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Just reading a article from Warne on Fox Sports suggesting Wade's time is up and instead of going back to Head , McDermott should be next in line.

Also serves as backup WK in case something happens to Paine.

2 first class hundreds in his career , not quite sure he is the right option.

Think Wade's time is up though so either Head or Henriques.

McDermott or Maddinson.

Bit hard to go anyone else without any Shield cricket played before the South Africa series

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Wade/Head/Henriques try McDermott/Maddinson
Green

Suspect they would take

8-9 Bat
1 WK
6 Quick
2 Slow

to South Africa
 
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Seems there is a bit of rain around too? Match will likely be a draw, India keep the trophy if the Aussies bat out. Might be worth declaring?
They probably want a 45-60 minute crack at them tonight (maybe 12 - 15 overs) try and get at least 2 wickets.

Probably have a 30 minute hit after tea (weather permitting).

Problem could be if Rohit goes into white ball cricket mode and gets a quick 50-75 , Rahane/Pujara can plug one end , then Pant can go Hammer and tong.

Hopefully set them a target that they might find appealing to chase down.

Either way poor result for Australia , think the experts were predicting a 4-0 result even before India's injuries.

Remarkable effort by them since being bowled out for 36 in Adelaide.
 
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Should declare now and go for it, be lucky to get 90 overs left in the match with the way the forecast looks, if they can come out and make 276 good on them, rather be aggressive than just see a certain draw and trophy loss.
 
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Covers coming off. Doesn't look like any rain behind this, so there should be a pretty full last session here.

I actually think they should try and get a few more runs - don't need to bat more than about half an hour, but ideally try and put up another 30 runs or so. I think with the pitch playing tricks India will go really hard at the target because it might actually be the best way to survive. And in Rohit and Pant they have two batsmen that could do serious damage in a hurry.
 
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