First test - Australia v India, Adelaide

[FrediKanoute]

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Who do we bring in to replace Finch and Marsh?

Finch is safe. Guy copped a beauty 3rd ball. It happens. Marsh tho.........

[Yankee Hotel Foxtrot]

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Finch is safe. Guy copped a beauty 3rd ball. It happens. Marsh tho.........

I'm sorry, he copped a standard cherry that a well equipped opener would've stepped into, got his foot in line and blocked. Instead Finch elected, above prudence, and the fact that he'd have plenty of opportunity to unleash a drive once the ball stopped moving, and chose to try and smash one. A cover drive 3 balls into the innings was an atrocious decision.

As for Marsh, well he just did what he's shown he does well, find a way to get out when the team can least afford it and in the most excruciating way.

[GVGjr]

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Finch is safe. Guy copped a beauty 3rd ball. It happens. Marsh tho.........

The reality is that both of them are safe but I think Finch has the job more because he is seen a great influence around the other players which has some merit but won't necessarily help us win. I don't believe he has the talent and his shield form isn't strong enough to be confident that he will succeed.
The ball he copped wasn't particularly outstanding. A lot of better balls bowled don't get wickets
Marsh panicked yesterday against a bowler who has his measure. The next test is in Perth so he will play but every selector should hang their head in shame for sticking with him. I'll admit his best looks very good but he just isn't consistent enough and has way too many bad scores to be relied upon.

[The Doctor]

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Finch is not a test cricketer. In stronger era's of Australian cricket he'd be lucky to play Shield cricket.

[GVGjr]

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I'm hoping that Head and Starc can get past the first hour today and we can close the gap but the thought of bowling at India again on day three must be daunting for our quicks. I wonder if India will be as cavalier with the bat in the 2nd innings?

Travis Head looked good yesterday so I hope he can back it up today and find some support

[Twodogs]

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Finch is safe. Guy copped a beauty 3rd ball. It happens. Marsh tho.........

Nah, that gap between bat and pad displayed that he doesn't have the instinct for the job. That ball was good but any opening batsman with a hint of technique would have made sure that he got some bat on that ball or at the very worst it would have thumped into his left leg and given the umpire a choice to make.

If the selectors want an opener like Warner then they should go to whoever was silly enough to ban Warnerfor 12 months and ask for the ban to be lifted and then select Warner, because he is one of the few players in the world who can open and play the way he does. Nobody else in Australia can do the job the way he does. It was a stupid overreaction to ban him for 12 months and it's time we admitted it.

[lemmon]

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I wonder if India will be as cavalier with the bat in the 2nd innings?

No chance, which is why this is such a good opportunity we've missed. They're very good front runners and we've let them off the hook.

This is a good batting deck and they'll be making the running in the game.

[lemmon]

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Starc has been super disappointing. His test record lately is really average.

[Twodogs]

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How is that out? Finch got nowhere near it.

[lemmon]

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Harris is such an interesting cricketer.

When you watched him open for WA with Bancroft, you would've sworn that he was the highly-rated youngster on the cusp of international selection rather than it being the other way around. Really attractive batsman with a good range of shots...he just has a habit of getting out when he shouldn't.

Done it again. Why try and cut that?

[Yankee Hotel Foxtrot]

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Done it again. Why try and cut that?

First game or not, that was a shocking high risk choice of shot to play. Do any young batsman in Australia have the temperament to play Test Cricket anymore?

[GVGjr]

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Good bit of fight from Marsh and Handscomb. They both need to go on with it

[Go_Dogs]

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Good bit of fight from Marsh and Handscomb. They both need to go on with it

You put the moz on him!

[GVGjr]

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You put the moz on him!

Yep, spoke too soon. I mulled it over for a couple of minutes as well

[bulldogtragic]

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He does? Geoff Marsh was a shithouse Test cricketer. Somehow no one seemed to notice. They've always had a great grasp on the selectors cojones the Marsh's.

Of the 8 Australian Test batsmen to have played more than 50 innings and batted in the top 6 with the worst records in history 3 of them are named Marsh. It's incredible.

One of the commentators today said that Marsh has been dismissed for 0-9 runs in his test career 41% of the time. Hard to work out how he keeps a spot when over the years Hughes, Khawaja and others have been dropped for years at a time when lean times came. At 41% of 0-9 runs per innings, Marsh is the Governor General of Lean Times. Let's see if he can make a 50 an ekk out a few more tests.