Before the two quick wickets, the openers had made a good start scoring good. The two consecutive wickets have fallen at 70 and 85 runs. As in the quote, Ajinkya Rahane and Pujara are the wall of Indian cricket team same as Rahul Dravid who takes forward at hard situations.
If India needs to win the match or to have an advantage in the match Cheteshwar Pujara and Ajinkya Rahane needs to play a longer innings and they are the most accomplished players in the Indian team. The openers started well but they were not able to capitalize the start they got and lost their wickets. The pitch looks like helping the batsman but i was surprised when Australia lost quick wickets and the star of the day was Ravindra Jadeja.
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If India needs to win the match or to have an advantage in the match Cheteshwar Pujara and Ajinkya Rahane needs to play a longer innings and they are the most accomplished players in the Indian team. The openers started well but they were not able to capitalize the start they got and lost their wickets. The pitch looks like helping the batsman but i was surprised when Australia lost quick wickets and the star of the day was Ravindra Jadeja.
For India to have an upper hand in the match Pujara and Rahane needs to perform but the problem is that Cheteshwar Pujara is under immense pressure to perform as he was not in good touch and if he can overcome that then it will help the team. Wish there is no more rain interruption if not we might not even see a result in this match. Before the two quick wickets, the openers had made a good start scoring good. The two consecutive wickets have fallen at 70 and 85 runs. As in the quote, Ajinkya Rahane and Pujara are the wall of Indian cricket team same as Rahul Dravid who takes forward at hard situations.
If India needs to win the match or to have an advantage in the match Cheteshwar Pujara and Ajinkya Rahane needs to play a longer innings and they are the most accomplished players in the Indian team. The openers started well but they were not able to capitalize the start they got and lost their wickets. The pitch looks like helping the batsman but i was surprised when Australia lost quick wickets and the star of the day was Ravindra Jadeja. 
I was expecting Australia to score above 350 runs with the way Marnus Labuschagne and Steven Smith was batting but one wicket just exposed the entire batting lineup as they lost the next 7 wickets and added 132 runs. Just three players scored above 50 runs shows their pathetic form and India had a good start but Australia was able to pick two wickets, tomorrow morning will determine how the match will go.
What an amazing comeback by team India. Looking at yesterday's end of day thought today whole day OZ will bat and end up making a huge score and might declare the innings. But blowers came back strongly and picked up quick wickets in middle order and this did not allow them to score big runs. India started off well and the day would have been better if India might just had lost 1 wicket instead of losing 2nd wicket early. Tomorrow challenge for India would be to bat safely and play whole entire day if possible and do not fall like pack of cards with this good start they manage to got it.
I was expecting Australia to score above 350 runs with the way Marnus Labuschagne and Steven Smith was batting but one wicket just exposed the entire batting lineup as they lost the next 7 wickets and added 132 runs. Just three players scored above 50 runs shows their pathetic form and India had a good start but Australia was able to pick two wickets, tomorrow morning will determine how the match will go.
Today Indian bowlers was more then good because most of peoples was prediction 400+ but restricting Australia under 350 is great job specially by Jadeja now its all on batting how they response because if they able to do some good target then surely they can bring Australia under pressure which could be great for them in this series because without Kohli no one was expecting things like this but now they are doing great without Kohli mean chota packet bara damaka. 
I agree with you. Pakistan's domestic cricket is not that much developed. But still, Pakistan has enough talented players. It is the responsibility of the cricket board to guide them properly. If these talents are lost, they will not be able to return to the truck in the next few years. They need to take the necessary steps so that the talents they have will not be lost. Then they have to improve their domestic cricket.
To tell the truth, the domestic cricket is in a bad state in all the countries in South Asia. In terms of quality, the domestic tournaments such as Ranji Trophy and the Quaid-e-Azam Trophy is far behind county cricket of England or Sheffield Shield of Australia. I would even say that the Plunket Shield of New Zealand and Sunfoil series of South Africa is more competitive than these Asian tournaments.
I was expecting Australia to score above 350 runs with the way Marnus Labuschagne and Steven Smith was batting but one wicket just exposed the entire batting lineup as they lost the next 7 wickets and added 132 runs. Just three players scored above 50 runs shows their pathetic form and India had a good start but Australia was able to pick two wickets, tomorrow morning will determine how the match will go.
It is difficult to tell who is having the advantage right now. India has lost two quick wicket, and now it is up to the experienced duo of Ajinkya Rahane and Cheteshwar Pujara to build the innings. Hanuma Vihari is at no.5, but after that the batting strength gets weaker. Rishabh Pant is not in good form, and Jadeja is at no.7. Whoever gets the first innings lead will be having an advantage in this match.
None of them have the advantage in my opinion. As expected, this match will probably end in a draw thanks to rain interference unless wickets tumble like crazy from either side which I don't think will happen thanks to the batting friendly pitch currently.If Pant held on to those catches, Australia would have posted a target below 300 thanks to early pressure most probably.
It is difficult to tell who is having the advantage right now. India has lost two quick wicket, and now it is up to the experienced duo of Ajinkya Rahane and Cheteshwar Pujara to build the innings. Hanuma Vihari is at no.5, but after that the batting strength gets weaker. Rishabh Pant is not in good form, and Jadeja is at no.7. Whoever gets the first innings lead will be having an advantage in this match.
Before the two quick wickets, the openers had made a good start scoring good. The two consecutive wickets have fallen at 70 and 85 runs. As in the quote, Ajinkya Rahane and Pujara are the wall of Indian cricket team same as Rahul Dravid who takes forward at hard situations. It is difficult to tell who is having the advantage right now. India has lost two quick wicket, and now it is up to the experienced duo of Ajinkya Rahane and Cheteshwar Pujara to build the innings. Hanuma Vihari is at no.5, but after that the batting strength gets weaker. Rishabh Pant is not in good form, and Jadeja is at no.7. Whoever gets the first innings lead will be having an advantage in this match.
It was pretty good start actually but given 2 quick wickets when few overs left before the stumps, now India need to build a partnership to get some lead in this innings. Only one over left in today's game as now India is at 96/2 and Pujara again showing that why he is an important test batsman for India. Kept middling every balls while defending it and scored his first runs after 33 balls.
It is difficult to tell who is having the advantage right now. India has lost two quick wicket, and now it is up to the experienced duo of Ajinkya Rahane and Cheteshwar Pujara to build the innings. Hanuma Vihari is at no.5, but after that the batting strength gets weaker. Rishabh Pant is not in good form, and Jadeja is at no.7. Whoever gets the first innings lead will be having an advantage in this match.
Excellent inning from Smudge, Champion batsman finally found his hand again . Good comeback from Indian bowlers, they did excellent job wrapping Aussie inning under 350. Its below par score in Sydney when batting first, average score of batting first is close to 450 runs so job well done. How good was Jadeja today with the ball and field, Smith run out was amazing.
Now its all up to batmen.
Now its all up to batmen.
338 is not a bad total, but at one point it looked as if Australia would struggle to cross the 300 mark. They made it, thanks to Steve Smith. For India, both Ravichandran Ashwin and Mohammed Siraj failed to impress. I think Siraj should concentrate on his game rather than on the theatrics. Bumrah and Saini did well, but it was Jadeja who kept Australia to a sub-350 total.
Anyway good start for India with the bat. I have a feeling that India going to get good lead after finishing their first inning.
Excellent inning from Smudge, Champion batsman finally found his hand again . Good comeback from Indian bowlers, they did excellent job wrapping Aussie inning under 350. Its below par score in Sydney when batting first, average score of batting first is close to 450 runs so job well done. How good was Jadeja today with the ball and field, Smith run out was amazing.
Now its all up to batmen.
Now its all up to batmen.
338 is not a bad total, but at one point it looked as if Australia would struggle to cross the 300 mark. They made it, thanks to Steve Smith. For India, both Ravichandran Ashwin and Mohammed Siraj failed to impress. I think Siraj should concentrate on his game rather than on the theatrics. Bumrah and Saini did well, but it was Jadeja who kept Australia to a sub-350 total.
338 is still a good target! Yes, Indian bowlers were able to restrict Australia from reaching 350 thanks to Jadeja but a couple of few wickets in the early over and India will be struggling to reach that target. I am keen to see how the opening pair performs in this test, especially Rohit Sharma.
Excellent inning from Smudge, Champion batsman finally found his hand again . Good comeback from Indian bowlers, they did excellent job wrapping Aussie inning under 350. Its below par score in Sydney when batting first, average score of batting first is close to 450 runs so job well done. How good was Jadeja today with the ball and field, Smith run out was amazing.
Now its all up to batmen.
Now its all up to batmen.
338 is not a bad total, but at one point it looked as if Australia would struggle to cross the 300 mark. They made it, thanks to Steve Smith. For India, both Ravichandran Ashwin and Mohammed Siraj failed to impress. I think Siraj should concentrate on his game rather than on the theatrics. Bumrah and Saini did well, but it was Jadeja who kept Australia to a sub-350 total.
Excellent inning from Smudge, Champion batsman finally found his hand again . Good comeback from Indian bowlers, they did excellent job wrapping Aussie inning under 350. Its below par score in Sydney when batting first, average score of batting first is close to 450 runs so job well done. How good was Jadeja today with the ball and field, Smith run out was amazing.
Now its all up to batmen.
Now its all up to batmen.
Australia once again threw away a very good chance of getting to a big score. From 206/2, they have now collapsed to 268/6. Their middle order has failed once again. Wade/Green/Paine made a total of 14 runs between them. Cameron Green was very impressive during the warmup matches, but I don't know what happened to him after that. He has performed poorly, both in the batting and bowling departments.
After a long partnership it is very common to lose wickets in quick session so we can't blame much and the credit goes to Jadeja who took wickets early and put OZ under pressure which was later shattered by pace attack. As I predicted OZ reached 320+ and only one wicket remaining in OZ but the bad thing is Smith is still holding his bat in the middle.
Australia once again threw away a very good chance of getting to a big score. From 206/2, they have now collapsed to 268/6. Their middle order has failed once again. Wade/Green/Paine made a total of 14 runs between them. Cameron Green was very impressive during the warmup matches, but I don't know what happened to him after that. He has performed poorly, both in the batting and bowling departments.
Wow Jadeja gets the another, first Marnus now Wade..
Jadeja is getting more impressive these days, he strikes two good batsmen, and the one who is middling the balls right from the start now only the wicket of Smith will be the target by Indians. As of now Bumrah and Siraj attacking the batsmen with aggressive fielding like slips and gully hope they will find another one and will restrict the OZ with something under 320 then IND will be much happy.
Impressive and disciplined bowling by the Indian bowlers and Australian batsmen playing real test.
Rain and slow scoring game, it's moving towards a draw for Australia vs India as Australia would pull it's 1st inning all the way to the end of 2nd day. The only way there would be a result is to bowl out India early which is very unlikely considering the team and the pitch. It could move into the last test to decide the winner here.
Rain and slow scoring game, it's moving towards a draw for Australia vs India as Australia would pull it's 1st inning all the way to the end of 2nd day. The only way there would be a result is to bowl out India early which is very unlikely considering the team and the pitch. It could move into the last test to decide the winner here.
Glad that ball went to Rahane and not Pant 
. Good thing is BCCI and CA acting responsibly and discussing matters.
IMO if Brisbane facilitating crowds at the ground then its kinda weird that players are kept in tight quarantine. As far as i know new restrictions came in middle of the tour may be 1st or 2nd test? So it makes sense that Indian players creating a fuss, as far as they are concerned they already finished the quarantine once and going again in the quarantine for the last stage seems too much to ask, bit of relaxation shouldn't hurt at least let'em hang out and eat together.
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Wow Jadeja gets the another, first Marnus now Wade..
I must say that if the reports are true about the Indian team not wanting to quarantine in Brisbane after this match and risk the match being call off I think is wrong by the team. That is the rules in Queensland and at the end of the day the Indian team shouldn't act this way because there is a pandemic right now and they should follow the rules. I just don't understand why they would think this way anyway if the reports are true.
This series is going too friendly so need some tension at least for the last game, some of Aussie media do behaving like tabloid though and Indian media is already a tabloid . Good thing is BCCI and CA acting responsibly and discussing matters. IMO if Brisbane facilitating crowds at the ground then its kinda weird that players are kept in tight quarantine. As far as i know new restrictions came in middle of the tour may be 1st or 2nd test? So it makes sense that Indian players creating a fuss, as far as they are concerned they already finished the quarantine once and going again in the quarantine for the last stage seems too much to ask, bit of relaxation shouldn't hurt at least let'em hang out and eat together.
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Wow Jadeja gets the another, first Marnus now Wade..
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