The Ashes, Second Test Australia v England @ The Adelaide Oval d/n 16-20 December

[gordo2016]

Boland is a fantastic bowler with a great FC record. Deserves his chance and can see him doing very well on the big stage

 

[LukeParkerno1]

Surely their best chance was either Brisbane or Adelaide of which they screwed up both times

We have 2 bowlers in Cummins and Lyon here, Starc is pretty ordinary in Melbourne...and well Boland really, handing out test caps for who knows the reason

 

[LukeParkerno1]

Feel like this has disaster written all over it. Starc breaks down further, Boland has no impact. Leaves a lot on Cummins and Lyon.

Starc's record in Melbourne is hardly flattering either.

 

[Ohitsthatguy]

Starc's record in Melbourne is hardly flattering either.

Kinda expecting him to go back to his s**t form with red ball in hand and not pink

 

[Grand Uncle Horace]

Santa bought me a 1929 Wisden and Caricatures of the 1953 Ashes Tourists by Arthur Mailey signed by the squad, O'Reilly and Fingleton. He's a good chap.

That is terrific. What a wise and generous Santa!.

Mailey remains one of my all time favourite Oz cricketers. His caricatures were spot on and his prose was always sharp.

 

[Gough]

That is terrific. What a wise and generous Santa!.

Mailey remains one of my all time favourite Oz cricketers. His caricatures were spot on and his prose was always sharp.

My favourite Mailey quote was about his career as a butcher come cricketer come journo, "First I served tripe, then I bowled it, then I wrote it".

 

[Cleavy]

Feel like this has disaster written all over it. Starc breaks down further, Boland has no impact. Leaves a lot on Cummins and Lyon.

we have Green to bowl too.

 

[LukeParkerno1]

Kinda expecting him to go back to his sh*t form with red ball in hand and not pink

Absolutely and Lyon is hardly rolling teams and we seem hellbent in not bowling Green

 

[LukeParkerno1]

we have Green to bowl too.

Well we didn’t day 5 do you trust these muppets to bowl him?

 

[Grand Uncle Horace]

My favourite Mailey quote was about his career as a butcher come cricketer come journo, "First I served tripe, then I bowled it, then I wrote it".

Aye, an absolute classic from the great man.

 

[FredLeDeux]

Well we didn’t day 5 do you trust these muppets to bowl him?

That was under instructions from the phys ed staff.

 

[Grand Uncle Horace]

That was under instructions from the phys ed staff.

The same dills would stop Green having shots for goal after footy practice.

 

[FredLeDeux]

The same dills would stop Green having shots for goal after footy practice.

Probably, if he'd had stress fractures in his leg, like he's had in his back.

 

[philreich]

My favourite Mailey quote was about his career as a butcher come cricketer come journo, "First I served tripe, then I bowled it, then I wrote it".

After he finished with world record figures of 4 for 362 in Victoria's 1107, he's rumoured to have expressed his disappointment that the innings had ended, as he was just starting to land them properly .

 

[Gough]

After he finished with world record figures of 4 for 362 in Victoria's 1107, he's rumoured to have expressed his disappointment that the innings had ended, as he was just starting to land them properly .

After Holles bowled Bradman in his last innings he's said to have commented as Bradman walked off, "Best fooking ball I bowl all year and they're all clapping him."

 

[FredLeDeux]

After he finished with world record figures of 4 for 362 in Victoria's 1107, he's rumoured to have expressed his disappointment that the innings had ended, as he was just starting to land them properly .

He also complained about the spectator in the bowler hat who dropped 2 catches off him.

 

[philreich]

After Holles bowled Bradman in his last innings he's said to have commented as Bradman walked off, "Best fooking ball I bowl all year and they're all clapping him."

Or Roy Park's missus: she was in the crowd for his only Test innings, and as he was about to face his first ball, she dropped a stitch in her knitting, and focussed on retrieving it. While she was doing that, her husband was out first ball. She said later, "I looked away, and missed his entire Test career."