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Something that has been overlooked in all the media analysis is that India's bats haven't been wonderful either aside from Pujara.  Pant was irresponsible to the extreme in the earlier tests,  sure made big runs here but where was he under pressure in Perth?   The openers have been given the lemon and sass,  Kohli has has had moments,  but the rest have been scratchy,  the middle order have thrown wickets away when set etc.   I don't care that they all average 55 and at home and our blokes average 40, it's not comparable.   But the Indians,  largely thanks to Pujara have had PARTNERSHIPS,  one of which would have won us Adelaide. We haven't batted as a team,  we've batted as a disparate bunch of individuals.

Whether Sutherland was pushed or not, his tenure will not be remembered kindly....

I don't understand all the hype about Perth taking the Boxing Day test from the MCG, if they want a test why not take the New Years test at least we'd get some play!

I note that records show the SCG test gets washed out almost 300% more than any other Australian cricket test venue! In the 2000s Sydney has lost 24 days of test cricket, the next closest is the MCG with only 9 days lost!

Overall number of results:
Sydney 20 draws
Melbourne 18 draws
Adelaide 19 draws

Given the number of times a complete day lost Sydney doing pretty well

I gather that isn't just from 2000 onwards, I understand the figures I report are the numbers starting in 2000.

btw., I haven't verified those figures, they are just numbers being touted around various cricket forums. If they are correct Sydney has lost 24 out of 90 possible days of test cricket since 2000!

I gather that isn't just from 2000 onwards, I understand the figures I report are the numbers starting in 2000.

btw., I haven't verified those figures, they are just numbers being touted around various cricket forums. If they are correct Sydney has lost 24 out of 90 possible days of test cricket since 2000!

That 24 day figure was posted on twitter, I think by a Cricinfo commentator.

Time to trot out the old stats on complete days of play washed out in Australian Test cricket:
24 Sydney
 9 Melbourne
 8 Brisbane
 2 Adelaide
 1 Hobart
 0 Perth

I dont think it is referring to just 2000s. The follow up tweet from same guy...

For those who want to calculate percentages, here are the actual days played:
475 Sydney
501 Melbourne
270 Brisbane
382 Adelaide
 58 Hobart
197 Perth

I doubt it's 24 days lost in the whole history of Sydney cricket.