Kohli
Given it is Adelaide, I can see him starting too.
Yes - the Australian bowling is amazing and our bowling is a bit of an unknown in Australia.
Well it won't be a walkover for India soyou're not alone in thinking it should be close. Australia still has the best allround pace attack if fit and we're still in an age where the home side tends to win most test matches.
4/41 Rahane with a shocker, that was a leave ball all day long“Best travelling Indian team”
Sack Shastri, sell Rahul
4-0 instead of 4-1?
Sorry I know what you mean, it could be a heavy one depending on how Australia bat. Getting Kohli out extremely cheaply first up was a pretty important as well.I'm no fan of him, but he's pretty much the only one in the squad who can reliably deal with Lyon's spin. As bizarre as it sounds!
well done!
I stopped watching cricket in ~2010ish, when that generation retired. The fact that we have gone to Australia and our batting is being exposed *by a spinner* is unbelievable to me. It always was either the swing or the bounce/pace that did it.
Still think he's the only one who had the skill to deal with Lyon. Unfortunately, he's still an idiot.
Yeah we're now no hopers against even fairly ordinary spin bowling. As seen in the England series too.
Yup we're still short, but hopefully this should make the 4th innings interesting at least.
Is it a difficult wicket? Because if this is a typical aus pitch, India are about 200 short
Looked flat to me, and Aussie batsmen aren't going to gift their wickets like the Indians did. I think they'll get 400 easily.
Pujara just said in the PC that its a tougher wicket than it looks, didn't see a ball but I'm just saying that from the position we were in, 250 is decent.
He's not going to say 'yeah it's an absolute road and we threw it away' though is he?
/r/cricket on Reddit has what you need.
India have four bowlers, and one of them is Shami, known for bowling loose deliveries. Pretty sure they will get 400 as there is no fifth bowler to take the heat off the pacers. Looking at this lineup, I can only see Kohli who bowls a bit. The rest don't even bowl part-time. Unless Aussie batsmen throw it away like most Indian batters, 400 is guaranteed.
Ashwin could be a massive threat on this tour, with the bounce he'll get.
Not so sure about that. He’s been pretty average away from home, apart from maybe one Test in England.
Can’t see Australia getting 400+ this series, there batting lineup is average at best, there bowlers will be the reason they win and not the batsman
