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

[Snarls Barkley]

The match was already lost so I don’t take too much note of how Stokes and Jack batted.

I might be reading too much into it but it felt like a bit of a statement from Stokes

It’s been “that’s the way they play” for the last few years and there has been little to no accountability for the bats throwing their wicket away. I saw the knuckle down approach as this is the standard now, we’re going to switch on for the rest of the tour and start valuing our wickets. I don’t think they’ll all start going 50 off 150 now but I expect to see less drives on the up and more caution to Starc

 

[Snarls Barkley]

He got sconned while batting against India in 2014.

Sconned is putting it mildly too

Ball through the grill at 140kph. Very nasty

 

[sherb]

We went the second day of Sobers innings, my father said we might see something special, not really that amazing prediction because he'd already made 100 plus on the first day he batted. I remember my father being so excited, which was unusual. I think it was the first time I had been to the G for a cricket match.

I found some footage of that innings.

It features a pre-back injury Lillee, who was raw but rapid. The match immediately prior to this he had ripped through the World XI in Perth, taking 8-29.

Also featuring K O'K, with his original bowling action which had been modified by the time the Centenary Test came around.

The World XI were 7-319 in their second innings, leading by 218. Thanks to an 186 run partnership between Sobers and Peter Pollock, they ended up with 514 and ended up beating Australia by 96 runs.

It's also worth noting that this is the match in Graeme Watson got smashed in the face by a Tony Greig beamer, that left him in a very bad way.

 

[240volt]

Agreed - Kallis was consistent but Sobers could turn a match on its head and blow it wide open. Amazing that you saw that famous innings.

I seen that same innings when I was a kid.
He absolutely killed the bowlers.
Poor old Kerry didn’t know what to do.
I remember one shot in particular always.
Remember these were the days when the boundary was the fence so it was a long way on the MCG.
He cut a ball to backward point, the fielder only had about 5 to 10 meters to move but had no hope before it crashed into the fence.
It will always stand in my mind as the best batting performance I ever seen.

 

[sherb]

I found footage of Watson getting hit. Go to 44 mins 5 secs.

It wasn't actually a head high full toss as such, I'm pretty sure it deflected off Watson's bat into his face. It's pretty scary stuff, even on this outdated footage you can hear the crack caused by the impact.

Watson lost a lot of blood because of this and nearly died in hospital I believe. He recovered to go on the 72 tour of England though, thankfully.

Some things stick with you, I remember this incident vividly.

Incidentally, Graeme Watson was also a VFL footballer for Melbourne..............

 

[sherb]

I seen that same innings when I was a kid.
He absolutely killed the bowlers.
Poor old Kerry didn’t know what to do.
I remember one shot in particular always.
Remember these were the days when the boundary was the fence so it was a long way on the MCG.
He cut a ball to backward point, the fielder only had about 5 to 10 meters to move but had no hope before it crashed into the fence.
It will always stand in my mind as the best batting performance I ever seen.

It might be the second shot into the highlights I posted above, he absolutely smashed it.

 

[DaTBird187]

Who is the guy in the bench with the same earrings as weathers?

Sinbad?

 

[240volt]

It might be the second shot into the highlights I posted above, he absolutely smashed it.

Yes funny enough I posted before I checked the video out and I believe you’re right it was that second shot.
Amazing it’s 53 years ago, feels like only the other day
He also was the first player to hit 6 sixes in a 6 ball over.
I believe he done it playing county cricket in England.

 

[Play it Sam]

Go Aussies- If you watched, or attended, lucky you. Forced to listen to ABC radio and some over excited screaming banshee, drowning out the others with her totally incomprehensible accent.
TF got home fast for You Tube highlights ( and BF cricket boffins last ten pages for the laughs)

 

[sherb]

Yes funny enough I posted before I checked the video out and I believe you’re right it was that second shot.
Amazing it’s 53 years ago, feels like only the other day
He also was the first player to hit 6 sixes in a 6 ball over.
I believe he done it playing county cricket in England.

Malcolm Nash (the bowler) was actually a fast medium bowler, who was toying around with spin bowling at the time.

I don't think he continued with the spin experiment much longer after this episode.

 

[Patron]

He has as many runs as Ricky pointing in tests and as many wickets as Brett Lee in tests.

So kallis's test career was essentially - Ricky's test batting career + Brett lee's test bowling career.

It is absolutely crazy how good he was .

Plus the second best slipper i've ever seen.

 

[Topkent]

One of the best stands I ever saw was smith and Russell staging a rear guard action in the windies in 1990
Hardly scored any runs but tension was palpable

Thats the proper stuff

You have your head so far up your arse mate if you think watching teams grind for 160 overs to make 320 and the match to end in a draw unless they are saving a test or series is in anyway what people wanna watch now.

 

[Kappa]

Malcolm Nash (the bowler) was actually a fast medium bowler, who was toying around with spin bowling at the time.

I don't think he continued with the spin experiment much longer after this episode.

That boundary looks about 25 metres ?

 

[Pistol Night]

Pillock, Gimboid, Smeghead, Goit, Durrbrain, Plonker etc...

Briefcase w***er

 

[MisterMarcus]

He has as many runs as Ricky pointing in tests and as many wickets as Brett Lee in tests.

So kallis's test career was essentially - Ricky's test batting career + Brett lee's test bowling career.

It is absolutely crazy how good he was .

From what I've seen, he seems to suffer from what I call Steve Waugh Syndrome.

Because he was capable of producing gritty backs-to-the-wall defensive knocks to bail his team out of trouble, some people seem to think that's all he ever did.

So in some quarters he has that "He was a match saver, not a match winner! He could fight and scrap when South Africa were behind but didn't make a big score in the first innings to get them in front" kind of reputation. Which takes him down a peg in their eyes.

Which is nonsense as it is for Waugh.

 

[Topkent]

Briefcase w***er

 

[darcytiger]

Grade Cricketer podcast essential listening on the way into work this morning, some very strong thoughts!

 

[sr36]

Didn't something happen to bring that on? Was he hit while batting perhaps?

Yes. Copped a really bad one. Same thing happened to McDermott, who could bat previously.

Both were whole hearted bowlers.

 

[Bletch]

Malcolm Nash (the bowler) was actually a fast medium bowler, who was toying around with spin bowling at the time.

I don't think he continued with the spin experiment much longer after this episode.

Thanks, hadn't seen that vision before.

Imagine what'd he'd have been like with a modern bat!

 

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

Love these guys

The GWS of cricket

 

[revo333]

Yes. Their weakness is papering over the cracks in the Aussie team.
Ageing pace attack, spin and batsmen. Last hurrah for many of those guys
The quality of true test cricket is going down for all countries though, so no big deal. A race to the bottom.

We will be fine as long as every player doesn't do the year long Warner farewell tour.

 

[Tyberious Funk]

Zak Crawley has played 61 tests, for an average of 32. Looks like a million bucks when he's on song, but after 61 tests, averages aren't gonna lie. That's crap. I reckon his career typifies Bazball. Pig-headed unwillingness to adjust his game, and a coach that backs him to the hilt, despite the failures.

 

[revo333]

Also arguably the defining spell of 2009 - ran through us in the final test to put us massively behind the game, which we never recovered.

Broad > Anderson

 

[Dogs_R_Us]

I like Cummins as Captain and would have preferred him playing but it’s been nice to see Smith get these two tests as Captain.

Cummins has said he leans on Smith’s experience quite a lot.

 

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

Michael Neser is the oldest Australian since Ken Mackay to get his first Test 5fer. If that turns out to be inaccurate, blame Adam Collins because it he who I was listening to when he revealed that.

Bob Holland?