3rd Test at the SCG, Sydney, 7 Jan - 11 Jan 2021

[GotSpin]

Straya to bat until 2:30ish

 

[Starfighter]

Smith blocking it out.

 

[Starfighter]

Surely one of those short ones could've been pulled.

 

[thierry henry]

Asked with only mild snark - do many neutrals relish a Smith/Labuskuggner partnership? Feels like experiencing a slow and inevitable death to me.

 

[Coronis]

Oh good we’re back talking **** about Pujara.

 

[Starfighter]

Straya to bat until 2:30ish

If he keeps batting at this rate Smith will be on 42* by 2:30

 

[hendrix]

This is probably really well discussed by now but can someone please link me to the explanation as to why/how Saha is suddenly keeping?

 

[aussie tragic]

This is probably really well discussed by now but can someone please link me to the explanation as to why/how Saha is suddenly keeping?

Pant is injured and 3 years ago ICC changed the rules that WKs could be subbed for fielding. Saha can't bat though so India gets Saha's keeping skills with Pants batting skills.

 

[Coronis]

This is probably really well discussed by now but can someone please link me to the explanation as to why/how Saha is suddenly keeping?

Pant knocked on the elbow, injury sub.

Also ****

 

[TimAngas]

Pant would have dropped that 1/2 of the time.

 

[thierry henry]

Part of me biasedly feels like a lot of stuff tends to run Marnus’s way, but another part feels like he (and Smith) seem to get out in ‘unlucky’ ways a lot? Feels like a lot of strangles, leg slip or leg gully catches, very rarely getting genuinely ‘bowled out’.

 

[morgieb]

No chance in hell Pant catches that.

 

[Spark]

Part of me biasedly feels like a lot of stuff tends to run Marnus’s way, but another part feels like he (and Smith) seem to get out in ‘unlucky’ ways a lot? Feels like a lot of strangles, leg slip or leg gully catches, very rarely getting genuinely ‘bowled out’.

With Smith at least, it's often a deliberate plan to get him out like that tbf.

 

[The Battlers Prince]

Smithjara surely blamed for Labuschagne wicket?

 

[hendrix]

Pant knocked on the elbow, injury sub.

Also ****

Since when were you allowed injury subs for keepers?

Also is Pant still going to be allowed to bat if he's fit enough to? Because if so it seems that an injury is a convenient way to get the batting skills of Pant and the keeping skills of Saha. Seems like it's something that could quite easily be taken advantage of. For example a keeper plays a long innings and then feels like a rest so claims a calf strain...

 

[Spikey]

god, easy runs for wade coming.

 

[thierry henry]

With Smith at least, it's often a deliberate plan to get him out like that tbf.

Oh very much so. As a purist-***-iconoclast who finds little satisfaction in most Neil Wagner wickets, it’s just all a bit unsatisfying.

 

[thierry henry]

lol can’t say ***

 

[hendrix]

Part of me biasedly feels like a lot of stuff tends to run Marnus’s way, but another part feels like he (and Smith) seem to get out in ‘unlucky’ ways a lot? Feels like a lot of strangles, leg slip or leg gully catches, very rarely getting genuinely ‘bowled out’.

Leg side theory is kinda inherently stunted by bodyline laws.

 

[Starfighter]

Do something you twerp