Also bloody hell Smith's average in Test cricket is ridiculous - Bradman esque in an era where 50 is considered world class. Phenemonal batsman which is all the more remarkable considering that silly unorthodox technique he has.

Agreed regarding smith. I'm suprised that not many bowlers have been able to dominate smith entirely. His unorthodox stance should be a big window for bowlers to exploit his weaknesses if any but many bowlers have struggled.

To me what sets smith apart is his consistency. You take someone like root who fails to convert his 50s, and kohli who does tend to have lean patches frequently. But smith, if he is not scoring 100s, he still manages to score sizeable amount of runs. He is by far the best test batsman.

Whilst I agree that smith has been very very good recently, let's be realistic and not over-do the praise. Fact is the Indian bowlers have been woeful against him...

His average vs India 87

His average vs Pakistan 57 (mainly due to his 165 not out recently)

His average vs Lanka 44

Point is he hasn't had much success against Asian teams especially away from home. Also has average of 40 vs England... (Reckon he will improve that in the upcoming ashes though)

Great player and consistent fir sure. But teams should be picking his weaknesses vs spin on these kinda tracks

An avergage of 87, 57 and 44 isn't "much" successful away from home

That's his total average vs those teams.... Where did I say these figures were purely his "away" average?

8 innings vs Pakistan away from home... he's got an average of 28

The 6 innings he's played vs Lanka are actually all in Lanka so that 47 figure is correct

Flawed stats yet again - he's only ever played four tests against Pakistan away from home, two of which were in England - almost 7 years ago for faaack sake (Lords and Headingly).

Talk about trying to make a point for a points sake - I'm not a big fan of his technique but only a fool would say he doesn't deserve a high level of praise for what he's achieved in the game already. Phenomenal player.

"Fact is the Indian bowlers have been woeful against him"

Or it might be due to the fact he's actually quite a good player as his career average suggests

Totally ripped him with facts..

Now u know, how delusional this arm-chair expert talks about his made up stats!

In his la la world, he hopes that no one will fact-check his baseless comments..

comment by Kav H (U19426)
posted 26 minutes ago
"Fact is the Indian bowlers have been woeful against him"

Or it might be due to the fact he's actually quite a good player as his career average suggests
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Kav,

It's nice of you to acknowledge that that wasn't his "away" stats in the first instance.... Don't care if his vs appearances vs Pak was 7 / 8 years ago, does that negate his average?

Not making a point for point sake at all... He's got 128 avg vs India at home and in the 70s away from home tells you he takes a liking to the Indian bowlers. "Fact".... And yes the Indian spinners have been woeful to him. Fact.

Here comes another one... Hopefully "fact" taker can "take" the facts... But with his English writing skills still at primary school level it's a pity I can't converse with him..

Give a few stats here and there and a few people on here throw their dummies away ... You gotta love it.

"Point is he hasn't had much success against Asian teams especially away from home."

Then continues to mention an average of 70 against India away from home. The delusion is unreal.

Yeah we know your skills, expertise in farting topics. Also we are tired of your English lessons professor. We all are well aware of your grammar & sentence structure on JA 606! I have ripped you a lot in the past and quite bored with it now. We understand you have more common with "goras" so go & chill with them pal.

Now don't run to Admin like a little bit***h as always

Enjoy cricket in the meantime and don't forget your meds plz..

Adios!

comment by Kav H (U19426)
posted 3 minutes ago
"Point is he hasn't had much success against Asian teams especially away from home."

Then continues to mention an average of 70 against India away from home. The delusion is unreal.
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Yeah kinda the point kav about Indian spin bowlers being poor hence hes increased his average in India during this series...He's struggled against average spinners in Lanka and vs Pak in recent years... Hardly rocket science

We have a professor in da house with his farts!

He is so proud of his English writing skills that he wants a noble prize shoved behind his back..

Shaabash Pujara - massive knock at a vital time.

India 6 down with still a deficit of 120. Australia have bowled well in this last session and dried the runs up. A lead looks a long way off now.

I reckon of pujara and Saha manage to stay in without losing their wicket in the first hour tomorrow we can easily reduce the 90 odd run deficit. Pujara looks set for a 200 here. Even a lead of 50 for India will be enough for jadeja and ashwin to put pressure here.

Pujara through no fault of his own is not the player I really want to see out there batting with the tail because his game is primarily defensive whereas we need someone to attack tomorrow morning. This was evident in the last session where the run rate dried up and only 57 odd runs were scored in 31 overs. Take nothing away from the knock though - stood up brilliantly alongside Vijay.

Australia have so many left handers and there is a rough area outside that off stump which Jadeja will no doubt cause problems with. The primary aim is to try and bat till lunch tomorrow at least and knock this deficit off first. All in all a brilliant three days of Test cricket so far.

Viru it will take an unbeliavable effort to get a lead from here. I think we'll be bowled out with a deficit personally - how much may determine who wins this game.

Tbf it's time Saha contributes in this match. I have heard pundits praise him a lot, but I really don't recall a good contribution from him against a decent team. I think pujara will need to play an anchor role and Saha/jadeja score some quick runs.

If we give any lead here we might be in big trouble as we will always be playing a catch up game and our middle order looks completely out of form.

Well what a great session for us - no wicket lost and the scores are almost level. Pitch hasn't broken up as much as I thought it might. Saha also playing a good little knock here.

Did not expect this to be happening

Aussies are being well and truly pummelled here.

Sir Jadeja - what a player.

India have truly added salt on Australia's wound. They have absolutely bowled them to the ground. Great from pujara, Saha and jadeja. Can't see aus surviving ashwin and jadeja on this wicket.