3rd ODI at Canberra, 2 Dec 2020

[honestbharani]

Good game. Think both sides have hit on their best 3-7. Both sides have settled opening bats too but one half of it is injured at the moment. Both sides also seem to know the best 3 seamers of their sides too for this format. Only area is Australia also know who their spinner is, and India don't seem to. Otherwise, I would say there were good gains for both sides from this series.

Smith is probably the most obvious difference between the two sides but the traditional India bashing quartet of Finch, Warner, Smith, Maxwell all showing up basically did us in, this series. Maxwell MoS for me.

 

[honestbharani]

Good thing India won the toss and batted in the most favourable conditions

Good indeed.

 

[aussie tragic]

Resting Cummins due to IPL fatigue cost us this game. And thinking Labuschagne could magically become an opener instead of using a proven Wade. Selector fail!

 

[ankitj]

Might just as well do coin toss thrice.

McGrath just said this too lol

 

[NotMcKenzie]

My first post...

India won the toss? Right, don't need to watch the rest of match to know who'll win, then.

was confirmed, though it was closer than I thought it might be.

 

[NotMcKenzie]

This match does also meet with Ian Chappell's approval

 

[Burgey]

Good game of cricket that. Fair effort india to pull that back after being 4/120 or whatever it was

 

[weldone]

Did call for Shardul and Kuldeep to be playing from game 1 though.

No excuse for dropping them in game 2 really

 

[ankitj]

My first post...



was confirmed, though it was closer than I thought it might be.

India didn't go all that well in middle overs. Probably tried too hard to get 370+ (didn't see that phase though)

 

[Spikey]

the selection of green obviously didn't do anything to help australia win today's game
labuschagne should have been told to shut up when he offered to open
opening with maxwell/not bowling henriques until the 42nd over or whatever/leaving abbott to bowl 6 overs from the 38th over mark were all very strange choices

 

[Burgey]

Still reckon tests will not go like this, so we will see.

Did call for Shardul and Kuldeep to be playing from game 1 though.

i agree India won’t win a test

 

[NotMcKenzie]

India didn't go all that well in middle overs. Probably tried too hard to get 370+ (didn't see that phase though)

I know that. Australia really lost control in the last ten overs: I could only listen to it, but I think our faster bowlers often lack a bit of something when it comes to facing batsmen attacking like Pandya and Jadeja did.

 

[honestbharani]

i agree India won’t win a test

Yep, we will win tests, not a test.

 

[Spark]

Green isn't ready yet and looked a bit like a deer in the headlights with the bat but the talent is pretty obvious. He's going to be a very good cricketer if he can stay fit.

 

[Spark]

That Carey run out really was killer. Just a total loss of awareness because he was so worried about the lbw.

 

[h_hurricane]

i agree India won’t win a test

Will be a real tragedy if we do not win a single toss. Can't rule it out though.

 

[Spark]

Random observation but Kuldeep is really bad in the field. Not in a "he can't field" sort of way, but on multiple occasions he was completely out of position as the bowler was running in because he wasn't paying any attention and basically had to sprint sideways to where he was actually supposed to be.

Zampa isn't great either. Always seemed surprised that the ball was coming his way.

 

[honestbharani]

Neither wrist spinner adds anything other than their bowling and that was always known. But I think Virat just over rates wrist spinners in general. I mean we had Kumble forever and he was not a match winner or even a wicket taker in most LO conditions. He just kept it tight and got wickets through the pressure he built. I think Virat personally thinks leggies are just something greater than they actually are. Hence his idiotic pick of Karn Sharma over Ashwin and Jadeja in 2014 and his obsession with KulCha from 2017 till now. Chahal is fine in T20s and Kuldeep is good in ODIs but to play both of them is just impossible and it is quite possible that neither are our best spinners in many conditions, especially away from home in either format.

 

[weldone]

It's annoying when a batting captain has a preference for a particular type of bowlers (Kohli for wrist-spin). It's a bit like a bowler becoming captain and declaring he'd only select left-hander batsmen in the middle-order.

 

[Daemon]

Kulcha were incredibly good around 16-18 tbf. Dunno why they both dropped off around the same time right on the cusp of the WC.