2nd Test; Australia v Pakistan @ Adelaide Over (D/N) November 29-December 3

[tombomb]

always think the keeper up to the stumps is very overrated.

 

[arden station]

Watching on Ch.7 and Brett Lee calls for Google in his ad and my phone responds - anyone had that issue? I got a surprise and farted.

 

[Gethelred]

Anyways, just got home from work. What's the pitch assessment?

Doing a bit. Swing and movement off the deck.

What's going to be interesting is, just how much movement there is in the middle session. Bowlers are still giving one/two poor balls over the course of an over that can be scored off, though, and their length is still consistently about a foot to half a foot shorter than it needs to be to make the most of the conditions, IMO.

 

[swanssince2002]

Marnus hanging in there after Burns got out early... there is a difference between him doing it now and Bancroft doing it in he Ashes. Bancroft still looked like getting out every over.

 

[Woody15]

Warney creepin

 

[corbies]

always think the keeper up to the stumps is very overrated.

It's only effective for the purpose of getting Labuschagne back in his crease. Abbas would be a nightmare to do it to with his seam movement.

 

[HBF]

Warne crapping on again ffs

 

[HBF]

Labs missed out on one there.

 

[tombomb]

Warney creepin

isa is so on to him though.

 

[corbies]

Musa is bowling way too short yeah?

 

[HBF]

isa is so on to him though.

She sure is.
Giving him absolutely nothing

 

[tombomb]

She sure is.
Giving him absolutely nothing

she is like the hot girl at the christmas party surrounded by blokes who think they are in with a chance, even though her boyfriend is coming to pick her up in an hour.

 

[Gethelred]

Lol keeper standing up to an opening bowler

... who bowls gentle 125 km an hour.

Don't know why more keepers at international level don't do it. Phillander, Southee, Abbas, Anderson; hell, even Mitch Marsh wouldn't be a bad candidate in English conditions. Anything to get players who are trying to counter the swing/seam movement of a decent bowler is going to struggle when deprived of their ability to choose where to hit the ball.

 

[HBF]

Junior giving it to Vaughan.
Love it

 

[Ekomaira]

onya Junior

 

[PhatBoy]

You might know but you said he had 2 centuries and a 90 in his last 3 innings. I was just correcting you.

It was a typo, I went to write a century and a 90 in his last two innings (before today) but checked and realised there was a second innings failure in between, didn’t correct myself properly

 

[HBF]

Davey playing those square cuts well.

 

[Gethelred]

Marnus needs to stand on his stumps to get Smith in, this run rate is unacceptable.

LOL

 

[HBF]

she is like the hot girl at the christmas party surrounded by blokes who think they are in with a chance, even though her boyfriend is coming to pick her up in an hour.

Wouldn't surprise me if Warne went pretty hard at her off air.

 

[Gethelred]

Wonder how much of it is above the shoulders for Warner when he's away from Australia.

Sure, technique obviously plays a factor, but batting's not terribly easy at the moment and it definitely isn't as easy as he's making it look.

 

[tombomb]

Wouldn't surprise me if Warne went pretty hard at her off air.

nah, i think he is just the kind of guy who can never completely turn off a potential opportunity ... regardless of how slim.

 

[HBF]

Shot Labs.

 

[Adelaide Hawk]

You can't bowl that short when you're half rat power.

 

[rippersnipper]

Young bloke on debut, just needs to pitch it up a bit more.

 

[HBF]

nah, i think he is just the kind of guy who can never completely turn off a potential opportunity ... regardless of how slim.

Yeah I think so also.