1st Test Nagpur, February 09 - 13, 2023, Australia tour of India - PREMATCH

[speedracer]

Let me make this clear. Coolie and ghujara and kela struggled vs deepak chahar in the nets. Deepak fookin chahar. If you use the excuse od us having 2 good spinners, I can apply the same logic and tefute your point by saying Oz have way better batsmen. 5 times better. In Asian conditions itself by the way. Not even going to touch the sena conditions where their batsmen clearly are superior to us. 

 

We have literally 2 batsmen for sena conditions. Pant and maybe you know who? That's it rofl. Maybe rohit 50 50. Sundar is still developing. 

 

In India we have 2 batsmen maybe 2.5 with jaddu pant and iyer. 2 who aren't playing now. 

[speedracer]

2 minutes ago, Mesky99 said:

Frauds, couple of recent home series victories and fans have gone crazy, Indian seamers have done it consistently keeping India alive overseas every game while batters have underperformed, don't remember the Aussie seamers coming from behind and winning games, they lost a test against sl, we all know how they went missing after the sandpaper gate test, I wonder what happened to their reverse swing?

Mind you we got robbed in the last test vs england as well where their fodder bowlers kept changing balls every 2 overs. Something was seriously wrong with the condition of the balls that were used in that game. They did some shady things. As for Oz attack yea they are a great attack for sena conditions but they aren't a great attack for Asia. The only reason they may be able to look good is due to our piss poor batting. We have at the moment just one batsman. No pant snd iyer. Maybe Gill can break out now but he is still raw. 

[AKane]

17 minutes ago, Mesky99 said:

Indian seamers have done it consistently keeping India alive overseas every game while batters have underperformed

Indian seamers have been very good in Australia.

 

They have not been good in NZ and South Africa. 

 

They have been patchy in England.

[speedracer]

22 minutes ago, AKane said:

Indian seamers have been very good in Australia.

 

They have not been good in NZ and South Africa. 

 

They have been patchy in England.

They have been good in England too. 

In SA it's our batting that let us down and siraj injury. Plus not picking a tall bowler like prasidh.

[Number]

Sports tak/today is reporting that India is using extreme level of home advantage.

Australia has 6 left handers. 

India has no left handers in top 6.

 

So the area outside left hander's off stump is left dry and is not being rolled either. 

 

 

....III....

.......x.

...........

...x.......

.....III..

 

Area X is left dry and no roller on this area.

Edited February 7 by Number

[Lord]

10 minutes ago, Number said:

Sports tak/today is reporting that India is using extreme level of home advantage.

Australia has 6 left handers. 

India has no left handers in top 6.

 

So the area outside left hander's off stump is left dry and is not being rolled either. 

 

 

....III....

.......x.

...........

...x.......

.....III..

 

Area X is left dry and no roller on this area.

would be epic if true lol

[Mesky99]

1 hour ago, AKane said:

Indian seamers have been very good in Australia.

 

They have not been good in NZ and South Africa. 

 

They have been patchy in England.

They did well last tour sa, they kept India in the game thou our batting was border line minnow level, SA chased down at the end but Ashwin was rubbish in both tests, we needed a bit more height but the seamers did well, India seamers were terrific in eng 2021, their numbers stack up great overall.

[coffee_rules]

 

Is he talking about himself?

[SRT100]

1 hour ago, Number said:

Sports tak/today is reporting that India is using extreme level of home advantage.

Australia has 6 left handers. 

India has no left handers in top 6.

 

So the area outside left hander's off stump is left dry and is not being rolled either. 

 

 

....III....

.......x.

...........

...x.......

.....III..

 

Area X is left dry and no roller on this area.

 

Watch how Ash and Jaddu will deliberately scuff up the off stump area for the lefties when they bat, lol.

[vvvslaxman]

No.4 batting spot is very  vital.

[cowboysfan]

well the best way to deal with their left handers is to play Kuldeep.

[MK55]

I hope the match lasts 4 days at least lol.

[speedracer]

4 hours ago, Mesky99 said:

They did well last tour sa, they kept India in the game thou our batting was border line minnow level, SA chased down at the end but Ashwin was rubbish in both tests, we needed a bit more height but the seamers did well, India seamers were terrific in eng 2021, their numbers stack up great overall.

Even picking ishu would have done the job in SA. Just needed some height.

 But it was batting that let us down. Ishu or prasidh.

[AKane]

20 minutes ago, speedracer said:

Even picking ishu would have done the job in SA. Just needed some height.

 But it was batting that let us down. Ishu or prasidh.

 

We lost test 2 and 3 by 7 wickets each - yes batsmen could have put up a higher total for I4 but the ease with which SA in T2 and T3 chased down the 200+ score does mean that the bowlers were ineffective in I4.

 

Scores chased down in I4 were 243/3 and 212/3.  Three wickets claimed for 200+ runs is weak in I4.

 

None of the innings in T2 and T3 had a total more than 300. So low scoring matches. Indian bowlers/seamers just were not good in I4.

[AKane]

Speaking of England 21/22 reason I said they were patchy is they were good in tests we won and the drawn match but including WTC not so good in 3 tests.

 

WTC final I4 we could only do 140/2 with NZ batting. Those 2 wickets were to Ashwin so the seamers laid an egg.

 

Then of course the Root/Bairstow partnership in I4 of T5 and 378/3.

[speedracer]

18 minutes ago, AKane said:

 

We lost test 2 and 3 by 7 wickets each - yes batsmen could have put up a higher total for I4 but the ease with which SA in T2 and T3 chased down the 200+ score does mean that the bowlers were ineffective in I4.

 

Scores chased down in I4 were 243/3 and 212/3.  Three wickets claimed for 200+ runs is weak in I4.

 

None of the innings in T2 and T3 had a total more than 300. So low scoring matches. Indian bowlers/seamers just were not good in I4.

Yea because pitch got flatter and flatter. It got progressively flatter. We should have batted a lot better. 

 

We dint pick the fight players and no siraj who played half fit in test 2 and was injured in test 3. We need prasidh who was rearing to go. He had the pace height and bounce. But no.......we will debut him after 35.

 

What was the point of having ashwin there in sA? Should have played chahar for those conditions or anyone else who can bowl seam and bat a bit. 

Edited February 7 by speedracer

[speedracer]

9 minutes ago, AKane said:

Speaking of England 21/22 reason I said they were patchy is they were good in tests we won and the drawn match but including WTC not so good in 3 tests.

 

WTC final I4 we could only do 140/2 with NZ batting. Those 2 wickets were to Ashwin so the seamers laid an egg.

 

Then of course the Root/Bairstow partnership in I4 of T5 and 378/3.

Again poor selections for wtc. Picking injured bumrah who dint fully recover for finals instead of red hot in form siraj. Also wrong selections to include ashwin in green wickets. 

And picking wrong batsmen. All washed up old hags.

[speedracer]

India is the most corrupt team when it comes to selections. Absolutely woeful. We could easily pick a team that can win tournaments in odi. We do well in tests

 Always up the top so that's there. 

But in t20 we don't have talent and that I csn live with. No one cares about t20.

[SRT100]

4 hours ago, vvvslaxman said:

No.4 batting spot is very  vital.

Ashwin at 4 vs Kohli at 4.

 

Im pretty sure Ashwin has done just as well as Kohli in the last 18 months of Test Cricket, batting wise.

[SRT100]

4 hours ago, MK55 said:

I hope the match lasts 4 days at least lol.

 

India lacks the batting capability to take this game into Day 5.

 

Kohli and KL are walking wickets. Pujara can graft a 30 from 200 balls.