Agree he did well to crack through that prickly vaneer. Truth is i like all of his interviews (esp as his childhood hero was AB like mine), but found the Stuart Macgill and Dizzy interviews to pretty insightful
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Test The Ashes Fourth Test December 26-30 1000hrs @ The MCG
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Yeah im a fan. Hes actually a great interviewer
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Whatever they were doing to the ball to make it reverse that much was real reason
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Yeah that was the best test cricket series I've seen, so many great players with Vaughan, Ponting, Warne, Flintoff and a young KP.
Every test was epic, so much drama, it would be hard to beat that for a test cricket series.
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Let’s not mints words here..
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Most openers ask for a night watchman when there is only one over to go. Not Scotty Boland, though, he's the real deal. Waddaman.
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Freddie around the wicket to Gilly made me realise we were actually mortal. And I’m trouble
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Let's keep dirt like that in our pocket shall we?
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Scotty should have asked Jake Weatherald to protect him from the new ball until tomorrow
I didn't notice what was happening as I was watching it live, but the retrospectives over the last 20 years never cease to be eye opening.
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He doesn't do that sort of thing. He goes out in his designated spot and faces whatever music he is asked to dance to.
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Flintoff was off tap. I vaguely remember Lee bowling an amazing spell somewhere and copying his celebrations and the crowd going mental. Most of the memories now are through clips here and there. I’d only just hooked up with a girl at the time and spent night after night in the other room hooked on the entire series. Amazing she stuck around
Everything and everyone came second to that series. Was as gripping as any sporting event i can remember
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This over from Flintoff in 2005 was memorable, he bowled Langer and dismissed Ponting and Benaud was still commentating.
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So the wickets a bit green
So many bowled through gates big enough to drive a bus through or just playing the wrong line.
Cover your stumps, its lesson 1
Brooks 1st delivery sums the series up.
Both sides are awful
So many bowled through gates big enough to drive a bus through or just playing the wrong line.
Cover your stumps, its lesson 1
Brooks 1st delivery sums the series up.
Both sides are awful
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The pitch is crap, 20 wickets shouldn't be falling day 1 of a ****ing Test.
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Having had a look at this pitch, there has been extravagant (if inconsistent) movement, but the pitch itself isn't as two-paced as the SCG one from 2024/25 or that Gabba nightmare from 2022/23.
So what gives? There has been some very good bowling and some ordinary batting, but that wouldn't normally ensure a 20-wicket day, I wouldn't think?
So what gives? There has been some very good bowling and some ordinary batting, but that wouldn't normally ensure a 20-wicket day, I wouldn't think?
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AVERAGE SEAM MOVEMENT DAY 1 OF THE SERIES
Perth: 0.66 degrees
Brisbane: 0.60 degrees
Adelaide: 0.50 degrees
Melbourne: 0.83 degrees
Perth: 0.66 degrees
Brisbane: 0.60 degrees
Adelaide: 0.50 degrees
Melbourne: 0.83 degrees
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I can't help but feel the curators have been getting the MCG pitch wrong for a very long time now. Diminishes the event.
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Day 1 - some life early generally good to bat on
Days 2-3 - should be good to bat on
Days 4-5 - pitch deteriorates and spinners come into the game
That should be the the Test pitch.. not hard.
Even at the lower range of day 3 becoming tricky is acceptable
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I've done my fair share of backpacking around the world and the ability to be independent and free on the other side of the world is what's genuinely enticing for me. Travelling is an opportunity to break free from the structures that we live - working Mon-Fri, playing or going to sport on the weekend, people dictating where you need to be and how long you need to be there, commitments to friends and family.
I honestly don't see the appeal of being part of a group like that - you're just getting more of the same of your home life, a commitment to a group of people. Yeah, go with a friend and watch the games to support England, but do so to really embrace the idea that you're in a foreign country with new and exciting experiences. If you're part of the Barmy Army, to me, you're an uninteresting person who gets more comfort in doing something that's acceptable and understandable to your life back home, rather than thrilling and exciting is new.
It's not as if buying flights, accommodation and tickets in Australia is all that difficult should to be an Englishman travelling outside the Barmy Army.
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In 2017-18 it was a total pudding.
In 2018-19 it was just flat.
In 2024-25 it was sporting, but still possible to make good totals on.
In 2025-26 we now apparently have extravagant seam movement.
The thing that puzzles me is that the GABBA 2022/23 & SCG 2024/25 pitches both facilitated considerable seam movement AND had more even (EDIT: uneven) bounce to boot, and yet neither led to 20 wicket days (the former came close, though). What gives?
There was some ordinary batting and some very good bowling, but surely that wasn't the only reason?
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Yeah, I have no frame of reference for how many degrees of movement makes it "flat", "difficult to bat on", whatever.
But I suppose Adelaide on day 1 being flat and having 0.5 degrees of movement, and Perth being sporting (but not difficult to bat on, maybe slightly on the bowler side of friendly) being 0.66. Then Melbourne being 0.83 means the difference between it and Perth in terms of day 1 seam movement is approximately similar to Perth and Adelaide.
That is, Melbourne is harder to bat on at a similar amount that Perth was hard to bat on compared to Adelaide.
It seems to me that maybe 0.6-0.65 degrees of movement is ideal for a day 1 pitch that should deteriorate for day 5, so clearly 0.83 is ridiculous.
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