We review the the first Test between Australia and India at Perth – a remarkable game where the ball dominated the bat… until it did not.
Apple Podcasts
SpotifyTalking Points:
- The significance (and surprise) of India’s 295-run victory at Perth
- The toss advantage, and how India made the most of it
- Watching a game live at Perth – and how different it was
- Is a Test match in Australia now like a destination wedding for Indians?
- Jasprit Bumrah’s latest greatest spell
- The lengths from hell: what makes Bumrah so good
- Jaiswal’s range of strokeplay
- Rishabh Pant’s keeping and the wide area he opens up for the slips
- The Kohli industrial complex
- Nitish’s Reddy’s impressive debut
- KL Rahul’s technique against the moving ball
- Australia’s top order problems
Participants:
Siddhartha Vaidyanathan (@sidvee)
Mahesh Sethuraman (@cornerd)
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Kartikeya Date (@cricketingview) | Substack| ESPNcricinfo
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Related:
- India beat Australia by 295 runs – Kartikeya Date – Cricketing View Substack
- Bumrah post-match press conference – YouTube
- Bumrah dominates Australia in the first test match, a breakdown – Jomboy Media – YouTube
- Australia’s mission improbable: crack Jasprit Bumrah’s genius in 10 days – Barney Ronay – Guardian
- To watch cricket at the ground or on TV? It’s complicated – 81allout podcast
- 81allout podcast archives from the 2020-21 series: Preview | Adelaide | Melbourne | Sydney | Brisbane | Interview with journalist Bharat Sundaresan
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Great win, India really bounced back. India did get lucky in terms of conditions, but my question is did India really get lucky with the toss? I don’t think so, when India was bowled out for 150, I felt this might go as Perth 2012 or Lord’s 2018 test where they batted first, made a low score and then the pitch got better. Australia could have easily been 60 for three like they were in Adelaide in 2012, they were 37 for 3 and ended with 629 for 4. I really agree with KD’s argument that this pitch is unfair because batting first is such a huge loss that you can’t recover on most days. The argument Green Top merchants give against rank turners is that oh green tops get better for batting but they ignore that most of the time the team batting first is already gone in the match. so winning the toss was not really that lucky because Ind decided to nullify that by batting first, I think India lucked out by batting not too well. If India had batted a little better and made 180 in 65 overs, Australia would have been 40 for 2 or 3 and then the second day they would have run with the match.
Fair points. India got the perfect time to bowl on the third session on Day 1. And in Bumrah, they had the man to exploit that situation better than anyone.