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Shikhar and Mayank was playing with confidence but ended up losing the wickets. I guess there’s zero chance left unless captain VK turns into Hardik Pandya now  Cheesy But that's unlikely to happen.
At the end of 17 overs, India scored 109 runs by losing 2 wickets. If the Indian team does not lose wickets very quickly, we will see a competitive match. Because there are some great batsmen in the Indian squad. India need 281 runs off 198 balls.
Scored 185 at the end of 29 overs still 126 balls left But need 206 so the equation turning into T20 standards, only India batsman looking in good touch is Virat likely to post another century under his stats in this match.KL Rahul and Virat in the middle now still Pandya is out there so if they score at 9 runs oer over then they can win this match.

Can india score 130 runs on the last 10 overs and save the match ? This is too difficult target but india still have six wickets in hands. Few good overs with 15+ runs can change the direction of the match. Can Pandya and Rahul become the hero for the indians today ?
I don't think so India can win this match. India need more 102 runs in just 38 balls with 5 wickets remaining. KL Rahul is gone for 76 . Another win for Australia on the way.Australia is really dominating in this series .  

India require another 72 in 26 balls, though it looks very difficult for India to win it but alteast they would lose by less margin this game compared to first. Also, everyone did contribute from bat though Virat if could have completed his century things probably would have being different and also not to forget Rahul superb innings of 76 with 5 sixes.
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India need more 102 runs in just 38 balls with 5 wickets remaining. KL Rahul is gone for 76 .
It’s the same target as we have seen some of the IPL matches  Cheesy May be Hardik Pandya will hit some sixes at the end as he did in the last match and the margin will get reduce a little at the end. No way India can win the match.
This series has been a nightmare for the Indian bowlers. T Nataranjan should be in as he is in the squad.
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Shikhar and Mayank was playing with confidence but ended up losing the wickets. I guess there’s zero chance left unless captain VK turns into Hardik Pandya now  Cheesy But that's unlikely to happen.
At the end of 17 overs, India scored 109 runs by losing 2 wickets. If the Indian team does not lose wickets very quickly, we will see a competitive match. Because there are some great batsmen in the Indian squad. India need 281 runs off 198 balls.
Scored 185 at the end of 29 overs still 126 balls left But need 206 so the equation turning into T20 standards, only India batsman looking in good touch is Virat likely to post another century under his stats in this match.KL Rahul and Virat in the middle now still Pandya is out there so if they score at 9 runs oer over then they can win this match.

Can india score 130 runs on the last 10 overs and save the match ? This is too difficult target but india still have six wickets in hands. Few good overs with 15+ runs can change the direction of the match. Can Pandya and Rahul become the hero for the indians today ?
I don't think so India can win this match. India need more 102 runs in just 38 balls with 5 wickets remaining. KL Rahul is gone for 76 . Another win for Australia on the way.Australia is really dominating in this series .  
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Virat missed his another century. It could be an interesting match if he could play some more overs. Now, required run rate is above 14 which seems almost impossible to achieve from this stage although two good hard hitter is there.
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Shikhar and Mayank was playing with confidence but ended up losing the wickets. I guess there’s zero chance left unless captain VK turns into Hardik Pandya now  Cheesy But that's unlikely to happen.
At the end of 17 overs, India scored 109 runs by losing 2 wickets. If the Indian team does not lose wickets very quickly, we will see a competitive match. Because there are some great batsmen in the Indian squad. India need 281 runs off 198 balls.
Scored 185 at the end of 29 overs still 126 balls left But need 206 so the equation turning into T20 standards, only India batsman looking in good touch is Virat likely to post another century under his stats in this match.KL Rahul and Virat in the middle now still Pandya is out there so if they score at 9 runs oer over then they can win this match.

Can india score 130 runs on the last 10 overs and save the match ? This is too difficult target but india still have six wickets in hands. Few good overs with 15+ runs can change the direction of the match. Can Pandya and Rahul become the hero for the indians today ?
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Shikhar and Mayank was playing with confidence but ended up losing the wickets. I guess there’s zero chance left unless captain VK turns into Hardik Pandya now  Cheesy But that's unlikely to happen.
At the end of 17 overs, India scored 109 runs by losing 2 wickets. If the Indian team does not lose wickets very quickly, we will see a competitive match. Because there are some great batsmen in the Indian squad. India need 281 runs off 198 balls.
Scored 185 at the end of 29 overs still 126 balls left But need 206 so the equation turning into T20 standards, only India batsman looking in good touch is Virat likely to post another century under his stats in this match.KL Rahul and Virat in the middle now still Pandya is out there so if they score at 9 runs oer over then they can win this match.
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Shikhar and Mayank was playing with confidence but ended up losing the wickets. I guess there’s zero chance left unless captain VK turns into Hardik Pandya now  Cheesy But that's unlikely to happen.
At the end of 17 overs, India scored 109 runs by losing 2 wickets. If the Indian team does not lose wickets very quickly, we will see a competitive match. Because there are some great batsmen in the Indian squad. India need 281 runs off 198 balls.
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Shikhar and Mayank was playing with confidence but ended up losing the wickets. I guess there’s zero chance left unless captain VK turns into Hardik Pandya now  Cheesy But that's unlikely to happen.

The issue is not with the Indian batsmen but the bowlers did not bowl well in both the matches. Bumrah, Shami and Saini giving away too many runs.
Perhaps they need to re-evaluate the pitches in Australia, if they want to win the matches here. It is unexpected disappointed performance by the Indian team.
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Shikhar and Mayank was playing with confidence but ended up losing the wickets. I guess there’s zero chance left unless captain VK turns into Hardik Pandya now  Cheesy But that's unlikely to happen.
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Damn, Aussies are rocking. Such a huge performance from the top 5 players!! This is the second time in ODI history that top 5 players had 50+ runs. Well, the sum I thought would be 400+ but they couldn’t. It’s an achievable chase; Indian top order must have add some quick runs at the power play.

389 runs is not easily achievable in ODI. Also India have lost their two early wickets with only 67 runs on the board. I think India will not be able to chase these runs  in this match. A loss here for Indian team will mean the loss of the series. They would not have wanted to started the series in this manner.
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Damn, Aussies are rocking. Such a huge performance from the top 5 players!! This is the second time in ODI history that top 5 players had 50+ runs. Well, the sum I thought would be 400+ but they couldn’t. It’s an achievable chase; Indian top order must have add some quick runs at the power play.
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Australia batsmen trying to tell Indian bowlers that its going to be very long and painful series for them.  Grin Every batsmen knocking them out of the park and ridiculing them.  Tongue
The Australian top 5 players scored half century and Smith scored his second century of the series and we have many more to come, i was expecting Australia to put a total of 400 runs to chase and it looks like the Aussies are adamant to see how well Kohli can chase huge totals  Cheesy. The same repetition of the first match and today India should score more runs than the first match and improve their batting average rather than going for the target  Cheesy.
Indian players have already lost the match mentally it is now only a face saving obligation for them to reach as near as possible to the required score of 389. Brilliant performance by the Australian batsmen, they were more aggressive than they were while playing the IPL.
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Australia batsmen trying to tell Indian bowlers that its going to be very long and painful series for them.  Grin Every batsmen knocking them out of the park and ridiculing them.  Tongue
The Australian top 5 players scored half century and Smith scored his second century of the series and we have many more to come, i was expecting Australia to put a total of 400 runs to chase and it looks like the Aussies are adamant to see how well Kohli can chase huge totals  Cheesy. The same repetition of the first match and today India should score more runs than the first match and improve their batting average rather than going for the target  Cheesy.
We can see totally different kind of performance from Australian batsmen compared to their IPL performance especially Maxwell looks to be in the top notch form but few weeks back he was struggling to meet the ball with his bat. Its going to be a tough chase and almost impossible to chase it down.
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Australia batsmen trying to tell Indian bowlers that its going to be very long and painful series for them.  Grin Every batsmen knocking them out of the park and ridiculing them.  Tongue
The Australian top 5 players scored half century and Smith scored his second century of the series and we have many more to come, i was expecting Australia to put a total of 400 runs to chase and it looks like the Aussies are adamant to see how well Kohli can chase huge totals  Cheesy. The same repetition of the first match and today India should score more runs than the first match and improve their batting average rather than going for the target  Cheesy.
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Australian batsmen trying to tell Indian bowlers that its going to be very long and painful series for them.  Grin Every batsmen knocking them out of the park and ridiculing them.  Tongue

Good to see Hardik taking charge and Mayank filling up for Saini was surprising move...

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Phew.... 389, more or less highlight of the first game  Grin
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Both the openers are still on the pitch and David Warner is on destruction mode. They will surely put on a big score today which India will struggle to reach. I guess the spinners were introduced only to reduced the run rate as they are unable to get anything out of the wicket. It is still very early to comment as only the first 20 overs have been bowled. A lot of game still remains but looking at the beginning of the match Australia are dominating it.

Won't be surprised if Australia sets up another 350 plus score today. Indian spinners (Chahal/Jadeja) are looking clueless. I would have expected Virat Kohli to give more overs to Shami and Bumrah in the middle of the innings. They need to get these two (Warner/Finch) out at any cost. And since the other bowlers look incapable of doing it, my opinion is that the opening bowlers need to be brought back. Perhaps Kohli can give them short spells of 2-3 overs each.
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For the second ODI also, India have gone with the same bowling lineup. And this time, they seems to have got a good start. Both Jasprit Bumrah and Mohammed Shami are bowling with good line and length.

I agree with you on the second part of your post. Nowadays we expect the bowlers to chip in with the bat as well. As we saw during the last match, Navdeep Saini and Mohammed Shami made noticeable contributions with the bat. But then we can't expect genuine tail enders such as Bumrah to do the same.
I think they did okay sticking with the same team and Virat is creating new record on losing toss. Yeah they both are bowling good but Aussie targeting Saini strategically and one thing i noticed that India making habit of not picking up any wickets during the Power play, although they were bit unlucky today.

Australia heading toward big score again.


Both the openers are still on the pitch and David Warner is on destruction mode. They will surely put on a big score today which India will struggle to reach. I guess the spinners were introduced only to reduced the run rate as they are unable to get anything out of the wicket. It is still very early to comment as only the first 20 overs have been bowled. A lot of game still remains but looking at the beginning of the match Australia are dominating it.
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~snip~

For the second ODI also, India have gone with the same bowling lineup. And this time, they seems to have got a good start. Both Jasprit Bumrah and Mohammed Shami are bowling with good line and length.

I agree with you on the second part of your post. Nowadays we expect the bowlers to chip in with the bat as well. As we saw during the last match, Navdeep Saini and Mohammed Shami made noticeable contributions with the bat. But then we can't expect genuine tail enders such as Bumrah to do the same.
I think they did okay sticking with the same team and Virat is creating new record on losing toss. Yeah they both are bowling good but Aussie targeting Saini strategically and one thing i noticed that India making habit of not picking up any wickets during the Power play, although they were bit unlucky today.

Australia heading toward big score again.
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Current Indian bowling line up is good in all 3 formats and they have good back up bowlers as well so one bad game is not something to worry about. Indian team might come back strongly in the next game.

You don't need to find any new bowler but encourage top order batsmen to learn the skill. After all nowadays we expect bowlers to contribute with the bat too, right? so why not batsmen should learn a extra skill ? They are bowling or not, it doesn't matter as its depends on the situation . Sometimes having a extra bowler comes very hand, lets say your regular bowlers having a bad day then part timers could slip couple of overs.

For the second ODI also, India have gone with the same bowling lineup. And this time, they seems to have got a good start. Both Jasprit Bumrah and Mohammed Shami are bowling with good line and length.

I agree with you on the second part of your post. Nowadays we expect the bowlers to chip in with the bat as well. As we saw during the last match, Navdeep Saini and Mohammed Shami made noticeable contributions with the bat. But then we can't expect genuine tail enders such as Bumrah to do the same.
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Before India had Sachin, Sehwag, Gangully, Yuvraj, Raina who used to ball as part timer every now n then but sadly this tradition is dead in current Indian batsmen.
Yuvraj was easily the best among the names that you mentioned. It's tough to find such part-time bowlers in any team. I was excited about Varun Chakravarty's inclusion which could have been a game-changer, but his injury threw that prospect out.

Instead of focusing on part-time bowlers, the team needs to focus on their main bowlers primarily since Shami and Chahal are the only bowlers who are consistently taking wickets in recent times.
Current Indian bowling line up is good in all 3 formats and they have good back up bowlers as well so one bad game is not something to worry about. Indian team might come back strongly in the next game.

You don't need to find any new bowler but encourage top order batsmen to learn the skill. After all nowadays we expect bowlers to contribute with the bat too, right? so why not batsmen should learn a extra skill ? They are bowling or not, it doesn't matter as its depends on the situation . Sometimes having a extra bowler comes very hand, lets say your regular bowlers having a bad day then part timers could slip couple of overs.
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