FO Tim. Brave decision by Kohli to bat!? Spare me.
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Zero swing. Zero seam movement. Bounce that goes to the keeper ankle height. CHRIST.
I can remember a time in the early to mid 2000s where 42 would have been the lowest average in our top 7!
Kohli will bat for two days on this unless Lyon works some magic.
Cummins will be interesting. He might get some movement because he really bangs it into the pitch. But he wonāt get much bounce.
Thereās two players with an average of 61 and 48 to come in to bolster the sideā¦
I donāt know what youāre watching, CB.
Iāve seen swing and seam, but I agree the sponginess of the pitch is damn near disgraceful.
If I was Paine I wouldnāt even try and keep to those balls that Starcs sending down a metre wide of Leg stump and iād Be telling him he can farking go down and pick em outta the gutter himself.
This bloke plays the drive off the spinner exactly like Kohli does.
Maybe our eyes are wired differently because if youāre seeing swing and seem then one of our eyes need adjusting. Iāve seen maybe a few balls that have moved very minimally. The vast majority have not moved a bit. Thatās day one with a brand spanking new ball.
I think Lyon bowling after 7 overs tells you just how little movement there has been.
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Itās not our eyes, itās our attitudes.
And our personal definitions of zero.
Yours apparently means āa bit.ā
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I reckon Starc got one to tail in a bit very early on. I havenāt seen any genuine movement since then.
India will feel absolutely at home on this deck atm.
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And youāre surprised
Twin slips to a bloke on one?
It was really weird by BCCI to let us keep the Perth test
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Our attitudes? What in earth are you talking about?
Okay fine, I would say 99% of the balls so far have done absolutely nothing.
And when I say nothing, I mean absolutely stone dead nothing.
I reckon a few balls early moved a tiny tinge. Maybe 3 balls all up. Thatās with a brand new ball on the first morning.
The rest have done nothing.
Lyon is in the attack at over 7, that should tell you a bit. But feel free to argue me as I know you will.
One slip.
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Facing competition from 20/20, they produced a Boxing Day pitch as dead as this?
And he played that last one away from his body a bit.
Good over from Josh. A hint of interest there.
Iām talking about your attitude towards cricket.
You wrote us offā¦had to be four or five times last Test, and you wrote us off before a ball was bowled in this one.
Maybe, but I miss the days our batting lineup looked like this (peak batting average after at least 10 tests in brackets if Iāve got my sources correct)
Langer (46)
Hayden (58)
Ponting (60)
Martyn (57)
Hussey (86)
Gilchrist (61)
Then we had guys like Clarke, Lehman, Katich, Symonds, Hodge filling up number 5