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Hi KA and Bob
This Test shows why the 5 day game is so superior to 1 day cricket. What a third day!
I was listening to the last 3 hours play and the twists and turns were fantastic.
The Pujara/Rahana stand could have turned the Test India's way. The bookies over here now have India as favourites, Australia are currently 5/2 to win the match.
Hate to say it, but I like those odds. Have invested £10 at the 5/2!
Originally posted by Blood On The TracksAnother session like that and those odds will triple.
Hi KA and Bob
This Test shows why the 5 day game is so superior to 1 day cricket. What a third day!
I was listening to the last 3 hours play and the twists and turns were fantastic.
The Pujara/Rahana stand could have turned the Test India's way. The bookies over here now have India as favourites, Australia are currently 5/2 to win the match.
Hate to say it, but I like those odds. Have invested £10 at the 5/2!
India had to come back at some point
Originally posted by Blood On The TracksYou have nerve my friend !
ah ~ but a lot of sessions in the series have started with a few wickets. Then the odds will reverse, and I can lay off on India to win!
Go Aussies.
You gotta think Starc is going to have to fire up and get 2 or 3 in the first session. If that happens Lyon will mop up the rest...hopefully
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Hi there Champ
Don't you read well. Told KA I was hoping Oz struck early this morning, in which case the odds on an India win would widen. Check it out. A few posts up.
They did, I got 4-1 on India to win at the start of your innings, another tenner. You do the Maths. loser? Nope
Difference is, I said I was going to do that BEFORE it happened.
Try it some time. Go on, Champ. Tell us who'll win the 3rd Test
Originally posted by Blood On The TracksWade and Marsh right before tea was like a knife in the back.
losing your last 6 wickets for 11 runs doesn't
great Test match, all square
Australia were unlucky but did have a winning last innings in them. Not toomuch more but 180 was gettable.
They didn't review when they should've an apparently there was sledging all over the place.
So was Kolli a sook, accusing Australia of cheating afterwards? Imagine if he had've lost. His comments just don't sit too well with me because he reviewed himself twice and wasted 2 reviews when he was plumb. He knew the ball hit the pad first, then just feigned ignorance. C'mon Virat. Smith is as much of a cheat as you. He was even jeering the crowd up which I found unusual for test cricket.
Well we got a good series at least and the Aussies will go back to being underdogs and that should help them
Originally posted by Blood On The Tracks3rd test? Well at least radioactive is right about one thing, they're going to have to make a better wicket or too much depends on the toss. As it turns out it seems the Indians got the best of the batting conditions in their 2nd innings, then the wicket really started to go.
Hi there Champ
Don't you read well. Told KA I was hoping Oz struck early this morning, in which case the odds on an India win would widen. Check it out. A few posts up.
They did, I got 4-1 on India to win at the start of your innings, another tenner. You do the Maths. loser? Nope
Difference is, I said I was going to do that BEFORE it happened.
Try it some time. Go on, Champ. Tell us who'll win the 3rd Test
I'll go with Australia in another tight one.
Or maybe Kohli's karma will shine through and he will finally make a few
I'm still thinking 2 things for test cricket.
1. 4 day tests with a 5th day spare to make up time if needed. So I'm saying a 360 over game instead of a 450 over one.this has got to help players and spectators alike,no?
2. The toss. There should only be a toss for the first test. Then it should just alternate from test to test for the rest of the series.
I've seen this benefit Australia in Australia as well as others in Australia far too often. Same overseas but maybe not as significant... maybe
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Originally posted by karoly aczelHi Karoly
I'm still thinking 2 things for test cricket.
1. 4 day tests with a 5th day spare to make up time if needed. So I'm saying a 360 over game instead of a 450 over one.this has got to help players and spectators alike,no?
2. The toss. There should only be a toss for the first test. Then it should just alternate from test to test for the rest of the ser ...[text shortened]... s well as others in Australia far too often. Same overseas but maybe not as significant... maybe
The Marsh/Wade dismissals certainly were the key. And, listening over here in the UK, neither was a surprise. I think India hurried through the penultimate over before tea to have a bowl at Wade, and I thought...'oh dear'
If I could hazard a problem with the Oz side at the moment it is that the tail's far too long.
Marsh at 6 (not at this time, #8 at best), Wade at 7 (is he REALLY a better bat than Nevill?), Starc at 8 (decent enough, averaging mid 20s), but then O'Keefe/Lyon/Hazelwood are 3 #11s, and total bunnies on these wickets
I like 4 day Tests as an idea. I WOULD insist on more than 90 overs in each day, make them 100 over days (or fines or, better still, run penalties if teams cant bowl 14/15 an hour). So it is just a 50 over reduction in total overs. It brings the draw more into play, which almost never happens nowadays (though some would say that's a good thing!)
I think India will just keep preparing spining wickets. With their 'hand of spinners', why wouldnt they? OK, they got bit on the bum in 1st Test, but , with all due respect, over a 4 match series you would back their spinners to outbowl Oz's.
Wouldnt KNOWING who bats first after 1st Test in series play even more into the hands of home teams doctoring pitches?
(ps ~ thanks for the 'thumbs up'! ~ I assume it's you! I get thumbs down for suggesting a perfectly good way to make a little money betting on cricket! Wonder who that might be? Hmmm...............................)
Originally posted by radioactive69Radioactive - you should have seen the pitches poor old England copped. Spun from Day 1, but were total dust bowls by Day 3-4, and because they were so slow quick bowlers were virtually redundant.
Please do not back Australia again loser. You could stop a runaway freight train.
Where do those Indians get off serving up wickets like those. Ridiculous !!