Good to see Sean Abbott is getting straight back to it, playing for NSW in the Shield game starting today.
Warner gives you good value for staying up til midnight to watch the start of a Test to be fair, 13 off the first over he faces. India could be out of the game by lunch if they don’t get him out soon. Shami got some decent swing in his first over to Rogers though.
any link Braz?
Ding dong in fairness, he could as easily been out on ball 2.
His eye is in alright.
Adelaide is a batsman’s paradise.
I’m watching it on Sky, but hitcric.info usually does the job.
Nice bouncer. 
There’s the first bouncer, fucking good one too from Aaron.
[QUOTE=“carryharry, post: 1055243, member: 1517”]Ding dong in fairness, he could as easily been out on ball 2.
His eye is in alright.[/QUOTE]
He’s destroying width, and he’s got plenty of it. He has full trust in the pitch, so anything that gives him room to hit is getting the treatment.
He could set a record surely if he continues at this rate.
The mighty Misbah’s quickest 50 record is officially safe.
9 per over.
Ishant tightening things up in his first over, much better line. He bowled well in England til he got injured, seemed to be maturing as a bowler.
Yeah, and it’s Ishant that makes the breakthrough. It’s Rogers. Wide and full, Rogers driving at it and gets a helthy edge to second slip.
Australia 2/238 at tea, Warner on 131, Smith 17, Clarke retired hurt on 60 with his dodgy back, can’t see him returning for this test, if not the series. Good score, much better when you consider India are about 10 overs short. They have 40 overs to bowl in the last session, how they’ll do that is beyond me. Ridiculous over rate.
Warner out for 145, c&b Sharma. What a knock. Smith tugging along nicely, expecting big things from Mitch Marsh here.
The Adelaide test living up to its well earned name as the best boring test match in the cricket calendar. The usual featherbed of a pitch so if you win the toss you’ll post about 1,000 runs batting first. The concept of a contest between bat and ball doesn’t apply in Adelaide.
What? Like in 2006?
How did day 2’s play finish, Fitzy?
You have to go back 8 years to recall the last time anything of interest happened in an Adelaide test? There was a result in 2006 when after 4 days of absolute tedium England imploded on Day 5 in one of the most spectacular collapses test cricket has ever seen. It should be noted that in that test, England batting first declared on 551/6 and Australia responded with 513.
Just looked it up on Wisden there and here’s the breakdown on batting first in the Adelaide test over the last 20 years.
2014/15 - Australia v India - Australia 517/7 and counting
2013/14 - Australia v England - Australia 570/9
2012/13 - Australia v South Africa - Australia 550
2011/12 - Australia v India - Australia 604/7
2010/11 - Australia v England - Australia 260, England responded with 620/5
2009/10 - Australia v West Indies - West Indies 450
2008/09 - Australia v New Zealand - New Zealand 270, Australia responded with 535
2007/08 - Australia v India - India 526, Australia responded with 563
2006/07 - Australia v England - England 551/6, Australia responded with 513
2005/06 - Australia v West Indies - West Indies 405
2004/05 - Australia v New Zealand - Australia 575/8
2003/04 - Australia v India - Australia 556
2002/03 - Australia v England - England 342, Australia responded with 552/9
2001/02 - Australia v South Africa - Australia 439
2000/01 - Australia v West Indies - West Indies 391
1999/00 - Australia v India - Australia 441
1998/99 - Australia v England - Australia 391
1997/98 - Australia v South Africa - South Africa 517
1996/97 - Australia v West Indies - West Indies 130, Australia responded with 517
1995/96 - Australia v Sri Lanka - Australia 502
You bat first in Adelaide and invariably if your batting line up is anyway half competent, you’ve already avoided defeat on Day 1. Looking at the list there, the odd low total posted batting first is usually from a rubbish side, which is instantly punished. Jimmy Andersen in 2010 is the only bowler I can recall exerting an early influence on an Adelaide test.