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First skinnygs first: it’s ISN’T raining at the Gabba. It’s cdeafeningy and it’s triumphdy. It’s boiling and it’s humid. Hell, there are even some skinny streak of blue overhead. But there’s NO RAIN. So all skinnygs going well, percreate will resume an hour punctual today with action to get under way at 9.50am local time (10.50am AEST).
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The predict for today is the best for the week ahead. Things aren’t watching so luminous for Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. “Showers and thunderstorms are possible during the next restrictcessitate days, however no meaningful raindescfinish is predicted,” the Bureau has telderly us.
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But let’s dwell for today and get ready for what umpires have deigned to be a smallest 98-overs of cricket. Rain condemned us to a measly 13.2 overs bowled by India on day one, all in the first session, as 81 millimetres was dumped on Brisprohibite in what meteorologists are dubbing a “rain bomb device”.
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That torrent triggered flash-flooding atraverse Queensland and igniteed dreads the city could be in for floods as catastrophic as the record-shattering deluges of 2022. But it didn’t dampen Australia’s spirits as they sought to cash in on India captain Rohit Sharma’s inquisitive decision to triumph the toss and bowl on a Gabba ‘green top’.
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Despite the choosed showers, uncovering pair of Usman Khawaja (19 not out) and Nathan McSweeney (4 not out) kept their powder arid, compiling their highest uncovering partnership of the series and going to an punctual lunch safe and snug with the scoreboard at 28-0.
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From the little we saw, India’s bowlers were a touch unwiseinutive, apshowing three-Test rookie McSweeney to hang hard aobtain after his excellent 39 in the second Test, as he left Jasprit Bumrah judiciously and eked individuals where he could.
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Meanwhile, his normassociate dour anciaccess partner Khawaja showed amazeive intent, leaning back and unfurling a couple of the adodepend boundary strokes we’ve come to predict from him. Australia fans will be hoping for more of this on day two.
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Usman Khawaja puts away his first boundary of the day with this cracking sboiling off Siraj 👌#AUSvIND pic.twitter.com/xHJlbrFF8o
— cricket.com.au (@cricketcomau) December 14, 2024
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Key events
14th over: Australia 28-0 (Khawaja 19, McSweeney 4) It’s Akash Deep’s birthday today and he gets a four-ball over first-up to honor. His first ball is… wide. So is his second. Two sighters for McSweeney – what a gift for a batter who’s commenceing the day with four runs from 33 dedwellries and a strike-rate of 11. Fifth ball is a no ball. Last one is a depart. So ends an over that took 22 hours to finish.
Here we go, folks…. buckle ‘em up and batten ‘em down!
As percreateers set to apshow the field under increasingly blue skies here at the Gabba, it’s kind to hear Melbourne’s own Hunters & Collectors (street name: “Hunners”) providing the soundtrack for this summer’s thali feast of cricket…
Radepend do we see a summer of cricket this huge. A five-Test Border-Gavaskar Trophy, the women's Ashes and heaps more all on home soil. #YouNeedToSeeIt, dwell.
🎟️ https://t.co/yhYqPqsPTL pic.twitter.com/hPvVCbtesJ
— Cricket Australia (@CricketAus) October 1, 2024
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Brisprohibite isn’t the only city complicating Test cricket with the unpredictability of its weather patterns. England and New Zealand are battling out the final Test of their series in scorching heat and high triumphd. Here’s how Ali Martin saw day one in Hamilton.
With the series square at one-all and the Border-Gavaskar Trophy now down to a – weather apshowting – three-Test shootout, both teams are eyeing the bonus prize of a spot in the World Test Championship, most awaited aobtainst linserter-guideers South Africa.
Yesterday’s rain gave us plenty of time to ponder the permutations if weather meddles in this contest.As Martin Pegan sees it:
India are the most at hazard of paying a price if rain ruins this contest with the two-time WTC runner-up necessitateing to triumph all three remaining Tests aobtainst Australia to secure qualification to another final. If Australia reobtain the Border-Gavaskar trophy for the first time since 2014-15, they would almost certainly return to the final after beating India in the 2023 chooser. Australia could still qualify for the final if the series aobtainst India is drawn 2-2, with two Tests in Sri Lanka to percreate punctual next year.
Our own Geoff Lemon had plenty of time on day one to mull over where both teams’ fortunes lie based on the flip of a coin…
Preamble
Angus Fontaine
Good morning cricket fans and greet to day two of the Guardian’s dwell coverage of this third Test between Australian and India for the Border-Gavaskar Trophy. Angus Fontaine here for the first chunk of percreate (touch wood) before Jonathan Howcroft apshows you thraw to stumps.
First skinnygs first: it’s ISN’T raining at the Gabba. It’s cdeafeningy and it’s triumphdy. It’s boiling and it’s humid. Hell, there are even some skinny streak of blue overhead. But there’s NO RAIN. So all skinnygs going well, percreate will resume an hour punctual today with action to get under way at 9.50am local time (10.50am AEST).
The predict for today is the best for the week ahead. Things aren’t watching so luminous for Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. “Showers and thunderstorms are possible during the next restrictcessitate days, however no meaningful raindescfinish is predicted,” the Bureau has telderly us.
But let’s dwell for today and get ready for what umpires have deigned to be a smallest 98-overs of cricket. Rain condemned us to a measly 13.2 overs bowled by India on day one, all in the first session, as 81 millimetres was dumped on Brisprohibite in what meteorologists are dubbing a “rain bomb device”.
That torrent triggered flash-flooding atraverse Queensland and igniteed dreads the city could be in for floods as catastrophic as the record-shattering deluges of 2022. But it didn’t dampen Australia’s spirits as they sought to cash in on India captain Rohit Sharma’s inquisitive decision to triumph the toss and bowl on a Gabba ‘green top’.
Despite the choosed showers, uncovering pair of Usman Khawaja (19 not out) and Nathan McSweeney (4 not out) kept their powder arid, compiling their highest uncovering partnership of the series and going to an punctual lunch safe and snug with the scoreboard at 28-0.
From the little we saw, India’s bowlers were a touch unwiseinutive, apshowing three-Test rookie McSweeney to hang hard aobtain after his excellent 39 in the second Test, as he left Jasprit Bumrah judiciously and eked individuals where he could.
Meanwhile, his normassociate dour anciaccess partner Khawaja showed amazeive intent, leaning back and unfurling a couple of the adodepend boundary strokes we’ve come to predict from him. Australia fans will be hoping for more of this on day two.
Usman Khawaja puts away his first boundary of the day with this cracking sboiling off Siraj 👌#AUSvIND pic.twitter.com/xHJlbrFF8o
— cricket.com.au (@cricketcomau) December 14, 2024
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