To be beaten by their only serious rivals for “best in the world” status in cricket is understandable.
To lose to Scotland in rugby is inexcusable. If the Australian sports media want to go full “apoplectic Aussie” mode over anything, it should be that.
Dunno about eggball this was shite mind.
It’s only a couple of days ago that the Aussies were in raptures about having the finest bowling attack in the history of the game.
Now they’re all just Pat’s mates.
Punditry in the world today.
“Here are my views, if you don’t believe them I have some others”.
Why are Aussies losing their shit over this result? Honestly, have they never seen the India over the last half-decade play? How many times ( and good lord I’ve been harping on about it enough in this thread since it opened) have India put in a record breaking low first innings and won the match? It’s what they do. It happens too frequently for it to be a coincidence. I think they subconsciously do it to take the pressure off themselves as they are a team that handles pressure very poorly.
We still have by far the best 4 bowler strike force of any team. India will likely come out on the second test and put in a subpar performance and the Aussies a much improved one. The batters absolutely cannot stink it up like that again though.
Everyone is laughing at Australia but I still feel us Aussies could quite easily win it 3-1 (obligatory SCG rained out test). Just fucking bat better. Though if Starc leads the batting averages for us at series end then we have a problem. I think something needs to be done about the Marnus-Smith middle order which hasn’t provided anything for a while. Marnus the bigger problem and I’m not sure what the disadvantage is of pushing Head into 3. I just hope we are brave in trying to fix the batting issues. With us trying to bring in Mcsweeney to open, it’s going to see a lot of early wickets fall and see marnus facing the early ball in the form that he’s in which isn’t good.
We still do? I’m not going to flip flop with my cricketing opinions depending on the time of day. You should do the same.
I’m not talking about you. We all know that you are a fair minded and impartial observer of the game. Your scholarly insights are always pertinent and thought provoking.
Yeah he’s talking about those who flop from one insane position to another.
Like when a team wins one match and they’ve turned a corner.
Fify
I’d say it depends on conditions and fitness. You are underestimating Shami and Siraj. Starc is largely a spent force. And once there’s an injury to the aussies , then who are the replacements ?
Bumrah / Shami / Siraj / Ashwin > Cummins / Starc / Hazlewood / Lyon
That would be my prediction as well.
I hope you’re both wrong.
Not sure about that. I’d say only Bumrah of the bowlers gets into a combined eleven.
Don’t see India winning the D/N considering that India rarely play D/N. That seems as something which is effectively suited to the aussies
Shami would get in as well. As would Ashwin.
They don’t win in Perth either.
Unfortunately it doesn’t look like the Aussies have a top range of Shield batsmen knocking down the door to the test side as we have always had.
Some real quality batsmen played very few tests thanks to Waughs Ponting etc. shame we don’t have the back up quality like Law, Hodge, Siddons, Lehmann, Love to name a few.
Bowling back up looks OK.
Whilst the focus is on Marnus and Smith, it’s Uzzie that I feel should go. You don’t get much better at 38 and it just proves the lack of batsmen coming through.
Any way last time I checked you need 20 wickets to win a test. It looked easy there for a while on day 1.
I thought I heard a stat the other day that the Aussies haven’t come back from 1-0 down at home to win a series for more than 50 years. Probably because we always won the first one at the Gabba. So let’s go to Perth ffs.
Who’s the backup ?
The great Australian sides of the past would have found a way to integrate atleast one more quick while letting go of Starc.
India were content enough seeing off Hazlewood who’s the pick of the bowlers. As great as Cummins is , he’s easier to play than Hazlewood (atleast for Indians)
Starc will be a big handful in the day nighter but I don’t think he’s especially troubled the Indians in the other matches in the past two series.
Yes does bowl some great deliveries but I always get the feeling his stats skew towards his dismissals of tailenders.
It’s marvellous watching Aussies whining on about playing the first match at Perth as if that was the problem.
Glorious stuff! 
We need cool heads now. Not reactive decision making. I’m not even saying get rid of marnus ( though I wouldn’t disagree if they swapped him out). I’m saying change the order a bit so that we aren’t putting a guy in poor form to come in at 3 at the same time as trying to blood an opener… Against India.
As for Uzzie, that’s a pretty bloody harsh call on him. He isn’t in the form of his life, but he’s had some pretty chunky scores since the start of the last Ashes:
This isn’t a time for overreaction. We got India’d. Most teams do. They’ll likely India themselves next game and hand us a win.
