Test The Ashes Second Test December 4-8 1430hrs @ The Gabba

[wirra44]

Green is trash

 

[Jimthegreat]

You'd think as a captain you'd be smart enough not to bowl these two together.

Surely Webster is a better bat and bowler than Green.

 

[ams4crows]

Green is not a good enough bowler to be the all rounder

 

[satty]

This is poor captaincy if it isn't just a change of ends for starc.

 

[Plugger35]

Great victorian cricketers.
Julien Weiner.
Jeff Moss.
Paul Hibberd.

Tony Dodemaide

 

[Bucking Beads]

McGain?

He's there too

 

[Kapow!!!]

I think it's just the surface and drop in quality of the bowling alongside the fact that Root hasn't gone cheap this time round.

The only difference in the game is the dots Root has faced, IMO.

And Stokes, and Jacks. Crawley got away but definitely respected more balls than he usually does. Duckett and Pope getting out cheaply probably helps.

Really it feels like only Brook is the only batsman who has gotten in who has stuck to the ethos. This looks like a more mature version, which is a good thing and the growth many have questioned it was capable of. The pitch is trickier than I initially gave credit for and the bowling, despite some surface level analysis on here, has by and large been tight with a conservative field. I think a full blown old school bazball would've been long gone for cheap by now.

 

[satty]

Green is not a good enough bowler to be the all rounder

Lacks variations for his pedestrian pace.

 

[Around the Wicket]

But what about Quineys 9 on debut, still gets talked about, great innings.

 

[norway blue]

Wouldn't mind seeing a bit of line and length from Green. Feels like he's searching for a wicket every ball.

He’s not Joel Garner. Yet.

 

[KennyHuntersBlues]

Honestly never again Doggett please

Even last test every wicket was a dead set half tracker

Yeah
I much prefer Bartlett
Reckon he’d be quicker and more dangerous

 

[satty]

That green over dissipated all the pressure . So stupid.

 

[kozi]

This over rate can’t afford a no ball

 

[ams4crows]

Just trash bowling at Root seriously he's on 88, his eye is in the wide trash is not going to get him out

 

[MarcMaverick]

Less Dean Cox

Dean Cox

Age

44

Ht

203cm

Wt

107kg

Pos.

F/R

Career

Season

Last 5

D

15.9

4star

K

8.9

3star

HB

6.9

4star

M

5.3

5star

T

1.5

3star

G

0.6

4star

No current season stats available

D

13.0

4star

K

5.8

3star

HB

7.2

5star

M

4.8

5star

T

1.4

4star

G

0.0

1star

and more Coen Livingstone for Cam.

 

[LukeParkerno1]

Yeah
I much prefer Bartlett
Reckon he’d be quicker and more dangerous

Need a spinner forget quicks there’s enough of them

 

[Kennedy Parker]

I don’t see how Doggett offers more than Lyon in this test.

 

[Jimthegreat]

Great victorian cricketers.
Julien Weiner.
Jeff Moss.
Paul Hibberd.

Jess Moss is pretty stiff . Only played one Test for 22 and 38no against Imran and co.

 

[LukeParkerno1]

Get this spud off

 

[Moonwatcher]

I don’t see how Doggett offers more than Lyon in this test.

At least we know.

 

[satty]

Jeez just get starc on.

 

[TennisPlayerAndy]

Doggett.

Garbage.

 

[Gethelred]

McGain?

Harsh.

In that test, there were three tons and two 150's to Ashwell Prince, Jacques Kallis and AB De Villiers. They went after him, and all three are notable players of spin.

He was treated the way an awful lot of spinners were treated post Warne: trialed in inclement conditions then discarded as 'not Warne' immediately afterwards.

 

[Snarls Barkley]

Jacks looking very competent. Wouldn’t look out of place at 3

 

[Jimthegreat]

Complete idiot Smith. These two bowling together will ruin all the good work.