Cricket Discussion - Part 3

[raptalia]

He's a Pom himself, isn't he? Like Lachie Neale does against Port, Inglis usually tears England a new one when he plays against them.

Not just an Englishman, he is a Yorkshire lad just like Len 'utton and Sir Geoffrey Boycott.

Josh Inglis has an average of 79 in four ODI's against the Poms. He hasn't played a Test against them yet.

Darren Lehmann thinks Pat Cummins will play and the selectors may give Inglis the chance to open and move Travis head back up the order. Cummins may play but I am not sure the selectors will thrust the openers role on Inglis. When Australia amassed 6/654 against Sri Lanka back in February Travis Head scored 57 as an opener and Josh Inglis made 102 batting at no5.

 

[TazD]

ett

 

[raptalia]

Yeah. England 1 for 5.

 

[EskimoPAFC]

2/5 lol Starcy vs the world

 

[Duckimus Prime]

Bringing in Neser for Lyon just makes overlooking Webster for Inglis even more of a head scratcher.

 

[Grave Danger]

Clever move by the Poms electing to bat first - won't have to bat under the lights.

 

[Rising Power]

Random thought - a few current and former Strikers out there. Head, Carey, Weatherald, Doggett, Neser, Pope. Lyon 12th man.

Another random thought - Isa Guha.

 

[philreich]

If England get to 250 here, and put us in under lights, it could be an interesting last hour.

 

[afl2004]

 

[Grave Danger]

They couldn't have asked for a better weather forecast - even a spare fine day if required!

 

[Doctor Feel]

Just tuned in for the first time this test. What the **** is Neser suddenly doing in the side

 

[TazD]

Why is there a logo of Saddam Hussein on the field?

 

[afl2004]

cheers doggart

 

[soafraid]

theres gotta be nothing more infuriating than a big last wicket partnership

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

Root gets a dopey monkey off his back. Well done. We now don't have to watch Matthew Hayden do a nude streak at the MCG.

I agree with him that pink ball tests are unnecessary bullshit.

First pink ball test was November 2015 Oz v NZ after 15-20 years of trying to develop a red ball alternative for night test games, after the fear that ODI's would kill test cricket, so the game needed crowds after work and TV broadcasters wanted peak hour viewership time slots.

ODI's are now irrelevant and you don't need to save test cricket, especially in Australia when they play England and India re crowds turning up and TV ratings, and other teams re TV ratings.

Plus leaving the ground at 9.30-10.00pm has a different post match feel than when you do at 6.00-6.30pm.

Poms don't need it as twilight is between 9.00- 9.30pm. Indians wont come out in big numbers to watch a night test at home games v day home tests. West Indians showed how dopey they are re the pink ball as they used a black sight screen rather than a white one and other nations.

The results are so skewed as to when you bat or get to bowl with the pink ball that it distorts a series result in either a 3 or 5 test series.

Its also unfair against nations who only play 1 pink ball test every 2nd or 3rd year and play against Oz who plays at least 1 home game every year. That's why this is only 25th pink ball test in 10 years.

If its such a good a thing, then all 5 tests in an Ashes or Border-Gavaskar series should be pink ball tests.

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

Pathetic only bowling 74 overs in 6.5 hours of play. Pathetic asking all bowlers to start bowling bouncers after Stoke got out, Doggett doesn't bowl bouncer after bouncer bowling for SA. Pathetic field placements by Smith for the last wicket and pathetic time wasting tactics by him and pathetic by umpires not to stop Aussies wasting so much time.

I bloody hope Smith sets a proper field and asks bowlers to bowl normally first thing tomorrow otherwise Root and Archer will add another 61 runs.

Apart from a few pathetic things above it was a very good day's test cricket. Poms should have batted like that in Perth. Root and Starc were the stars of the day. Hate to think what the poms would have achieved with out Starc taking 6 wickets but more so his usual first over wicket, and then a wicket in his first or second over of his other 3 spells today to keep changing the momentum away from the poms.

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

This "Sportica video explores the history of Bazball, examining England's dramatic transformation. The video analysis looks at various matches, highlighting both successes and failures. Discover how pitch conditions and player performance impact this controversial cricket strategy." Basically it works on flat pitches and not on pitches that have a lot of bounce and juice or a bunsen burner in the sub continent.
...........
- "In innings where Joe Root scores runs and occupies the crease, the entire English team prospers. It's because England, for all their Bazball bravado, still revolve around one player and one player alone. That man is Joe Root."

- "To win everywhere, you must adapt everywhere. And Australia did it in the 2000s and so did South Africa."

- "The only way England are going to win on spicy Australian pitches is by tempering Bazball. If they can't do that, then they can expect to lose every test."

- "To answer the question of this video, Bazball isn't bullshit, but the belief that it works universally, absolutely is"

Root did his bit today. Lets see if the poms take advantage of it.

 

[Grave Danger]

The Aussies need to take that final wicket within the first six overs today or they face fines and loss of Test Championship points. No penalties for innings completed within 80 overs no matter how long that takes. Australia missed out on a Championship final place due to these penalties a few years ago.

 

[Greasyrhys]

Rarely do 4 pronged pace attacks work, I recall in the 3rd test against india in perth early 2008, Shaun Tait was the 4th quick but went wicket less, we had our test winning/undefeated streak broken as a result. Cummins and Lyon must come in for the 3rd test at the expense of Neser and Doggett.

 

[Duckimus Prime]

Run a ball fiddy for Wethers.