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Cricket Discussion - Part 3

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RangaInTeal said:
Also, shame Ussie couldn’t convert the 80 into a 100, or the second dig. Especially after the Bondi incident. Would have been great poetry, a man of colour to be the shining light in the True Blue Test match.

I am really excited to see Australian cricket develop over the next 10-15 years. Mind the spelling but; Connelly, Kellaway, Goodwin, Singh, Peak, Jack Edwards, Wiley, Harvey, Fraser-McGuirk, Beradman, Whitney, Vidler to rattle off a few.
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Fraser-McGurk is somehow still living off a small handful of extraordinary innings - seriously overrated, and almost cringeworthy that he's the guy they mike up when the red bbl franchise is playing. Suckered out cheaply again last night to the wrongun.
 
RangaInTeal said:
Also, shame Ussie couldn’t convert the 80 into a 100, or the second dig. Especially after the Bondi incident. Would have been great poetry, a man of colour to be the shining light in the True Blue Test match.

I am really excited to see Australian cricket develop over the next 10-15 years. Mind the spelling but; Connelly, Kellaway, Goodwin, Singh, Peak, Jack Edwards, Wiley, Harvey, Fraser-McGuirk, Beradman, Whitney, Vidler to rattle off a few.
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Disappointed you didn't have a crack at spelling Corey Rocchiccioli (or as I like to call him, Mad Max). :p
 
I looked at a bit of the Hurricanes v Renegades game last night and the crowd did not seem to be anything extraordinary. There were huge areas of empty seats. Contrast that with the bumper 50k crowds at Adelaide Oval for the first four days of the third Test and it shows that Test cricket is not yet dead and buried.
 

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raptalia said:
I looked at a bit of the Hurricanes v Renegades game last night and the crowd did not seem to be anything extraordinary. There were huge areas of empty seats. Contrast that with the bumper 50k crowds at Adelaide Oval for the first four days of the third Test and it shows that Test cricket is not yet dead and buried.
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It also shows that plenty of people have a ho hum attitude towards the Big Bash.
 
JimmyBC said:
My take on Travis Head is if you want him to get 20 plus test centuries in his career leave him as an opener, I think it's more hit and miss batting at five and getting stuck with the tail a lot for the style of player he is.
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I don't want Head opening against a great fast bowler who is well supported by his fellow opening fast bowler.

I think his technique isn't good enough to make lots of runs against Bumrah and Shami/Siraj and also against Rabada and Marco Jensen.

I also think he will struggle in a 5 test series in England against their seamers if they abandon the Bazball shave the pitches down to no grass so we can Bazball, and go back to the traditional English seamers. He technique is also questionable on the New Zealand seaming pitches.

Post the 2023 ashes series, Oz has been 4 down for less than 100 or so occasions and the lower order batsmen and tail have added between 200-300 so many times to save us that there are plenty of opportunity for #5 and #6 to make hundreds. See my post at #1,671 from a couple of weeks ago with the Statsguru Query to see how bad our top 4 performed in the 18 tests between 2023 Ashes and the 2025-26 Ashes.
 
RussellEbertHandball said:
I don't want Head opening against a great fast bowler who is well supported by his fellow opening fast bowler.

I think his technique isn't good enough to make lots of runs against Bumrah and Shami/Siraj and also against Rabada and Marco Jensen.

I also think he will struggle in a 5 test series in England against their seamers if they abandon the Bazball shave the pitches down to no grass so we can Bazball, and go back to the traditional English seamers. He technique is also questionable on the New Zealand seaming pitches.

Post the 2023 ashes series, Oz has been 4 down for less than 100 or so occasions and the lower order batsmen and tail have added between 200-300 so many times to save us that there are plenty of opportunity for #5 and #6 to make hundreds. See my post at #1,671 from a couple of weeks ago with the Statsguru Query to see how bad our top 4 performed in the 18 tests between 2023 Ashes and the 2025-26 Ashes.
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I don't think it matters Trav has an unusual technique he'll have periods of getting out ugly no matter where he bats you gotta ride it. Nature of the beast. We rode with Warner for years and he was pretty useless away from Australian shores.
 
Imran Khan and his wife have been jailed for another 17 years. He wont do deals with Pakistani military to keep quiet so they keep him locked up. Have to go to Germany's DW English News to get details whilst Aussie news services ignores it.



 
JimmyBC said:
I don't think it matters Trav has an unusual technique he'll have periods of getting out ugly no matter where he bats you gotta ride it. Nature of the beast. We rode with Warner for years and he was pretty useless away from Australian shores.
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Sure Head will probably succeed in Oz as an opener and might do ok against Bumrah and Rabada, but its hard for opposition nations to win in Australia and its about more than just making lots of runs and centuries in Oz.

When Starc, Lyon, Cummins and Hazlewood all end their careers soon, Australian batsmen will have to up their game for Oz to win overseas, or not lose tests and fight out a draw, because the bowlers wont save Oz like the above 4 have since Cummins returned to test cricket in 2017.

That's when we need a top order including openers who can deliver. I doubt Head will deliver as an opener overseas. He has struggled at #5 to deliver overseas and averages 32.50 outside Oz in 28 tests and only century was in the 2023 World Test Championship game.
 
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RussellEbertHandball said:
Sure Head will probably succeed in Oz as an opener and might do ok against Bumrah and Rabada, but its hard for opposition nations to win in Australia and its about more than just making lots of runs and centuries in Oz.

When Starc, Lyon, Cummins and Hazlewood all end their careers soon, Australian batsmen will have to up their game for Oz to win overseas, or not lose tets and fight out a draw, because the bowlers wont save Oz like the above 4 have since Cummins returned to test cricket in 2017.

That's when we need a top order including openers who can deliver. I doubt Head will deliver as an opener overseas. He has struggled at #5 to deliver overseas and averages 32.50 outside Oz in 28 tests and only century was in the 2023 World Test Championship game.
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I can see your point of view for me it's just a case of having the more traditional anchor at the other end which isn't gonna be Weatherald. The thing is you could have two more trad openers & it will still probably go pear shaped in certain conditions, I guess my thoughts are if Trav gets away say one out of four or five innings away from home you probably take it.
 

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The thing about travvy is he scores the important runs. He doesn't necessarily flat track against minnows so his average isn't inflated. But in terms of scoring when we're under the pump, he's now made so many key runs while the rest of the team has flopped.
 
philreich said:
It also shows that plenty of people have a ho hum attitude towards the Big Bash.
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Some people will shake their heads but I actually find the Big Bash boring. I get bored watching some hapless bowler get flogged all over the park. There is a sameness to it all. I have probably posted that comment before.

It is possibly a generation thing but I was raised on the parochialism of State and National teams and cannot get into franchises.
 
raptalia said:
Some people will shake their heads but I actually find the Big Bash boring. I get bored watching some hapless bowler get flogged all over the park. There is a sameness to it all. I have probably posted that comment before.

It is possibly a generation thing but I was raised on the parochialism of State and National teams and cannot get into franchises.
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I MIGHT watch the final if the Strikers are in it, but otherwise I'm with you. Give me a Test match any day of the week!!!
 
Festerz said:
Sign over the escalators to baggage pick up at Tullamarine (Melbourne) Airport today..

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Paid for , I assume, 19 Crimes Wine - part owned by none other than Snoop Dog.
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Apparently there was a headline in this morning's paper in Iceland:

AFTER 3 TOUGH WARM UP GAMES, ENGLAND IS NOW READY FOR THE FIRST TEST IN MELBOURNE 🤣.
 

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philreich said:
Apparently there was a headline in this morning's paper in Iceland:

AFTER 3 TOUGH WARM UP GAMES, ENGLAND IS NOW READY FOR THE FIRST TEST IN MELBOURNE 🤣.
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Yep - the Iceland Cricket (my guess is that Reykjavík pitches aren't spin friendly) twitter account is peak troll. I think its run by an expat pom.


 
Damien Fleming before the game on SEN said he had interviewed head curator Matt Page at an MCC breakfast function a few hours before the game and Page told him he has left 10mm and expected plenty of assistance for the bowler.

Fleming said he is predicting a 3 day test. Oz 3 down before the drinks break suggests he's going to probably be right.
 

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