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Posted
2 minutes ago, putrevus said:

It becomes so hard for one batsman to carry the weight of the team. He is finally proving he is human.

 

He owned us in WTC final even though didn't have a great India tour.

Posted
14 minutes ago, vvvslaxman said:

 

He owned us in WTC final even though didn't have a great India tour.

It was more inept captaincy and bowling in WTC finals.

Posted
1 hour ago, putrevus said:

It is weird to see England having fastest bowler between both sides.

Whenever England had the fastest bowler esp in Aus, they have won.

 

Harold Larwood

Frank Tyson

John Snow

 

As Bishen Bedi said - no one likes to play genuine fast bowling. Nobody.

Posted (edited)

Remember the fastest bowler came on to bowl 4th. Woakes came on 5th. Wood had 1 over in the first 22 or 23 overs.

 

The new ball was owned by the great "Jimmy" Anderson.

 

"Jimmy Jimmy Jimmy - try to bowl lil faster"

"Jimmy Jimmy Jimmy - bend your back harder"

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Posted
15 minutes ago, putrevus said:

It was more inept captaincy and bowling in WTC finals.

 

More like Bowlers rather than Bowling.  Umesh has bowled enough to Austrlaia over 12 years. Did zilch.

Posted
11 minutes ago, AKane said:

Whenever England had the fastest bowler esp in Aus, they have won.

 

Harold Larwood

Frank Tyson

John Snow

 

As Bishen Bedi said - no one likes to play genuine fast bowling. Nobody.

It just shows how much more firepower Aussies have had as far fast bowling.

Posted (edited)
6 hours ago, vvvslaxman said:

 

England had excellent bowling strategies. Wide of the crease stuffs. Reversing the ball. Australia quickly runs out of ideas. They heavily rely on CUmmins who himself has a lot to prove in Asia.

 

That's because Australian batsmen allowed English bowlers to find their rhythm, case in point Khwaja doing a Pujara after 1st test by easily giving his wicket.

 

When you have runs on the board, you are more relaxed as bowling unit. On the other hand Australia are forced to bowl out England for low scores everytime, hence it affects their bowling rhythm.

 

The real culprit is not Aussie bowling but their batting.

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Posted
Just now, MechEng said:

 

That's because Australian batsmen allowed English bowlers to find their rhythm, case in point Khwaja doing a Pujara after 1st test by easily giving his wicket.

 

When you have runs in the board, you are more relaxed as bowling unit. On the other hand Australia are forced to bowl out England for low scores everytime, hence it affects their bowling rhythm.

 

The real culprit is not Aussie bowling but their batting.

 

That is how Aussies bat against all teams. They made it clear they won't play bazball and they have a working model. Even against India it was attrition cricket apart from Head.  They also allowed us. Just that we are not good enough. Take out wood England will also struggle.

Posted
3 hours ago, AKane said:

Whenever England had the fastest bowler esp in Aus, they have won.

 

Harold Larwood

Frank Tyson

John Snow

 

As Bishen Bedi said - no one likes to play genuine fast bowling. Nobody.

 

Too much credit to England for poor cricket from Aus. Mark Wood kuch nahin ukhaad paya when Ashes was played in Australia.

 

Now don't come up with a geeky reason that he was bowling at 142 kph at that time but now he is bowling at 144 kph.

Posted
1 minute ago, vvvslaxman said:

 

That is how Aussies bat against all teams. They made it clear they won't play bazball and they have a working model. Even against India it was attrition cricket apart from Head.  They also allowed us. Just that we are not good enough. Take out wood England will also struggle.

 

It's not the approach but the timidness, look how Warner and Khwaja got out again.

 

Old fashioned test match batting is not meekness. Same Wood got hammered in Australia 2 years back.

Posted
2 minutes ago, MechEng said:

 

It's not the approach but the timidness, look how Warner and Khwaja got out again.

 

Old fashioned test match batting is not meekness. Same Wood got hammered in Australia 2 years back.

 

It is inherent weakness. Warner even at peak sucked balls in England. Khawaja is vulnerable against high pace because he has zero foot work.

Posted
3 minutes ago, MechEng said:

 

It's not the approach but the timidness, look how Warner and Khwaja got out again.

 

Old fashioned test match batting is not meekness. Same Wood got hammered in Australia 2 years back.

 

Wood took 6 for 37 at Hobart. I think we have to wait and see how Stokes handles him compared to how Root handled. Root's team was losing to Windies. Even bundled out cheaply by Ireland

Posted
6 minutes ago, vvvslaxman said:

 

Wood took 6 for 37 at Hobart. I think we have to wait and see how Stokes handles him compared to how Root handled. Root's team was losing to Windies. Even bundled out cheaply by Ireland

 

But had a series economy rate of 3.70, so Aussies were not really troubled by his pace completely.

 

The real weakness is their batting. I've watched Warner in England, he barely scores high there but also doesn't bat like how he did today, that was a shocker from him inside edging to Woakes, the whole body language was very un-Aussie like.

Posted

This is why having a captain that backs fast bowling is needed to succeed. Moment we changed from kohli to rohit, our fast bowling went down from 1st place to now 3rd. 

Posted

This has to be among the best series played of late. Aus-Eng 2-2 going into the 5th test, playing in conditions that more or less suit both teams relatively speaking,  is a great advertisement for test cricket. 

Posted
21 minutes ago, BlueBlood said:

Lol at 3rd.

 

You are joking.

 

Unadkat, Mukesh Kumar ?????

 

Among the worst.

At full strength I mean

 

Bumrah

Sira

Prasidh

Harshit /Sen

Would be deadly. Would be top 2 easy

Butt given whome we would pick over them yes it would be us inferior

 

Posted
22 minutes ago, BlueBlood said:

They are never getting picked.

 

Bumrah is not going to be as effective once he's back from injury due to his action.

 

Umran Malik could have had a golden parachute but he's discarded already.

 

Siraj will be Grounded to pulp by utilizing in all formats like Bumrah and he too will eventually be burned out and fizzle out.

 

The structural problem is, you need BCCI to pay fast bowlers 5x salary and be treated with respect due to their short careers.

 

But instead we have stat padders like Rohit and Kohli given opportunities in meaningless tours like current WI tour. These guys get paid highly by BCCI, have long careers and get ad money.

 

It's pathetic and until this changes nothing will happen.

Well said brother.

Posted

Only one time did we ever play 4 pronged attack all pace.

Ishant

Siraj

Shami

Bunrah

 

It was brilliant. 

Need a fast bowlers captain..

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