nah that first innings was pretty ordinary from him. Starc led the bowling well in this game without the other 2. He seems to have a good head on his shoulders though and i get the feeling both him and Neser will do well in England or Nzl.
Williamson averages 64 in Pak/UAE and 33 in IND. I don't think IND will be deterred.
The deterrent won’t really be that, it’ll be what Smith did in 2017 and the possibility that he does that with Labuschagne doing something similar, which means that Aus will always be a decent chance to scrape together 250 odd in the first innings which is basically a matchwinning score on a dustbowl, especially since Lyon has gotten better the more subcontinent tours he’s done. IMO in that case the safest course would be to prepare traditional subcontinent decks which are good for batting in the first two innings and very difficult in the third and fourth and back the depth of the Indian team to basically outlast Aus’s less experienced players.
Pakistan doesn't get to doctor pitches in UAE and they're really just low roads.
I mean we still have opener Rohit and Mayank at home. Just need one of Vihari/Shreyas to get in finally and our lower order is stronger at home than Aus.
Yes, which is why it would be smarter to prepare good, traditional Indian pitches which demand a big first innings score rather than a dustbowl which one great batsman can basically win singlehandedly with one freak innings, especially if the opposition has a batsman with a history of doing just that.
I mean you gotta expect it at this point.
Rohit singlehandedly won the 2nd Chennai Test vs Eng this year with the bat tbf when Axar/Ashwin ran through Eng, so I don't particularly fear that odd Pune 2017/Chennai 2021 (Root's double) kind of performance given this side is legitimately batdeep at home.
i am a dog chasing cars. idk what to do when someone falls for obvious baits
62 all out. yeah you had us on the ropes
They play Sri Lanka and possibly Afghanistan too before that series
None of the tracks against RSA or Eng were like Pune 2017, which really was the only dustbowl even in that series. The tracks were spin friendly in the Bangalore 2017, Chennai and Mumbai 2021 but nothing more than a regular seaming wicket you might see in SENA. The red soil tracks have good but even bounce and pace which exemplifies the natural spin those tracks provide. Think we will see similar surfaces against Australia.
I am pretty sure Misbah had a lot of say in the tracks they got there in the 10s. They are still technically home games for Pak and I think PCB gotta ask what sort of track they wanted from the curators. Of course, there maybe a limit to what those tracks can do naturally compared to what you get in Pak but I am pretty sure Misbah asked and got the kind of tracks he wanted in UAE all the time.
In that case Ajaz Laker really must be amazing then.
Yeah, weird waking up to read all this. It's 2-0, still 3-0 more to go
