rdhopkins2
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Head out after testing positive to Covid!
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Reckon 50/50 chance the rest of the series is called off, 75/25 chance Tasmania, after finally getting an ashes test gets the plug pulled.Head out after testing positive to Covid!
Head out after testing positive to Covid!
I mean is anyone surprised?
And done the same to the Test squadIn doing so they've diminished the talent pool in BBL by about forty percent.
Please Maddinson over Marsh - don't need Marsh's bowling with Green (especially in Sydney), and surely Maddinson is more technically sound than he was on debut? He did look totally out of his depth then but that was some years ago...
Please no.You'd have to think Khawaja, seeing that it was between him and Head for the first Test and there hasn't been any red ball cricket since.
There is, imho.Must be a lot of ordinary sides going round at the moment then considering we flogged the crap out of the kiwis too
Might hang one on my missusMy vacuum cleaner was broken, so I put a sign on it, which said, "English batting", and now it really sucks.
A poor team playing an average team making them look like a good team. Let’s see how we go in Asia over the next year before making a conclusive assessment.
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You'd have to think Khawaja, seeing that it was between him and Head for the first Test and there hasn't been any red ball cricket since.
Please Maddinson over Marsh - don't need Marsh's bowling with Green (especially in Sydney), and surely Maddinson is more technically sound than he was on debut? He did look totally out of his depth then but that was some years ago...
Yeah agreed. But this Australian team is a bit better than thatThere is, imho.
Some interpreting the recent squad additions as selection possibilities are ignoring the fact that CA is simply ensuring the team has cover with like-for-like replacements for any further unforeseen COVID cases. Khawaja will take Head's spot for Sydney.
Surely Maddisons inclusion is the same as Inglis and Marsh's.Anyone with a functioning brain (which I appreciate rules out a great number of high-volume contributors to match threads on here) could probably put two and two together and work out they've most likely brought Marsh and Inglis in out of fears Green and Carey may be close contacts and forced to sit out.
Would say it's down to Usman or Maddinson for Head's replacement.
The big difference between them and everyone else at the moment - in my opinion - is that they will go into a tour with a specific strategy for batting. When they went to England, they specifically put away their cut shots, instead leaving the ball or playing the square drive if the ball was full enough; this meant that the bowlers gave them plenty of what they wanted (the ball on their pads, as they adjusted to not getting wickets in the cordon) and forced England to roll out some fast bouncy decks to try and win. They came here with the specific intent to have our bowlers bowl lots of overs; it worked when Pujara did it by himself, and it worked their next tour, allowing Pant/Jadeja/Ashwin/Sundar to make hay against an exhausted attack.It is very timely actually - Harsha Bhogle’s cricket legends interview just aired. He talks about how Indian players now have swagger and even the quiet ones like Pujara don’t have that same timidity that crippled their players when they travelled for so long.
He said that Gavaskar have India a realisation that they could play pace bowling based on how he stood up to the West Indies juggernaut and Tendulkar and Dravid carried that on and that has now filtered to not one or two players but all of them. Likewise Kapil Dev begat Srinath who begat Zaheer Khan, and from there they have this cartel of fast bowlers.
I’m not a fan of India but I’ve got a lot of respect for how they’ve grown beyond the ‘spin destroyer’ demographic that permeated their batting line ups for so long
More of our guys will test positive next few days you would think and as far as i know they aren't doing a bubble for a game in a city with this many cases so we need a lot of backups if they are really going to force this test through no matter what.
Most likely scenario now is england get a few cases among few players and decide they have had enough and head home, but they dont want a bubble either so i don't see how we play these last tests would need a miracle.