Australia will blow away India at MCG, says Shane Warne

[kubrickian]

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Spin legend Shane Warne believes Australia will “blow away” India in the Boxing Day Test as the visitors are still a “bit shocked” by the Adelaide humiliation.

Australia had bundled out India for their lowest-ever Test score of 36 in the opening Test which the hosts won by eight wickets. The next game is due to start on Saturday and India will be without talismanic skipper Virat Kohli, who has gone on paternity leave.

“I think Australia is probably going to blow them away,” Warne, who claimed a record 708 Test wickets for Australia, told ‘Fox Cricket’.

“Having said that, they have some class players to come in like KL Rahul. Young Gill will come in. (Ajinkya) Rahane is a class act. We know what (Cheteshwar) Pujara can do,” he said.

“(Mohammed) Shami is a huge loss as well. He’s such a quality bowler. And if you look at bowlers for the Melbourne conditions, drop in pitches, Shami hits the seam and stands it up and bowls a good length and straight.”

Indian batsmen drew a lot of flak after the Australian bowling unit, including Pat Cummins (4-21) and Josh Hazlewood (5-8), bamboozled the visitors in the opening Test.

However, Warne believes the Australian pace battery deserves more credit for the win in the series-opener than the criticism faced by the Indian batsmen.

“Yeah, you can have a go at the Indians but I think you would rather give credit to the Australians and how well they bowled,” the 51-year-old former leg-spinner said.

“They were outstanding, that bowling attack. The four bowlers plus Green, they have been good bowlers for a long time. They are turning themselves into great bowlers now. To watch them go to work in Adelaide was fantastic.”

Warne believes the current quartet of Cummins, Hazlewood, Mitchell Starc and Nathan Lyon is already on track to become Australia’s greatest bowling unit.

“They are definitely in the conversation (to compare them to my era). They are outstanding those four bowlers and they have been for a while,” Warne said.

“If they continue on this form for the next four or five years going like this, then they will be in the conversation as the best bowling attack Australia maybe has ever had.”

Australia has produced some of the world’s greatest bowlers such as Dennis Lillee, Jeff Thomson, Glenn McGrath, Brett Lee and Jason Gillespie, apart from a spin wizard like Warne.

“You think of Lillee, Thommo, Lee, Gillespie and those guys… But as a four any one time, these guys are in the conversation as some of the best Australia has ever had,” he said.

 

 

 

https://indianexpress.com/article/sports/cricket/boxing-day-test-australia-will-blow-away-india-at-mcg-says-shane-warne-7117947/

 

[Vk1]

so obvious.. expecting another <100 innings from our guys

[raki05]

This shane warne is so annoying, aussies commentators are no better than Indians in hyping up their team especially when they play at home.

[Rasgulla]

Mercy mercy 

[Serpico]

Last time india was 105-8 in second innings. it didn't matter since their batting sucked even harder 

 

Someone needs to make a daddy hundred or a double ton for us to have a chance

 

 

[Stan AF]

Aussie bowlers looking at the new indian names for the 2nd test

 

[nevada]

6 minutes ago, raki05 said:

This shane warne is so annoying, aussies commentators are no better than Indians in hyping up their team especially when they play at home.

Well, they have the bragging rights thanks to our spineless nalayaks. Let's see if they can prove Warne wrong. 

[Adamant]

We will score 300+ in  first innings if we bowl first. 

If we bat first then we will score 300+ in both. 

[kubrickian]

Its most likely going to be an one sided contest. Getting bowled out for 36 is going to leave some scars. Also not having your captain and No.1 batsman and also your front line bowler will put you on back foot right away. 

Not to mention, some new team members coming in for a boxing day test and also at MCG, will mean some serious pressure. At least it will be interesting to see who has the spine to stand up and do something.

[Lone Wolf]

MCG gives me hope that we won't be blown away.  One of the easiest pitches for batsmen in Aus.  But Che pu & Rahane give me no hope.  Gill,  Rahul,  Pant have to fire to make this competitive.  Hopefully Mayank repeats MCG 2018 as well.  Warne is known for bragging too much..  Would love to see India silent him up a bit. 

[express bowling]

Good !

 

Let them become complacent and boastful.

 

This will give us maximum chance to bounce back.

 

And we need a few new players who won't be mentally weighed by our Adelaide failure.

[Vk1]

Does anyone remember the 2011/12 tour down  under.

[The Realist]

36 minutes ago, Vk1 said:

Does anyone remember the 2011/12 tour down  under.

The glory days of a passive Dhoni and even more comatose Fletcher leading a washed up dad's army to 0-4 

[Stan AF]

51 minutes ago, Vk1 said:

Does anyone remember the 2011/12 tour down  under.

I can never forget it.

[kubrickian]

1 hour ago, Vk1 said:

Does anyone remember the 2011/12 tour down  under.

Obviously the infamous 8-0, right after India won the World Cup.

[Vk1]

yeah this one might go in that mode or even worse 

[Laaloo]

6 minutes ago, Vk1 said:

yeah this one might go in that mode or even worse 

Nothing can be worse than 36 all out 

[Gollum]

1 minute ago, Laaloo said:

Nothing can be worse than 36 all out 

We can't do worse with the bat but picking 20 wickets will be a massive problem on MCG patta. 7/10 times in the last decade Aus have scored 500-650 in their 1st innings there.  

[WC2011INDIA]

What the * does class act mean? The only person who will be blown away is Rahane. His international career will he over after this. 

Pretty poor career I must say. 

[Vickydev]

Why stop at the MCG. We are getting blow apart this series.