🏏Australia vs India, 5th Test: Sydney, 03 - 07 Jan 2025: Day 3🏏 - Page 85

This match is reminding me of WI v Aus, Gabba 2024

WI won by 8 runs, Shamar Joseph ran through Aus batting line up

May be tomorrow same will happen

Ind top order failed again

VK same weakness

Gill stupidly throwing his wicket

KL under pressure

Originally posted by: Bacillusbadius

This match is reminding me of WI v Aus, Gabba 2024

WI won by 8 runs, Shamar Joseph ran through Aus batting line up

May be tomorrow same will happen

And that's stumps on day 2, where 15 wickets fell. In the morning, Australia resumed their innings from 9 for 1 but Bumrah dealt an early blow by snaring Labuschagne. After that, Siraj, Prasidh and Reddy combined to bowl Australia out for 181, giving India a four-run lead. India came out all guns blazing in their second innings with Jaiswal smashing four fours off Starc in the opening over. But Boland picked up three wickets in quick succession. It was only Pant's swashbuckling 61 off just 33 balls that pulled India out of trouble. But the Test is still balanced on a knife edge. India have a lead of 145 but only four wickets in hand. One feels the deciding factor could be Bumrah's fitness. He left the field after lunch today to go get some scans. Prasidh Krishna has just said Bumrah has back spasms. Can he recover in time and stand up for one last time in the series? We will get to know tomorrow. See you then.

Prasanna S: "Feel this game will be decided by players like Kontsas and Head. Those are the only players who can score with their fearless approach."

Aswin: "When other bowlers performed we did not have bumrah !! It is going to be an interesting day ahead .. 1st session will decide the match"

With a hefty lead of 4 runs, out batsmen are justified in playing casually 🏏

Originally posted by: Palak2812

ROHIT SHARMA CONFIRMS HE IS NOT RETIRING ANYTIME SOON.

Rohit said, "runs are not coming now, but not guaranteed it'll not come 5 months later. I'll work hard".

Question - reports were there you were rested, dropped or opted out?

Rohit Sharma - none, I stood down. I told the selectors and coach that runs are not coming from my bat, so I decided to step away.

"People on the outside sitting with laptop, pen and paper don't decide when retirement will come and what decisions I need to take". (Funny how it is his Journalist friends writing nonsense)

Jatin Sapru - Thank you, Rohit.

Rohit Sharma - Arre bhai, main kidhar bhi nahi ja raha (I'm not going anywhere).

Jatin - Thank you for the interview.

https://x.com/mufaddal_vohra/status/1875382633791943157

Such statements are only to prove that everyone's speculations were wrong...Else if everyone was quiet, he wud have retired for real..

Abhi main hatne vala nahi hu team se! Abhi mujhe kuchh series or harvaani hai fir main aaraam se sanyaas lunga 🤣

Originally posted by: Bacillusbadius

Ind top order failed again

VK same weakness

Gill stupidly throwing his wicket

KL under pressure

Not failed! Its their strategy of playing this way so that bumrah and siraj get a chance to show their heroics with the bat 🏏

Originally posted by: Spideyweb

Not failed! Its their strategy of playing this way so that bumrah and siraj get a chance to show their heroics with the bat 🏏

Yes

We always say we need one Fast bowler all rounder

So in this way Jasprit Bumrah and Siraj will get trained and become All Rounder

Great strategy

Yesterday Boland revealed their gameplan of taking Virat's wicket and Virat again got out in the same way🤦‍♂️

But since it's Virat, he will still get more chances.Any other player wouldn't have got so many chances to repeat the mistake.

Originally posted by: Spideyweb

Such statements are only to prove that everyone's speculations were wrong...Else if everyone was quiet, he wud have retired for real..

Abhi main hatne vala nahi hu team se! Abhi mujhe kuchh series or harvaani hai fir main aaraam se sanyaas lunga 🤣

This is problem with star cricketers in India. They start considering themselves bigger than the game. BCCI won't dare to ask Virat or Rohit to retire. May be they will remove GG.