Big Cricket Thread

[Ilkka Sinisalo]

Some pretty dumb shots the last several overs. Inglis and then Hardie just needed to hang around and finish it off.

 

[ashley12]

Good way to finish.

Was at the game. Did laugh at the guy who dropped the dolly ending up on deep square to deep square (with LH Paris and RH Tye) punishment for the last couple overs.

Some pretty questionable shots in the lower order. 3/220 to nearly collapsing chasing 267 is a bit how ya going.

 

[Truckosaurus]

Better to have a wake up call on keeping your nose down against a side that's poor enough to let you still get away with the win like SA at least.

 

[Westend]

Not sure. He did have a catch late in the innings so if he got hurt, he wasn't hurt enough to not play in the field.

In other news, why can't Philippe do in Shield what he does in the Marsh Cup?

Marsh Cup this year: 100, 37*, 73, 81, 51 (Average 85.5)
Shield: 10, 5, 24, 1, 6, 6 (Average 8.7)

Don't know if he's better as an opener versus batting at around 6, or if it's just a fluke based off small sample sizes.

Yeah its very frustrating

plays with his hands a lot which he can get away with in the white ball format

needs to tighten up his technique in the red ball

 

[Dazzler9]

The who cares ODI series is underway and we are off to a good start. But, who cares?

 

[FKASC]

The who cares ODI series is underway and we are off to a good start. But, who cares?

State cricket or GTFO

 

[ep2018]

The who cares ODI series is underway and we are off to a good start. But, who cares?

They just won the WC, they're not going to give a shit about ODIs right now, suspect we'll 3-0 them.

 

[Truckosaurus]

Malan is an annoyingly good player.

 

[ep2018]

Warner playing like a king in a match with no significance, I couldn't be any less surprised.

 

[happy_eagle]

Steve Smith is great to watch when he's on. Perfect shot placement at times

 

[InTheWings]

Much respect for Smith, being humble enough, and dedicated enough, to rework his batting stance at this stage of his career.

 

[Truckosaurus]

Honestly the way he is with his cricket, reworking his batting stance was probably a fun little hobby in his downtime.

 

[FKASC]

Sheesh couple of Windies players getting out cheaply to these absolute no-namers. Doesn’t bode well for an interesting test series

 

[FKASC]

Sheesh couple of Windies players getting out cheaply to these absolute no-namers. Doesn’t bode well for an interesting test series

Now they’ve managed to take just the one wicket for 240+

Lolwindies

 

[DanWCE]

Nice to see Smith making a few runs

/Dazz

 

[KBLT]

Hazlewood captaining is interesting

 

[DanWCE]

Oh my

 

[ioppolo]

Smith & Marnus both making runs in the ODI team now...

 

[matthew_s]

Hazlewood captaining is interesting

90% of the decision making would have been done pre-game by the 'brains trust'

 

[ashley12]

Hazlewood captaining is interesting

Resting Cummins for a home state ODI is a bit how ya going.

Piss poor crowd as well. Melbourne Tuesday will be worse, but let's all look at the Optus crowds.

Also prediction time. Every Scorchers hone game will get a bigger crowd than the sum of the Test Match crowd with a Wednesday start vs a relatively pathetic Windies.

 

[ioppolo]

Resting Cummins for a home state ODI is a bit how ya going.

Piss poor crowd as well. Melbourne Tuesday will be worse, but let's all look at the Optus crowds.

Also prediction time. Every Scorchers hone game will get a bigger crowd than the sum of the Test Match crowd with a Wednesday start vs a relatively pathetic Windies.

This is why I'm going, so I can sit wherever the fk I like and move every 5-10 overs.

 

[DanWCE]

Scorchers don't qualify for finals. They were looking on track early on.

 

[Carbine Chaos]

Scorchers don't qualify for finals. They were looking on track early on.

I think they won 1 of their last 6, and choked to lose against two of the bottom sides in the last few days.

Good stuff girls.

 

[Truckosaurus]

I think they won 1 of their last 6, and choked to lose against two of the bottom sides in the last few days.

Good stuff girls.

Too reliant on too few

 

[RookiePick]

Too reliant on too few

Sounds familiar...