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Cricket 44: Abrar-Cadabra


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Middle of the G it was probably 45 degrees Celsius plus today, Warner probably earned the right today to decide for himself when his test career should finish. Second ever player to score a double ton in their 100th test, went past 8000 test runs and passed Mark Waugh all time in tests for Australia.

Australia have really dominated for 2 days however they really need to bat for probably another day given the injury issues they currently are looking to have. Starc probably won't bowl again this summer by the looks of his finger. Warner copped one on the finger as well as cramping issues he was having and Green also retired hurt with a finger issue after taking 5 wickets on boxing day.

No matter what people's opinion on Warner that innings will live long in the memory, from the start of the innings it was clear how determined he was to make a score. The only blemish on it was really the runout and if marnus hadn't of hesitated he would have made it.

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Rain has ruined about 6 sessions worth of cricket in the Sydney Test but South Africa still aren't nailed on for a draw just yet. At 4/110 if they can make the follow on target of 275 they'll be safe with only one (extended) day's play to go.

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Rain did its best to help South Africa - losing the equivalent of 2 days' play to rain is pretty good going in Australia. But still they lost 6 wickets and now only have 14 left to survive on an extended last day. Incredibly weak batting lineup. Australia in with a good chance of getting a result, I think.

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4 hours ago, Jeor said:

Rain did its best to help South Africa - losing the equivalent of 2 days' play to rain is pretty good going in Australia. But still they lost 6 wickets and now only have 14 left to survive on an extended last day. Incredibly weak batting lineup. Australia in with a good chance of getting a result, I think.

Is the forecast for a full day's play for the last day or might there be more rain?

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Definitely a full day's play today. Good tailend batting by Harmer and Maharaj got them very close to avoiding the follow on (which would surely have sealed the draw) but they fell just short. Ordinarily surviving one final extended afternoon session with 9 wickets in hand shouldn't be much of an ask but you never know with these Saffers' tendency to lose wickets in big clumps this series.

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Impressive stuff from Ballance to post a century on test debut for Zimbabwe.

Obviously his reputation has been severely tarnished after the Yorkshire scandal, but it’s still a good effort.

Big test series on our doorstep in India.

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Lots of comments about the upcoming pitch for the First Test between Australia-India. Lyon aside, Australia's spin options aren't great. I really have no idea what this Test series will bring, India would be the favourites but there are so many question marks around how Australia's batting and bowling will perform (and conversely how India's batting and bowling will do taking on the Aussies). Hopefully it's a good series.

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Murphy bowling well now, but advantage India having bowled out Australia quite cheaply.

Smith and Labuschagne top scoring is not a surprise - it seems like that's been how it is for the past three years. The surprise is that neither of them went on, but I feel both have a pretty good technique for the subcontinent and they'll be the most likely big scorers.

The Aussie side really suffers from Cameron Green's absence. Without him they don't have a third seamer when they go for another spinner. At the same time, Handscomb is probably a better player of spin than Green, so I wonder if Renshaw will be the one to go when Green comes back in.

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