Border Gavaskar 2020/21 Series Awards

[OverratedSanity]

Best innings: Rahane at Melbourne stands head and shoulders above the rest here for turning the series around. Top 10 Indian innings of all time.

Best bowling spell: Hazelwood 5 fer at Adelaide. Couldve taken all 10 if Cummins wasnt at the other end, honestly

Best partnership: The Vihari/Ashwin one was the ballsiest by a distance so gets my vote despite tough competition

Best passage of play: Brisbane day 5, after a few quiet overs after the agarwal wicket, the equation is now 49 needed in 44 and I was beginning to think they might just block out the overs now. And then Sundar and Pant (with some assistance from Extras) get 25 in 8 balls.

Worst commentary moment/sequence: Well **** me this isn't easy, but thinking back over the course of the series, Warne saying Ishant Sharma wouldnt walk back into the Indian team ahead of Saini and Tyagi wasnt the most most obnoxious or ****ty moment but most definitely the dumbest.

Most wholesome moment: Siraj looking on the verge of tears after his 5fer

Most alpha moment: Shardul opening his test career by hooking Cummins for six, easy peasy

Dumbest non-controversy : **** me there were a few here, but the Smith guard scratch and India's dastardly tactic of faking a Pant injury are tied

Best forum feud: GoodAreasShane vs trundler

Best new meme: #QuickSingles

(kindly feel free to add categories if required)

 

[honestbharani]

Classiest Troll: Indian side giving Lyon a signed jersey to mark his 100th test.

 

[OverratedSanity]

Classiest Troll: Indian side giving Lyon a signed jersey to mark his 100th test.

What about Rohit shadow batting in front of Smith? (although I think this might have been unintentional)

 

[ankitj]

We ain't letting this subforum die down easily, are we?

 

[Shri]

Debutants of the series: Shubman Gill and Cameron Green

 

[honestbharani]

What about Rohit shadow batting in front of Smith? (although I think this might have been unintentional)

Very funny but not that classy...

 

[h_hurricane]

Verbal conversation of the series : Paine vs Ashwin

Disappointment of the series : Prithwi Shaw (I am sure though that he will be back), David Warner (was expected to bully us even though he was coming back from injury)

Alpha moment of the series : Sundar hitting that six of Lyon without looking at the ball

Dumbest moment of the series : Mayank knocking Shardul on the shoulder after the latter took one of his many wickets. Brainless **** didn't realize that we needed that shoulder for some more magic.

 

[OverratedSanity]

Ashwin forcing a hamstringconcussed Vihari to run that one time was the apex of alphaness and stupidity.

 

[ankitj]

Alpha moment was also Pant charging down to Lyon to hit a SIX against the turn right after a ball turned square and landed into slip's hands.

 

[ankitj]

Debutants of the series: Shubman Gill and Cameron Green

Siraj too. So many good debuts though, hard to choose

 

[Spikey]

Best new meme: #QuickSingles

(kindly feel free to add categories if required)

daily reminder that you got this wrong

 

[harsh.ag]

Siraj the best debutant for me. To assume the role of the leader of a bowling attack so quickly is mindblowing.

 

[OverratedSanity]

daily reminder that you got this wrong

No

 

[_00_deathscar]

Worst commentary moment/sequence: Well **** me this isn't easy, but thinking back over the course of the series, Warne saying Ishant Sharma wouldnt walk back into the Indian team ahead of Saini and Tyagi wasnt the most most obnoxious or ****ty moment but most definitely the dumbest.

But what does that mean? Hmmm, interesting...

 

[DriveClub]

Debutants of the series: Shubman Gill and Cameron Green

And Siraj

Edit - Too late smh

 

[Dan]

daily reminder that you got this wrong

Daily reminder that Head > Wade definitely the best new meme. **** OS and his ****ty opinions about quick singles. What next, a #hottake that 100s should count as 50s too?

 

[Dan]

Hamstring concussions also a great new meme that >>>>> bad OS takes on quick singles, but don't think CW can fully lay claim to that one

 

[Athlai]

Best innings: Pant in 4th innings at the Gabba

Best passage of play: Brisbane day 5,

Worst commentary moment/sequence: Warne implying spotfixing

Most wholesome moment: When Paine's career ended and Ashwin roasted him via twitter

Most alpha moment: Pujara showing intent

Dumbest non-controversy : Is Burgey Racist?!?

Best forum feud: GoodAreasShane vs trundler

Best new meme: Hoggpiling / laying atop a person and squeezing their guts out their asshole

 

[Burgey]

Warne suggesting spot fixing was easily the worst commentary moment among a crack field. Also helped give rise to the "makes you think/ I'm just saying" meme getting more play here, .

 

[Spark]

Warne suggesting spot fixing was easily the worst commentary moment among a crack field. Also helped give rise to the "makes you think/ I'm just saying" meme getting more play here, .

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