Player ratings thread

[morgieb]

As typical for a series with a subforum.

Shaw 1 - game just looks shot. Poor fella.
Agarwal 2 - stayed in a bit first innngs, but really added little. Two peaches to get him but I worry about his backlift on these pitches.
Pujara 4 - lots and lots of balls eaten up first innings and managed a start. Couldn't really do anything about his second innings dismissal.
Kohli 7 - one of the few bats to bat with any kind of fluency on either team, and really should've scored a match-winning ton. Was sold up a river massively with that run out. Not the shot he should've played second innings but I can at least see the logic.
Rahane 3 - did manage a 40-odd but looked uncomfortable doing so. Loses points for running out his captain and getting out at a really awful time in the first innings.
Vihari 2 - similar-ish case to Agarwal, except didn't eat up as many deliveries. Was also done over by two excellent deliveries.
Saha 2 - just looks lost against this attack, the second innings dismissal was one of the few genuinely bad ones for India. Also dropped two catches.
Ashwin 8 - leading wicket-taker for the Indians. Probably got some gimmie wickets but his overall pressure building was excellent and looked well and truly on song.
Yadav 7 - not his best work but still took wickets first dig. Crucial over against Marnus and Cummins really should've won India the match.
Bumrah 7 - again, some superb bowling with the new-ish ball against Australia's top order but looked a bit tired as the game went on. Might still be short of a gallop.
Shami 8 - will bowl worse than that and take 6-7 wickets. Was IMO the best Indian quick despite not taking any wickets. I really hope he hasn't broken his arm.

Wade 3 - at least ate up some deliveries first up, and while the 30-odd does appear to be downhill skiing I wonder whether things might've changed slightly if he had failed given how aggressively he started.
Burns 5 - a bit unlucky that was given first innings but really never looked too comfortable there. Second innings an effective way to get back some form, though.
Labuschagne 4 - Australia's second top-scorer first innings, but really was a very uncomfortable and lucky knock. Still runs is runs I guess and without it who knows how little Australia would've been bowled out for in the first innings?
Smith 1 - rare failure, didn't look too comfortable when out there.
Head 1 - never looked settled against Ashwin and if Warner's back he might well be out of the side again.
Green 3 - promising debut but really did nothing of substance.
Paine 8 - very very important knock with Australia in a lot of trouble, and while the bowlers did bail Australia out it was still outstanding. One tricky drop but otherwise good with the gloves.
Cummins 10 - machine. Could not have bowled any better.
Starc 9 - one of his best Test bowling performances. Was outstanding first innings and bowled well second dig.
Lyon 6 - back seat role given the excellence of the quicks. Deserves a lot of plaudits for the buildup against Pujara, but was probably outbowled by most of the other bowlers.
Hazlewood 9 - merely good first innings, but the second innings has to be close to the best spell of bowling I've ever seen. Basically unplayable.

 

[OverratedSanity]

How did Shaw even get a 1. Was disastrous. Even without the embarrassing dropped catch.

 

[Spark]

Yeah Shaw is an 0 if I've ever seen one.

 

[honestbharani]

Yeah, Rahane and Shaw and the dropped catches cost us the game really. Concentrating on the 36 AO is to miss the forest for the tree.

 

[OverratedSanity]

Yeah, Rahane and Shaw and the dropped catches cost us the game really. Concentrating on the 36 AO is to miss the forest for the tree.

Even if we assume the bigger reason they lost is because of the drops, the 36 allout is the far more significant event overall. In the context of the series, a collective collapse like that has the potential to be mentally crushing and drown any chance of them coming back. That's why people are concentrating on it and rightly so

 

[honestbharani]

Even if we assume the bigger reason they lost is because of the drops, the 36 allout is the far more significant event overall. In the context of the series, a collective collapse like that has the potential to be mentally crushing and drown any chance of them coming back. That's why people are concentrating on it and rightly so

I dont disagree that is what many fans especially casual fans will focus on but it is also why I hope the team doesn't. We did more things wrong that cost us the game in the first two days than we did today.

 

[Pratters]

Shaw -10

 

[CricAddict]

Shaw -10

I assume it is -10

 

[Pratters]

I assume it is -10

Ya

 

[_00_deathscar]

Seems a bit high to me.

 

[OverratedSanity]

Agarwal 1- Shaw should be brought back to make him look less bad
Gill 8- Looked class in both innings in the face of high quality bowling.
Pujara 3- Ate up a lot of balls, more useful than the runs suggest but doesnt look anywhere near as solid as last tour. Cummins seems to have his number
Rahane 10- Virtually flawless. Great ton, good captaincy (lovely use of Siraj in both innings), nice little cameo to finish the chase. One of the all time great under-pressure performances
Vihari 3- See Pujara
Pant 5- Terrible keeping, decent little innings to change #tempo of the 1st innings, annoyed opposition batsmen without resorting to fat shaming. Probably better than Saha. Until next test where he drops Smith on 0 and he scores a triple ton.
Jadeja 8- Apparently continues to bowl very easily hittable straight balls which seem to take wickets somehow and scored yet another important fifty despite having the technique of a hack or so Im told.
Ashwin 9- Will bowl worse and take 10fer. Superb in both innings, but still needs to lay off the mysore masala dosas because the team wants him to field at backward point for some reason.
Umesh 6- Not amazing in the first innings, but looked lethal in the second for those few overs. Saini will be a massive downgrade if hes out.
Bumrah 8- A tad overbowled and not at 100% pace. But it barely seemed to matter.
Siraj 8- Thought he'd be ok. Very very high quality debut

Burns 1- Got good balls but made them look better.Bad batsman.
Wade 6- Only one from the top order to show balls and look solid. Fat shaming was unfortunate.
Labuscaghne 4- Got starts both innings but fmd he's looked a hack this series. Couldve averaged 10 in an alternate universe without drops/balls dropping in no man's land
Smith 1- Needs to find his hands and use them to comb instead of bat because he's sucked so far. Flailing meme technique no match for Ashwin's brainwaves.
Head 4- Not very compact. But wasnt as terrible as some of the others
Green 6- Thought he bowled some absolute tripe and looked the clear weak link in Australia's attack. But was ballsy with the bat and made some impressive adjustments vs spin
Paine 4- Couple of great catches, probably unlucky to be given out, better than Smith
Cummins 7- This ****er never bowls badly wtf.
Starc 9- Absolutely lethal with the new ball. Massive improvement overall compared to his work 2 years ago
Hazelwood 7- Bowled decently but was also far less of a threat than the other two.
Lyon 3- Bowling figures massively flatter his performance. Had some decent turn to work with in the first innings and wasted it bowling a spell full of easily negotiable short flat balls. Megamind has a big head not a big brain.

 

[Spark]

labuschagne is an interesting case. he's gotten a heap of starts so far, but hasn't done anything substantive at all (and obviously been pretty mediocre in the field). that needs to end if australia is going to win this series.

 

[OverratedSanity]

Yeah unlike Smith he's had time in the middle and still looks like he's completely out of form. Might do him some good, who knows but so far he's been lucky not to have a Steve Smith level series average right now (funny that this is not a good thing now lol)

 

[OverratedSanity]

10s to the entire Indian team except Saini who gets a 9 imo

 

[ankitj]

Pant dropped few times

 

[_00_deathscar]

Is it harsh to rate Rohit as only 6/10 so far? He's come in and actually done a good job and looked pretty decent - certainly far, far better than the previous incumbent(s). But yet he's thrown his wicket away at crucial moments. Hanging around an hour longer in the last test in the second innings puts India in a winning position. And again today...just when he looked set.

 

[Burgey]

Warne and Gilchrist doing the post-game talk on various players. Warne says "Lyon hasn't bowled as well as he should, but he's had a lot of catches dropped. Still, overall not a pass mark - just."

Starc - 'Definitely no good. Something is wrong with him, something is off. Paine hasn't gone to him to get the job done, he's bowled bad all series."

Starc's had as many if not more chances dropped off him than Lyon. Warne is so transparent it's hilarious.

 

[Starfighter]

Lol that's pretty bad. I rag on Starc more than most here, and he has bowled a couple of terrible spells this series, but Lyon has been the weak link by far.

 

[honestbharani]

Warne and Gilchrist doing the post-game talk on various players. Warne says "Lyon hasn't bowled as well as he should, but he's had a lot of catches dropped. Still, overall not a pass mark - just."

Starc - 'Definitely no good. Something is wrong with him, something is off. Paine hasn't gone to him to get the job done, he's bowled bad all series."

Starc's had as many if not more chances dropped off him than Lyon. Warne is so transparent it's hilarious.

@trundler was Shane Warne all along in a plot twist no one expected............... or cared about.

 

[Burgey]

Lol that's pretty bad. I rag on Starc more than most here, and he has bowled a couple of terrible spells this series, but Lyon has been the weak link by far.

Yeah he should have got it done in Sydney. But you can't say one bloke has a bit of an excuse and the other has been complete trash when they've each had very similar catches put down off them. He's just a horrible human wax figure.