Yes, they may well be erring on the side of ineffectiveness when it comes to ball management.

Good chance that they don’t want to even touch the ball lest the accusations fly.

Australia minus Smith, Warner, Sand, and Paper = Elite Rubbish

I’m happy they declared, last thing India want is to risk a broken Bumrah finger by batting through.

Pretty unhappy about Pant’s dropped catch on a flat wicket though. India have found their Gilchrist (Dhoni was nowhere near this good with the bat overseas) — and in true early-Gilchrist form he’s not as good as the previous gloveman.

Lords Megachief.

Megachief in this context clearly being an adjective

Assuming that Australia haven’t been cheating THE ENTIRE TIME, their big problem this time is that they have no batsmen.
The entire Australian strategy for the past several years has relied on flat pitches and batsmen that can score runs. And then the bowling attack relies on the pressure those runs create to get wickets. The moment a pitch starts to do something or the ball swings in the air, they are in trouble.

For me, the strange thing is why the Aussie bowlers are unable to make the ball swing in Australia this season. It is the same bunch of bowlers and same conditions as last season.

We have been assured that the Aussies were not cheating with sandpaper and stuff in last year’s home series and of course we believe those assurances. So what’s happened?

Inexplicable.

Maybe it was kimchi