Re: Australian Cricket - Crisis, What Crisis ??
Reply #1860 –
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.