Cricket Discussion - Part 1

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Umpire Illingworth has the Ian Chappel disease and was swayed to an LBW because Yasir was not playing a shot. The review showed it was nowhere near the wicket and was in fact hitting the top of the line of the pad.
 
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142nd over was interesting by the looks of things

141.6
Hazlewood to Yasir Shah, 1 run, a full toss on middle, worked to square leg for one. Some inward shape

141.5
Hazlewood to Yasir Shah, no run, given! Yasir reviews. All this needs to do is clip the stumps. That does not look out. Back of a length delivery outside off, nips back in. Yasir offers no stroke and is struck outside the line, redundant because he left the ball. Two greens on HawkEye, the most significant one being the impact on stumps, which showed the ball bouncing over the stumps. Umpire Illingworth got that wrong

141.4
Hazlewood to Asad Shafiq, 1 run, dabbed down to third man. One more

141.3
Hazlewood to Yasir Shah, 3 runs, dropped? Definite chance. Full and wide outside off, Yasir slices the ball off the outside half the bat. Lyon jumps and to his left, and hardly gets a hand on it. His hands were just not in the right place. I've seen tougher taken with more ease. Should have been taken at this level

JP: "For a little fun context: that 654 match FredH just mentioned had England chasing 696 against South Africa (and had only lost 5 wickets up until then). The match had to be abandoned at the end of day 10 (!) though... because England had to catch the ship home!"
 
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Team Score Target Overs RR Result Opposition Ground Match Date Scorecard
England 654/5 696 218.2x8 2.24 draw v South Africa Durban 3 Mar 1939 Test # 271
New Zealand 451 550 93.3 4.82 lost v England Christchurch 13 Mar 2002 Test # 1594
South Africa 450/7 458 136.0 3.30 draw v India Johannesburg 18 Dec 2013 Test # 2108
Pakistan 449/9 490 144.2 3.11 - v Australia Brisbane 15 Dec 2016 Test # 2240

Shit I dont remember the SAF v Ind result from 3 years ago and the Yahpees falling 8 runs short of the win.
 

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That was a lot closer than it needed to be. The Pakis are a very good batting side and they are only marginally below the Australians in the ICC Test rankings. In fact they currently sit at 102 pts which is level with South Africa. We should not underestimate them. The Pakis biggest shortcoming is their reliance on turning wickets. Leg spinner Yashir Shah is their best performed bowler and their pace attack is not as potent as Australia's.
 

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Great fightback but the ending was a disappointment. The last wicket falling with one of the batsmen not paying attention to what was going on was not what I wanted to see. And it looked like they had given up when Shafiq got out.
 

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Looks like Maddinson has kept his spot on the team, A handful of runs and a dropped catch is enough of a good game to warrant re-selection.
I'd say the selectors are marking time until Sean Marsh is fit again. Then again, if Maddinson reaches double figures in Melbourne, he might stay in the squad for India :).
 

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I'd say the selectors are marking time until Sean Marsh is fit again. Then again, if Maddinson reaches double figures in Melbourne, he might stay in the squad for India :).
His inclusion would be a less bitter pill to swallow if it weren't for the fact that Maddinson's has done SWA but gets another go just because "potential" if he came from anywhere other than NSW he would have been kicked out the door after his first miserable failure in Adelaide.
 

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Just to illustrate the enormity of Australia's task in February/March, check out the scores in the latest India v England Test. After bowling England out for a "paltry" 477, India is now 6 for 666. Some bloke called Karun Nair has scored a lazy 243 not out.

Safe to say that, as soon as the Australian summer is over, it's footy season, because the cricket in India will be rather painful.
 
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Shit Karun Nair is only playing his 3rd test and scores 303 not out as India declared at 7/759 282 in front. Gotta be the quickest player to a Test triple ton. Bradman at Headingly in 1930 would have been playing his 5th test. Nope, Headingly wasn't at the start of the tour so its his 7th test. The Don made 254 at Lord's in his 6th. Of all those great Indian batsmen, Shewag is the only other one to get a triple ton, and like the Don and Lara he has 2 and his first was in his 21st test. Lara hit 277 in his 5th test in Sydney in 1992-93 and ran himself out. It was the only way he was going to get out.

Nair joins Bobby Simpson as the only player whose first ton is a triple in their test career. But Simpson did it in his 30th test after scoring 4 or 5 90's.

Edit Gary Sobers 365* was his first hundred in test cricket and in his 17th test, 4 years after his debut and he had only scored 6 50's before that innings, but he debut at 17 and was an allrounder batting down the order in his early career.
 
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Shit Karun Nair is only playing his 3rd test and scores 303 not out as India declared at 7/759 282 in front. Gotta be the quickest player to a Test triple ton. Bradman at Headingly in 1930 would have been playing his 5th test. Nope, Headingly wasn't at the start of the tour so its his 7th test. The Don made 254 at Lord's in his 6th. Of all those great Indian batsmen, Shewag is the only other one to get a triple ton, and like the Don and Lara he has 2 and his first was in his 21st test. Lara hit 277 in his 5th test in Sydney in 1992-93 and ran himself out. It was the only way he was going to get out.

Nair joins Bobby Simpson as the only player whose first ton is a triple in their test career. But Simpson did it in his 30th test after scoring 4 or 5 90's.

Edit Gary Sobers 365* was his first hundred in test cricket and in his 17th test, 4 years after his debut and he had only scored 6 50's before that innings, but he debut at 17 and was an allrounder batting down the order in his early career.
Put yourself in Alastair Cook's shoes: he dropped Nair on 34: OUCH!!!
 

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Media reports that an all rounder could be added to the squad.

Have we not learnt from inventing one with Marsh and Watson.

Is anyone saying pick me?

Starc averages more than any recent #6.

Pick Head ... he can bowl and has succeeded at ODI level for Australia.
 
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