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p.s. England are currently the world champions (of T20).
Happy new year all
Test Match cricket is on the ropes :(
I'll enjoy it while it lasts, well done Aussie, so hard to beat at home
I could watch Mohammad Rizwan bat all day, what an entertaining player
day one of the second test in south africa
SA 55 all out
india just lost their last 6 wickets for no runs (!?), 153 all out
SA back in, still plenty of time left in the day
Test cricket is dying but other forms of the game can rarely be more interesting than what has happened today, in both Sydney and Cape Town.
i miss the days when more than a couple of batters on each side were able to stick around for an hour or more. im not watching this SA IND test so i dunno if its just a terrible wicket or what but the point stands either way - its now deeply weird to see a test reach the 5th day without weather and for me that sucks
Some Indians on twitter complaining that if this was an Indian pitch, the masses would be saying it’s a bad pitch.
India were 4/153 scoring at 4.5 per over, didn’t seem to be any issues then. Yes it’s a challenging pitch, but quality batsmen should be able to hang in there, concentrate deeply and build a slow, measured innings. But there are very few quality Test batsmen these days.
South Africa are bad, and will be even worse when they tour New Zealand in a couple weeks. Yes, India did lose their last 6 wickets without adding to their score. That was just a freak occurrence, nothing to do with the pitch.
India should be embarrassed that they lost the first Test and missed an easy opportunity to win their first ever series in South Africa.
107 overs - apparently the shortest completed test in history
India were 4/153 scoring at 4.5 per over, didn’t seem to be any issues then. Yes it’s a challenging pitch, but quality batsmen should be able to hang in there, concentrate deeply and build a slow, measured innings. But there are very few quality Test batsmen these days.
Like many of these wickets - they have no pace in them. So yes there was variable bounce and movement off the seam (quite a bit) the pitches are slow enough that you can adjust or you can adjust if you are good enough. All this dangerous pitch talk just because there is a bit of movement really annoys me.
Similar to matches getting called off for light in 2024. That shouldn't happen any more - go take a pink ball out of the box and go back out there. I'm pretty sure at even the suggestion of the need for a pink ball that the batsmen will say there is no more light issue and can play on against pace. But even if they say they can't at a later stage the umpires should tell them that is what we are going to do to get the overs in for the day.
really disappointing series performance from Babar Azam. Double figures 5 times out of 6 but never got to 50
21
14
1
41
26
23
12 wickets lost today in the last 30 overs in Sydney. Must be the pitch.
Watched the india SA test the pitch had lots of variable bounce so it was a very tough surface.
At some point india decided sticking around was not the best strategy and started attacking, Rohit was stepping down and hitting Rabada.
I'm curious how the teams of early 2000's would've approached this wicket, it was tough but something tells me they might've made 200 odd.
I dunno but pitches were really flat in that period everywhere except maybe South Africa
Aussie women humbled by India in the first T20.
Australia - 10/141 (19.2)
India - 1/145 (17.4)
Adelaide test is going to be over before tea on day 3 which...will be a Friday. Horrific scheduling by Cricket Aus - the Saturday of the test match in the members at the Adelaide Oval is one of the great days of the test calendar and both Sat and Sun would be two of the biggest drinking days you'd ever find at a test. God knows how much $$ it's going to cost them in terms of reduced booze sales
EDIT - probably over by lunch day 3
Brook returning home from India for family reasons is a shame from a cricketing perspective.
Im excited to see how bazball will fare in in this Indian series!
2 x Test matchs kicking off later today, awesome!
I saw an interesting post from Michael Vaughn advocating for a 3 month a year window where teams only play Test cricket. He says this is needed to stop Tests dieing out.
The rest of the calendar can be used for T20 Leagues and Internationals and ODIs.
I reckon fencing off a part of the year for Tests only to protect them, is a great idea but would prefer 2 x 2 month blocks to coincide with each hemisphere's summer season
The game is played in both hemispheres and 5 continents. Good luck with that lol
Australia v West Indies (D/N)
India v England
Both Tests starting at the exact same time!
Brisbane’s wet weather forecast:
england selected one seamer only. wonder if that has ever happened before
ball is turning around corners after 30 mins on day 1
42/0 after 10 overs
60/3
oh well
Australia v West Indies (D/N)
India v England
Both Tests starting at the exact same time!
Brisbane’s wet weather forecast:
We probably won't get any play on Sun - but we should only lose a couple of hours on Sat and maybe the 1st session on Monday - we should still get a result particularly since WI batted first
Loving the Windies so far
Breath of fresh air seeing some of these new faces compete hard!
