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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.

That’s a ripper story @blackers.

Aussies looking well placed, but I reckon there’s still a plot twist or two to come.

feels that way, doesn't it @etarip?
(@blackers introduced me to his son once, I never thought to ask why he was named Abdul..)

Abdul blackers.
Got a ring to it.

etarip wrote:

Abdul blackers.
Got a ring to it.

Hah hah. Goes well with his Australian/Irish heritage.
Mea culpa time. For 20 odd years I have been telling that story, and checking on the interwebs out of interest this morning I found out that it was Aus v India at the Gabba, not Pakistan. So perhaps it should have been Sachin or VVS. My wife said she remembers the commentators talking for a long time about a seagull, so things don't really change.

hahaha classic.
I wonder who the commentators would have been at the time.
Max walker?

It was on the radio, so not Max. I seem to recall Tim Lane, Kerry O'Keefe and Peter Roebuck. But hey, I also thought it was against Pakistan so don't rely on me.

what was that, Pant??

Seems like the Indians are on some sorta aggro self destruct mission @base.
Ahh true @blackers wasnt sure if he did radio. Probably 20 years previous to that anyway! haha

Two good reminders this innings, not only are risky singles risky, but if you or your partner nearly get run out, it can rattle you enough to make stupid judgement errors.

basesix wrote:

Two good reminders this innings, not only are risky singles risky, but if you or your partner nearly get run out, it can rattle you enough to make stupid judgement errors.

Basesix and other cricket nutters. I was in keyboard absentia mode.

Cricket was on the radio in the background, I was still connected just not with you guys. I was feverishly stripping back all my hardwood outdoor furniture , lot of sanding and coating and recoating with a you beaut UV stable clear polymer. End result is, schmicko.
Today’s cricket is exciting, but if we bat again, I’m hoping we will get Konstas MK2.

That was so entertaining his first gig.AW

Probably the best way to enjoy the cricket AW.
Plodding away on projects.
Sounds like they came up sweet!

southernraw wrote:

Probably the best way to enjoy the cricket AW.
Plodding away on projects.
Sounds like they came up sweet!

totally, I have gotten so many shitty little jobs done the last 3 days. Makes it enjoyable. The pink/grey ebb and flow background noise of a cricket crowd has about the same frequency as nighttime surf from a camp behind a sand dune.
https://www.swellnet.com/news/swellnet-analysis/2015/11/12/why-surf-loud...

"The pink/grey ebb and flow background noise of a cricket crowd has about the same frequency as nighttime surf from a camp behind a sand dune."
Niiiice @basesix. Almost poetic.
And agree completely. Sounds of summer.
Got mine going on the outside veranda with the crickets chirping and a view of the water. Got the big table out here to do a few long overdue board repairs on ;-)

Indians have come right back into this. Great effort by the two young fellas.

yeh, indians will be calling for the inevitable leadership change, ditch the old guard, except bumrah, and get the new blood pumping.
(overcast, warm and flecks of rain here @SR)