Big Cricket Thread

[Farang83150]

Been to a couple of one-dayers in India, flipping brilliant fun

 

[Tugga27]

Smith and Finch playing before Green in the WC will be an embarrassment.

 

[Farang83150]

Well done Smudge!!

 

[Bender_]

Yep.

Surely that's a wrong decision.

Nup, bail still on the wickets when it hit. He was gone.

 

[Tugga27]

Nup, bail still on the wickets when it hit. He was gone.

You sure about that?

I thought if the stumps were broken, you had to pull a stump out.

 

[Ochre]

Yep.

Surely that's a wrong decision.

I think its a relatively recent rule change that if one bail is still on it's OK

 

[Bender_]

You sure about that?

I thought if the stumps were broken, you had to pull a stump out.

Yah. Single bail was still on. Shit rule IMO but legit.

 

[Ilkka Sinisalo]

Efa

50 off 19 deliveries, not too shabby

His T20 game seems to have improved by leaps and bounds. Now is able to go from the first ball. And it’s not like he was mauling rubbish bowlers or taking advantage of a flat track, he did most of his damage against Bhuvi Kumar and Bumrah, and most of the other Aussie batsmen are going at about a run a ball.

 

[Farang83150]

Monstered that

 

[Ilkka Sinisalo]

Do we want him to be bowling and relying on him for runs in all 3 formats?

We finally get a decent all rounder who could be better than Botham/Flintoff/Stokes (looking at Bat 40+ avg, Bowl at 140-145kph and avg
Asking for trouble.

A cricketer as talented as Green was always going to try to improve his white ball game (and especially his T20 game), given how much money there is to be made playing T20 around the world (especially in the IPL). If he can get his game to the level of someone like Stokes he can earn an absolute mint playing franchise cricket. He’s also really entrenched as a Australian test cricketer at this point.

It’s going to be up to the Aussie selectors to manage his workload like they do with Cummins (and probably to a lesser extent, Starc, who seems to manage his own workload by limiting his participation in franchise cricket). If that means missing out on some of the lesser white ball matches that’s fine. But if Green ends up reaching his full potential they’d be crazy not to have him playing the important test series and white ball matches.

 

[Farang83150]

So the non striker can't back up after a wide or no ball now?

 

[Farang83150]

That was ugly

 

[Tugga27]

Green has probably earnt himself a multi-million dollar IPL contract now regardless.

 

[Farang83150]

Green has probably earnt himself a multi-million dollar IPL contract now regardless.

Good place to perform

 

[Tugga27]

Spinners doing the damage again.
Agar stiff not to be playing.

 

[Farang83150]

Spinners doing the damage again.
Agar stiff not to be playing.

Maybe the diff if we get rolled

 

[Farang83150]

Variation of pace is brilliant

 

[Carbine Chaos]

Spinners doing the damage again.
Agar stiff not to be playing.

Agar is about our most economical T20 bowler, it’s a travesty he’s not an entrenched Best XI fixture.

 

[Tugga27]

Agar is about our most economical T20 bowler, it’s a travesty he’s not an entrenched Best XI fixture.

How Abbott and Sams get picked before him is a travesty.

 

[Tugga27]

What's a par score?

I reckon we need 180 minimum.

 

[Tugga27]

Green Dog will be a handy inclusion for the Scorchers this year.

 

[Farang83150]

That over rate rules interesting

 

[Farang83150]

They'll bring in one hand one bounce soon!

 

[Ljp86]

Australia finally seeing the value of having bit hitters in the middle/lower order, this is where Matthew Wade, Tim David and Daniel Sams become of immense value.

 

[Ilkka Sinisalo]

If you’d told me two years ago that Inglis and Tim David would be batting in the middle overs for Australia against India, I really would have thought you were taking the piss.