Australia v. India. Test series.

[Donny]

Uh, oh. Massive headache for the selectors, as Burns out for 1.

Oz A 3/36.

[Donny]

3/89. Carey 37*, McDermott 29*.

[Donny]

Carey out for 58.

4/143. McDermott 61*.

[Donny]

4/165. McDermott 74*.

[Donny]

4/269.

McDermott 98*. Wildermuth 91* (99).

[Donny]

4/288.

Both batsmen tonned up.

[Donny]

Draw.

Wildermuth 111* (119), McDermott 107*.

[Donny]

Sounding like Green will play, according to Justin Langer.

[Donny]

India's XI:

Prithvi Shaw, Mayank Agarwal, Cheteshwar Pujara, Virat Kohli (c), Ajinkya Rahane, Hanuma Vihari, Wriddhiman Saha (wk), Ravichandran Ashwin, Umesh Yadav, Mohammad Shami, Jasprit Bumrah

[piedys]

Second dig: India 9 dec for 189. Mark Steketee took 5/37.

Oz A 1/52. Draw.

Of note: Patto and Neser bowled well...

And as none of them play for f#cking NSW, there goes another series thanks to selector ineptitude and coach numpty Langer. Steketee, Patto and Neser didn't ever get mentioned in the same breath after this, yet the writing was on the wall very early in the series.

So, India's first ever series win in Australia thanks to the useless hacks above.

ps. I'm over Starc and his putrid red ball pie thrower spells. Time to F%ck off.

[Dave The Man]

Just show how Weak Australia is at the Moment

[K]

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And as none of them play for f#cking NSW, there goes another series thanks to selector ineptitude and coach numpty Langer. Steketee, Patto and Neser didn't ever get mentioned in the same breath after this, yet the writing was on the wall very early in the series.

So, India's first ever series win in Australia thanks to the useless hacks above.

ps. I'm over Starc and his putrid red ball pie thrower spells. Time to F%ck off.

It's not India's first ever series win...

Everyone played down the last one because they chose to believe in the Myth of Smith. This series showed Smith is part of the problem, not the solution. He can only score runs on dead tracks (e.g. SCG). But Oz's best chance of winning comes on spicy decks. Give up the Myth of Smith and prepare tracks for fast bowlers. Then Smith will fail but Oz might win (e.g. Adelaide -- which was not what I'd call a spicy deck but offered just enough assistance for the bowlers to be fair).

Jhye Richardson should probably have come in for Starc. But apart from Langer and co's lunacy, there was the whole quarantine thing that may have made that impossible. Ponting wants him to go to S. Africa for the next Test series.

India's injuries were very bad of course. But a small advantage is that they kept having fresh bowlers. Our mob were uninjured but cooked by the end of the series. Patinson injured himself at home. Dunno how. Maybe something stupid. India's Third XI bowlers out-performed Oz's First XI bowlers.