Opinion Cricket thread

[SpiderBurton22]

Meanwhile Mitchell Marsh just got 141!

He cops a lot of crap, but when fit he is our best option at 6. We need that extra bowler over a long summer. Cartwright, Stoinis, Maxwell and Enriques are average at best.

 

[Nate7]

He cops a lot of crap, but when fit he is our best option at 6. We need that extra bowler over a long summer. Cartwright, Stoinis, Maxwell and Enriques are average at best.

For a decade or more, there's been an ever reliance on the bowlers to make runs when the top 6 batsmen capitulate.

Then looking at the way our bowlers have seemed pedestrian so far this test, it's time for someone who offers something different and whether that's Maxwell or M.Marsh, get one or both in!

 

[the big lebowski]

The triple m ashes commentary is top notch I think.

And I could listen to isa all day. I think I have a bit of a crush

 

[DarkPhoenix]

Not sure where the ambiguity is. That's out every day of the week and twice on sundays.

 

[Deddy]

Not sure where the ambiguity is. That's out every day of the week and twice on sundays.

Other angle (behind stumps) was where the confusion was. Appeared there may have been something behind. Out, but millimetres in it.

 

[DarkPhoenix]

Other angle (behind stumps) was where the confusion was. Appeared there may have been something behind. Out, but millimetres in it.

Stump cam was clearly a shadow, could still see white IMO. They said you couldn't give it out based on any angle, you clearly can.

 

[gokangas]

England trying to dig in. Wouldn't want to be chasing more than 200.

 

[DarkPhoenix]

Thank you very much Paine!

 

[DarkPhoenix]

169 to chase in a day and a session.

Very manageable as long as we don't do the usual 3 out for 50.

 

[TennisPlayerAndy]

169 to chase in a day and a session.

Very manageable as long as we don't do the usual 3 out for 50.

Warner out for a quick fire 20 off 16 balls to start it all off.

 

[gokangas]

Got on top well so let's hope they can finish this off with the bat. Come on Aussies!!!!!!!

 

[SpiderBurton22]

Poms wishing they had Ben Stokes atm.

 

[DarkPhoenix]

Pitch breaking down and questionable whether Moeen Ali will bowl much

 

[darko]

Won't be an easy chase.

 

[DarkPhoenix]

Good start, must keep it going though

 

[giantroo]

 

[Mordecai]

What on earth was that...

 

[DarkPhoenix]

Bairstow apparently being investigated by police for headbutting Bancroft in a Perth pub earlier this month.

Bancroft said to not have been instigating nor retaliating.

Could be in some trouble

 

[Firestarter]

Welp. I was incredibly wrong. And no one is surprised by that.

 

[giantroo]

What a turnaround. I thought we were gone.

 

[giantroo]

Bancroft interview with Steve Smith - bloody hilarious


https://www.periscope.tv/7NewsBrisbane/1mrGmZAVBDkJy

 

[DaveyBoy123]

Bancroft interview with Steve Smith - bloody hilarious


https://www.periscope.tv/7NewsBrisbane/1mrGmZAVBDkJy

That was hilarious. There was no way I would have recovered from the giggles if I was Smith.

Also, I wonder if the kangas sports science team have measured the squad's heads! Doesn't Higgo get some crap due to the size of his noggin?

 

[giantroo]

Transcript:


Reporter: Cameron, well done on the innings. But can you talk us through the incident from what you remember?



Bancroft: I remember it very clearly. We just won a Shield game for WA and one of our values is to celebrate success. We were as a team and a group. That coincided with the English team arriving in Perth for the tour game. It was very friendly mingling the whole night. Some of our players knew the English players. As the night progressed, it was great to be able to meet some of those guys. I got into a very amicable conversation with Jonny and yeah, he just greeted me with a headbutt, kind of thing. I was expecting a handshake ... it wasn't the greeting of choice I was expecting. That was the way that I took it ... there was certainly no malice in his actions and we continued on having very good conversations for the rest of the evening.

Reporter: Did he apologise to you that night or subsequently?


Bancroft: At the time, he said sorry. For me, it was just really weird. It was so random, I didn't expect it coming. A handshake or a hug is something I would have expected more than a headbutt. But as I said, there was nothing malicious about his actions. I don't know Jonny Bairstow but he says hello to people very differently from most others. As I said, we got along for the rest of the night quite well. We moved on from it. It was fine.

Reporter: I realise this sounds a bit ridiculous but did he headbutt you like that (moves head forward) straightforward, or like that ... we can't work it out.



Bancroft: Whatever your imagination pictures it as, it might be.



Reporter: Well we picture it as knocking someone over.

Steve Smith is in stitches at questions asked of Cameron Bancroft about England wicketkeeper Jonny Bairstow. Photo: AAP

Bancroft: No it didn't knock me over. I've actually got the heaviest head in the West Australian squad. There's an actual measurement for it. So I took the blow quite well and moved on from it. It was a good hit. Play on.

Reporter: Trevor Bayliss said it was a long way from being a headbutt. He said there's a headbutt and there's what happened to you. A headbutt is totally different. Could you, perhaps, define on a one to 10 basis what happened?

Bancroft: He connected with my head, with a force that would make me sort of think 'wow, that's a bit weird'.

Reporter: Was it the top of his head into your nose?

Bancroft: Headbutts clash with heads. When he made the decision to do that, our heads collided.

Cricket Australia media manager: I think we've clarified it now.

Reporter: Well, no, because a headbutt, it can break your nose, it can put you in hospital. So where did the top of his head hit yours?

Bancroft: Yeah, it hit my head.

Reporter: But where?

Bancroft: My head. It hit me there. Forehead. There you go.

 

[Firestarter]

Non issue for me. Hope it goes that way.

 

[TennisPlayerAndy]

Treated with the contempt it deserves.