Big Cricket Thread

[Westend]

If it's not going to be JL, throw every cent in the budget at Ricky Ponting.

Punters got too much going on with the IPL media...big bucks....plus reckon Punter might be a little too harsh on this playing group lol

Gillispie for me

 

[Godfather32]

Warnie for me, might as well go all in on stupid decisions

 

[happy_eagle]

Gillispie for me

Could be useful for some of our batsmen looking for runs in the sub-continent

 

[Doashuey]

If it's not going to be JL, throw every cent in the budget at Ricky Ponting.

After what Punter has just witnessed, I can't imagine he would be too keen to work with such imbiciles.

 

[Truckosaurus]

Ian Chappell just wrapping up a 5 minute rant about how Langer wasn't even a good player.

 

[Truckosaurus]

Also if you haven't played in the last 10 years I don't care if you don't think a coach is necessary. The game may be pretty much what it was 40 years ago (although it isn't), but the sport isn't. There's too much cricket, corporate crap and media crap to just leave everything to the captain (who will bugger off to play IPL for two months anyway). Cricket is an industry and too much depends on it to leave everything to a guy who's a knee injury (or sext) away from never playing again.

 

[eaglespremiers]

Is this the equivalent of Simon Goodwin

Simon Goodwin

Age

49

Ht

185cm

Wt

86kg

Pos.

Def

Career

Season

Last 5

D

20.9

5star

K

12.1

4star

HB

8.8

5star

M

4.0

4star

T

2.5

4star

No current season stats available

D

9.4

3star

K

7.2

3star

HB

2.2

2star

M

3.0

3star

T

2.2

4star

theoretically being given the flick over the off-season?

 

[THE A5]

Someone should tell Ian that alfie averaged move runs and scored more centuries than him while actually playing as an opener. Ian chappell has been irrelevant for a few decades now. While I don’t rate 7 as a cricket broadcaster, im so grateful not to see that fossil on the screen anymore.

 

[Dazzler9]

Someone should tell Ian that alfie averaged move runs and scored more centuries than him while actually playing as an opener. Ian chappell has been irrelevant for a few decades now. While I don’t rate 7 as a cricket broadcaster, im so grateful not to see that fossil on the screen anymore.

It always annoyed me that Langer was dubbed a grafter with a slow scoring rate, and yet his strike rate exceeded Mark Waugh and Damien Martyn, among others.

Chappell has always played favourites. It's no wonder he and Warney see eye to eye so much despite their vastly different personalities.

 

[Truckosaurus]

Someone should tell Ian that alfie averaged move runs and scored more centuries than him while actually playing as an opener. Ian chappell has been irrelevant for a few decades now. While I don’t rate 7 as a cricket broadcaster, im so grateful not to see that fossil on the screen anymore.

Ah but according to his rant, those runs don't count because the 00s were the easiest time to play as an opener because all the best bowlers were spinners.

 

[Truckosaurus]

Chappell has always played favourites. It's no wonder he and Warney see eye to eye so much despite their vastly different personalities.

Warne is inevitably going to become Ian Chappell. He'll take over from him in that particular niche of the cricket commentary ecosystem. Except he'll never be able to say "If I'm Pat Cummins and Justin Langer makes a suggestion, I'd ask him 'how many times did you captain Australia?'" because he'd lose his top if anyone said that to him.

 

[THE A5]

Ah but according to his rant, those runs don't count because the 00s were the easiest time to play as an opener because all the best bowlers were spinners.

He’s crickets version of robert walls for real. Senile old man should retire and move to france

 

[THE A5]

Does CA and our players have issues with firm coaches that value discipline? Mickey Arthur was another but he seemed to have success with South Africa and in his short time with SL got them to be decent with a with a a limited talented group of players

 

[Truckosaurus]

He’s crickets version of robert walls for real. Senile old man should retire and move to france

"Ian Chappell first picked India and Pakistan to make the knockout stages from group 2 and said that New Zealand is the only team likely to come close to a spot. He added that the difficulties behind picking two teams from group 1 as it possesses some strong teams and finally, picked England and West Indies with less conviction."

Definitely a bit Walls-esque.

 

[THE A5]

It always annoyed me that Langer was dubbed a drafter with a slow scoring rate, and yet his strike rate exceeded Mark Waugh and Damien Martyn, among others.

Chappell has always played favourites. It's no wonder he and Warney see eye to eye so much despite their vastly different personalities.

I think people are just fooled by the style of these players. Langers batting wasn’t as pretty as waugh and martyn

 

[THE A5]

Absolute idiot but winding back the clock to the 90’s and beyond

 

[kane249]

It always annoyed me that Langer was dubbed a drafter with a slow scoring rate, and yet his strike rate exceeded Mark Waugh and Damien Martyn, among others.

Langer and Mike Hussey are similar in the regard both were more defensive early in their careers. But they converted to more offensive minded their careers flourished.

Langer and Hayden being so aggressive to start the innings was part of the basis for our dominance for a long time, and why they are regarded as one of the best opening partnerships of all time.

 

[Royals]

Ian Chappell just wrapping up a 5 minute rant about how Langer wasn't even a good player.

Chappelli is a knob, you don't have to be the best player to be best coach, even still Langer had most of theses covered as aplayer

Bob Simpson	1986–96[1]	Won the 1987 World Cup Regained the Ashes in 1989 and retained in 1990-91, 1993 and 1994-95 Regained the Frank Worrell Trophy in 1994–95 Established Australia as the No.1 ranked Test team Resigned after losing the 1996 World Cup
2	Geoff Marsh	1996–99[2]	Won the 1999 World Cup Retained the Ashes in 1997 and 1998-99 Resigned after losing the 1999 Test series in Sri Lanka
3	John Buchanan	1999–2007[3]	Won the 2003 and 2007 World Cups Retained the Ashes in 2001 and 2002–03; lost in 2005, but regained the Ashes in 2006–07 Won the 2006 Champions Trophy World-record 16 consecutive Test match wins and 23 ODI wins in World Cups Retired after winning the 2007 World Cup
4	Tim Nielsen	2007–11[4]	Won the 2009 Champions Trophy Resigned after the 2011 Test series in Sri Lanka, when he was asked to reapply as coach
5	Mickey Arthur	2011–13[5]	First foreign-born coach Sacked before the 2013 Ashes series in England
6	Darren Lehmann	2013–18[6]	Won the 2015 World Cup Regained the Ashes in 2013–14 and 2017–18, lost in 2013 and 2015 Resigned after the 2018 Cape Town ball-tampering scandal
7	Justin Langer	2018–2022[7]	Retained the Ashes in 2019 and 2021–22 Won the 2021 T20 World Cup Resigned after the 2021–22 Ashes series, when he was asked to reapply as coach

 

[Doashuey]

Someone should tell Ian that alfie averaged move runs and scored more centuries than him while actually playing as an opener. Ian chappell has been irrelevant for a few decades now. While I don’t rate 7 as a cricket broadcaster, im so grateful not to see that fossil on the screen anymore.

Catankerous old **** ruined ABC Grandstand for me this year. Can't imagine his co-commentators can sit there without their eyes rolling out of their heads. Sincerely hope he never gets a broadcast gig again.

 

[Truckosaurus]

Catankerous old fu** ruined ABC Grandstand for me this year. Can't imagine his co-commentators can sit there without their eyes rolling out of their heads. Sincerely hope he never gets a broadcast gig again.

Through sheer bad fortune I had to sit through two identical rants from him about the front foot no-ball and how we should go back to the back foot no-ball. They lasted ages and were largely moaning about how it should never have been changed to the front foot no-ball but at no point did he explain why he was still angry about this 60+ years later or actually answer the question, which was whether umpires had become complacent about calling them.

 

[Truckosaurus]

Chris Cairns diagnosed with bowel cancer, because the universe is apparently not done shitting on him.

 

[ashley12]

Langer gives me very Mourinho (soccer coach) vibes in his intensity and how his "listen to me and I can turn you into a national star" would work very well at State/Scorchers level but might not have the same effect on someone who is already clearing millions of dollars a year and "has it all".

I'm intrigued where he goes next, probably takes 6 months off the sink piss and get out of sight but who knows. Spite is a great motivator.

 

[Mulldogg]

Don’t know what’s worse about the Langer situation; his treatment by CA or all the mutual backslapping or self-congratulations from gloating nobody sports journalists on social media this morning. Hindsight heroes of the highest order the lot of them.

 

[Godfather32]

BRETT GEEVES: 'The day I truly believed Justin Langer was going to kill me'

This column, from former first-class cricketer Brett Geeves, was written mid-last year when reports about Justin Langer's relationship with his players began to surface.…

www.theroar.com.au

 

[Tugga27]

BRETT GEEVES: 'The day I truly believed Justin Langer was going to kill me'

This column, from former first-class cricketer Brett Geeves, was written mid-last year when reports about Justin Langer's relationship with his players began to surface.…

www.theroar.com.au

Thanks for that.

Was a good read.