We review the the second Test between Australia and India at Adelaide. Australia drew level with a handsome 10-wicket win.
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SpotifyTalking Points:
- Mitchell Starc: the pink ball master
- Australia’s bowling depth to the fore in day-night Test
- India’s selection hedges come back to bite them
- Is it time to go back to picking five specialist bowlers?
- Travis Head: a right royal headache for India
- Australia thrive on a pitch with true bounce
- Has the Harshit Rana experiment run its course?
- The Nitish Reddy puzzle: he is offering lower-order runs with the bat but little with the ball
- Ashwin’s fine spell on a pitch that offered nothing for him
- Pat Cummins’ deadly bouncers
Participants:
Siddhartha Vaidyanathan (@sidvee)
Mahesh Sethuraman (@cornerd)
Ashoka
Kartikeya Date (@cricketingview) | Substack| ESPNcricinfo
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Related:
- Australia square the series – Kartikeya Date – Cricketing View substack
- Sanjay Manjrekar: Kohli has ‘serious technical issue’ that he can’t find solution to – ESPNcricinfo
- Travis Head brings the South Australia feelgood factor to make India suffer – Geoff Lemon – Guardian
- Give it up for 2024: Test cricket has had few better years – Sidharth Monga – ESPNcricinfo
- 81allout podcast archives from the 2020-21 series: Preview | Adelaide | Melbourne | Sydney | Brisbane | Interview with journalist Bharat Sundaresan
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Great pod. Playing NKR seems to be defensive IMO, they need to get four proper pacers, spinner does not matter on these pitches, because all Indian spinners can do the job with not too much difference in quality.
I remember as a child reading newspapers, if I close my eyes, I can see hundreds of Dravid’s photos of playing square cut, these days bowling lineups have become way too good to bowl short and wide as often as they used to be. Still, I don’t like to compare generations, every gen has their challenges, quality always gets better but preparation and knowledge resources also have gotten better. Ganugly I think mentioned that on the 2003 Aus tour, BCCI did not want to spend too much on Kookaburra balls so the team was directed to carry SG balls from India and practice with them on the tour, so every generation had their challenges. Also, another thing that surprised me was I always thought and kind of still think Starc is a much better bowler than Lee but Jarrod and his team recently found and were surprised that Lee had a far better match impact ratio than Starc on their index they have developed.