Australian Cricket Thread - No.3 🏏

[thylacine60]

never before experienced 3 separate am radio networks carrying the test cricket - odd but great for diversity of choice........

 

[Gethelred]

never before experienced 3 separate am radio networks carrying the test cricket - odd but great for diversity of choice........

Probably because the TV commentators - both on Foxtel and FTA - are absolutely terrible.

If I wanted to see what the inside of the commentary box looked like, I'd ask for footage of that, please. Otherwise, keep the camera on the cricket, not the commentators.

 

[thylacine60]

that english woman (allison mitchell?) is superb - I imagine the radio rights may have been comparatively cheapish this year - sri lanka, pakistan, nz, not sure

 

[Bamboo Harvester]

that english woman (allison mitchell?) is superb - I imagine the radio rights may have been comparatively cheapish this year - sri lanka, pakistan, nz, not sure

As is Isa Guha....imo, the best commentator going around right now, alongside Jim Maxwell who is just a doyen of the game.

Her commentary on MMM a few years back alongside Mark Howard and Jim Brayshaw was absolute gold.

 

[thylacine60]

best male caller for mine is the south african sounding mike haysman.........accurate, no hyperbole and seriously unbiased..........

 

[Gethelred]

best male caller for mine is the south african sounding mike haysman.........accurate, no hyperbole and seriously unbiased..........

Harsha Bhogle.

 

[thylacine60]

that's a hell of a tough 100 stand against everything we could throw at them with their team on its knees - babar an absolute gun batsman...........

 

[Stig O'Hara]

Ruddy heck, finally finish work, turn on the telly, Pakistan looking ok, might get a couple of hours of Test cricket.

One bite into my ham roll......

 

[thylacine60]

that one infamousfateful bite..........

 

[Gethelred]

Anyone think the pink ball might throw a fox in the hen house?

 

[thylacine60]

staple my face to a table or continue listening to michael slater commentate..........the tough decisions of a closet masochist.....................

 

[Gethelred]

staple my face to a table or continue listening to michael slater commentate..........the tough decisions of a closet masochist.....................

Hate Murdoch, but I made my deal with the devil and got Kayo so I could watch the games (cricket and footy) live and, should I be working during the games, I could wait and see them later.

Now, how to deal with Warne's hoolios and WTF else he wants to talk about instead of the cricket, and/or the fact that they keep going to the commentary box to have a look at the people who should be talking less anyway...

 

[thylacine60]

they can instantly make this game more interesting by dousing all the lights and playing with just the ball, stumps, chalk & player's clothing luminous.......

 

[Gethelred]

See, if one must play a reverse sweep, that's one of the best I've ever seen.

May be premeditated - god only knows how one would play a reverse sweep without premeditating the shot - but he's played a rising spinning ball against the spin coming in to hit off stump. That was a thumping good shot from Warner.

 

[thylacine60]

hard to like but even harder to get out..........

 

[Gethelred]

And people are too impressed by the ability to turn the ball. Yasir Shah is a big turner of the ball, sure, but sheer turn has never worked in Australia and it never will. You need to bowl with overspin rather than sidespin here to be successful, and it's why we tend to feast on opposition spinners regardless of how good they are elsewhere.

Shah will take wickets, but it'll be surprising if, on any given tour of Australia, he averages better than 40. He bowls side spin, and unless he's willing to change he's not going to improve here. It's also why Lyon's been struggling of late; he went from a pure overspin bowler to modifying his method to take wickets on the subcontinent, with outrageous results, and now he has to change back, which isn't an easy thing to do.

Marnus is pretty close to the most comfortable I've been with a player in world cricket in forever.

 

[Gethelred]

And Warnie's onto something here; Yasir needs a slip, and needs a more aggressive field on the off side, to allow him to put a bit of doubt into Warner's mind as to whether the ball will spin. Might be a muppet, but there's no-one better worldwide to describe what a leggie should be doing at any given moment.

 

[Gethelred]

Well batted Dave.

 

[Gethelred]

On one hand, Huss is a vastly superior cricketer to me, and is thoroughly entitled to his opinion.

On the other, if Warner has scored the majority of his runs square of the wicket on the off side, and his leave percentage is significantly higher than it normally is, what that tells you is not that they've bowled too short to him, but that they've bowled too wide.

He's not been forced to play enough, and he's not been forced to defend on the stumps nearly enough.

 

[Gethelred]

Well batted, Marnus.

 

[Robbo's my hero]

Have the Pakistanis backed Australia to make over 500 and win by an innings and runs? One sided contests are shite.

 

[thylacine60]

how is joe burns feeling round about now........

 

[Dadda Dave]

Not as good as Warner right now.. 335 no..

 

[Blues_1864]

If you get no other cricket today, make sure you see Denly's drop off Archer... makes you feel good to be alive!

Joe Denly's dropped catch for the ages the 'highlight' in NZ vs England draw

England's Joe Denly hits the headlines for all the wrong reasons, as his unfathomable dropped catch gives NZ skipper Kane Williamson a life on the way to a century on day five in Hamilton.

www.abc.net.au

 

[Gethelred]

If you get no other cricket today, make sure you see Denly's drop off Archer... makes you feel good to be alive!

Joe Denly's dropped catch for the ages the 'highlight' in NZ vs England draw

England's Joe Denly hits the headlines for all the wrong reasons, as his unfathomable dropped catch gives NZ skipper Kane Williamson a life on the way to a century on day five in Hamilton.

www.abc.net.au

That's pretty bad. Poor bloke, he'll never live it down.