Thread by @GrayConnolly

As poor a substitute as Rugby 7s is for Rugby XV, there is nothing more ersatz than watching this BBL nonsense when one desires - indeed, one demands - Test Cricket. Indeed, play should start promptly each day at 0900 and end only at sunset. These 1030 starts are lazy. #AUSvIND

There was a stage in Australian cricket when dropping catches meant Allan Border would have you on the first plane home etc .... laziness in the field shows a lack of team spiritedness and poor attitudes that need an urgent adjustment. #AUSvIND

Australia has given Gill two chances and he will punish us all innings for our indolence and lack of attention to the ball. #AUSvIND

Massive wicket - Gill, who was looking very dangerous, is out. Momentum shift. Australia has the initiative. Send cliches! #AUSvIND

Now Pujara is out as well - India now 3/64. Australians, finally, starting to play as well as they are capable of playing. No mass sackings .... for now #AUSvIND

In the finest Australian tradition, we move ahead by grinding away - excellent and deserved wicket for Lyon dismissing Vihari. India now 4/116 and trailing by 79. #AUSvIND

Mad respect for Indian cricket twitter who are brutally but ever politely honest with their team’s errors and which Australians - too inclined to indulge excuses by our national team - could learn a good deal from #AUSvIND

It is amazing we allow (let alone indulge) any other form of cricket than Test Cricket. We are dumbing further down. The grasping vagabonds at @CricketAus should be ashamed of themselves for there not being more Tests in the summer program #AUSvIND

Given this bowling by Cummins - a mixture of half volleys and short of whatever length he is aiming for - Australia is very lucky that Virat Kohli is not hitting these deliveries into the Yarra #AUSvIND

Rahane really putting on a great Captain's knock here as the Australian XI are floundering in a sea of dropped catches and half volleys. The only upside for Australia is Kohli is not out there smashing the leather off the ball. India punishing every mistake, deservedly.
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Is this the best bowling "attack" we have?

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Is the Australian XI trying to break the record for the most dropped catches in a Test innings? Never has the team more needed a Captain Grumpy/Allan Border figure than right now.
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If Steve Smith ever wanted the chance to play a real Captain's knock - as a former/hopefully future Captain - this is it #AUSvIND

All of the Australian team & the management of Cricket Australia should be made to do "Laps of Shame" of the MCG at the conclusion of today's play. These laps should continue indefinitely as a warning to any one else who disgrace the baggy green cap as has happened today
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