Certified Legendary Thread 4th Test Border Gavaskar Trophy December 26-30 1000hrs @ the MCG

[ROOTA#6]

What has happened to batting techniques and footwork in our country

 

[FreoRicci]

Bumrah. This batters are scared of one ****ing bowler

 

[Rocco sifreddi]

Omg what a jaffer

 

[Ephemeral Hope]

What a ****ing cricketer this guy is... India right back in this.

This man has bowled 40 overs this match

 

[lmach]

Did Bumrah nearly appeal for LB on that throw?

 

[The 747]

Gee this guy is good.

 

[Headless]

What a ****ing cricketer this guy is... India right back in this.

Unreal. Pleasure to watch.

 

[Gavin Excell]

Top drawer bowling

 

[Moonwatcher]

Bumrah

 

[AlwaysHawks15]

Thats a jaffer, but Carey played down the wrong line there

Yep played that terribly, coming across instead of straight through.

 

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

As cluster****y as we've been this has been masterful from Bumrah

 

[LukeParkerno1]

Can’t even last long enough to break the bloke down

 

[JimmyBC]

Sometimes you just gotta tip the hat and appreciate you are watching someone as good as Bumrah.

 

[Maddo11]

What the **** was that Carey. Last ball of the over mate just dead bat it

 

[Bucking Beads]

Didn’t move his feet at all!!! Bumrah good but we have been terrible with the bat.

 

[HK_Hawk]

This has been a pretty disgusting capitulation since not finishing a tail end yet AGAIN. So p* off with this performance from the Aussies

 

[Kuuz]

I'm getting so sick of the selection culture in Aussie cricket.

• Giving players send off series and send off games, at the expense of blooding the next in the line
• Giving players HUGE rope to ride out bad form in international games
• Having players in positions, which requires bowling utility, who are so physically brittle, that they cannot bowl more than 5 overs
• Running our top bowlers into the ground, instead of rotating them around to keep them fresh (aka Starc CLEARLY needs a rest, yet we keep trundling him out and likely now under an injury cloud).

Just gives me the utter shits. Like, why pick a "squad" if you never use it - it's such juvenile and naive selection policy.

Look at India. They actually use their squad well. If certain batsmen are low on form/confidence, they swap them out for other prospects to immediate gain. They rotate their bowling order to try and complement their main strike bowler to better effect with Akash Deep.

Our selection policy just screams boys club and reputations making the shots, rather than the betterment of the team now and into the future. Just have some balls and actually tell grown adult cricketers "your form is shite, we're going to play this guy as he's in good form".

We have a selection policy based in 1920s gentlemen cricket and its doing my head in.

 

[Kane McGoodwin]

Is Green available? Otherwise, Sweeney for Marsh

Green is injured.

 

[Ignacious Constantino]

Bumrah is a joy to watch

 

[kenneje]

Unplayable, this could be the best I've seen.

 

[Stan Van Gundy]

What about now?

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Ok we're cooked

 

[TubbsFarquhar]

India will chase this down by stumps.

 

[Gethelred]

Well, there's not all that much you can do about that beyond pray it bounces over. Pitching outside off, nips back in off a good length to take middle.

 

[freo_leo29]

Save us Cummins

 

[troybe]

All over. Another BGT gone begging.