, was one of two selection surprises sprung at the toss, with Travis Head also recalled at Matthew Renshaw's expense.

Head's ability to bowl handy off-spin was noted by selector Tony Dodemaide as a key factor in his return, coming after he was axed for the first Test in Nagpur because of his poor record in Asia.

But the South Australian managed only 12 with the bat as he departed in a middle-order collapse of 5-77.

Despite Handscomb fighting on, the tail crumbled around him to leave Australia, for a second consecutive Test, with a first-innings score that looks short of par after captain Pat Cummins had won the toss and batted.

“I don't know a par score until India bats on it,” said Khawaja after play. “I feel like 260 (263) is pretty good but we're going to have to wait and see tomorrow what India gets.

“They're very good in their conditions. I think now we have three spinners in the team, especially on that wicket, it’s going to be challenging, just like their spinners were very challenging.”

Heeding an edict to be more proactive at the crease after their innings defeat in Nagpur, Khawaja and Handscomb scored Australia's first half-centuries on tour and made life far tougher on the home side's spinners.

But the tourists were thwarted by a decisive Ravichandran Ashwin (3-57) spell before lunch, accounting for Australia's two leading batters in the space of three deliveries.

Around the wicket to Marnus Labuschagne, Ashwin spun one viciously to have the right-hander lbw. Then, off virtually the same line and length, the off-spinner skidded one straight on to Steve Smith, whose outside edge was caught by the wicketkeeper to see him dismissed for a duck.

Khawaja was bold after his double failure in the first Test, hitting Ashwin for six over mid-off early in his innings, while he used the reverse sweep judiciously to not allow India's spinners to settle on a length.

The stroke has been a major factor in Khawaja's vast improvement in turning conditions, though it proved his undoing when KL Rahul took a leaping one-handed snare at point.

The wonder pluck ended Khawaja's push for a maiden Test hundred in India, as the distraught batter remained on his knees for some time before finally making his exit.

Having appeared assured in his first Test back after a four-year absence last week, Handscomb underlined why he has been picked on this tour as a subcontinent specialist.

The right-hander was bombarded by left-arm spin but was unruffled by the occasional delivery going past his outside edge, hanging on the back foot from where he picked off boundaries through the off-side when Ravindra Jadeja (3-68) and Axar Patel (0-34) erred short.

Facing scrutiny over his spot after his subcontinental struggles continued in Nagpur last week, David Warner was immediately locked into a battle with India's quicks that he would eventually lose in a lively start to the Test.

Shami had him out lbw in the first over, but Warner could hardly have signalled for a review faster, safe in the knowledge he had gotten a fine inside-edge.

Siraj caused him even more grief in a spirited opening spell, twice striking body blows to the left-hander. The first, a knock to the elbow after Warner had been early on a pull shot, left him requiring a lengthy medical treatment.

Just as the 36-year-old looked like he might have weathered the new-ball onslaught, he edged a length delivery from Shami to be caught behind, the second time in three innings the bustling right-armer has dismissed him.

Warner's score of 15 comes after returns 1 and 10 in Nagpur and there were concerns over his health after not taking to the field at the end of the day following his bruising 44-ball hand.

“I think the medical staff will have to assess him tomorrow. He is a little bit weary at the moment,” said Khawaja.

“He obviously got a knock to the arm and then to the head and the head (knock) made him a little bit weary, hence why he didn't come out to field.

“I think the medical staff will have to figure out what happens from here on in.”

After Labuschagne and Smith's back-to-back dismissals, Khawaja looked to have made it three wickets in four balls when Jadeja pinned him on the crease with the first ball of a new over, only to be saved on a review that showed the delivery was marginally pitching outside the line of leg-stump.

His half-century was Australia's first of the tour and, despite his exit to Rahul's blinder of a catch, his handling of Ashwin and Jadeja was precisely the kind of approach the visitors had called for following their capitulation in the series opener.

Head was similarly proactive against Ashwin, smearing him for a straight six, but perished when trying to force a cut from a delivery that was too straight from Shami, while Alex Carey lasted just five balls before a leaping Ashwin delivery got him caught at slip.

Cummins held firm to help put on 58 for the seventh wicket, allowing Handscomb to pass fifty for the seventh time in his Test career but, after being bowled on a no-ball off Jadeja, was left stranded after Australia's last three batters added only 16 runs between them.

https://www.cricket.com.au/news/mat...arner-smith-labuschange-highlights/2023-02-17
 
Ramsay said:
Wow, look at Rohit, he’s fat. How’s he passing the fitness test with that awful body fitness.
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That's not fat, that's divine armour. God's bestow it upon chosen few to protect them from cruel world.
 
Australia is 80-90 runs short of par score. They should have looked to get 350 batting first. India will most likely get 400 and try to bat once on this pitch.
 
Australia has posted a decent score on the pitch where ball has already staying low.
With out of form batsman Rahul and Kohli, injury comebacks lyer and untested like Bharat, it will be challenging for India to score big on this surface.
Only Rohit, Axar and Jadeja are in form.
 
Australia are continuing to play poorly.

They needed 400 to make a game out of it. They will probably lose badly now.
 
JattMaula said:
I'm expecting 10 runs from him. I know it's lot for him but miracles have happened.
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I bet he is gonna score between 20 and 30. And would take 80 odd balls. A classy innings to warrant a 20 min segment on him during lunch break by the broadcasters.

Cue the Kohli rap
 
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