Big Cricket Thread

[06Premiers]

Coming off a year out with a back injury but he was great at under 16 level

Basketball background?

 

[Ljp86]

Phil Salt…

Has looked awful whenever I’ve seen him play for Adelaide. Very average selection.

Mills and Evans back should be good moves.

Salt? Well at least he should be available for the whole tournament

Salt is in form at the present time. He hit 390 runs at an average of 27.65 with a strike rate of 147.16 in the recent Vitality Blast and he is currently the second highest run scorer through seven games (294 runs at an average of 49 with a strike rate of 155.55) in that other disgusting excuse for a cricket competition that is played in England.

Hopefully his good form is reproduced here for the coming Big Bash tournament.

 

[kane249]

Death
Taxes
One of the Marsh brothers with a soft tissue injury

Nothing surer

 

[WCE_phil]

Death
Taxes
One of the Marsh brothers with a soft tissue injury

Nothing surer

Should have left my son in Willetton primary to continue beating up on Shawn in the nets.

 

[Into The Black]

Should have left my son in Willetton primary to continue beating up on Shawn in the nets.

Second hand grenade in less than a week.

 

[Ilkka Sinisalo]

T20 has really killed my interest in cricket. As someone who grew up and played in a much more technical era with the test cricket and 50 over cricket being mainstays you had a reasonably healthy balance between bat and ball. T20, making grounds smaller (which is mainly a safety thing but not in all cases) and modern superbats have killed it for me.

I remember watching one of Gilchrists early tests and he hit a six down the ground off the toe of the bat and I thought s**t this is the most amazing thing i've seen, what sheer power. Now (and even then it's hard to say) it isn't surprising. Super fast bowlers tend to go for more runs in all forms of the game particularly T20 because a semi decent mishit or thick top edge rather than being an infield catch become catches near the ropes or easily sail for 6. In countries with smaller grounds than Australia the batsman basically has to completely **** it up on a big hit to be a chance of being caught.

I don't think the style of play puts me off so much as the mercenary aspect of the T20 leagues. Some of the top T20 players, particularly the specialists like Livingstone or Andre Russell or Kieron Pollard or Rashid Khan, they might play for 6 or 8 franchises across a number of continents in any given year. I completely understand that it's a job for these guys and don't begrudge them at all making a good living playing the sport while they're good enough to make big money, but compare them to AFL players who mostly will play for 1 or 2 clubs during their career, or guys in the American sports who just play for one franchise at a time because the season lasts several months.

To me, part of the reason that we like Mitch Marsh and Jhye Richardson and Cam Green is that they are WA boys who grew up playing the game here and now play Shield cricket for WA, play for the Scorchers and represent Australia as well. You look at a guy like Colin Munro, seemed like a perfectly good bloke and said all the right things about how he was loving his time at the Scorchers and blah blah blah, but really he just flies in for a month or two, plays the tournament, then hops on a plane to the Pakistan or Dubai or wherever happens to be hosting the next tournament. He played for the Sixers for a season or two, then the Scorchers, and next year he'll be with the Heat. He really has no connection to Perth or the Scorchers, it's just a two-month paycheck before the next stop. It really kind of puts me off of franchise cricket even though I do still watch some of the matches.

 

[Tugga27]

I don't think the style of play puts me off so much as the mercenary aspect of the T20 leagues. Some of the top T20 players, particularly the specialists like Livingstone or Andre Russell or Kieron Pollard or Rashid Khan, they might play for 6 or 8 franchises across a number of continents in any given year. I completely understand that it's a job for these guys and don't begrudge them at all making a good living playing the sport while they're good enough to make big money, but compare them to AFL players who mostly will play for 1 or 2 clubs during their career, or guys in the American sports who just play for one franchise at a time because the season lasts several months.

To me, part of the reason that we like Mitch Marsh and Jhye Richardson and Cam Green is that they are WA boys who grew up playing the game here and now play Shield cricket for WA, play for the Scorchers and represent Australia as well. You look at a guy like Colin Munro, seemed like a perfectly good bloke and said all the right things about how he was loving his time at the Scorchers and blah blah blah, but really he just flies in for a month or two, plays the tournament, then hops on a plane to the Pakistan or Dubai or wherever happens to be hosting the next tournament. He played for the Sixers for a season or two, then the Scorchers, and next year he'll be with the Heat. He really has no connection to Perth or the Scorchers, it's just a two-month paycheck before the next stop. It really kind of puts me off of franchise cricket even though I do still watch some of the matches.

TBF to Munro, the Scorchers didn't pick him and went for
Laurie Evans instead.

I can see where you're coming from though.
That's why I reckon the Scorchers have been so successful.
They're mostly made up of local guys.

 

[FKASC]

I kinda like the mercenary aspect because you know they’re mercenaries and it’s kinda exciting to see what they can add to your side.

But I definitely agree that it’s much more satisfying if your side has a large stable core of players and then you just add the mercenaries on top.

Helps even more if they’re mostly local, but tbh lots of state players aren’t local either (eg Mitchell Johnson etc) but they still feel part of the team.

The IPL sides chop and change so much with the auctions and it looks like a lot of Indian players in each side are from other parts of India. Not sure how many locals each side typically has

 

[Truckosaurus]

Two nice deliveries from Green for his two wickets today. Zimbabwe out for 96.

 

[KBLT]

Lowest ODI batting average for openers in 2022

15.90 — Aaron Finch (AUS)

17.22 — Muhammad Waseem (UAE)

18.53 — Kushal Bhurtel (NEP)

18.81 — Matthew Cross (SCO)

26.33 — Max O’Dowd (NED)

* Minimum 10 innings

 

[Truckosaurus]

And 5(11) today isn't making that any higher. His refusal to recognise the end of his career is beginning to tarnish it.

 

[kane249]

Not the best batting display today

 

[Into The Black]

Not the best batting display today

That's being kind. Basically 9 for 47 against Zim.

 

[Truckosaurus]

It's not great but Zimbabwe's bowling has been significantly better than their batting all series, even with small targets to try and defend.

 

[Truckosaurus]

Quality jinx from the Cricinfo commentary. "Zimbabwe doing it nicely at the moment. Just need to hold their nerve." posted at the start of a double wicket maiden.

 

[Into The Black]

Needed as well.

 

[happy_eagle]

Australia about to lose to Zimbabwe here

 

[Carbine Chaos]

Australia about to lose to Zimbabwe here

Can’t keep carrying Finch forever.

 

[Ochre]

Good on Zimbabwe.

Can’t keep carrying Finch forever.

Agreed, but he's far from the only bat who let themselves down today.

 

[Ochre]

At least Finch has reviewed well..... oh, sorry I'm just being handed a note.

 

[Ochre]

Why is it whenever a commentator joins from overseas they're miles better than what we have?

 

[Truckosaurus]

Why is it whenever a commentator joins from overseas they're miles better than what we have?

Less exposure to Australian sports producers.

 

[RookiePick]

HTAF does Warner almost ton up and only one other bat makes double figures. How stoned were those campaigners?

 

[Ochre]

What is Australia's obsession with sticking their best short form bat as far down the order as possible? Batting 7 today ffs.

 

[ioppolo]

What is Australia's obsession with sticking their best short form bat as far down the order as possible? Batting 7 today ffs.

I assume he's kinda in the floating position today. Depending on the situation he'll come out at 4 or 7 or who knows.
Having both Smith and Labs in the side could be problematic for a high run chase.