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Are any optimists grabbing tickets for Day 3 and beyond at the Boxing Day Test ?
 
Voges is old enough to remember the tail end of the Windies greatest side. As a kid I wonder if he ever dreamed in the future he'd average over 400 against them in tests...m

Edit Dec 27 - make that 542...
 
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Is there any better batsman to watch than Kholi? Awesome.
 
This has to be the weakest bowling attack we've fielded in many moons.
 
I'm not sure how you can make 320 and lose. Unless you are India of course :) It was a good opportunity to give Boland and Hastings an opportunity to open the bowling. Probably won't happen again. They say catches win matches, and as my old skipper used to remark when one went down, 'lucky it wasn't a bag of s##t !' Anyway, in all the ephemeral interest in ODI cricket, I'm sure this series will be forgotten about in a month or so.
 
India's bowling is ratshit, historically as well as in this series, and was the difference between the two teams. The top three Indian batsmen are seriously deadly, as good a top three as has ever toured this country for ODI's, but if they don't get the team into the 300's with plenty of spare change, they don't win. They even copped criticism for slowing down when nearing milestones, which is laughable when you consider they dropped down to strike rates still well over 100 when nearing tons. Our bats not quite as dominant, but more contributors and that home edge, plus we bowled better. But it was a shootout between great batting lineups given a bit of a head start through questionable bowling from both sides...

The series suffers simply because it was yet another best of series between India and Australia (I can recall about 5-6 of these in the last 7-8 years, and outside Symonds copping the monkey chant from 50000 Indians, the events have all blurred into one big blue v gold mess for me), and it happened in the lull year after a WC. Just like nobody recalls Australia getting rolled for 70 by Sri Lanka at the Gabba three years ago since the WC win erased both the memory and the pressure on George Bailey to send his resume to Macca's, this series will be a forgotten line in the stats page by 2019 as these two teams no doubt battle it out for the big prize...

It was fun though...at least it and the Adelaide test gave us something else to enjoy this season outside the BBL...
 
Missed the entire summer of tests, so really enjoyed that ODI series. Some of the best games i've seen for a while.

ps how utterly shit are those Mitchell Johnson ads.
 
Thomo's speech at the Border Medal was a classic. Loved it. Funny fracker.
 

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grizzlym said:
Is there any better batsman to watch than Kholi? Awesome.
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My favourite 4

Usman
Williamson
Amla
Root


We have some fantastic batsmen around right now, De Villers, Williamson, Amla, Kohli. Im not a huge fan of Smiths technique and i dislike Warner. I still think Usman is my favourite cricketer. a shame that CA wont pick him for one dayers
 
Upgrayedd said:
My favourite 4

Usman
Williamson
Amla
Root


We have some fantastic batsmen around right now, De Villers, Williamson, Amla, Kohli. Im not a huge fan of Smiths technique and i dislike Warner. I still think Usman is my favourite cricketer. a shame that CA wont pick him for one dayers
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Williamson is utter topshelf.
 
BullyWee said:
Mathews must be up there too
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Haven't watched a lot of Sri Lankan cricket in the past year TBO
grizzlym said:
Williamson is utter topshelf.
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He'll go down as NZ's best cricketer ever. You can see he modeled his game off Sachin, Second favourite international player
 
Part of me can't help feel batting feats come a little more cheaply then they did in the past. I remember Bevan hitting the winning runs off the last ball with Australia chasing 174 to win v the west indies...now India make 300 it doesn't look enough.

Sure the bats are better but roped boundaries, perfectly prepared wickets for batting and field restrictions have greatly changed the game. I'm not saying it has made the game necessarily worse but it is more instantly gratifying and removes some of the tension that used to be in the game when it was actually hard to bat against good bowling.
 
I'm not unhappy about Bancroft taking the gloves tonight. Not sure that Wade is the best option for Australiua. I'm sure if whiteman was fit and vaguely in form he'd be in there instead.
 

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grizzlym said:
I'm not unhappy about Bancroft taking the gloves tonight. Not sure that Wade is the best option for Australiua. I'm sure if whiteman was fit and vaguely in form he'd be in there instead.
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In 20/20 I'm happy for them to give a guy like Bancroft - who could one day open the batting for all three formats and keep in shortform - than Wade who is a shortform specialist and not good keeping to spin and probably has not done enough with the bat to make his position untouchable.
 
Despite the Mankad been virtually eliminated by a recent rule change that means a bowler cannot perform a mankad once he has started his delivery stride, a mankad has occured in the under 19 cricket world cup :eek:

http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/spo...nder19-cricket-world-cup-20160202-gmk3zo.html

Honestly if you can't wait for the batsman to begin his delivery stride before starting your run then you deserve to be run out....
 
Brishawk said:
Despite the Mankad been virtually eliminated by a recent rule change that means a bowler cannot perform a mankad once he has started his delivery stride, a mankad has occured in the under 19 cricket world cup :eek:

http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/spo...nder19-cricket-world-cup-20160202-gmk3zo.html

Honestly if you can't wait for the batsman to begin his delivery stride before starting your run then you deserve to be run out....
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The footage paints a pretty damning picture of the bowler's actions IMO.

The batsman wasn't charging off down the wicket. The bowler has just run through the crease and the batsman has instinctively moved out of his crease based on the position of the bowler. I reckon that if the bowler had actually bowled the ball, the batsman's movements would have occurred at about the same time as the ball release.

The only thing missing is context. We're not sure what's gone on out on the field prior to this..... I'd see some mitigation if there had been some byplay at some point prior.
 
Brishawk said:
Oh yeah it's not like the batsman was charging down the pitch but I think the bowler had noticed him leaving the crease on previous deliveries because he never looked like bowling the ball in the footage. Harsh lesson for the kid.
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I don't understand a batsman leaving his ground too early anyway. If the striker smashes the ball back down the wicket, the non-striker has to ground his bat to ensure he's not run out by the bowler deflecting the ball onto the stumps.
 

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