Big Cricket Thread

[Get_The_Gaff]

Lol at all the tye hate !

Yet people seem to like Bancroft

 

[Natho]

Did the scorchers lose?

 

[Ilkka Sinisalo]

Great win. Feels like a throwback to the Scorchies of olde, post a decent score and then defend it with excellent bowling.

 

[Ochre]

Scorchies win, SOS 50, Clarke loses it for the Gades. What more could you want.

 

[amazingjoshy]

Pye will ruin the game

The idea of Pye bowling the 20th over fills me with insurmountable dread.

Don't get this given his track record of finishing off games

Far more often than not gets the job done

 

[ioppolo]

53 off 40 with 8 wickets in hand. Still lose by 13 runs. Fair choke that.

 

[RookiePick]

Scorchies win, SOS 50, Clarke loses it for the Gades. What more could you want.

Apologies from the faithless.

Marsh the key wicket. Morris delivered and we were right in it.

 

[THE A5]

Weird game. The batting was complete opposite of what Optus batting conditions are are. Usually it gets easier to bat as the game progresses but both teams both struggled towards the end.

 

[RookiePick]

Might take another game or 2 to work out the way to go about it without Turner. Bangers we knew was not returning early and we planned around that.

With our bowlers we just need to be competitive with the bat rather than dominant.

 

[THE A5]

Don't get this given his track record of finishing off games

Far more often than not gets the job done

His form of late has been quite average. That said he was pretty decent going into that last over.

 

[Truckosaurus]

Great win. Feels like a throwback to the Scorchies of olde, post a decent score and then defend it with excellent bowling.

Plus Shaun Marsh making a score (albeit for the wrong team)

 

[Keys]

Scorchers maybe aren’t the side they used to be but then neither are the rest of the comp

Talent in the BBL is a shadow of what it was

 

[THE A5]

David Warner endorsing Marcus Harris to be his replacement. I don’t think anyone is really shocked by this tbh

 

[Ilkka Sinisalo]

Don't get this given his track record of finishing off games

Far more often than not gets the job done

Definitely a great bowler and competitor, my concern with him is only due to his age. He hasn’t been as effective over the last year or two.

 

[FKASC]

Definitely a great bowler and competitor, my concern with him is only due to his age. He hasn’t been as effective over the last year or two.

Used to deceive with variations, now just bangs it in short and fast and often results in boundaries. Was better tonight though.

 

[Carbine Chaos]

Behrendorff and Richardson were excellent tonight. Tye bowled brilliantly to well set fields, so credit to himself but also Hardie. Morris contributed.

Thought Agar was horrible though, he's always been a little dartish but had zero interest in taking wickets tonight with his approach. I hope we continue to develop Hamish as an attacking spin option for the squad.

Hobson is well under the level required and stands out in this side. CC living on the final innings still and looks to require a lot of development. May be best served dropping down to 6.

 

[Get_The_Gaff]

David Warner endorsing Marcus Harris to be his replacement. I don’t think anyone is really shocked by this tbh

I think head should open marsh moves up 1 spot and green come in

 

[Tugga27]

Definitely a great bowler and competitor, my concern with him is only due to his age. He hasn’t been as effective over the last year or two.

Tye gets bit of undeserved stick IMO.

He took equal second amount of wickets in the tournament last year.
Sure sometimes he's expensive, but he gets wickets.

He's probably the prefect type of bowler to come on after Richo, Dorff and Morris for us.

 

[Tugga27]

I think head should open marsh moves up 1 spot and green come in

Terrible IMO.

Head is in career best form at 5.
He changes games.

Why mess around with the order to accommodate Green?

Bancroft or Renshaw for me.

 

[Get_The_Gaff]

Behrendorff and Richardson were excellent tonight. Tye bowled brilliantly to well set fields, so credit to himself but also Hardie. Morris contributed.

Thought Agar was horrible though, he's always been a little dartish but had zero interest in taking wickets tonight with his approach. I hope we continue to develop Hamish as an attacking spin option for the squad.

Hobson is well under the level required and stands out in this side. CC living on the final innings still and looks to require a lot of development. May be best served dropping down to 6.

It wasn't a spinners wicket at all tonight . Zampa went for almost 50 off his 4 and hardie bowled agars 4th over .

Agar should have had Smarsh in his 2nd over but Connolly dropped a sitter .

Turner out really showed our lower middle order is weak but Evans looks pretty good .

Maybe bring back eski and drop Connolly back to hobsons spot as he is the 2nd spinner and we will get some slow turning deck on our next road trip.

Ideally Inglis opens with Crawley and green slots into 4 Evans 5 connolly 6 agar 7

 

[THE A5]

I think head should open marsh moves up 1 spot and green come in

What tugga said. Head and Marsh going so well atm that it’s dangerous messing with their confidence/form just to accommodate green.

 

[Get_The_Gaff]

Terrible IMO.

Head is in career best form at 5.
He changes games.

Why mess around with the order to accommodate Green?

Bancroft or Renshaw for me.

Head opened this year for 2 and a half games when warner was injured. Did pretty well considering the conditions in India .

Head has always batted up the order for SA

We really need to be looking at 2 openers with kawaja pretty old too .

This series would have been perfect to trial new openers or shuffle the order around but warner needs to be kissed on the dick .

Mitch marsh has forced he way back into the side on batting alone. Green is clearly the next best batter on the cusp of the test team so move mitch up 1 spot .

Also Bancroft can EAD . What he did was the worst thing in Australian cricket history . Worst than under arm .

So embarrassing that Indian and Pakistani fans can take the piss out of us for being cheats .

 

[Carbine Chaos]

With the opening position, I don't like how several of the guys have come out saying they don't want to shift to opening.

How about doing what's best for the team?

I like the idea of Head shifting up because having one attacking opener is good for us moving forward plus we can more easily replace a middle order player right now. The opening options just aren't very appealing.

 

[omgfridge]

It wasn't a spinners wicket at all tonight . Zampa went for almost 50 off his 4 and hardie bowled agars 4th over .

Agar should have had Smarsh in his 2nd over but Connolly dropped a sitter .

Turner out really showed our lower middle order is weak but Evans looks pretty good .

Maybe bring back eski and drop Connolly back to hobsons spot as he is the 2nd spinner and we will get some slow turning deck on our next road trip.

Ideally Inglis opens with Crawley and green slots into 4 Evans 5 connolly 6 agar 7

I think Whiteman is due a game whether that be in Connollys spot or Agars with Connolly moving down.

Hobbo I dont think is best XI when everyones fit but hes pretty good in the field.

 

[Tugga27]

With the opening position, I don't like how several of the guys have come out saying they don't want to shift to opening.

How about doing what's best for the team?

I like the idea of Head shifting up because having one attacking opener is good for us moving forward plus we can more easily replace a middle order player right now. The opening options just aren't very appealing.

I would've thought "doing best for the team" would be batting guys like Marsh and Head in the positions they were originally chosen for and are doing well in.

Like Hussey said yesterday, just pick best opening bat that's available.