The Cricket Thread

[Hawks1994]

I'd like to see Cummins in for Starc. Johnson and Starc are too similar and don't swing the ball enough, or often enough.

Cummins has pace and swings the ball a fair bit in australian conditions so the duke ball and cloudy days should be prime conditions for him

 

[Brishawk]

I'd like to see Cummins in for Starc. Johnson and Starc are too similar and don't swing the ball enough, or often enough.

Cummins has pace and swings the ball a fair bit in australian conditions so the duke ball and cloudy days should be prime conditions for him

Interesting idea but would you really drop Starc over johnson? not a lot between their figures:
Starc: 12wtk @ 31 SR 45
Johnson: 10wtks @ 33 SR 56
Johnson has been decent with the bat though so maybe that puts him ahead. I expected a lot more from Starc in the last test based on the conditions. Hard to know about Cummings. His only tests were in South Africa which is similarly bouncy to Australia.

 

[Hawks1994]

Interesting idea but would you really drop Starc over johnson? not a lot between their figures:
Starc: 12wtk @ 31 SR 45
Johnson: 10wtks @ 33 SR 56
Johnson has been decent with the bat though so maybe that puts him ahead. I expected a lot more from Starc in the last test based on the conditions. Hard to know about Cummings. His only tests were in South Africa which is similarly bouncy to Australia.

Yeah very good points. I just think at his best Johnson is more damaging than Starc. Starc is a little bit one dimensional.
And thats the thing with English conditions. They are so unpredictable and different to any other place around the world.
Harris is such a big loss. Hazlewood has done ok in his absense, I think we need another line and length bowler who can swing the ball and let Johnson be the out and out quick which he is best at

 

[Brishawk]

Watson admitting in the press he deserved to be dropped!

 

[Sixpence]

Watson admitting in the press he deserved to be dropped!

Surprised he didn't ask for a review!

 

[Tuck In]

10-2. Both to Broad. Rogers and Smith out, caught in slips. Green pitch and seaming.

 

[Tuck In]

15-4

 

[grizzlym]

My god.... If ever Clarke wanted to find some form, like triple century form, it's today.

 

[Tuck In]

My god.... If ever Clarke wanted to find some form, like triple century form, it's today.

He looks shot. Inside edge four and a missed hook dropping short

 

[crazywildhorse]

Wow, there is quite some green on that pitch.

 

[Tuck In]

Wow, there is quite some green on that pitch.

There is. It is wet over here but a moving ball really exposes technique.

 

[Tuck In]

Terrible shot by Clarke. 29-6

 

[crazywildhorse]

This is unbelievably awful.

 

[crazywildhorse]

6 overs!

 

[grizzlym]

Disgraceful.

 

[crazywildhorse]

The Poms are out there taking the piss and laughing away. Really awful.

 

[Tuck In]

The Poms are out there taking the piss and laughing away. Really awful.

As you do. As I say, technique is sub school boy. Peter Neville just seemed bemused by a straight ball

 

[Bedi]

and you just know England are going to pile on the runs too

 

[Thaihawk]

Are we out to break records?

 

[Langford4FBOTC]

This is mad. Forget the runs, balls faced by the top order is a disgrace.

 

[grizzlym]

This is mad. Forget the runs, balls faced by the top order is a disgrace.

A collective mental breakdown.

 

[Bedi]

This is mad. Forget the runs, balls faced by the top order is a disgrace.

8/46 when the Ashes are on the line is an utter disgrace. So utterly depressing

 

[grizzlym]

8/46 when the Ashes are on the line is an utter disgrace. So utterly depressing

It's so abjectly awful, I can actually handle it.

 

[Langford4FBOTC]

Bowled out inside 15 overs... * me. It's not a minefield.

 

[grizzlym]

Bowled out inside 15 overs... **** me. It's not a minefield.

Yay, we got to 50.