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Test The Ashes Third Test December 17-21 1000hrs @ The Adelaide Oval
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Wonder if England will crumble in these last two tests, usually you’d think we’d be less intense but perhaps they’ve lost any motivation, if they had any at all.
Hope we get a couple of half decent contests though. May as well play Bashir and drop Pope and shuffle Jacks and Stokes up the order.
Hope we get a couple of half decent contests though. May as well play Bashir and drop Pope and shuffle Jacks and Stokes up the order.
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Neser should play at the MCG. I like Richardson around the squad but don't know if he's got the overs in him tbh. Especially with Green still not back up to big bowling loads and a new spinner in the team..
Interesting cricket Aus has Cooper Connolly’s name thrown in with the spinner. Actually do think.
With Careys form with the bat, I actually think Cooper makes a way more fitting 7 than Inglis. Can Bowl a bit too and can make his way up the batting order eventually
With Careys form with the bat, I actually think Cooper makes a way more fitting 7 than Inglis. Can Bowl a bit too and can make his way up the batting order eventually
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I assume he's being flown in to replace Neser carrying the drinks
True, but touring the world as a cricket statistician and stand-up comedian is the sort of life I'd be pretty happy to lead, tbh.
Unless the conditions wildly support a bowler, the selectors cant ignore a player who has just taken 5 fer. Neser has to play.
Neser is a GABBA specialist and proven to be the right change, we know Doggett won't make it (too pedestrian for international Test). We know Richardson will make it provided he can remain fit.
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I'm not THAT old.....am I??
I thought we'd see more of him for sure.
Edit: bad back injury finished him didn't it??
Australia has probably been overrepresented compared to some other countries for left arm quicks. Reid, Whitney, Julian and more recent times of Johnson and Starc. West Indies throughout their dominant era relied completely on right arm quicks. England have also had very few. Nice for variety but not a necessity.
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He's supremely talented but do we need a bit more from him in shield cricket to get him in the side. That's my opinion anyway.
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Cooper Connolly is not a spinner, he's a batter. Pick him when he's ready, he's gonna be a gun, but any spin you get out of him is just a bonus, ala Steve Smith, Travis Head etc.
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He obviously gets off on that feeling otherwise he’d captain better
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Clearly he has his flaws tactically but who else have they got to lead. They'd be totally ****ed without him
Feel like he mustve been close to playing the last test or he wouldn't have rocked up to the ground ready to go only to have a talk an hour before play
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Definitely got some Larry Fine about him.
His head's probably grown through his hair like that because (I'm pretty sure) he is the stats man for Test Match Special, so all those stats needed somewhere to go.
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I understand that, he was picked too early, imo, and as a spinner, which was wrong. Led to an underwhelming debut.
Pick him as a bat, when he is ready, in the right position. I don't think he's far off and could come in at number 6 if they decide to send Green back to the Shield. But I was responding to the suggestion he could play as a spinner in Melbourne.
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As a batter?
Look, I have a lot of time for Cooper Connolly to eventually be a test batter but there's at least half a dozen that I'd pick ahead of him.
Give him another year or two in the Shield and if he's starting to hit centuries then he could come in at 24yo and have a 10+ year test career. But go too early on these guys and you risk ruining their career.
Yes he had injury problems with his back.I'm not THAT old.....am I??
I thought we'd see more of him for sure.
Edit: bad back injury finished him didn't it??
Hate to break it to you mate but he’s just turned 72
Fun fact: Australia has changed its XI for the last 14 matches in a row (Melbourne will be the 15th).
I don't think a settled team bothers them that much, tbh.
may be true but if you've spent any time in and around inner melbourne you'd know they certainly don't adhere to that.
It’s just a ploy to weaken the Scorchers. Watch them both head over and not play.
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