I am not a fan of these matches. I love test cricket but not one-offs.
Having said that it was a match Australia was always going to win easily for two reasons.
- It picked the wrong side. Pandya who can swing the ball both ways and bat and Ashwin a spinner who can win a test should have played. Yadav most certainly should not have as he is not a test bowler. Thakur is useful but not as good as Panya for a one-off match.
- India's much vaunted batting lineup again failed to deliver
From an Australian perspective we found out both Starc and Cummins were short of a gallop. Cummins will get better BUT it is debatable whether Starc will. When neither he nor Cummins can bowl faster than Boland we have a problem.
Our key batsmen were susceptible to short pitched bowling and Siraj is not fast. We are lucky that the poms have only one fit fast bowler Wood and he won't play 5 tests in 6 weeks.
The key to the Ashes is will the pommy batsmen put too much pressure on our bowlers or will they buckle?
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