England lead by 160 runs and ten wickets left at the end of day 4. Bowled India out for 488 and 114 no at the close. The new opener Hameed is 62 not out. Nineteen years old, they call him baby Boycott.
No sign of Special Olympics today, his beloved aussies getting thumped.
Draw in Rajkot - England (537 & 260/3d) v India (488 & 172/6).
Captain Cook set India a target of 309 in 53 overs on a fairly unresponsive pitch. A magnificent effort from the England spinners and a most unlikely win looked like it might just be on when the 6th Indian wicket fell with 10 overs left. Possibly could have declared maybe 5 of 6 overs earlier. Ultimately Captain Kohli and the tail saw India save the test.
The Aussies are 151/7 and facing an innings defeat.
The usual full scale Australia batting collapse in progress. They’ve gone from 129/2 to 155/9 in the space of 18 overs this morning.
All out for 161 - South Africa win by an innings and 80 runs to wrap up the series 2-0. Not bad with AB de Villiers, Dale Steyn and Morne Morkel all out injured.
Australia batting a shambles. 8 wickets lost for 32 runs in 18 overs this morning.
A complete shambles. There was much hope against hope here that they could get something from this test, the usual stupidity. None of them know how to occupy the crease. The Sheffield shield here has turned into a total joke, non stop excuses why they’re “resting” players.
The whole coaching staff needs to get the boot, bring Gillespie in and start agin. Maybe by teaching some of them how to bat for more than 10 overs.
Shambles
They’ve just extended Lehmann’s contract to 2019 recently?
I’m sure they did, but CA will have to stop the rot very soon
Test cricket is dead
I suspect his fair dinkum Aussie shite doesn’t wash as generation snowflake approaches.
Hobart pitch doesn’t suit us, no excuses to be beaten by an innings but we lost in Hobart to NZ before in 2011 so its not our favourite ground. The rain on day two when SA were 170/5 was a small factor too. They wouldn’t have made 320 had they been batting the next morning.
The scale of the Australia batting collapses over the last 18 months or so have been truly staggering. So far in this series, they lost all 10 wickets for just 86 runs in the first test in Perth, were bowled out for 85 in the first innings in Hobart and lost 8 wickets for 32 runs in the 2nd innings sliding from 129/2 to 161 all out.
In Sri Lanka during the summer, where they were whitewashed 3-0, in 6 innings, Australia failed to break 200 on four occasions and just about scrapped over the 200 in posting 203 in the first innings of the 1st test. There were any number of whole scale batting collapses in Sri Lanka - in the 1st test they went from 63/2 to 161 all out. In the 2nd test Australia were skittled out for 106 and in the 3rd test they went from 267/1 in the first innings to 379 all out and in the second innings went from 77/0 and 100/1 to 160 all out.
On last year’s Ashes tour in the two crunch tests, there was the 60 all out at Trent Bridge in 18 overs in the 4th test which lost the Ashes and in the 3rd test on a decent enough batting wicket at Edgbaston, Australia went from 77/3 to 136 all out in the first innings, which all but lost that test.
Australia have been largely rubbish for a decade now since the mass retirements in January 2007 from the great side after their last hurrah of regaining the Ashes, lost in 2005. There was a mini-renaissance for about 18 months with a Dad’s Army side of 30 somethings led by Michael Clarke, Mitchell Johnson, Brad Haddin and Ryan Harris starting with the 2013/14 Ashes. That petered out quickly enough once they all retired as there was no young talent to sustain it.
There doesn’t seem to be any young batting talent getting a chance. In this test in Hobart, the middle order was Adam Voges at 5, who’s 37, Callum Ferguson at 6, debuting at 32 and Peter Nevill at 7, who’s 31. Voges scored 0 & 2, Ferguson 3 & 0, Nevill 3 & 6. Joe Burns was recalled to open the batting yet again, after getting dropped after Sri Lanka and scored 1 & 0.
Just watching Rabada roughing up that little gimp Smith and putting the shits up him before taking his wicket earlier. Lovely stuff.
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How can the Hobart pitch not suit them? It’s in Australia ffs
Rod Marsh has quit as chairman of selectors, no doubt pushed by Sutherland in a sop to the press. Covering over the cracks, that gimp Pat Howard and Buff have to go.
Disappointing news from Visakhapatnam. England 93/5 in response to the 455 posted by India. Joe Root was batting beautifully on 53, then a moment of madness, coming down the crease to take on the debutant spinner Yadav, not getting enough bat on it and slogging it to Ashwin at deep mid off.
New Zealand 104/3 in the first test in Christchurch after bowling Pakistan out for 133. Debutant Colin de Grandhomme picked up 6 wickets.
England soundly beaten this morning all out for 158. Duckett and Ansari will probably get the bullet after this.
They went through ducketts technique for a shortcut on the review.
Welcome to the big league Ben.
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