Ashes 3rd test @ The WACA

[estibador]

Waste a review out of pure desperation. Great strategy.

Will ****ing lol now if they can't get a genuine one overturned later due to being out of reviews.

 

[footyfan1978]

Mitch Marsh looking the most comfortable I've seen him batting at test level.

And as I say that he nearly chops the ball on to his stumps.



The English attack back then had maybe one or two decent fast bowlers, the Windies from that era had a plethora of great fast bowlers in Holding, Marshall, Roberts, Garner, Walsh, Bishop and Ambrose with guys like Colin Croft and Patrick Patterson as back up.

There was no easy runs against those guys which is why I rate Allan Border so highly, one of the few guys that could make big scores against them regularly.

You missed Wayne Daniel, Winston Davis and Sylvester Clarke, just to name a few more....

 

[The_Reaper]

Great review. What pillock called for that?

a desperate root

 

[ROOTA#6]

Waste a review out of pure desperation. Great strategy.

Will ******* lol now if they can't get a genuine one overturned later due to being out of reviews.

Going out a l imb here but I don't reckon even Steve Smith would have reviewed that if he was in the situation

 

[imperial_oz]

a desperate root

Nothing worse than a desperate root

 

[MeltFlog]

Going out a l imb here but I don't reckon even Steve Smith would have reviewed that if he was in the situation

Definately out on a limb. Any
Not down leg and its a wide.

 

[spookism]

Nothing worse than a desperate root

Or better.

Depends on your point of view, I guess.

 

[Jimthegreat]

Step one achieved, he's passed his average.

 

[Sylvia Saint]

Smithy is about to overtake Voges as second highest average after Bradman.

Voges has to be the biggest statistical anomaly of all time. Rubbish batsman, especially when we needed him, who feasted on shit teams like the West Indies.

Not sure if it counts as a 'statistic' but Smith playing his first match at #8 and #9 is pretty bizarre too!

 

[MeltFlog]

Definately out on a limb. Any more down leg and its a wide.

 

[The_Reaper]

Nothing worse than a desperate root

Depends how long the drought is

 

[trueblue_91]

From Twitter: England reviewing just because Smith played a false shot. Fair enough tbh.

 

[spookism]

Mitch Marsh has officially increased his average...

 

[GotTheGoodes]

Nothing worse than a desperate root

Speak for yourself mate haha

 

[SilentHunter_]

Smith is actually ridiculous. Could beat his best of 215 easy.

 

[NSWCROW]

Did his leggies get better after that? How did his missus go against them?

She married someone else and he became a medium pacer so no

 

[gordo2016]

Voges has to be the biggest statistical anomaly of all time. Rubbish batsman, especially when we needed him, who feasted on shit teams like the West Indies.

Not sure if it counts as a 'statistic' but Smith playing his first match at #8 and #9 is pretty bizarre too!

Bullshit. Voges was far from rubbish. Fantastic shield player who made the most of his opportunities early for Australia. It is not his fault teams like the West Indies were not strong. There have been many worse players than Voges who played test cricket.

 

[gordo2016]

Nothing worse than a desperate root

Disagree. Reckon it is the best one.

 

[Pakenhamsaint]

Quality camerawork 9.

 

[Pakenhamsaint]

Couple of nice shots.

 

[melanChronic]

Bullshit. Voges was far from rubbish. Fantastic shield player who made the most of his opportunities early for Australia. It is not his fault teams like the West Indies were not strong. There have been many worse players than Voges who played test cricket.

There have also been many better, ergo why it is painful from a purists perspective to see Voges' average as second only to the Don.

As far as I am concerned, Voges has merely shifted the all-time average threshold from min 30 innings to min 1500 runs.

 

[Demosthenes]

The English attack back then had maybe one or two decent fast bowlers, the Windies from that era had a plethora of great fast bowlers in Holding, Marshall, Roberts, Garner, Walsh, Bishop and Ambrose with guys like Colin Croft and Patrick Patterson as back up.

I don't think anyone would claim the attacks had a similar depth of talent, but similarly the nature of Bodyline tactics involved a unique level of danger and disadvantage that the opponents of the West Indies never had to deal with.

Trying to hypothesise about how batsmen and bowlers of different eras would match up against each other is fairly futile, but there is plenty of evidence that Bradman could hold his own against dangerous and intimidatory fast bowling.

 

[Bob Neil]

I bet Mitch Marsh looks amazing against the bowling machine. So mechanical but when it’s in the slot jeez he can cream it.

 

[Westend]

Fantastic batting Mitch.....keep playing your shots...can take the game away from england

 

[largebus]

Glorious