Opinion NMFC Board Cricket Thread III

[roo blitz]

We have 2.5 bats and 1 bowler.

It’s just lucky we are playing the most brain dead cricket set up in history in Bazball England.

It’s just hard to quantify how wrong they have got this whole tour and lead up.

I agree and its the reason I have been missing in action. Totally flabbergasted by the whole circus and missed opportunity. Their whole organisation for this tour has been a shambles. It should have been a fight to the very end. Winners are grinners and losers can please themselves. I was actually hoping they would lose 5-0 in the end. I wouldnt be surprised if they win in Sydney and it ends up 3-2 which makes it all the more ridiculous. Its obvious though they have got better for having played some cricket as the tour has gone on. I know Cummins, Hazelwood and Lyon have missed some games but so has Wood and Archer as well

 

[Sillygit]

sydneys going to be a road and 2 days lost to rain, lucky if both teams fully bat once

 

[krakouers]

 

[Hearts to hearts]

Awful game from Australia, slightly less awful from England. Both sides were undermanned but England lost a bowler in game so they had every reason to lose again and didn’t. All the talk has been their failure to play the conditions and this time Australia was even worse at that. Hope it’s a wake up call for selectors and batters.

 

[DuckYeah]

Steve smith blaming the pitch saying the ball slowed up in the pitch too much.. didn’t realise that prevented blocking and leaving the ball.

 

[LuvtheKangas]

All the talk post match was how the pitch led to the result. It's bullshit - the pitch wasn't responsible for the shit shots played by Weatherald, Marnus, Khawaja, Green and Carey. And that's just one of the four innings, each of which were characterised by plenty of shit shots.

 

[King Corey]

Can we trade Cam Green for an F2?

Surely someone like North Melbourne would bite?

 

[Karanicolas]

If Cameron Green was an AFL player, he would be on North's list!

As a Top 10 pick.

 

[Gasometer]

Should have burnt the wickets in the MCC car park

 

[Themanbun]

So now what do I do

 

[Passmore]

So now what do I do

Themanbun's Midfield Minute.

 

[gokangas]

So now what do I do

When you are home recovering on light duties a day of cricket is very anticipated. Fugg em all for screwing my next few days.

 

[roo blitz]

He is better than canon fodder. Tongue bowls some ripper deliveries and Aussie pitches should suit him

Pleased to see Tongue doing well after mentioning him prior to ashes starting. He has a bit of an X factor for sure and has always impressed me and one I have followed closely for a few years after having a lot of injury problems early days

 

[muttley45]

Shock, horror, Australia lose a dead rubber game, again, some things never change.

 

[Passmore]

I remember the mid '80's when Australia couldn't beat anyone of significance. We'd finally win a test and it'd be like the pommies are now

 

[Passmore]

Shock, horror, Australia lose a dead rubber game, again, some things never change.

They'll be handing out knighthoods should they make it 3-2.

 

[Chip Scab1]

When you are home recovering on light duties a day of cricket is very anticipated. Fugg em all for screwing my next few days.

Yep, I have to now pretend to be busy for 3 days.

Maybe some golf in Myrtleford if I can convince my nephews to drive (and I give 'em petrol and shout them).

 

[gokangas]

Yep, I have to now pretend to be busy for 3 days.

Maybe some golf in Myrtleford if I can convince my nephews to drive (and I give 'em petrol and shout them).

What's their names on BF? golf scab?

 

[Samsquanch]

When you are home recovering on light duties a day of cricket is very anticipated. Fugg em all for screwing my next few days.

I think that Cambodia is doing a tour of Indonesia GK. Maybe if you can understand Bahasa Indonesia you could tune in on short wave radio.

Maybe Hojuman could be your interpreter.

 

[krakouers]

When you are home recovering on light duties a day of cricket is very anticipated. Fugg em all for screwing my next few days.

Hopefully you are well and truely on the mend mate

 

[Marstermind]

And the Perth wicket and Brisbane silly orange ball test match were not lottery's ?. it kind of works both ways in all honesty. Adelaide was the only really normal test match. Probably just as well the Poms got their selections wrong on the tour and didnt have warm up games prior to the tour otherwise I think the whole ashes series would have been very different. But that's their own fault and the Aussies were good enough to win the matches when they needed to

Wow. No activity from you at all since November 21 - the first day of the series - and then randomly you chose yesterday to reemerge and get all lippy. What is it soccer fans sing? You only sing when you're winning??

 

[Themanbun]

Pleased to see Tongue doing well after mentioning him prior to ashes starting. He has a bit of an X factor for sure and has always impressed me and one I have followed closely for a few years after having a lot of injury problems early days

I thought not opening the bowling with him was gonna bite them this match

 

[Chip Scab1]

What's their names on BF? golf scab?

I'm not sure they know what BF is... I tend to keep both worlds apart like, "Dollar Bill" from Billions haha

 

[King Corey]

Other than Chip Scab1 DuckYeah Hearts to hearts and a couple of others this place has become as soft as butter.

I don't want to see some random pom getting to showcase their talent.

It's professional XI v professional XI. We're not playing a Farmers XI.

I want clean sweeps, every match counts. Losing dead rubbers against HM Royal XI is still for the tip.

You don't play * and think "oh that's nice I'm glad Kako got on the end of a few".

Wake the **** people.

 

[WesternRoo]

The wicket was a bit difficult and there was sideways movement.
But no more than a lot of UK or even shield decks prepared now.

What players cannot do now, is trigger quickly back and across and play off the back foot. This includes leaving off the back foot.

If you are playing on a seaming deck with bounce, you are taught as a young bat, particularly top order to stay on the back foot.

This gives you an extra second to play the ball when it seams and if you have triggered onto off stump, you can leave a lot of balls but also cover your off stump by being behind the line of the ball if you need to play it.

It also gives you a lot of scoring options with a horizontal bat if the ball sits up.

If you get the odd LBW you can live with that as the greater risk as we saw was edging the ball behind the wicket or a ball seeming and hitting an uncovered off stump (like Head). Just that as an example with him staying onside of the ball shows poor technique and thought and I could list another 10 - 12 avoidable dismissals from both sides.

If the pitch lacked bounce and was slow you could get out of your crease and try and smother the seam. But this wasn’t that sort of wicket.

Its T20/flat pitch mentality. Give yourself space inside the ball and always come forward. It works well in white ball cricket as the ball does little, pitches are flat and almost no catches behind the wicket.

All we needed to do was get through that first session Day 2, even 2 or 3 down. They were a bowler down and the wicket would have started to settle a bit with an older ball.

We are just not technically or temperamentally capable or willing to do this.