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Every time Kohli goes the ball the crowd boos him. I have a mate there today and he says the crowd is giving it to him.

It's a shame Cummins didn't quite get his 50.

haha brillant to hear!!! @fitzroy-21

Agreed. Bugger. He was batting unreal.
Looking forware to when Kohli walks out to bat later this arvo.
Gonna be some real theatre.

Declaration around lunch or 450 mark ??

Nup. I reckon they'll just bat as deep as they can...put the game completely out of reach. I have a feeling Indians will b brought in to bat in the last hour of the day.
How Bumrah not being hit for 6 in 4 years and now having been hit 4 times in this match. Belted by Starkyy! haha.
Go Aussies!!

Missed most of that first session taking the groms and their cousins for a surf. Super clean 1-2ft peelers. Got back to the car expecting to see Aussies all out for 300 something…

Reckon you’re right SR. They’ll up the tempo after lunch I reckon. But won’t declare.

could all come down to the next half hour..
(what's with the shark tank music for starc's dismissal..)
FAAARKKK, haha... bowled..?

Bugger to see Smitty out but looks like it could now end up being at least a 4day test, depending on Indian batting.

Surf sounds sweeet @etarip. Onshore, grey and cold here.
We've been in a winter pattern all week. Bizarre weather for this time of year. Even had to have the heater on mornings and nights! haha

So Kohli will be walking out to face his first ball after tea?
The crowds gonna be baying for blood.

Hopefully a bowled Bowland, caught Konstas on first ball.

Just back from fighting the roadworks on the way home from a family Christmas gathering, listening to Jim Maxwell and the team calling the morning session. Truly the sound of an Aussie summer.
That Bill Bryson quote is all time and on the money. My wife, also not from a cricket following upbringing, was reminiscing about the obscure language of cricket on the radio. A call of an Australia v Pakistan test was the background noise while our son being born; things got busy and no-one though to turn it off. She remembers wondering what something meant but then would "get distracted." Surprisingly she still likes to hear them babbling away in the background.

wow, that's a hell of an aussie story! worthy of a film scene.

Agreed! That's about as Aussie as it gets @blackers!!! Classic.
Looks like game on now. Jaiswal in and Kohli looking comfortable.

geez, totally, this is ON..

Got himmmm! Got the bastard.
Last 10 mins might have just won the game for Australia.
Two huge wickets.
Geez the crowd gave it to him as he slunk back off to the rooms. haha.

Just when they thought it was safe.....
Nice flurry of wickets and a suitable demise for Virat. Great bowling by Scotty

yeh virat awkwardness fer sure. last 10 minutes haven't gone their way at all.

My mate just sent me footage from inside the MCC stand as Kohli walked off. They were absolutely giving it to him. Way louder than the tv footage.

Unreal Boland!

haha hope they put it on youtube @fitzroy-21.
Shame the tv microphones don't really do it justice.

Australia can start eyeing off the follow on now.

blackers wrote:

Just back from fighting the roadworks on the way home from a family Christmas gathering, listening to Jim Maxwell and the team calling the morning session. Truly the sound of an Aussie summer.
That Bill Bryson quote is all time and on the money. My wife, also not from a cricket following upbringing, was reminiscing about the obscure language of cricket on the radio. A call of an Australia v Pakistan test was the background noise while our son being born; things got busy and no-one though to turn it off. She remembers wondering what something meant but then would "get distracted." Surprisingly she still likes to hear them babbling away in the background.

That’s hilarious blackers.
Hope you had a good Chrissy and have a good new years.
Same to all the other swellnetters.
That last half an hour this arvo was good viewing.

Cheers goofyfoot, best wishes to you and yours. Funnily enough the only cricket the lad, who has just turned 21, watches now is the opening session if the Boxing Day Test as it is a family ritual with my brother and I. The Mrs still asks where the silly-mid-on and gully are. She was and is a trooper.

Silly point and short backward square.