Opinion Cricket thread

[Harris 10]

Deano was Cricket for me when I was a young lad.
I waited and waited to he come in and lost interest when he went out.

 

[Wels Eicke]

Wow, shocked to hear this news. Was a hero for me also when Victoria couldn't produce a test cricketer to save themselves. Did he play in a Shield winning side? Victoria were pretty poor for most of his career, deserved to lead the state to a title.

Always found him quick witted and funny. Really enjoyed when they used to have the beach cricket involving old Aus, Eng and NZ players, he was always good for a laugh.

 

[7577969923]

I met Deano in 2003 in a hotel in Johannesburg. He was there as part of the commentary team working on the World Cup and we were in the hotel bar having a beer with Deano, Heals, Taylor, and the great Ritchie Benaud. Deano had a reputation of being arrogant, and he certainly came across that way, but he had the humility to state with certainty that we had witnessed that day the greatest ODI innings ever played by an Australian when Andrew Symonds had made 143 not out against off 125 balls. Australia had been in a world of trouble at 4 for 86 against an attack that included Akram, Younis, Akhtar, and Afridi, Symonds innings saw them put 310 on the board and win comfortably. It was Deano's record that Symonds had broken for the highest score by an Australian in ODI's up until that point.
I remember Deano when he was the best ODI batsman in the world and ran between wickets like no one ever had before and sprinted around the outfield with a rocket arm. I remember him making a double hundred at the Adelaide oval against Marshall, Patterson, Ambrose, and Walsh.
RIP to one of my childhood heroes.

 

[Twinkletoes]

Was shocked to learn of Deano’s passing earlier tonight. What a gun he was in full flight. Terrible news! [emoji107]

 

[King Corey]

Ordinary headline to wake up to. Great player.

 

[Hojuman]

Perfectly summed up here;

" To stand on the southern side of the MCG when Jones strutted to the crease during a day-night game was to understand Hemingway's endless platitudes for bullfighters "

Changed the game

 

[Gasometer]

As fellow Victorian Billy Lawry would say, Dean was a great fellow Victorian.

I didn’t get to many games as a teenager but I made sure to watch the game through snowy reception on the weak Regional signal just to watch this guy, Boon, Merv and Grumpy

Great times!

Vale DJ!

 

[krakouers]

Former WA quick Mackin earns Vic Shield call-up

Simon Mackin’s decision to relocate to Victoria in the peak of its COVID-19 crisis has paid dividends, with the former WA quick immediately earning a call-up to his new state’s Sheffield Shield squad.

thewest.com.au

Simon Mackin’s decision to relocate to Victoria in the peak of its COVID-19 crisis has paid dividends, with the former WA quick immediately earning a call-up to his new state’s Sheffield Shield squad.

After 31 first-class appearances for WA, Mackin was told he wouldn’t be offered a contract for the upcoming season.

The towering quick packed up and headed to Melbourne at the end of June - just days into the state’s lockdown period - in a bid to earn a second chance.

92 day later, he’s reaped the rewards, named in the 18-man squad to travel to the Adelaide hub for the first four matches of the home summer.

Wish him well

 

[Hojuman]

Australian cricket great Dean Jones farewelled at MCG

A private memorial service for Dean Jones has been held at the MCG, the venue where he enjoyed some of his finest moments representing Australia.

mobile.abc.net.au

 

[Hearts to hearts]

Women reached 21 ODI wins in a row after flattening the Kiwis yesterday. Lanning didn’t even need to play, nor Perry. This squad is unbelievably dominant in every form of the game.

I don’t put it alongside Ponting’s team’s ODI record - I don’t think the level of competition in the women’s game is comparable - but we (and cricket) are blessed to have another representative team that is so extraordinary.

 

[King Corey]

Women reached 21 ODI wins in a row after flattening the Kiwis yesterday. Lanning didn’t even need to play, nor Perry. This squad is unbelievably dominant in every form of the game.

I don’t put it alongside Ponting’s team’s ODI record - I don’t think the level of competition in the women’s game is comparable - but we (and cricket) are blessed to have another representative team that is so extraordinary.

Do you know if England & Wales apply the same rubbery national guidelines to women's cricket as they do to men's?

 

[krakouers]

 

[DaveyBoy123]

Someone could have mentioned that the Sheffield Shield had started.

Then again, Vics vs NSW is next week, so I guess all is not lost just yet.

 

[SpiderBurton22]

Someone could have mentioned that the Sheffield Shield had started.

Then again, Vics vs NSW is next week, so I guess all is not lost just yet.

It's on Kayo.

A couple of games just finished.

Marnus made 167

Shaun Marsh made a ton.

Agar and Nesser both made a ton and took 5 fa in their games.

Lloyd Pope took 5/164 off 27 overs

Mitch Swepson took 4/64 off 45 overs.

 

[giantroo]

 

[giantroo]

Up to 25k will be allowed at the G for the Boxing Day Test.

 

[Twinkletoes]

Up to 25k will be allowed at the G for the Boxing Day Test.

20k of whom will likely be Indians.

 

[giantroo]

Best talent since Ponting can “win Australia the next Ashes”: Chappell

“You don’t see this stuff very often.”

www.sen.com.au

 

[SpiderBurton22]

Best talent since Ponting can “win Australia the next Ashes”: Chappell

“You don’t see this stuff very often.”

www.sen.com.au

Greg Chappell has always been about getting the young blokes in.

He ****ed cricket up throughout Australia when squads for State 2nd 11s were picked from who those had gone through the elite pathways and were deemed to have talent, rather than those blokes who were making runs and taking wickets at Premier level. It turned the State 2nd squads into an under 23 comp and has flowed through to the decline of the standard of the Sheffield Shield.

Premier cricket is a shell of what it once was. If you don't go through the pathways there is little incentive of cracking the State team. Better off chasing the cash in the subbies

End rant.


However, I this occasion I agree with him. He's a gun, coming off 197 in the last State game.

 

[desie]

No thanks to Queensland who went within a bees of getting the Indian tour cancelled due to their incompetence.

 

[chairo]

Why isn't the test series starting at the Gabba or Wacca?

 

[D23D]

Why isn't the test series starting at the Gabba or Wacca?

Indians don’t like consistently losing the first test in qld.
So they had a winge

 

[Hojuman]

Why isn't the test series starting at the Gabba or Wacca?

Same thought exactly. Even though Mrs. Kholi has a chapati in the tandoori oven. He might fly home mid-tour.

 

[SpiderBurton22]

Why isn't the test series starting at the Gabba or Wacca?

Covid restrictions.

 

[Swallow_Wood]

Greg Chappell has always been about getting the young blokes in.

He f’ed cricket up throughout Australia when squads for State 2nd 11s were picked from who those had gone through the elite pathways and were deemed to have talent, rather than those blokes who were making runs and taking wickets at Premier level. It turned the State 2nd squads into an under 23 comp and has flowed through to the decline of the standard of the Sheffield Shield.

Premier cricket is a shell of what it once was. If you don't go through the pathways there is little incentive of cracking the State team. Better off chasing the cash in the subbies

End rant.


However, I this occasion I agree with him. He's a gun, coming off 197 in the last State game.

Green's a fantastic talent with ball in hand too. All bar 3 of his 28 first class wickets are him genuinely beating the batsman for pace and movement. I reckon 20 af his wickets are catches behind the stumps.