silentassassin

So true. Keep Mayank as insurance. He's more likely to play new ball better than Pant.

This is over aggressive. Going for shots is fine. But there is no need to go for everything.

Rahane BC :doh : There's so many overs, this is being over aggressive. Just take the match till the end. No need to try stupid shots..

Dont think so. Even if he gets hit another 10 times, he'll keep going with same grit..

Man, that looked bad. Pujara has been hit like 8-10 times already i guess..

Deserved a 100 Rahane has to play well. Great start given.

So much for my anticipation of Rohit scoring a quick 100 like Sehwag

We will win Believe

If Rohit and Gill get a 100 run partnership we have a great chance. If Rohit gets a 100, we will definitely win. Pujara should just hold 1 end up, no matter what happens.

I think Aus kinda benefited from the rain. Its hard to get 330 in 98 overs. But was possible if we batted 4 sessions. If Rohit / Gill got set in, the pressure would have been on Aussies. Now, they can push for victory with attacking fields.

Fielding coach for sure has to go. Its atrocious. Yea. 2 pacers. Jaddu / Ashwin / Kuldeep / Sundar Sundar for Jaddu. Once jaddu is fit, he should replace Sundar. Sundar should be groomed. Makes sense. No point playing Pandya as batsman in Test.

Siraj breathing fire So much uneven bounce Fk :Wallbash:

Looking hard now. They are going for quick runs. Finally our bowling taking a toll. Natarajan has been wayward and saini unable to bowl well..

Bowling all rounder. Surprised to see him bat at 11.

The guy can hardly gets top order wickets. Comes in and bowls quick, showing all the bravado against tailenders. As a matter of fact, the aussies did cry claiming we bowled bouncers to tailenders during practice match

He bowled in the nets in the morning. He should bowl.

Sundar Taking a blow and looking in the bowler's eyes unfazed

While Rohit is batting, you get the assured feeling. This guy is in, he will score. But he does stupid stuff. But Rahane looks like he can get out any moment. Today's dismissal was really bad. Saini should return the favour in the 2nd innings. He should just come in quick and bowl bouncers at these Aussie bowlers

Saini can hang around. WTF, Sundar should take those singles Get as much as we can

But Sharma is also so inconsistent. TBH, should make Jadeja VC. Brilliant innings. Great call to pick Sundar. He bowled well as well and batting he seems to have good technique. Shardul also batted really sensibly, he's a attacking batsman. Dint do anything stupid. Australia is not declaring under 400 for sure. They will only declare if the target is unachievable. So, they need atleast 3 sessions to get to that.

This is so true. Rahane, Agarwal, Rohit, Pant. All these threw their wickets away going for awful shots. Rahane edged 2/3 through that Gully / 3rd slip region. They got in a fielder there and he edged 1 and still got out..

Pitch has played nice. Our batsmen going for unnecessary shots. Mayank driving away from the body. Pant going for stupid shots.