Australian Cricket Thread - No.3 🏏

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Dadda Dave said:
Shits me no end it ain't on free to air .
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just the beginning - 5 years time no sport you like to watch fta will be available to you - thankyou government, thankyou non-existent anti-syphoning laws
 

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:oops:That is so ridiculous!!
The average family can't afford fox etc..
And they reckon our kids are over weight and don't play enough sport ? Well there's going to be a lot more if they can't run around pretending to be Crippa if they can't watch him play if they don't have fox ..
******* w***ers.
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Can't even give you 2 a like for those quotes ffs .
 
A bit of both.

Batting order is wrong and the openers failed again.

Chalal’s 2 wickets in his first over were not the result of his bowling. Marsh and Kawaja had control of the game and both got out in poor circumstances.

Again Handscomb and Maxwell seemed to get control of the game again however Maxie let himself down (again).

At 6/150ish I decided it was time to go for a walk. Handscomb looks OK (better than his test efforts). Richardson, Zampa and Siddle are not great but did their best.

Looking at the batting I’d only be confident about Marsh and Handscomb at the moment. A bit of a problem with the World Cup on the horizon.
 
Handscomb just needs to readjust his technique somewhat, and to harden his mindset.

His issue isn't entirely technically based, it's drawn off the fact that from a purely superficial level his scoring shots early in his innings in red ball cricket (and white ball, too, but it's less of a problem there) are either behind square on the off side or deflections in front or behind square on the leg. He waits for the ball in those areas; if he doesn't get them, he's stuck up one end. When he gets going (and his form is reasonable) he scores all around the park, but square of the wicket on the off side (both in front and behind) remain a real strength for him.

Against India - indeed, pretty much since they dropped him the first time - his issue is the same as the rest of the batting order, he cannot hit the single, and the fours get rarer and rarer as the bowlers realign to target you, and you go out looking for an outlet. They targetted his scoring shots, and let pressure do the work.

You overcome this by working on other things. Work on a straight drive, for them attacking your stumps like they spent most of their time doing to Handscomb. Work on charging the quicks, to compensate for how deep you are in your crease (that should really be a part of his playbook, anyway, given how deep his standard stance has him) and to get to them on the full toss. Learn the difference between a back foot drive and a cut shot!!! (a huuuuge pet hate of mine) and use the drive to hit the ball through wide mid off rather than cover/point. Basically, broaden your attacking range, to give yourself options should they work you out.

The other thing is a combination of grit and mindset. Approach it in groups of 10 runs, instead of just playing each ball on its merits; negotiate the bowling according to who is bowling, and how well it's coming out. Ten runs is a means to an end; you're constantly on the lookout for that all important single, that thing that gets you out of danger. Shelve shots that they're targetting (would, that someone had said that to Shane Watson) and use whatever else you have left to bludgeon and scrape and survive not by virtue of just letting them bowl at you but by getting down the other end.

He's really not as poor or as far away as many would have it. What he lacks is that next step between being a good young talent and being the targeted batsman with the mindet and the shot selection to be dangerous, because at some point our top level coaches started to accommodate the high level players instead of working with them to pull them out of their form slumps any way they can. Young blokes don't have all the answers, and as soon as we required high level coaches to have been test players it becomes a hubris issue as much as anything else; who are you, to tell me how to bat?
 

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Jeremias said:
Kurtis Patterson added to the test squad after centuries in both innings of the tour match vs Sri Lanka.

Hope we see him in the side on Thursday along with fellow debutantes Pucovski and Richardson.
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Watched some of him batting via the app (saw about 30 overs of the first dig, with him and Doran teeing off) he looked pretty comfortable and he was difficult to tie down.

Could be a decent inclusion.
 
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