Big Cricket Thread

[RookiePick]

Hilton Cartwright scored 2 runs off the first 60 balls he faced in today’s Shield match with NSW.

You made me check the score and now Banners is out!

 

[Carbine Chaos]

Smith dropping that sitter could well cost us the series.

His third drop for the match too.

 

[Ochre]

Babar having only 5 test tons before today is unfathomable to me

 

[happy_eagle]

314 runs on a 5th day pitch

All 3 results in play tomorrow ?

 

[Campaigner for good]

You would think so, yes. But the pitch is likely to get harder to score runs on. So a tight first session should take a loss off the table for Australia.

 

[Dazzler9]

314 runs on a 5th day pitch

All 3 results in play tomorrow ?

* 4

 

[Truckosaurus]

Babar having only 5 test tons before today is unfathomable to me

19 50s though. Terrible conversion rate. Played fewer Tests than Khawaja too, which is interesting.

 

[Ambrose Burnside]

* 4

wickets in a row is a double hat-trick for some reason.

 

[Carbine Chaos]

Not looking like a result here.

Lyon bowling well, but Swepson has been very poor today.

 

[kane249]

Finally a break through

 

[Truckosaurus]

Captain's wicket

 

[Ochre]

Not an expert but as I understand it, dropping Babar twice in two balls not a great strategy

 

[Keys]

Not an expert but as I understand it, dropping Babar twice in two balls not a great strategy

Most of these tests in recent times when we’ve failed to bowl a team out in day 5 have also featured a number of missed opportunities

 

[Goroyals22]

And a completely ineffectual Nathan Lyon..
Bowls to flat and to short.

 

[ep2018]

Hopefully this game changes the current attitude to enforcing follow ons.

 

[Truckosaurus]

It'd be a really good time for Swepson to suddenly be possessed by the ghost of Shane Warne ala Ghost.

 

[Ochre]

Hopefully this game changes the current attitude to enforcing follow ons.

We'll have had 172 overs at them. Not sure the follow on is the issue at that point.

 

[Truckosaurus]

We'll have had 172 overs at them. Not sure the follow on is the issue at that point.

It's not so much the overs, it's giving them the chance to catch their breath and regroup before having to bat again.

But the bowling has been poor and the fielding worse.

 

[Truckosaurus]

Also, apart from the Pakistani first innings, the track has seemingly been pretty easy to bat on, despite the cracks and rough.

 

[Dazzler9]

Nothing worse than declaring twice and losing. Let's hope we avoid that fate.

 

[Dazzler9]

Nothing worse than declaring twice and losing. Let's hope we avoid that fate.

The loss is off the table now. Sneaky chance at the win still.

 

[Ochre]

Oh Uz

 

[Truckosaurus]

Magnificent innings by Babar, shame he couldn't get out after reaching 200.

 

[Truckosaurus]

Also, this team and fourth innings...

 

[Bacchus]

Not impressed by the captaincy in this innings. Bowling Swepson at the end in his first game, and at 0/150 along with one or two full tosses an over had not looked like taking a wicket. Was Captain Pat taking the piss? What about Mitchell Starc who has taken 274 wickets or himself who is no.1 bowler in the world? West Coast levels of competency.