He did his job, it might be disappointing to get out at stumps but 32 in quick time was good.
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Australia didnāt play a practice match in India last year because on the previous few tours they have had green tops. When was the last time India hosted Australia on a green top in a test. It doesnāt happen. But it does in warm up matches. So we have given up wasting time with them.
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8-266 st stumps ā¦ā¦itās a good wicket
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India came here and won a tour with net bowlers and half their side injured. Nothing more needs to be said.
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Good first day wicket. Life for bowlers in first session. Batters advantage second and third.
We donāt do them anymore because India created doctored pitches that didnāt play anything like the test pitches. It was a complete waste of time.
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Home teams can curate the wickets exactly to suit their strengths. Australia should and also do the same here. Except touring teams are actually better prepared for Aussie conditions and come ready.
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Australia do the same thing to touring sides in practice matches
Itās not just India that do it
Except England.
Who havenāt won a test in Australia for 13 years now.
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Bullcrap we do, get your hand off it. We bend over freaking backwards to accommodate everything India demand.
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Yet Australian wickets are then same no matter what. Test, ODI, T20, vs England and vs India. The same canāt be said for India. A test wicket is so far removed from the IPL wicket.
You clearly have forgotten the first test in India last year had a specifically rolled dry area outside the left handers off stump when Australia had 4 lefties in the top 7.
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England lose here because they are mentally pissweak. Thereās no shortage of talent.
Hazel gets Joseph gawn for 32, wafting extravagantly at a well pitched up ball, a healthy edge flies straight to the safe hands of Smith at second. Stumps called 8/266. Really good fight back by the lower order, points even on the balance of play.
Having you seen the pitches that are prepared for the practice matches touring teams cop here. They are almost concrete. No bounce, flat as anything. Completely different from what you play on in the tests
And you guys havenāt won a series in England since 2001
No doubt home teams can. Australian currators donāt tend to do so. But you then canāt complain when we call out India for rolling out Bunsen burners to favour their team.
In your dreams.
Nah, itās reality. Whether you want to see it or not is up to you
Yet we hold the Aussie. Even if we lost morally.
We generally produce absolute lifeless slabs of concrete for touring teams in practice matches and itās not accidental either. We just donāt doctor our test pitches as much as we should
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