Harsh

Atkinson with a contender for stupidest innings ever

Honestly, felt nothing with this loss. Pretty expected, Perth was always an overperformance in many respects. Need to rejig the bowling attack to not go in with 2.5 guys to compete moving forward.

Interesting how NKR is comfortable taking first ball singles vs Cummins but denies singles until later in the over vs Starc

You can't have Siraj and Harshit bowling from both ends in this type of situation. Both will leak runs. Ridiculous to not give Ashwin the ball to this point.

This is the moment to bring on Ashwin from the other end.

Why is KL walking off when there's no edge?

Rory Burns

Better hope this is another spicy pitch. NKR's bowling wasn't needed last match but we're still essentially playing with 4 bowlers.

4-5 in 15.5 overs is just beyond ridiculous. Crazy from Seales.

Bethell really does have a lot of the messiah™ in him especially when he goes on the backfoot to play short lengths

Love how on the replay you can hear the NZ commentator desperately saying in the background that he's outside the line about 5 times.

What on Earth was Rachin doing there

Bring Phillips on to the Savior of Test Cricket. Need to see a classic case of going on the backfoot and getting bowled by a straighter one.

Drops absolute sitters and then takes catches like that, just Glenn Phillips things.

Case for a funkier off-side field when O'Rourke is bowling? He'll basically trouble everyone with that extra bounce.

There's not much indication Bashir is actually improving his control even with more experience. One drag-down an over is already bad, but 3 leg stump half-trackers in a row is horrific.

What an awful way for Rachin to get out, could have hit that full toss absolutely anywhere

What is the most number of balls faced by a batter off a particular bowler in Tests? I assume Lyon to Pujara is the modern era record. Lyon to Kohli is probably up there as well, could potentially pass Pujara this series.

Think the Bethell buy salvaged this.


Kohli, Salt, Patidar, Bethell, Jitesh, Livingstone, Krunal, Bhandage, Rasikh, Bhuvi, Hazlewood, Dayal.


Don't think David will play much despite a certain section of media going gaga over how much of a steal he is.

This passage of play is a preview of what will happen if Aus prepares slighter flatter pitches for the rest of the series.

Marsh is getting bullied by Bumrah, every ball hitting a little higher on the bat than expected, hand coming off the bat and he's getting turned around.

"Siraj to Smith wicket setup" and they show 2 balls lmao


Better than their usual nonsense of showing some random sequence of balls and calling it some genius ploy

Suyash bowled exclusively googlies in 2023 and then came last IPL and bowled a lot more legbreaks. Not sure what type of bowler he'll settle as.

What's the point of having 40 Cr left in the purse if you're unwilling to even bid on anyone? Most infuriating idiots for 17 years straight

She is such a bad auctioneer, always does this gimmick and makes things take twice as long

One of the more satisfying hours of Test cricket in a while

Feel awful for McSweeney there lmao

Insane record in Aus. Fitting full circle moment given his innings at Perth all those years ago when there was chatter about his place in the team.

Looks like a runout is going to happen every single ball

Ahh unfortunate, best player on the first day in the most difficult conditions and another impressive innings here from KL, hopefully he still opens in the 2nd Test.