Sport The Hangar Cricket Thread IV

[Pweter]

Maybe not last rites. No Lyon makes things a bit more interesting

 

[jannissary]

never in doubt, thanks for the ashes

 

[ant555]

Glad my tickets are for day two and not day three.

 

[jannissary]

Glad my tickets are for day two and not day three.

same!

 

[ScrappyCoCo]

You two strap yourself in for some action!

 

[jannissary]

seats are primo

 

[ant555]

Australia.
Can bowl.
Can’t bat.

 

[ant555]

Well that was like being at an Essendon game.

 

[Phone]

tbf if more of our games were 50/50 crap shoots, the last 20 years would have been a lot easier to live through

 

[Yoda_]

Well that was like being at an Essendon game.

most of the wickets were shit cricket shots, claiming it was a spicy wicket is deflection. Really poor shot selection

 

[Yoda_]

Australia.
Can bowl.
Can’t bat.

Aus in a world of trouble post this era of bats

Who gets to the 2027 Ashes, what does the XI even look like in 18 months?

 

[Phone]

it was an atrocious pitch. every innings always has bad shots, that's cricket, but this pitch had excessive seam movement which turned the match into a complete joke. in the end, the winning strategy was to go the slog and hope you got lucky in between the shots you nail, which England did.

 

[ant555]

tbf if more of our games were 50/50 crap shoots, the last 20 years would have been a lot easier to live through

The feeling at the end was still the same.

 

[ant555]

Aus in a world of trouble post this era of bats

Who gets to the 2027 Ashes, what does the XI even look like in 18 months?

Not just an Australian thing. Batting in world cricket is nowhere near what it was.
What does England's side look like? Despite yesterday they have looked even more fragile. If they keep playing in the same vein they will break Stokes.
Based on the India series.
South Africa is currently one of the form teams and their top 6 or so all average in the thirties.
India only have Jaiswal and Pant averaging over 40.

 

[Zach Package]

Yeah atrocious deck. It would have got worse if the game somehow went into tomorrow because all those indentations would have hardened up and movement would have become more exaggerated.

Then you get into calling the game off territory.

The reality is it’s an inexact science, there must’ve been a reason they went 10mm instead of 8mm of last year because that was a fantastic test on a fantastic strip. Weather has been dogshit, AC/DC, there had to have been a reason they thought they needed to keep more grass on it to keep it together.

Imagine Hazlewood and Cummins on that deck, I was actually disappointed we didn’t roll them for 60 in the first dig.

 

[Old Campaigner]

Yeah atrocious deck. It would have got worse if the game somehow went into tomorrow because all those indentations would have hardened up and movement would have become more exaggerated.

Then you get into calling the game off territory.

The reality is it’s an inexact science, there must’ve been a reason they went 10mm instead of 8mm of last year because that was a fantastic test on a fantastic strip. Weather has been dogshit, AC/DC, there had to have been a reason they thought they needed to keep more grass on it to keep it together.

Imagine Hazlewood and Cummins on that deck, I was actually disappointed we didn’t roll them for 60 in the first dig.

In a press conference he said they felt they needed to leave more grass on it because of the heat forecast on days 3 & 4, they thought if it didn't have enough grass it would end up a road

 

[Zach Package]

In a press conference he said they felt they needed to leave more grass on it because of the heat forecast on days 3 & 4, they thought if it didn't have enough grass it would end up a road

Yeah I missed the presser but have now caught up.

Certainly puts paid to the ‘if India produced this wicket there would be hell to pay but in Australia there is silence’ narrative they are trying to paint.

Think everyone acknowledges it was a stinker and it brought the sides closer together than they had any right to be.

 

[jdstorm]

In a press conference he said they felt they needed to leave more grass on it because of the heat forecast on days 3 & 4, they thought if it didn't have enough grass it would end up a road

Pity they didn’t just say screw it and make a dust bowl. 3 days of road and a day turning sideways would have been more fun.

Could have picked 2 spinners

 

[Yoda_]

Just make them all roads and use 2 piece balls, change it after 40 overs to keep it fair


lol

 

[Sporno 4 Pyros]

Australia should have played a spinner
A) because we need to be getting games into the next spinner to replace Lyon
B) our attack looked a bit ‘samey’ with a bunch of right arm guys bowling 135kmh

 

[jdstorm]

Australia should have played a spinner
A) because we need to be getting games into the next spinner to replace Lyon
B) our attack looked a bit ‘samey’ with a bunch of right arm guys bowling 135kmh

Also it’s the SCG just make a spinning track and pick 2 spinners and see if anyone shows anything

 

[Zach Package]

It would seem the series being won in record time and everything else being rendered moot has emboldened the Poms a great deal. No stakes.

At the same time, the pressure to bury these self important absolute ****ing muppets 5-0 to avoid getting a disappointed dad dressing down from Ricky Ponting has got to us, again, a great deal.

A strange summer. The cosmic ballet continues.

 

[ant555]

Is the issues with spin more a sign that they are an average bunch?
Couple of them have done okay in the sub continent but in general they have just been average in shield cricket.

If we had someone who showed a bit more promise I suspect they would have played.
Problem is there are no spin friendly wickets here now.
SCG has not been a spin wicket for over 5 years.

We virtually have to have a Lyon quality spinner or better for them to get a game. Even Morse so with the green wickets we are preparing.

 

[ant555]

It would seem the series being won in record time and everything else being rendered moot has emboldened the Poms a great deal. No stakes.

At the same time, the pressure to bury these self important absolute ****ing muppets 5-0 to avoid getting a disappointed dad dressing down from Ricky Ponting has got to us, again, a great deal.

A strange summer. The cosmic ballet continues.

The MCG was simply a lottery.
We have never handled bowlers with sideways movement but in the end the difference was they have a few guys with better hitting abilities in those conditions due to Baz ball. Their slog was better than ours on the day.

 

[katana]

Is the issues with spin more a sign that they are an average bunch?
Couple of them have done okay in the sub continent but in general they have just been average in shield cricket.

If we had someone who showed a bit more promise I suspect they would have played.
Problem is there are no spin friendly wickets here now.
SCG has not been a spin wicket for over 5 years.

We virtually have to have a Lyon quality spinner or better for them to get a game. Even Morse so with the green wickets we are preparing.

lyon was totally out of left field and had hardly showed promise at shield level.