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BC wrote: Brett Lee is as boring as batshit. He'd put fish to sleep and they don't even have eyelids. I don't mind Warney in small doses but just wish he'd shut up occasionally and not hog the commentary.

That is when he is not banging on about either himself, Melbourne, Victoria, the MCG BC which is not very often!!!

Our pathetic form with the bat continued with only Green making a decent contribution just a pity he couldnt at least score a well deserved half century.
So far this series we have scored 191, 2/93, 195 & 200 on what are normally considered 2 of the better batting pitches in Australia, just nowhere near enough runs to give our bowlers who are doing their job a decent chance.
Our diabolical catching continued in the small Indian run chase with another chance going down making it I think 7 dropped catches in the Test whilst India held virtually everything.
Burns & Head just have to go for the 3rd Test, replaced by Warner & possibly Pucovski.

BH I'm not sure Pucovski is in the quarantine bubble and if that's correct he can't come in.

Australia totally exposed by selecting out of form players and possibly selecting one or two who just aren't topline
there's been too much pressure heaped on the middle order because of the opening situation and it's fair to say any one of the aspirants would have done better than Burns - even Wade it seems
poor selections , poor performance but well done India for taking full advantage of it all

I guess JL has no option but to make a few selection tweaks...tho he is a stubborn little prick...so perhaps not..tho it worked for India....Warner will play now that the SCG has been locked in for the 3rd test....reckon a good place for Pucovski as well....India will probably go in with 2 pace boys especially if Yadav is out, play Pandya to strengthen their batting and bowl some medium pace, play the two spinners or even 3?...not sure what Aust will do though......can't afford to weaken the batting line up any more by playing a 2nd specialist spinner....perhaps bowl Labuschagne more....Warner Pucovski Labuschagne Smith Wade Green Paine Cummins Starc Lyon Hazlewood...perhaps drop Starc, bowl Green as the first change and play Swepson...not sure he has even bowled of late or even in the squad...or will it be Agar and his darts?

Agar is injured Freeze, whilst Green still has bowling limitations put on him (8-10 overs a day).
There has been nothing wrong with the bowling so far in this series not helped either by some pathetic catching efforts in the field.
It is about time some Australian batsmen actually pulled their finger out and did what they are paid ridiculous amounts of money to do and that is to actually score runs and plenty of them!

BH, just to highlight your point further, an out of form, cook, made a double hundred on that wicket a couple of years ago.

Freezin; as you said, in a post, some time ago, one with aplomb, no one in perth shed a tear when langer left for the national job.

AR although we did get lumped with Voges as his replacement who has been no better if in fact worse at this stage....

I should add CA are making the WAFC & AFL look like sporting body geniuses by holding this 3rd Test in Covidney FMD!
There is the best stadium in Australia free, with the capacity to hold 30k+ and shown in prime time on the East Coast and still these CA rocket scientists persist in playing in that shit tip!

Beasley Hutton wrote: I should add CA are making the WAFC & AFL look like sporting body geniuses by holding this 3rd Test in Covidney FMD!
There is the best stadium in Australia free, with the capacity to hold 30k+ and shown in prime time on the East Coast and still these CA rocket scientists persist in playing in that shit tip!

Can understand why playing in Perth is a problem given they would have to quarantine for 14 days but they allowed Victorian teams to play inside 14 days as long as they stayed in their bubble. So can't India and Australian players and coaches and other staff all stay in a bubble?

So the 4th test is in Brisbane right? Queensland have now put up a hard border with NSW so surely they means both teams have to go into 14 days quarantine on arrival in Brisbane?