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Recent content by sr36
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Test The Ashes Fourth Test December 26-30 1000hrs @ The MCG
Timeless test on a road to finish? -
Test The Ashes Fourth Test December 26-30 1000hrs @ The MCG
Chappell described it as the best 100 he's ever seen. Surely someone should have played the best innings ever ... Did AB, Chapelli, Haynes, Lloyd and Richards not want it enough that match? That one was a shocking pitch with some grubbers by the end. Did it have the sideways movement when... -
Test The Ashes Fourth Test December 26-30 1000hrs @ The MCG
Root has played a heap of innings with a high level of control in Aust. He's traditionally not gone on with it as when he's got to 50 he's pulled out the late cuts and nicked one. He's never looked like he has in a couple of these tests this series where he's had no control. -
Test The Ashes Fourth Test December 26-30 1000hrs @ The MCG
This was a particularly hard one, but according to ball tracking, that Adelaide pitch, which was viewed as a batting paradise, offered more seam movement than the average Aussie pitch a decade ago. The new Kookaburra combined with a different attitude towards pitches has simply made batting... -
Test The Ashes Fourth Test December 26-30 1000hrs @ The MCG
It's the conditions. Root and Smith are two of the best accumulators that the game has ever seen, yet they just never look set. Saying they don't have the patience to accumulate is just ridiculous. The ball is darting around and they're going to snick one or one will deck in and catch them... -
Test The Ashes Fourth Test December 26-30 1000hrs @ The MCG
Two of the best accumulators of runs the game has ever seen were playing in that match. Root was made to look like a hack by Neser bowling accurate medium pace. -
Test The Ashes Fourth Test December 26-30 1000hrs @ The MCG
Brisbane was an outstanding pitch too. -
Test The Ashes Fourth Test December 26-30 1000hrs @ The MCG
I thought he batted very well in the first innings here too. -
Test The Ashes Fourth Test December 26-30 1000hrs @ The MCG
The bowling depth is old. -
Test The Ashes Fourth Test December 26-30 1000hrs @ The MCG
MCG and WACA they got the timing wrong - they were a day and a half out with their preparation - those pitches were going to flatten out and become ok for batting. The Indian ones were designed to be turners from day 1 and then deteriorate from there. -
Test The Ashes Fourth Test December 26-30 1000hrs @ The MCG
No one was hitting that Smith ball. It was unplayable. With his foot further across he would have been out LBW rather than bowled. DRS has changed things. You've got to hit that ball and can't rely on the benefit of the doubt saving you anymore -
Test The Ashes Fourth Test December 26-30 1000hrs @ The MCG
I think we won this series because England hadn't done their homework. They hadn't been watching and realised that Aussie pitches now seam. So they came with a plan to bang it into the pitch and just bowled far too short for 3 tests. -
Test The Ashes Fourth Test December 26-30 1000hrs @ The MCG
Look how the top scorers batted. Controlled accumulation just wasn't going to work on that pitch. No one was middling it so you had to reduce the chances of edges being caught. -
Test The Ashes Fourth Test December 26-30 1000hrs @ The MCG
They're just batting on much more difficult pitches than they used to. Aussie pitches seam - they didn't used to. The accumulators are struggling. Smith has to play much straighter than he used to. Even Root is struggling. It's too hard for Marnus. Boland and Neser are really dangerous - yet are... -
Test The Ashes Fourth Test December 26-30 1000hrs @ The MCG
In the era that everyone is romanticising about, the ball didnt seam in Australian tests, until the pitch was really wearing - in which case you got batting collapses.