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Australia has set a big target, if the Indian players perform same as the previous match it'll be more interesting. These days most of the test matches are getting the result compared to the past. In the past most of the matches ends in a draw. Australia have scored 369 and India has started good losing two wickets with the score of 69.
Anything above 350 would put Indian batsmen in unease. This is evident as India lost a couple of wickets in quick succession. I am sure they will avoid the follow on but I doubt they will win this match. Australian batsmen have done their job now the bowlers need to do their.
The weather will be helpful for India as rain stopped play earlier and if there is further more delays then they can draw the match. Even with a new bowling line up India did not concede much as expected and all the debut bowlers picked 3 wickets each and if their batsman can spend some time in the crease and if weather will come to their aide then they will share the trophy and it will be a win that no one expected considering the long list of injured players.The match is even at the moment and i would not call any team favorite at this moment. Tomorrow first two session will decide the fate of the match because if india bat well, we could be headed towards a draw because there could be more rain interruptions in the coming days. However if they fail to bat well, then again they have to survive the last innings as they did in last test match.
I managed to see Loyd take a wicket earlier - he's one of the few consistent bowlers Australia has I feel.
Welcome to the thread, glad to see that you watch cricket. Josh Hazlewood and Mitchell Starc are bowling well along with Pat Cummins, the fielders are a disappointment in this series. In the past three Test match alone, Australia dropped around 15 catches and India dropped around 12 catches. The bowlers are bowling their heart out but the fielders are a disappointment dropping catches. Anything above 350 would put Indian batsmen in unease. This is evident as India lost a couple of wickets in quick succession. I am sure they will avoid the follow on but I doubt they will win this match. Australian batsmen have done their job now the bowlers need to do their.
The weather will be helpful for India as rain stopped play earlier and if there is further more delays then they can draw the match. Even with a new bowling line up India did not concede much as expected and all the debut bowlers picked 3 wickets each and if their batsman can spend some time in the crease and if weather will come to their aide then they will share the trophy and it will be a win that no one expected considering the long list of injured players. 
Australia finished at 369, and I would consider anything above 350 as giving a definite advantage to them. The two debutants, Sundar and Natarajan picked up three wickets each, along with Shardul Thakur. Navdeep Saini was out of action due to injury, while Mohammed Siraj was the most inefficient Indian bowler taking one wicket for 77 runs. The immediate target for India is to make 170, in order to avoid follow on.
Anything above 350 would put Indian batsmen in unease. This is evident as India lost a couple of wickets in quick succession. I am sure they will avoid the follow on but I doubt they will win this match. Australian batsmen have done their job now the bowlers need to do their.
It seems the match maybe resume after the inspection from the umpires and if there is no further rain we could have the complete quota of overs for today with that 30 minute extra time.But the weather forecast for the day 4 and 5 is not that good.
I've just seen that further play has been abandoned for the rest of the day. There's scattered showers lingering around the southside and it's quite overcast throughout the city.
I managed to see Loyd take a wicket earlier - he's one of the few consistent bowlers Australia has I feel.
I wouldn't be surprised if play is halted very soon. (If it doesn't rain on Brisbane's inner South East, then it's going to become even more hot and steamy than it already is)
Australia finished at 369, and I would consider anything above 350 as giving a definite advantage to them. The two debutants, Sundar and Natarajan picked up three wickets each, along with Shardul Thakur. Navdeep Saini was out of action due to injury, while Mohammed Siraj was the most inefficient Indian bowler taking one wicket for 77 runs. The immediate target for India is to make 170, in order to avoid follow on.
Anything above 350 would put Indian batsmen in unease. This is evident as India lost a couple of wickets in quick succession. I am sure they will avoid the follow on but I doubt they will win this match. Australian batsmen have done their job now the bowlers need to do their.
I wouldn't be surprised if play is halted very soon. (If it doesn't rain on Brisbane's inner South East, then it's going to become even more hot and steamy than it already is)
Australia finished at 369, and I would consider anything above 350 as giving a definite advantage to them. The two debutants, Sundar and Natarajan picked up three wickets each, along with Shardul Thakur. Navdeep Saini was out of action due to injury, while Mohammed Siraj was the most inefficient Indian bowler taking one wicket for 77 runs. The immediate target for India is to make 170, in order to avoid follow on.
New rules such as The Power Surge, X-Factor etc coming out nicely with in the game?
I'd be happy if they just played "hit the bloody ball ya mug!" Every once in a while.
All joking aside, Australia's players need to stop preening themselves in the mirror and get back to basics starting with practing in the nets.
Anyway current series is about to finish and Aussie need to figure it out their opening combination as SA tour is coming up next (If its safe to travel SA).
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It seems every batsmen banking on inexperienced indian bowlers, you know its bad when even Nathon Lyon using drive and sweep effectively.
352/8
Srilanka 135/10 and Joe root 168 (not out) 
. It seems that Joe Root alone defeated Sri Lanka 
. However, Sri Lanka is having a very bad time. The Test series is completely one-sided. Sri Lanka is not able to fight at all. At least I didn't expect it to be a bad performance. Although I did not think Sri Lanka would win, I thought they would fight at least a little bit. But they broke my hopes. They will lose by an innings and huge runs.
I am not familiar with the members in the Sri Lankan team and i expected this to happen as it is not that easy to tour Australia or England with inexperienced players and expect extraordinary results.. It seems that Joe Root alone defeated Sri Lanka . However, Sri Lanka is having a very bad time. The Test series is completely one-sided. Sri Lanka is not able to fight at all. At least I didn't expect it to be a bad performance. Although I did not think Sri Lanka would win, I thought they would fight at least a little bit. But they broke my hopes. They will lose by an innings and huge runs.Australia having a good team is facing a completely depleted Indian team and yet they are not able to dominate them is really disappointing.
Mark my words. Labuschagne is going to be the next Steve Smith for Australia. He is extremely consistent and performs against top teams. BTW, I am happy for Natarajan. He made his international debut for India in all the three formats during this series. And that was despite the fact that he wasn't originally named in the ODI/test squads. It turns out that the injury woes are beneficial for at least some of the players.
Marnus Labuschagne is really lucky in this tournament as he was dropped multiple times during this series which includes during the ODI series and he was able to add much runs after that that could choke India as he was not able to convert that into a century and in this match he was dropped twice and he was able to reach a century finally.The swing Natarajan was getting was great and hopefully he will be able to pick more wickets and sad to have another injury in the match as Navdeep Saini is injured and the bad omen continues.
Srilanka 135/10 and Joe root 168 (not out) . It seems that Joe Root alone defeated Sri Lanka . However, Sri Lanka is having a very bad time. The Test series is completely one-sided. Sri Lanka is not able to fight at all. At least I didn't expect it to be a bad performance. Although I did not think Sri Lanka would win, I thought they would fight at least a little bit. But they broke my hopes. They will lose by an innings and huge runs.
I am not familiar with the members in the Sri Lankan team and i expected this to happen as it is not that easy to tour Australia or England with inexperienced players and expect extraordinary results.. It seems that Joe Root alone defeated Sri Lanka . However, Sri Lanka is having a very bad time. The Test series is completely one-sided. Sri Lanka is not able to fight at all. At least I didn't expect it to be a bad performance. Although I did not think Sri Lanka would win, I thought they would fight at least a little bit. But they broke my hopes. They will lose by an innings and huge runs.Australia having a good team is facing a completely depleted Indian team and yet they are not able to dominate them is really disappointing.
I would put Australia slightly ahead right now even though they have lost 5 wickets. I think anything over 300 will be a good total on this pitch and as I have said many times before, Australia are very tough to beat on this ground with not losing a test match since 1988 so they will have all the confidence in winning the match but I still don't count India out just yet as they have the momentum from the previous test match and I think that they would feel they are right in this match taking 5 wickets on the first day so its going to be an exciting match to watch. The morning session is vital for both teams as which ever teams does well in the morning session could go on to winning the match.
I feel like this match might end in a draw too(Wild prediction). Australia were in a great position just like this in the previous matches, but messed up towards the end and I feel the same will happen here too.
It is very bad to drop a catch in a Test match. It is not pleasant to drop a catch of a good batsman like Labuschange twice.
He was dropped twice? Didn't know this. India messed up royally here especially when so many of their players are injured. I feel sad for the bowlers who could claimed such a valuable wicket. legendary
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Srilanka 135/10 and Joe root 168 (not out) . It seems that Joe Root alone defeated Sri Lanka . However, Sri Lanka is having a very bad time. The Test series is completely one-sided. Sri Lanka is not able to fight at all. At least I didn't expect it to be a bad performance. Although I did not think Sri Lanka would win, I thought they would fight at least a little bit. But they broke my hopes. They will lose by an innings and huge runs.
. It seems that Joe Root alone defeated Sri Lanka . However, Sri Lanka is having a very bad time. The Test series is completely one-sided. Sri Lanka is not able to fight at all. At least I didn't expect it to be a bad performance. Although I did not think Sri Lanka would win, I thought they would fight at least a little bit. But they broke my hopes. They will lose by an innings and huge runs. 
At this point, India looks like they back into the game but again another big partnership hurting the inexperienced bowling lineup of India for sure. In my opinion, OZ will be happy with their 274 for the loss of only five wickets even when they lost both the openers very early in this match.Indian Fielding again showing pathetic performances which is one of the reasons for leaking too many runs and let them build a partnership.
If they had held the catches, then India would have been in a much better position. Labuschagne was initially dropped by Ajinkya Rahane and then he was again dropped by Cheteshwar Pujara, and he went on to make a century. Misfields also resulted in additional runs for the Australians. The bowlers did well, irrespective of their inexperience, but the Indian fielders let them down.
This dropped catches could cause them match as well. Firstly, getting Warner out early itself was a big achievement and if Labuschagne was out early today OZ would have been nearly all out. But now they could end up making easily 325+ runs and for India now among top 4 batsman 1 must make century to reach near OZ total or take a lead. Bowlers were remarkable and you rightly pointed they are inexperienced as no bowler has till now even played 5 test matches.
New rules such as The Power Surge, X-Factor etc coming out nicely with in the game?
I'd be happy if they just played "hit the bloody ball ya mug!" Every once in a while.
All joking aside, Australia's players need to stop preening themselves in the mirror and get back to basics starting with practing in the nets.
Labuschagne got out but damn this guy is really talented and really loves to make runs against every freaking team.
Natarajan baba got the both wicket (Labuschagne and Wade) Nice debut for Nattu.
India is back in the game again.
Aus : 213/5
Natarajan baba got the both wicket (Labuschagne and Wade) Nice debut for Nattu.
India is back in the game again.
Aus : 213/5
Mark my words. Labuschagne is going to be the next Steve Smith for Australia. He is extremely consistent and performs against top teams. BTW, I am happy for Natarajan. He made his international debut for India in all the three formats during this series. And that was despite the fact that he wasn't originally named in the ODI/test squads. It turns out that the injury woes are beneficial for at least some of the players.
Well... At least David Warner got ONE run before he took the long walk back to the pub.
The BBL games this past week have been a lot more interesting to watch (even if the players fielding do all kinds of cart-wheels while trying to catch the ball...) 🙄
New rules such as The Power Surge, X-Factor etc coming out nicely with in the game? The BBL games this past week have been a lot more interesting to watch (even if the players fielding do all kinds of cart-wheels while trying to catch the ball...) 🙄
Meanwhile its seems that England breached the Lankan's fortress.
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