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

[Dixie Flatline]

To be fair, Davey. It doesn't take much to baffle you.

 

[Howard Littlejohn]

Start pinging them 5 runs for every over they are short and that would change player behaviour pretty quickly.

I have no idea how it could be implemented of course, just talking generally.

Personally, I'm not a fan of run penalties and changing scoring.

I am an advocate of 30 over sessions rather than 90 over days. And giving umpires more power to move things along.
So slow you don't get lunch? Deal with it, bowl your 30 overs first.

 

[MJG14]

They realise if we don't bowl them out we'll have a massive over rate penalty right

Simon Taufel seemed to suggest before that this only applies at 80+ overs.

 

[MarcMaverick]

What a shot by Archer!

 

[Plugger35]

Why aren’t England declaring

Why would they? Jofra can bat and he just smashed a six.

 

[Cold Sober]

We are defs losing WTC points for this match, so it might sting us in the end

Who gives a shit, it's England, they invented time wasting.

 

[TY24]

That's where you put restrictions on the batters as well.
You MUST be ready to face the ball when the bowler is standing at the top of thier mark.

Yeah that'll never happen

 

[Bucking Beads]

I'll be pissed off if we send Head out tonight.

 

[Chuckie357]

Quiet down Davey, you are not fooling anyone trying to sound smart

 

[freo_leo29]

Not if we bowl them out inside 80 overs, we don't.

Inside 60 I thought?

 

[Stig O'Hara]

That’s some nice baseball there Jof.

 

[Dixie Flatline]

Fair baseball swing on Archer.

 

[TigerCraig]

That's where you put restrictions on the batters as well.
You MUST be ready to face the ball when the bowler is standing at the top of thier mark.

None of this undoing and redoing your gloves every ball

 

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

Very sensible non-catch

 

[Scorpus]

We didn't catch that on purpose

 

[Kapow!!!]

See, THIS is where you can raise a question about the spirit of cricket.

Mind you, the hypocrisy of the first test of 2009 would be brought up if they did...

 

[kozi]

Strategic non catch surprised Marnus didn’t go the spoil

 

[badgrill]

****s sake Marnus

 

[Jimthegreat]

Can't believe no-one caught that.

 

[Cold Sober]

Piss weak umpires, how obvious are the Aussies

It's a beautiful watch.

 

[Gethelred]

Inside 60 I thought?

They had a dude on the Ch.7 coverage and he said 80.

 

[TY24]

Why would they? Jofra can bat and he just smashed a six.

Because any wickets they take tonight will be worth a hell of a lot more than whatever token score Jofra puts up

 

[windyhill]

Starc has come of age.

Gun from day one.

 

[MJG14]

Obviously bowling at night is compelling but there is always the chance of rolling through a team in the afternoon as well. When we dismissed India for 36 basically all the damage was in the afternoon.

 

[freo_leo29]

They had a dude on the Ch.7 coverage and he said 80.

Maybe it has changed but it was definitely inside 60