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Old 7th December 2024, 12:05   #18226
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Travis Head is an altogether different beast when it comes to playing against India. Just seems to have our number. He reserves his best performances for against us and is able to counter whatever we throw at him. Man has been an absolute thorn in our side for the past couple of years.
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Travis Head gets a century and now the scales have tilted heavily in favour of the Aussies, it’s their game to lose from here on. Did India miss a trick by replacing Washington Sundar with Ashwin?
Australia 259/5 and going strong.

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Travis Head gets a century and now the scales have tilted heavily in favour of the Aussies, it’s their game to lose from here on. Did India miss a trick by replacing Washington Sundar with Ashwin?
Australia 259/5 and going strong.
We seem to now lack of bowling options suddenly? Rana isn't doing well - he is leaking runs and not able to take wickets. Sill the captain is giving bowling to him only. What is Rohit thinking here?
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Its not just Harshit, even Siraj hasn't turned up in this game. The support act to Bumrah has been poor, although Ash & NKR have played their roles well. The poor batting performance in the first innings will surely hurt.
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We seem to now lack of bowling options suddenly? Rana isn't doing well - he is leaking runs and not able to take wickets. Sill the captain is giving bowling to him only. What is Rohit thinking here?
Sure but who else do they give it to?, Aus is anyways going to keep scoring. At this point my bet is they are just waiting for the new ball to arrive after 80th over
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Harshit Rana - 1st test match Analysis

1st innings - Got wickets of Head, Lyon & Starc,

Only the delivery to the Head should any fast bowler be proud about. Rest of the batsmen gave their wickets to him. Starc the number 9 batsman have already consumed 19 overs by then before he played a loose shot. Lyon played as usual moving away from the line and gave up his wicket.

So basically as a fast bowler he got only Head to be proud about and gave runs to the economy of 3+ which was highest among all the indian bowlers and that too when all bowlers of both the teams dominated.

2nd Innings - Got a solitary wicket of Carey on a slower ball, is that how a batsmen need to be bamboozled by the fast bowler in test cricket. It’s infact a shame of being a fast bowler when you have to resort to slow ball to get in wickets column, specially in tests. It’s laughable, but alas game has changed. And add to that gave away runs at an economy of 5+ RPO.

All in all he looked toothless bowler except in some short bursts where he looked lethal, but to whom, yes the tailenders.

I’m surprised what was GG doing, couldn't he see that it was simply a mediocre performance by him and should have been dropped for the next test. But hey, we have to continue playing winning combination, else the media/arm chair experts will rip us off.

Sole reason I have been vocal in favor of Jurel and Akashdeep. But how to drop non performing captainji and GG’s favoritism towards Rana, from the same state I guess, because I can’t see any other reason for him to play instead of Akashdeep.

2nd test Match - 1st innings so far

He’s wicketless, wayward, toothless and has already given runs at 5+ RPO. I don’t know what GG and team management have seen in him to continue. Hope in 2nd innings he justifies his place else getting dropped from 3rd test match is eminent.
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The last session to play and 150+ lead. Innings defeat loading I fear!
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Australia all out for 337 with a massive lead of 157 runs. Head and Marnus scored 204 runs between them which is 24 runs more than what the entire Indian batting managed!

We need to bat our hearts out to even survive the remaining play today, tough from here on. Need another miracle to even make Australia bat again!

Even a score of 400 will give Australia just 250 to chase and win

Old lesson of Test Cricket - a bad first innings can cost the match. Fingers crossed though I don’t have much hope.

Edit: 12/1, Rahul out!

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Just went through the highlights and Ash was extremely unlucky to not dismiss Head earlier. So many inside edges off Ash went past Head's leg stump and Siraj made a meal of a miscued slop when Head was on 74. Maybe that's why Siraj gave Head that send-off.

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The numbers don't lie and Harshit bowled poorly in the first innings. But he's only 22 and probably bowling with the pink kookaburra ball only the second time. The first instance being the practice match against Australia PM XI. Akashdeep played that game too, and was carted around by the Aussie domestic side, while Harshit took 4 wickets in 3 overs.

Even in this game he would have had Head if Rishabh had held on to an outside edge. A lot of boundaries scored off him were streaky shots. He'll get better and will bowl a match winning spell in this series.

Meanwhile, we've conceded a lead of 157, Travis Head's 140 being the difference. Hopefully the dropped chances will not come back to bite us.
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And we are 3 down with a big deficit to climb. Boy! This is a lost cause I guess. We will be wrapped up by tomorrow.
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This match is done & dusted! Should be over by tomorrow. Turning point of this Test was wasting the Pink ball under lights by India. Hearing news that Shami's visa is ready & he's awaiting clearance from NCA. Thats good news but provided he's match fit. India should look towards Shami maybe for 4th or 5th Test.

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Did India miss a trick by replacing Washington Sundar with Ashwin?
Ashwin has done his job by bowling a tight spell giving away just 3rpo! India should look at a 2nd spin bowling option if the wicket is really flat in the upcoming Tests, maybe at Melbourne or Sydney.

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Its not just Harshit, even Siraj hasn't turned up in this game.
Siraj bowled decently today morning. But he isn't as consistent as one would like. And all that aggression needs to be converted to performance! It looks silly when the batsman at the other end has scored 140 at run-a-ball. Harshit is very inexperienced at this level. You can't be leaking 5rpo every other innings. That puts too much pressure on Bumrah. Time to try AkashDeep or somehow get Mukesh Kumar into the XI considering he's in the reserves.

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Though his PR team will portray it as his 'selfless' act to give up his opening position, we all know the reason behind it.
The main battle is between Virat & Rohit's PR teams! If Rohit continues like this, then its going to accelerate his Test retirement. Hope better sense prevails & he retires next Test itself.
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The only hope is Pant. If he goes on a rampage and gets some helping hand from couple of batsmen then we never know. Batting will only get tougher so a tricky target could do the trick.
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The numbers don't lie and Harshit bowled poorly in the first innings. But he's only 22 and probably bowling with the pink kookaburra ball only the second time. The first instance being the practice match against Australia PM XI. Akashdeep played that game too, and was carted around by the Aussie domestic side, while Harshit took 4 wickets in 3 overs.
A guy who made his IPL debut before the FC debut doesn’t seem to be fit in the test bowling set up so soon unless he has been cooked enough in the FC games and when he has only 11 FC games to speak of.

Exactly he's only 22, might as well cook him more in FC games before he knows what test bowling is. A test cap should be given purely based on FC performances and not some instant heroics being produced in IPL or T-20 games. Both are completely different ball game altogether.

Boland at 35 looks more lethal with his line length and consistency, he has to fight his way in the team.

And Captainji is saved by a no ball so far. Looks sitting duck for Starc. Oh no, This time he’s Cummin’s bunny.

Gill has a technical flaw and this innings Starc exploited it. Needs to work on that, else big score would evade him specially playing quality bowlers.

With so many technical flaws, there is no way to hide your face in fierce fought test matches, no doubt aussies are the best in the business !!

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Meanwhile some interesting trivia while following Eng vs NZ series;

England became the first side in the 147-year history of Test cricket to score 500,000 runs in Test cricket. This is England's 1082th Test.

Australia is second to England, scoring 4,28,868 runs. Indian cricket team sits at the third position with 2,78,751 runs.

LINK
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With such an inconsistent batting lineup, I wonder what runs in Rishabh Pant’s mind every time he arrives at the crease with the team reeling at 4 or 5 wickets down (top order gone). He is simply brilliant because this happens all too often and he still manages to counterattack and succeeds more often than not, take a bow!

I’m still hoping Pant and Nitish will get at least 150 more runs and take the fight to the Aussie camp. I’d be happy if we went down fighting rather than a meek surrender.
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