Test The Ashes Fifth Test January 4-8 1000hrs @ The SCG

[icyflakes]

Something was definitely coming after lunch. Solid couple overs so far.

 

[compact72]

duckett is allergic to the 40's.

will get out soon.

trust me fellas

Nailed it

 

[Doggy]

Hack

 

[Jimthegreat]

Fortunately Green's drop cost bugger all.

 

[Plugger35]

That innings sums up Duckett's series, got a decent start but couldn't go on with it.

 

[Kapow!!!]

Nice Nese!

 

[Bedi]

How did he drop that.

moment of utter madness! He'll be relieved to see the back of Duckett

 

[philreich]

Green heaves a sigh of relief.

 

[PhatBoy]

Damien Fleming rates his taste in music, no idea if it's decent or not but he knows more about music than most cricketers do.

Fleming used to class Bon Jovi as ‘metal’ so I’d take what he says with a grain of salt

 

[danielnajdek]

Now go back home to England you t20 hack.

 

[HirdsTheWord]

Nailed it

just gotta believe m8

 

[HirdsTheWord]

duckett is allergic to the 40's.

will get out soon.

trust me fellas

guys an oracle

 

[Cuzz09]

Geez we like our rests.

 

[3KZ is Football]

Commentators on 7 are unanimous - it was Steve Smith’s fault that Cam Green dropped Ben Duckett. How was Green to know that Smith was capable of taking a single step to his left and get into position to hold a regulation catch? Group-think glazing.

Neser and Boland bowling well.

 

[Portmagpies36]

Stokes built his entire reputation off two innings. One in the chase at Headingley and the other in the World Cup final

Take that away and he is really just England’s equivalent of Shane Watson.

Their batting and bowling averages in test cricket are almost identical.

 

[Bucking Beads]

Broad claiming Duckett was unlucky .

 

[Jimthegreat]

Probably for old Neser it is likely his last Test, bar another pile of injuries again. He made good use of his time in the side.

 

[PhatBoy]

Now go back home to England you t20 hack.

Not sure he can hear you

 

[Carn The Berries]

Another wicket showing that there's enough in the wicket and defaulting to "bowl short for a while" if you don't get a wicket is just lazy and negative captaincy (I'm looking at all of you Messrs Stokes, Cummins & Smith).

 

[sherb]

On yer bike Hyacinth.

 

[Kapow!!!]

Commentators on 7 are unanimous - it was Steve Smith’s fault that Cam Green dropped Ben Duckett. How was Green to know that Smith was capable of taking a single step to his left and get into position to hold a regulation catch? Group-think glazing.

Neser and Bolden bowling well.

Yeah it's pretty bizarre commentary. I don't think there's much logic behind it other than cannonizing aggressive decision making "He saw it and went for it, well done, better to attack then drop then to let it go to the right fielder and be unsure".

 

[GreekLunatic]

He is off to the bar old maté duckett

 

[Scott Tracy]

As much as i'll miss watching the Cricket. I'm looking forward to never having to watch that Cricket Australia Westpac Ad ever again.

 

[HirdsTheWord]

Commentators on 7 are unanimous - it was Steve Smith’s fault that Cam Green dropped Ben Duckett. How was Green to know that Smith was capable of taking a single step to his left and get into position to hold a regulation catch? Group-think glazing.

Neser and Bolden bowling well.

Bolden?

whats his Avg?

 

[Shueygod]

So now 49 is ‘acceptable’ and having a better average than Head away, without having relied on a neutral century to boost it, makes him horrid. This is a perplexing and ever evolving rationale.

Head plays with blokes who would have never sniffed the English one either. He’s opening with one at the moment.

Well no, he’s not better than Duckett away, he scores a higher percentage of his team’s runs which you’ve arbitrarily decided makes him better. That’s a totally different data analysis. Head has barely gotten the ball off the square in NZ, SL and Pakistan, was fairly ordinary in the UAE and even his mediocre form in the West Indies owed a lot to a number of dropped catches from our abysmal fielders.

Using your metric, I can claim that George Headley is a better batsman than anyone in history bar Bradman because he scored a greater percentage of his team’s runs then anyone else and his percentage is remarkably close to Bradman (there’s only a few percentage points in it). In fact, I will.

49 is acceptable in the context that England average about 450 runs at home yeah.

Explain a better way to assess conditions when looking at away records? The Australian bats are better than the English bats (obviously), Head significantly (only 1.1%!!! Which is actually 10% better relative to Duckett) performs better in comparison to said superior batsmen than Duckett.

Again if Head is a poor away batsmen (acknowledged by you and myself), yet performs 10% better relative to better batsmen than Duckett, what does that make Duckett.

This is my last post on the matter, I’ve seen you on here previously and your disdain for the Australian cricket team clouds your judgement.

If you want to continue believing Duckett is test quality, you go for it.