Australia wins by seven wickets
Twice in a row, the Indians have run afoul of the most basic tenet of cricket: they can’t dislodge the Bails.
To lose one chase of 300 may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose two looks like carelessness. India has had no answers to Australia’s calm and methodical approach to these big scores, on some helpful batting pitches.
Bailey on the radio broadcast is saying the pitch was starting to hold up a bit, and that he and Smith were keen to keep the required rate down so they didn’t have to go too big late in the game. They did that exceptionally, the pace of the innings never felt like it was being rushed, but the runs just kept ticking by.
Australia’s bowlers haven’t held down India’s top order, but twice with a massive platform India’s middle and lower order hasn’t been able to get away.
Game three will be at the MCG on Sunday, so join us then to see if India has come up with any answers.
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49th over: Australia 309-3 (Bailey 76, Maxwell 26)
Bailey edges a single that Dhoni cleans up. Maxwell drives two down the ground. Then a massive drive that he edges, way up in the air, that drops between three fieldsmen halfway to the cover fence.
Five to go. And then there was one, as Maxwell pounds the pull shot through midwicket. Faulkner applauds in the pads, he won’t be needed to extend his extraordinary run in ODI chases.
And it’s done! As Maxwell tips behind point, Bailey would have been run out by yards if the throw had hit, but they just went for it. As it has done so often tonight, fortune has favoured the gold.
48th over: Australia 299-3 (Bailey 75, Maxwell 17)
14 needed from three overs. Single, single, single, single. They’re just dabbing these behind square either side of the wicket. Sran finally loses patience and lets a ball go with full muscle behind it. Maxwell doesn’t get near it outside off.
The last ball a slower short ball, Maxwell tangles it into his body, and there are 10 runs required from the last two brackets.
47th over: Australia 295-3 (Bailey 73, Maxwell 15)
Four! Ok, Bailey isn’t going to let this chase end without a little bit of showmanship. He gets a full ball on his pads from Ishant, makes room, clears his front leg and wallops that over deep midwicket, where it lands a foot inside the rope. Then he plays a big cut shot that takes the top edge and just eludes backwards point for two more runs.
Everything has gone the Australians’ way. Ishant donates them his 7th and 8th wides of the innings, out of a total of 11. That’s two extra overs, plus the runs.
46th over: Australia 284-3 (Bailey 66, Maxwell 13)
Cruise control now, these two would surely be happy to be not out at the end. A few singles, a couple of leg byes, as Jadeja goes through the formalities. Hat-trick, anyone?
45th over: Australia 278-3 (Bailey 64, Maxwell 11)
Sharma! Produces a beauty first ball, from wide of the crease but seaming away, that had Bailey prodding and missing around his off stump. The batsman gets off strike with a single.
Pandey! Ripper of a save out at deep midwicket after Glenn Maxwell pulls the ball in that direction. Saves two runs. Maxwell showing us how mature and sensible he is by pushing a single down the ground next ball. Just a sensible young man. Mature. Taking the conservative route. That’s him, yep. Just getting the job done. Meeting your parents. Buying a Volvo. One of the old ones, with a hat on the back shelf. That’s Glenn.
One, two, one, two, one, goes the over like a Sergeant-Major.
44th over: Australia 271-3 (Bailey 60, Maxwell 8)
SIX! There we go. Bailey’s quintessential shot for mine is the straight drive into the crowd, and that one was tending to the off-side, but the form and shape was there. Sran gave him a length ball, mid-off was up, and away at went.
A couple of singles, then Sran gives Bailey a nice short wide ball to cut. He absolutely creams it. Perfect timing. Sran can’t keep control of his work, so early in his career. Understandable.
13 runs from that over. 38 from 36 balls required.
43rd over: Australia 258-3 (Bailey 48, Maxwell 7)
A few dicey shots here! Maxwell’s glide off the stumps for one. Then his loft over cover for three. Bailey’s edge high and wide of Dhoni’s gloves, but not by much, to the boundary. All the fortune with Australia tonight. All the runs flowing. Yadav’s figures keep mounting with another 10.
42nd over: Australia 248-3 (Bailey 42, Maxwell 3)
Maxwell’s fifth ball? Reverse sweep. For a single. They take four from Jadeja’s over.
41st over: Australia 244-3 (Bailey 41, Maxwell 0)
Five from the over, 1-54 so far from Yadav, and Maxi at the crease. 64 from 54 needed.
“It’s looking increasingly like Dhoni as a Captain is done,” write Satish from Hyderabad. “I think he has captained for too long at the top level and with not great results. A decent captain’s shelf-life would be 7-8 years but once results stop going your way it should be shorter.”
“Add to that Dhoni has played a lot of cricket from 2007 to 2015 including the draining IPL and it shows in his jaded approach to the game. His excuse at the end of the day is ‘I don’t have the players to do it’ which for me just shows his disinterest.”
I can’t help agreeing with that one. Aside from grammatically scolding that the umpires are disinterested, while Dhoni is uninterested.
WICKET! Smith b Yadav 46 (47 balls)
Straight through! Smith backs away once more, as he’s done successfully so far, but this time Yadav is straight and fast and maybe didn’t get up quite as high as Smith expected. The stumps were exposed and the one on the left (your left) was smashed into. Any hope for India they need to press through this breach.
40th over: Australia 239-2 (Smith 45, Bailey 37)
A stroke of luck for Bailey, as he drives at Sharma and edges past his stumps for four. Australians have had a lot of strokes of luck tonight. Smith gets the strike, bat wafting high like a conductor’s baton, then drives through the full ball and sees it beat Ashwin into the rope. Smith looks so threatening in his stance sometimes, like he has a grudge against the ball.
I was asked on Twitter how often Geoff Marsh in ODIs exceeded the strike rate of 84.52 that his son Shaun posted today. The answer is, from 115 innings, not often.
@adamwesterink @LiebCricket pic.twitter.com/G6TYcNw3Hd
— Geoff Lemon Sport (@GeoffLemonSport) January 15, 2016
39th over: Australia 227-2 (Smith 40, Bailey 31)
Five runs from Yadav’s over - a two and a couple of singles for Bailey, just the one run for Smith. They still haven’t really launched. They still don’t really need to. 82 from 66 balls should be reeled in.
38th over: Australia 222-2 (Smith 39, Bailey 27)
Ashwin finishes expensively after a good start - his 10 overs have gone for 60 in the end, with 11 from his last. After Smith and Bailey trade singles and twos, Smith backs away to carve four through point. Loves the footwork, this chap.
All the Richie Benaud impersonators in the stand cheer as the score reaches 222.
37th over: Australia 211-2 (Smith 30, Bailey 25)
BAILEY TIME. The time that can only be conveyed in capitals, when George decides to swing. First he gets two with a cut past point, then swats Yadav for four over mid-off. There’ll be no gently working his way to the total, he wants to beat the total with a club and bring it home to his cave. A single from the last keeps strike.
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36th over: Australia 204-2 (Smith 30, Bailey 18)
The leg-side field is set deep for Smith, and justly so as he plays a few powerful shots against Ashwin. He can’t get any more than two runs for any of them, though, and there are only five from the over. Ashwin holding.
35th over: Australia 199-2 (Smith 27, Bailey 16)
Kohli, hey? Dhoni brings on his top-order batsman for a few medium pacers, in an effort to give him flexibility with his late bowler rotations. Mostly Kohli gets it right, with a few singles, until the second-last ball when he drops short and Smith punishes him through midwicket.
That gets Smith excited, and he edges the last ball just past his stumps. No nearly a genius bowling change.
110 needed from 90 balls to win.
34th over: Australia 192-2 (Smith 22, Bailey 14)
Ashwin very excited after an over where he tied Smith down. The last ball has Smith backing away, trying to cut, and nearly bowling him when he misses it. Dhoni did not appeal at all, so maybe Ashwin was just expressing his excitement, but there was a sense of a question about a caught behind. Sniffer clearly missed it though.
The four balls before that, Ashwin had cut off Smith’s scoring with accurate bowling and a tight leg-side field. Still some tension here when the good deliveries are strung together.
33rd over: Australia 190-2 (Smith 20, Bailey 14)
Ha, Sniffer is getting sniffy here. Not happy at all after he mucks up a free hit from a Sran no-ball. Sran bowled a wide full toss, very high and very wide. Had Smith left it, it would certainly have been called, but he toe-ended it and so the wide disappeared. Then he was arguing with the umpire about it being a no-ball for height, but with no luck.
Bailey goes down the other end and says, “Here’s what you meant to do,” as he calmly lifts a straight drive for four. Better than all that scoop nonsense, eh George?
32nd over: Australia 182-2 (Smith 18, Bailey 9)
Four! The umpires are George Bailey’s friends at the moment. He tries a scoop shot against Ashwin, misses it, and in Dhoni’s excitement about the ball hitting the stumps, the ball doesn’t. Nor does it hit Dhoni. It goes for four byes, but the umpire calls it runs. Would have been interesting if Dhoni had caught it.
31st over: Australia 174-2 (Smith 16, Bailey 3)
Sran comes back on, and while the Australians don’t get a boundary they clobber every ball and harvest eight runs. Smith cuts and pulls, Bailey drives three out to deep cover, Smith goes the same way for two.
There’s still some niggle between this bowler and these batsmen after a few words were exchanged in Perth.
30th over: Australia 166-2 (Smith 11, Bailey 0)
Bailey to the wicket. Sharma’s scorecard figures of 1-30 from seven overs look much more convincing than the bowling that produced them.
WICKET! Marsh c Kohli b Sharma 71 (84 balls)
Finally, India snare one. It wasn’t an easy catch either, it went miles up in the air after Marsh played across the line without much conviction and skewed the ball. Kohli settled underneath it at point and held on. Fifth time lucky.
29th over: Australia 165-1 (Marsh 71, Smith 10)
Marsh, breathing deeply, can’t get much happening against Jadeja. Three dots as he keeps finding the field on the leg-side of the pitch. Finally a leading edge that gets him off strike. Smith ticks one. Calm resumes. To my typing as much as anything else. Bad fielding makes me cranky.
28th over: Australia 163-1 (Marsh 70, Smith 9)
Dropped! Are you kidding me. Shaun Marsh has been dropped once for every leaf of the clover that he found this morning. Sharma has been bowling an over of short dross that was worked around with ease, then finally got one on the right line and length, Marsh drove, and Manish Pandey continues his forgettable day by diving across and putting the ball down. It wasn’t an easy chance, but it was manageable. And India should have taken at least one of these.
If anyone tries to tell you about this “great knock” based on the scorecard, laugh.
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27th over: Australia 156-1 (Marsh 67, Smith 6)
Sniffer Smith is away. Jadeja comes back, and Sniff plays that midwicket drive that he specialises in, the flamingo leg up at the back, and the body pivoting on that front foot as he sends the ball flying away. Like Pietersen with that shot, it goes quite close to being caught at midwicket, but like Pietersen so often, it goes for four instead.
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26th over: Australia 148-1 (Marsh 65, Smith 0)
Ishant comes back. “Please, give me something,” says MS Dhoni. Or I imagine he does, but maybe he’s just humming Macho Macho Man. Sometimes you wonder if he’s forgotten where he is. Ishant does give him something though, a tidy over for three runs.
All happening around the world, too. Mohammed Amir has just taken his first wicket on his return to international cricket. James Anderson has just been banned from bowling in South Africa after running on the wicket.
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25th over: Australia 145-1 (Marsh 62, Smith 0)
A couple more dots got Finch annoyed again, then he had a boundary saved at deep cover. Finally he went for the big one and holed out. Smith to the wicket, but at least the openers got things rolling before their stand was broken. Still plenty to do, but Australia’s game to lose.
I should have known better than to contradict cricket’s great sage.
Conservative start here and some luck. Boys are setting this up nice for the back end. Gonna be a great finish.
— David Warner (@davidwarner31) January 15, 2016
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WICKET! Finch c Rahane b Jadeja 71 (80)
At long-off, and at long last! Finch goes for the straightforward strike down the ground, and Rahane comes in to take a good catch diving forward. For some reason the umpires are looking at a replay but the catch was definitely clean, no sense behind that.
24th over: Australia 142-0 (Finch 69, Marsh 61)
Dropped! I say that, but it’s a tough call. Still, a third life for Marsh, as Sran nearly pulled off what would have been one of the most remarkable outfield catches ever. It would have stood out from others because the ball was so flat: Marsh pulled Yadav very hard, Sran came around behind square leg, and with the ball soaring towards the rope he soared towards the ball. It was like a Jonty Rhodes gully catch except at deep fine leg. And except that he could only get fingertips to the ball and save the four or six, rather than holding onto it to get rid of the thrice-blessed Marsh.
23rd over: Australia 135-0 (Finch 68, Marsh 57)
Suddenly they’re away. The batsmen, that is. The scoring has started, the timing has clicked. Jadeja goes for 15. Marsh started it off with a wallop down the ground, then Finch found two more boundaries with the cut shot and the midwicket swat.
22nd over: Australia 120-0 (Finch 59, Marsh 51)
Yet another lift for Marsh, as he scores on the on-side, goes for a run that isn’t there, and sees Yadav miss at the non-striker’s end. They get an overthrow as well. Marsh brings up his half-century with one more run, the Finch dinks two over cover, and plays a late cut for four. 11 from Ashwin’s over.
21st over: Australia 109-0 (Finch 52, Marsh 47)
Four! “I want to break free,” sings Aaron Finch, as he walks across his stumps to turn a decent line into a ball that can be flicked behind square.
Four! “I’ve got to break free, God knows, God knows I want to break free,” warbles Finch, as he drives through the line and lifts Yadav over long-off, not quite convincing in the timing, but dragged it away.
Six! “But life still goes onnnnn!” soars Finch’s voice, all the way up the scale, as he gets a length ball with enough angle to lift off his pads over square leg. He’s moving! The hundred is up! So is Finch’s fifty, with 16 from the over.
Thank goodness, because this tweet was uncomfortably true.
Does Finch's bat even have a middle? Sounds like it's all toe right up to the splice. #AUSvIND
— Jack Quigley (@Jack_Quigley) January 15, 2016
20th over: Australia 93-0 (Finch 37, Marsh 46)
Ashwin going far better tonight, though he does drop short enough to allow Marsh to pounce for three runs on the cut shot. Finch has been employing the sweep a lot to find singles, but it does not look like his natural shot.
Seven from the over, and that was more exception than rule.
My thoughts etc.
One problem this partnership will create if they don't lift rate soon is leaving Smith to have to go for it from the start...
— Daniel Brettig (@danbrettig) January 15, 2016
19th over: Australia 86-0 (Finch 34, Marsh 42)
Another of those very tight singles - just as earlier, Marsh drops it at his feet and Finch runs. This time Yadav is the bowler, so he’s faster to the ball and turns to throw at the non-striker’s end, pelting Marsh in the back. Marsh didn’t deviate from his line though, he just ran straight, so there’s no chance of obstructing the field being ruled.
Finch - well, this is like watching an eel stranded on a boat deck. Someone kick him back in the water. Three more dot balls from Yadav, then a clunky pull that just dribbles away for two runs to midwicket. You know the sweet ‘crack’ sound when a batsman makes good contact? That shot sounded more like someone dropping a cantaloupe.
Finch’s strike rate is 54. Chris Tavaré is suggesting he get a move on. In the shed? Two blokes who made centuries last start.
18th over: Australia 82-0 (Finch 31, Marsh 42)
Finch keeps seething, digging the first ball back to Ashwin on the bounce, sneaking the fourth past him on a midfield, tapping the last to midwicket. Marsh is looking a bit more relaxed. Only three singles from it.
17th over: Australia 79-0 (Finch 30, Marsh 40)
Bring the seamer back, he gets smacked for four. Yadav bowled short and Marsh didn’t time the cut, but went to early and dragged it through cover. It did the job. The TV chaps think India should have left the spinners on. Everyone has an opinion. Except the radio chaps, they’re talking about a scoreboard malfunction.
Two leg byes, then Yadav drags a ball down leg, and Marsh glances it with ease. Another boundary. Eleven from the over. I’ll shut my mouth.
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16th over: Australia 68-0 (Finch 30, Marsh 31)
Finch is batting in the gold cap now, with spin from both directions. I just don’t think this is the ticket on this pitch. There has been bounce and carry, but with only three seamers then there’s only so much you can do.
Four singles from Ashwin’s over. The batsmen’s scores break their tie, but their scoring has yet to untie itself.
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15th over: Australia 64-0 (Finch 29, Marsh 29)
Finch getting frustrated. He goes onto the back foot against Jadeja and pulls, but edges into the ground. Then he backs away next ball, dangerously showing all three stumps, to cut for a single. He’ll get himself out soon, you watch. Four singles and a two from that over, but the tighter ones before it are still having their effect.
14th over: Australia 58-0 (Finch 25, Marsh 27)
Dropped again! Marsh gets two lives in quick time. Ashwin bowled a touch short, but not short enough to cut, Marsh did cut, and top-edged it. Rahane at slip just flinched ever so slightly and couldn’t get his hands up in time. It almost skimmed the top of his head, but instead goes for four.
13th over: Australia 51-0 (Finch 24, Marsh 21)
Dropped! Ishant Sharma’s mission to make cricket his personal comedy show continues, as Marsh slaps Jadeja straight at long-on, Sharma came across and the ball came flat at his midriff, and instead of catching it he fell over sideways and watched it bounce off him. Looked like a giraffe trying to rummage in its briefcase. The rest of the team was celebrating, then had to retract it.
Three singles total. Fifty up.
12th over: Australia 48-0 (Finch 23, Marsh 19)
A little more promising from Ashwin in his first over, as we get spin from both ends. Got to get through them overs. Three singles, but the last ball took a slight leading edge, and the batsmen didn’t look comfortable.
11th over: Australia 45-0 (Finch 22, Marsh 17)
Well well wellity wellington boot well well. It’s time for spin. The very thing that kicked a hole in India’s bowling innings at the WACA.
Jadeja and Ashwin were casually punted all over the park by the Australians last time around, not with big hitting, just disdainful nudging for about eight an over. India picked both spinners again today. Porque?
Five singles from Jadeja’s first, zero threats. There you go.
10th over: Australia 40-0 (Finch 20, Marsh 14)
Umesh Yadav has got an invitation to the dot party, and he’s decided to come along. Two more to start the over, Finch getting frustrated. Then a misfield from the third ball lets the batsman off strike. Marsh pushes to mid-off, Finch wants a run but Marsh says no, and Kohli very nearly took the stumps out with Finch touch-and-go at the crease. One more single the next ball. They’ve made themselves nervous, the Aussies. Boundaries or wickets are coming, something has to give.
9th over: Australia 38-0 (Finch 19, Marsh 13)
Barinder Sran to continue. Dhoni held him back the other night until the game was all but lost, after an opening spell in which Sran looked like the only bowler who could get the game won. Curious stuff.
The NKOTB is tightening up Marsh on the off stump. This is good bowling, adapting to Australian conditions by pulling the length back a touch. The last ball gets too short, but Marsh’s pull is well stopped in the circle. Five overs, one maiden, 18 runs conceded. He’s Barry Right.
At the risk of overloading with music references: for those who heard this in their heads a couple of posts ago, you’re welcome.
8th over: Australia 36-0 (Finch 18, Marsh 12)
Jim Maxwell on ABC Grandstand saying that Joel Paris is the only capital city-named player for Australia, unless you count the misspelled Mike Veletta (Malta) or some chap named Burn (Switzerland).
If we could get him to stay after the Big Bash, how about Andre Brussels?
The batsmen still proceeding with some caution against Ishant - he’s cut for three by Marsh, but a single is the only other score.
7th over: Australia 32-0 (Finch 17, Marsh 9)
Sran getting good bounce out of this wicket, he’s quite a tall bowler and he’s enjoying the lift. Finch is able to ride that bounce though, getting right up on his big-kid’s tippy-toes to drop a one and a two into the on-side.
6th over: Australia 29-0 (Finch 14, Marsh 9)
Sneaky run as Marsh is nearly bowled, jams the ball out of his pads, and as it drops away next to the batsman Finch backs himself to beat Ishant in a foot race to the striker’s end.
Another wide from Ishant, but only three singles. The Australian openers both have a lot to prove. A bad ODI series, and Finch might even do himself out of the T20 World Cup captaincy.
Phil Withall is back on his favourite hobby horse: annoyed with the television’s tendency to “ relentlessly promote the abilities of the Australian batsmen”, he says “I’ll tell you about my dog. A white German shepherd that has just had its first haircut and now looks like a very depressed whippet. Has absolutely nothing to do with the cricket but nor does 91% of the commentary.”
Snippy.
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5th over: Australia 25-0 (Finch 12, Marsh 8)
Sran Sran is hungry like the wolf. What an over. He worked Finch out there. Got the ball seaming away, then cutting back. Not much but just enough. Beats the outside edge several times, beats the inside edge once, concedes just a leg bye from the fifth ball as Finch scrambles to get off strike.
4th over: Australia 24-0 (Finch 12, Marsh 8)
Sharma still working out the rust. Or, if you were unkind, you could say he’s getting his old groove back. As in, he starts with a wide. Then he goes down leg and gets flicked for four by Marsh. Then he should be creamed on the cut shot from the last ball, but Jadeja saves his blushes with an athletic dive at backward point.
Ishant has settled into a nice rhythm. Gorgeous drift into the batsman's pads, just in the spot where he can be pounded for four
— Sidvee (@sidvee) January 15, 2016
3rd over: Australia 19-0 (Finch 12, Marsh 4)
That’s a decent over from Sran, he’s testing Finch around the off-stump and draws a big false drive that could have been Finch’s undoing. It’s his favourite way to get out. Only four from the over, ticked here and there around the field.
2nd over: Australia 15-0 (Finch 9, Marsh 3)
Yarr. It’s Ishant Sharrrrrma. But the man with the pirate appearance has tied his hair up neatly behind his head. He hasn’t bowled in an ODI since late 2014, and you can tell, as he fires down a couple of wides after a gentle loosener that Marsh pops through cover for three.
1st over: Australia 9-0 (Finch 8, Marsh 0)
Right then. New ball, new(ish) opener for Australia as Shaun Marsh fills in for David Warner, nearly new bowler as the inexperienced left-armer Barinder Sran prepares for his second international match. Three wickets in his first, and should have had Bailey on nought, just quietly.
It doesn’t go that well, as he bowls a wide and then Finch crunches a pull to the midwicket boundary before flicking another ball to fine leg. At least a couple of balls did zip through outside off.
What ho, young hoodlums? Good to be with you. Well, another day, another Rohit century. Guess what, that makes him the only other fellow aside from Vivian Richards to make three ODI tons in Australia against the yellow team. Fair effort.
But, like a couple of days ago, you just get the feeling that India might have gone a bit slowly. There’s the Rohit ton and the Kohli fifty, but the team wasn’t able to build on that platform late in the innings.
“More of the same, methinks...” emails John Ryan, using the time-honoured tradition of using the past to look at the future, as he predicts another 300-run chase by Australia. That said, the Aussies did make it look a lot easier than it usually is. Bring it on.
India finish up on 308-8 off their 50 overs
And that was an excellent effort by the Aussies in the final overs, which showed that the best way to stop runs is to take wickets. Only Kane Richardson lowered his colours today but even he did well in the field with a run-out and plenty of pressure fielding in the deep.
Some final figures:
Joel Paris: 1-40 off 8, Kane Richardson: 0-61 off 8, John Hastings: 1-46 off 8
Scott Boland: 1-64 off 10, Glenn Maxwell: 0-33 off 6, James Faulkner: 2-64 off 10
India’s innings was headlined by Rohit Sharma with 124 from 127, Ajinkya Rahane with 89 from 80 and Virat Kohli with 59 off 67. But is their 308 enough? I get the feeling that like in Perth, they’re about 30 runs short. Time will tell and my colleague Geoff Lemon will be taking you through all of it after the dinner break.
WICKET! Jadeja run out (Hastings) 5 (India 308-8)
There’s some scrappy fielding from Marsh in the closing stages but Hastings’ final over is a beauty and finishes with the run-out of Jadeja taking a kamikaze single when he’d bunted it back to the bowler.
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WICKET! Ashwin c Boland b Hastings 1 (India 306-7)
Hastings gets Ashwin! The Indian attempted an audacious ramp off the paceman but he just lofts it to Boland at fly slip and the rookie makes no mistake with the catch. We’ve got three balls left.
49th over: India 304-6 (Jadeja 0, Ashwin 2)
Ravi Jadeja is off the mark with two and its his and Ashwin’s job to go the tonk in the final over.
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WICKET! Pandey c Paris b Faulkner - 6 (India 302-6)
Pandey steps up to the plate now, giving himself room and spearing four through point but then departs belting one out towards long on, where Paris nervously holds a catch. Faulkner has two in the over, which means the Indians have two new men at the crease.
WICKET! Rahane c Smith b Faulkner - 89 (India 298-5)
Rahane goes in unselfish style! He dearly would have wanted a ton there but departs looking for quick runs when he slobbers one out into the deep and Steve Smith runs around for the catch out at cow. That was a super knock - 89 from 80 deliveries.
48th over: India 295-4 (Rahane 87, Pandey 1)
Boland continues with his yorkers and low full tosses but as in Perth, sends one down at knee height and Rahane deposits it out to the boundary at cow before slicing another to deep point for two, so there’s 12 from the over. With two overs left Rahane’s on for a hundred now!
47th over: India 283-4 (Rahane 76, Pandey 1)
This has been superb bowling by the Aussies to close out this innings in batsman-friendly conditions and the danger-man Dhoni is gone, to boot. Rahane gets some luck when he takes big swipe towards cow and gets an outside edge to the fence at third man. Even 7 from the over is no great disaster.
Scott Boland in this #AUSvIND series: Full tosses - 13 Yorkers - 10 #CricViz
— The Cricket Prof. (@CricProf) January 15, 2016
WICKET! Dhoni c Maxwell b Boland - 11 (India 276-4)
46th over: India 276-4 (Rahane 69)
Boland gets his maiden international wicket! And what a brilliant experience for him, testing himself against a limited overs master like Dhoni and coming out on top. After an over full of yorkers he sends in a low toss and the Indian captain tonks it long and flat into the hands of Maxwell at long-on.
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45th over: India 270-3 (Rahane 66, Dhoni 8)
Yet another handy over from Faulkner, who only allows five runs in this one as even the well-set Rahane has trouble finding something to hit. Or even make contact with.
Enjoyed Jim Maxwell's description of MS Dhoni as "the helicopter pilot". #AUSvIND
— Geoff Lemon Sport (@GeoffLemonSport) January 15, 2016
44th over: India 265-3 (Rahane 65, Dhoni 4)
Boland’s got another case of the wides when he sends a short one down the leg side, though it would have been worse if Rahane had latched onto it. The Victorian’s persisting with the low full-tosses and yorkers he botched in Perth and mostly doing a better job of it. Even Dhoni can’t get ‘em away when he nails them.
43rd over: India 260-3 (Rahane 62, Dhoni 3)
With seven and a bit overs left, captain Dhoni strides to the crease earlier than he was scheduled in search of late runs and to be honest, it might be better for his side’s chances than if Sharma had stayed in. Dhoni’s off the mark and swats the final delivery of the over down to deep mid-wicket for two. What’s the target from here? 320?
End for Sharma 124 An Aussies set play sees him run out at the bowlers end off a smart deflection from Faulks #MaybeNot #AUSvIND
— Damien Fleming (@bowlologist) January 15, 2016
WICKET! Sharma run out (Faulkner) - 124 (India 255-3)
Sharma’s run out off the bowler’s hand! And he’s absolutely furious about it. A ball earlier Faulkner lets go of an attempted slower ball and Rahane thumped him 83 metres into the stands at long off but an equally forceful stroke next up is deflected back onto the stumps by the bowler with no-striker Sharma out of his ground. He looks like he’s had the jam stolen from his donut. What an unfortunate way to go.
42nd over: India 249-2 (Sharma 124, Rahane 54)
Alright, it’s pretty hard to be angry with Rohit Sharma when he plays shots like the ridicu-drive here off Boland, who is slashed inside out over cover for four and then bowls a wide to compound it and another a few balls later down the leg side. It’s all a little sloppy from Boland, who goes for 10 in this over.
Rahane brings up an industrious half-century
41st over: India 239-2 (Sharma 118, Rahane 52)
Rahane brings up his 50 now off as many deliveries and though he only struck four boundaries it’s been a fine hand to give his partner the best of the strike. The question is how Sharma has used it. Here he dices with danger taking two on Glenn Maxwell’s rocket arm but just squeaks home.
Ajinkya Rahane has reached 50 in four of his last six ODI innings. #AUSvIND #CricViz
— The Cricket Prof. (@CricProf) January 15, 2016
40th over: India 233-2 (Sharma 115, Rahane 49)
Gorgeous. Rahane is batting in a dream here as he wanders towards mid-on against Kane Richardson but then takes the ball from high around his ribs and drives it hard through cover for four. How did he do that? Richardson does himself no favours with the next; short and down the leg side so tucked for another boundary and he gets away with another next up. He’s a likeable character, Richardson, but he doesn’t look much like an international paceman to me. 0-61 off 8 overs is the damage so far.
Hastings drops Rahane!
39th over: India 222-2 (Sharma 114, Rahane 39)
Rahane’s gone! let off! The classy batsman cracks one back at the bowler and though Hastings gets his sizeable right mitt to it the ball doesn’t stick. Hastings does a lot of good work in this over but lets himself down completely with the penultimate and last deliveries, both short and allowing Sharma to tuck boundaries through the vacant square leg region. We’re on Richie’s score!
38th over: India 210-2 (Sharma 105, Rahane 37)
Noting the lull, Steve Smith brings Kane Richardson back, probably hoping he can get through a few of his overs without undue damage. It’s tidy from Richardson, though certainly not as compelling as the Chemist Warehouse advert that Nine throw to, which features DK Lillee and Viv playing a cheeky game of cricket in the vitamin aisle. It’s the miracle match all over again.
Rohit Sharma reaches his century!
37th over: India 205-2 (Sharma 101, Rahane 36)
With Sharma slowing down with each over Rahane takes it upon himself to pump some life into the run rate, thrashing Paris through mid-wicket for four before putting Sharma on strike with a single. Paris angles it across him and he dabs an easy single down to third man to bring up his hundred off 112 deliveries. It featured 8 fours and 3 sixes but it’s really nagging at me; has it slowed India’s progress to the point that they’ll end up 30-40 runs short of par like on Wednesday*? Not if he goes berserk from here I guess.
*NB. Not his fault they lost that one.
36th over: India 196-2 (Sharma 99, Rahane 29)
We’re back after drinks and there’s plenty of chatter happening between Sharma and James Faulkner. I’ll take a wild stab and say it’s something about his impending milestone but far weirder is the fact that Sharma took strike first ball when he wasn’t meant to. Cheeky. On 99 he’s got two balls to face from Faulkner. The first is full and straight and the batsman defends and he drives the seconds straight at the man at cover, shaking his head at the missed opportunity. Another cheap over goes by too. The Aussies are playing this astutely.
35th over: India 194-2 (Sharma 98, Rahane 28)
Sharma moves to 98 from his 107th delivery faced but at the risk of looking a gift horse in the mouth, the 56 dots and 38 singles he’s gathered actually might have some impact on the result, perhaps not a good one. Am I being harsh? You can mull that over drinks as I go and grab a Pepsi Max, the official beverage of this live blog.
34th over: India 191-2 (Sharma 97, Rahane 26)
Faulkner’s back to take over from Maxwell and Rahane lofts him for an exquisite boundary straight down the ground, checking himself half-way through the stroke but still essaying it over the bowler’s head for four. Sharma moves a couple closer to his ton but the milestone is really eating up time and deliveries right now. Exactly what Australia wants.
33rd over: India 183-2 (Sharma 95, Rahane 20)
This is a superb over from Paris, who sense Rohit cramping up a little as he approached three figures and cramps him for space and options. Eventually get gets a single and there’s two to Rahane to finish the over but that’s it.
32nd over: India 180-2 (Sharma 94, Rahane 18)
At the end of that Paris over Matthew Wade had a bit of a “joke” with Rohit Sharma, pointing to the mark on the edge of his bat, but it was one of those ribbings that aren’t really a joke. Anyway, Rahane is doing an excellent job of rotating the strike but singles and a two is all Maxwell’s offering in this over. 0-33 off 6 so far is a great return.
31st over: India 173-2 (Sharma 91, Rahane 14)
Joel Paris returns for his second spell and Rohit Sharma is latching onto him immediately, driving handsomely for three as Shaun Marsh does some athletic diving and throwing to cut off the boundary. There’s a big caught behind appeal against Sharma and DRS would have seen him walking to the sheds but the disinterest of the central umpire spares him. It was a big noise and snicko looked good. Lucky for Rohit but he’s kind of deserved that for his enterprising batting.
Less funny when the lack of DRS helps India, of course. Get your comedy right, umpires. #AUSvIND
— Dan Liebke (@LiebCricket) January 15, 2016
30th over: India 166-2 (Sharma 86, Rahane 12)
Sharma chips Maxwell out to long off where the spinner seems to think Boland is a little casual as he moves around to stop it rather than haring in for a catch. He’s a big lad, Boland. Not sure he would have got there with sprinting spikes on. Again there’s only 4 from the Maxwell over. That’s a big win.
29th over: India 162-2 (Sharma 84, Rahane 10)
Sharma gets after Hastings and receives a bit of luck in the process, edging his cross-bat swipe down to third man for four. This partnership is gathering just a little bit of steam now.
Yes, those full tosses were pretty full.
Boland yet to go to yorkers: he has the shortest average length of Australia's seamers so far, having had the fullest at Perth. #AUSvIND
— The Cricket Prof. (@CricProf) January 15, 2016
28th over: India 155-2 (Sharma 79, Rahane 8)
More Glenn Maxwell spin now and he’s sprinting between balls and making sure that the batsmen never get much time to settle. Only four runs come from the over, marking it as a success for the Australian. A few more of those and he might have made a significant contribution to keeping the chase to manageable proportions.
27th over: India 151-2 (Sharma 77, Rahane 6)
Rahane’s taking his time to adjust to his surroundings but there’s not much on offer from Hastings, who strains with every delivery and follows through into a position of baffled annoyance following each ball, firmly believing that the batsman should just nick off immediately.
26th over: India 146-2 (Sharma 75, Rahane 3)
Ian Healy thinks that India need at least 340 here and they’re at least on track to reach something like that mark if Sharma can stay in for at least 40 overs. They can only manage four off another productive over from Boland.
Paris, Richardson, Hastings, Boland: this is Aussie bowling attack or British Viceroys?
— Sidvee (@sidvee) January 15, 2016
25th over: India 142-2 (Sharma 73, Rahane 1)
The bowling changes continue with John Hastings back on for a burst at the new man and with the run-out done, the new pair have a few nervy moments in their calling too as the tension fails to immediately lift. Sharma does at least get some luck when he swishes outside off stump to Hastings and his inside-edge passes inches beside the stumps and rolls away for four at fine leg. Rahane’s off the mark and Richardson’s found a way to contribute positively, again zinging a throw in over the bails from the deep. The crowd loves it.
Kohli ran himself out. Selfless fellow. Team man.
— Sidvee (@sidvee) January 15, 2016
24th over: India 134-2 (Sharma 66, Rahane 0)
Well, we lose nothing in an aesthetic sense here with Ajinkya Rahane arriving at the crease but India have to start again just as they were getting a move-on. Replays of the run-out show that Kohli perhaps didn’t anticipate Richardson’s fielding being so slick. His bowling held no surprising but that rocket arm from the rope did.
Is it wrong to hope that a massive Richies-Bucketheads war breaks out in 2016, leaving both factions devastated beyond recovery? #AUSvIND
— Dan Liebke (@LiebCricket) January 15, 2016
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WICKET! Kohli run out (Richardson) - 59 (India 134-2)
Kohli’s run himself out! Well, Richardson had to do some smart work to whip the throw in from fine leg but the Indian never looked like getting out to one of the bowler’s and now he’s done himself in just as he was getting going. What a debacle for the tourists. Seconds earlier he’d quick-stepped down the wicket and battered Boland through cover for a boundary but now he’s on his bike. That was a perfect through from Richardson and all Wade had to do was demolish the bails.
23rd over: India 125-1 (Sharma 65, Kohli 51)
Sharma has taken Richardson apart here, stepping onto the front foot with zero regard for the bowler’s feelings and clattering him over the fence at cow like he’s hurling a flail mace. Another six flies over the top of the rope at long-off and Richardson is putting on a brave face but this’ll hurt his ego a bit. It wasn’t even a terrible delivery. There’s 15 from the over all up. Richardson’s first 6 overs have gone for 44.
Sharma looking better today than the other day. Please bat 50 overs. Something special. #AUSvIND
— Adam Collins (@collinsadam) January 15, 2016
Virat Kohli reaches his half-century!
22nd over: India 110-1 (Sharma 52, Kohli 50)
Ouch! Virat Kohli strokes Faulkner straight to Steve Smith at mid-off and hares off for a kamikaze single but the Aussie captain is wide with his throw and with nobody backing up, Kohli’s able to dust himself off and set off back to the other end for two. Smith’s not amused and even less so when the batsman dances down the track and drives four to bring up his 50 from 60 deliveries.
21st over: India 104-1 (Sharma 52, Kohli 44)
As India take 5 from this Richardson over, reader Matt Harris isn’t loving what he’s seeing. “What’s your view on the bowling line-up for the ODIs?” he asks. “Have Cummins and Pattinson been forgotten? In my view even Shaun Tait is unlucky – at 32 he’s practically a youngster in international cricket terms, and he’s been bowling fast in the Big Bash.”
“I can’t see the wisdom in picking exclusively stump-to-stump medium pacers, and my view is that Australia won in Perth despite the bowling attack rather than because of it. Do you see it differently?”
I dunno, Matt. These games really don’t mean much other than lining the pockets of both boards with obscene amounts of money so why not trial a few youngsters? The others are known quantities at this point. And do we think that Tait could get through 10 overs? I’ve got my doubts.
20th over: India 99-1 (Sharma 51, Kohli 40)
James Faulkner is back after the break but Ian Healy, dressed in a Richie Benaud wig in the crowd, thinks it’s Joel Paris. I’m sure Richie himself would definitely approve of such buffoonery. There’s only two from the over, which is far tidier than Faulkner’s first.
Rohit Sharma brings up his half-century
19th over: India 97-1 (Sharma 50, Kohli 39)
Who’d be a bowler, by the way? So far in this series we’ve had 9 wickets in 118 overs. Not much of a battle between bat and ball. Speaking of battling, Kane Richardson is back into the attack after drinks and Sharma clips him to fine leg to bring up his half-century from 61 deliveries, an innings that featured 6 fours.
18th over: India 92-1 (Sharma 48, Kohli 36)
Glenn Maxwell continues on the leg stump line that has so far seen him keep things tidy, but he offers a little too much loop to Kohli and gets swept for a booming four wide of square leg. Ever the showman, Maxwell pauses before his final delivery and tells Sharma to stop backing up for a run before the bowler has actually reached his delivery stride. There’s ten from the over.
17th over: India 82-1 (Sharma 47, Kohli 27)
In what’s most likely the last over before the drinks break, James Faulkner is introduced for his first over of the day and it’s his usual mixed bag of cutters, faders and slower balls rolled out the back of the hand. The fifth is a shocker – short and straight so that Sharma can swivel onto his back foot and crack it over mid-wicket for a boundary. And then...nope, no drinks.
16th over: India 74-1 (Sharma 42, Kohli 24)
Oof! Maxwell’s nearly jagged a wicket here when Sharma clips one out towards a diving Finch at point but it’s just short of his hands as he attempts to reel in a gem. He survives but the Indian run rate has now slowed to 4.62 per over, which isn’t exactly ideal. Maxwell’s playing his role.
David Warner is busying himself by going the tonk on trolls.
Gee whiz did not know I could not have time off to be there for my wife during birth. Keyboard warrior at its best https://t.co/OH44ICChpB
— David Warner (@davidwarner31) January 15, 2016
15th over: India 72-1 (Sharma 41, Kohli 23)
More miserly stuff from Boland, who looks to have shaken off the rookie nerves from Perth and has worked into a nice groove, never giving either batsman much to work with.
14th over: India 69-1 (Sharma 40, Kohli 21)
It’s a little surprising that he doesn’t get another after his first three cost only 10 runs but John Hastings if taken off and replaced by the spin of Glenn Maxwell, who errs in firing a dart down the leg side and allowing Sharma to sweep fine for four. Maxwell races through the rest of the cost of only two more runs. He was expensive on Wednesday but that’s a better start.
13th over: India 63-1 (Sharma 35, Kohli 20)
The Australians are very excited by the sight of Kohli edging Boland just short of Aaron Finch at first slip here but it was the batsman’s soft hands that again prevented a dismissal. Keeper Matthew Wade also lets out a few expletives when a throw from Kane Richardson arrives a little lower to the ground than he’d hoped. This game isn’t currently reaching any great heights as a spectacle but it certainly will if and when Kohli hits his straps.
12th over: India 59-1 (Sharma 34, Kohli 17)
Virat Kohli was scratchy at times in his 91 at Perth and he’s been similarly so today but he clobbers Hastings for a resounding four when he drives attractively through mid-on and there’s also a pretty cover drive for one. The latter brings up the 50-run partnership from 57 deliveries.
And yes, this is currently happening:
Ian Healy still heroically defensive about the 95/96 ODI triseries. #AUSvIND
— Dan Liebke (@LiebCricket) January 15, 2016
11th over: India 53-1 (Sharma 34, Kohli 12)
This is an excellent little bowling partnership developing between Boland and Hastings as the youngster hits his line and length to perfection to tie up Rohit Sharma and deprive him of the width he normally likes. Well, until the fifth ball of the over that is. Boland’s a bit too full of a good length and is driven through cover for four but that was his onlu slip-up for the over.
10th over: India 47-1 (Sharma 29, Kohli 11)
Sharma can barely lay bat on it at the moment. He takes a big swish at some width outside off stump from Hastings but it’s a fresh air shot. To Hastings’ fourth ball he makes contact to crack a single down to third man but that’s the only score off a stingy over.
Oops... https://t.co/i8XgG30t5L #AUSvIND pic.twitter.com/OaR4ucCvQa
— cricket.com.au (@CricketAus) January 15, 2016
9th over: India 46-1 (Sharma 28, Kohli 11)
It’s an all-Victoria combination now as Scott Boland comes in to replace the wicket-taker Paris. His first few balls are very handy with the second almost kissing the outside edge of Sharma as he prods forward unconvincingly. A ball later the batsman plays an uncontrolled heave that flies over the cordon and worse, John Hastings makes a hash of a simple save at the rope and lets it through for four. Then Boland’s past the edge again. He’s actually ducking it around a bit, the youngster.
8th over: India 41-1 (Sharma 23, Kohli 11)
Richardson does indeed get pulled from the attack so Victorian John Hastings is on for his first trundle of the day, which is a typically bustling and energetic over from the man they call ‘The Duke’.
7th over: India 38-1 (Sharma 21, Kohli 10)
He loses his head a little charging down the wicket to the final delivery of this Paris over but Virat Kohli also unfurls that majestic pull shot of his too, picking up a couple of runs when he waves his magic wand in front of his face to crack Paris out through mid-wicket. I could watch him do that all day.
Glenn Maxwell, of course, is wearing his yellow hat upside down. And not on his head. #Maxwellball
— Dan Liebke (@LiebCricket) January 15, 2016
6th over: India 34-1 (Sharma 21, Kohli 6)
Phwoar. Rohit Sharma waits a few balls and with a bit of width outside off stump absolutely creams Richardson through the vacant point region with a real flourish of the bat. That one flew into the fence like a low-flying missile and there’s six more when he tucks a top edge around the corner from another short one and clears the rope behind Matthew Wade. Might be time to give Richardson a rest, skipper.
Wow, he crunched that! Rohit moves to 15 with India 1-28 in the sixth over. LIVE: https://t.co/i8XgG30t5L #AUSvIND https://t.co/mwCDOaQRnj
— cricket.com.au (@CricketAus) January 15, 2016
5th over: India 23-1 (Sharma 11, Kohli 5)
Paris continues to probe away on a nagging length just outside off stump to the right handers and there’s a short mid-wicket for him when Kohli’s on strike. He draws the batsman forward and claims his outside edge but Kohli had skilfully withdrawn undue pressure from the blade and his soft hands meant that the edge dropped well short of Steve Smith at first slip. Paris’s speeds? 129-137kmph in this over.
#CapChat is already going off the rails and we’re only five overs in.
Great to see a few @CricketAus boys taking George Bailey's (& Jim Carey's) lead under our Brisbane sun! #AUSvIND pic.twitter.com/MiyvGyzGj0
— Brisbane Heat (@HeatBBL) January 15, 2016
4th over: India 19-1 (Sharma 10, Kohli 3)
Sharma’s after Richardson now, slashing him high and very fast over gully when the paceman drops short. John Hastings at third man didn’t have a prayer of cutting that off and there’s three more when Sharma drives wide of cover. Kane Richardson’s danger area today? Bowling to Rohit Sharma by the looks of things.
I didn’t realise that the great man was in the house. Wasim, that is.
With @wasimakramlive doing the pitch report #IndvsAus pic.twitter.com/0GPnlsPuvy
— VVS Laxman (@VVSLaxman281) January 15, 2016
3rd over: India 11-1 (Sharma 3, Kohli 2)
Virat Kohli strides to the crease now and something dawns upon me as he does; we don’t have any Viv’s in our midst these days but since the retirement of Kevin Pietersen is there a more imposing strut to the crease than the Indian maestro’s? I doubt it. He’s off the mark when he glides down to third man.
WICKET! Dhawan c Wade b Paris 6 (India 9-1)
Joel Paris has his first international wicket! And again Dhawan departs early in the process of slogging. The ball before had been disdainfully slapped between cover and mid-off for four but he chases another wide one next up and sends a thick edge through to Wade behind the wicket. Paris is on the board and the Aussies have first blood.
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2nd over: India 5-0 (Sharma 3, Dhawan 2)
Kane Richardson shares the new ball with Paris and replays of his chase and throw before confirm that those new wide-brimmed hats are a little loose on the head. He could add a headband underneath but the hat, the beard, the black sweatband, the towel that hangs from his trousers and the ‘shooting sleeve’ on his left arm are probably more than enough accessories for one player, I think.
Richardson’s bigger issue in recent times has been thr follow-through that sends him down the middle of the pitch and into the ‘danger zone’ that umpires so detest. Looks like he’s sorted it now and his first over is a maiden and a beauty at that, finishing up with a nice out-swinger past Sharma’s edge.
1st over: India 5-0 (Sharma 3, Dhawan 2)
Okay, we’re off and away. In just his second ODI for his country, Joel Paris takes the brand spanking Kookaburra and his first delivery is right on the button – swinging in towards Rohit Sharma and forcing him to defend on the front foot.
A couple of balls later Sharma flicks one off his pads, lofting high over mid-wicket to pick up two as Kane Richardson swoops around wearing that new ‘George Bailey hat’. Paris bowlers a jaffa next, catching Sharma’s outside edge as he squares him up but it flies down to third man for one and Dhawan is off the mark with a very risky cut past the right hand of a diving Glenn Maxwell at point. A couple of inches closer and he would have been snaffled.
Are they ‘floppy’ though?
Finch, Maxwell, Richardson and Bailey wearing Gold Floppy hats today. It's sweeping the nation #AUSvIND
— Martin Smith (@martinsmith9994) January 15, 2016
A bit more of a preamble for you
I didn’t even introduce myself, did I? Russell Jackson here to take you through the India innings before my colleague Geoff Lemon arrives later to bring this thing home. You can get me on the contact details above throughout the day and please do.
As mentioned earlier the real point of interest in this game and the first innings in particular is Australia’s greenhorn pace attack, in which all-rounder James Faulkner is the most senior member. Joel Paris and Scott Boland only debuted in the last game and John Hastings provide most of the experience and veteran guile. What awaits them against the likes of Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli and MS Dhoni?
The snubbing of Usman Khawaja is most likely a case of first in, best dressed – and Shaun Marsh did score a mountain of runs in the Matador Cup – but I still think he’s a little stiff to miss out on his adopted home ground.
He's in! Good luck to @KRichardson63 in his first outing in Aussie colours this afternoon. Go well! #FearTheBeard pic.twitter.com/yyahh14zHi
— Adelaide Strikers (@StrikersBBL) January 15, 2016
The toss - India win it and bat
Hello OBOers and welcome to this second ODI of the summer between Australia and India in Brisbane. “Looks like a good wicket so we’ll look to put runs on the board” says MS Dhoni. He’s blaming Wednesday’s loss on the fielding of his bowlers off their own bowling. Bit odd.
Team news? Ishant Sharma is back for India today and the Aussies bring in Kane Richardson for Josh Hazlewood, Shaun Marsh for new father David Warner and John Hastings for Mitchell Marsh. Usman Khawaja misses out.
“It’s a bit of a fortress for us in all forms of cricket”, says Steve Smith of the Gabba. That’s confidence for you, especially considering the last four names on his team sheet have 19 games of ODI experience between them.
Australia: Finch, Marsh, Smith (c), Bailey, Maxwell, Faulkner, Wade, Hastings, Richardson, Boland, Paris.
India: R Sharma, Dhawan, Kohli, Rahane, Pandey, Dhoni (c), Ashwin, Jadeja, I Sharma, Yadav, Sran
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Russell will be here shortly but in the meantime, check out Will Macpherson’s interview with Ryan Carters, an Australian cricketer with a conscience and a desire to change the world for the better.
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