Banter The No Dazzlering Big Cricket Thread - 2025/26 Ashes Edition

[Godfather32]

Not sure how you can blame the selectors TBH.

We've had 2 tests last 2 days and we won the first 3.

You can query the curators on the other hand.
The selectors have been excellent IMO.

Probably because they pick the team?
Sure would be nice to throw a spinner on now to change things up a bit

 

[MrKK]

Oh FMD, they dropped Jhye for Webster and not Cameron Green. Are these pricks serious?

It makes zero sense. If you're going to drop Richardson then do it for a spinner. Or if you want to bring Webster in then it has to be for Green.

 

[Tugga27]

Probably because they pick the team?
Sure would be nice to throw a spinner on now to change things up a bit

Yep
A spinner would be nice right now.

The Aussies have misread the pitch.
Jason Gillespie reckons it was Steve Smiths call not to play a spinner.

 

[amazingjoshy]

No spinner in Sydney is utterly bizarre

 

[UseR2006]

A Spinner would be really good right now...

 

[Dazzler9]

I've just woken up and logged on. No spinner in Sydney? Huh??!

 

[darksquare]

Bit of rain might be just what we need right now. Freshen up the bowlers and maybe also the pitch.

 

[FKASC]

Who could have seen this coming.

Dazzler9

 

[RookiePick]

Green is garbo.

Throw Slug the pill again

 

[Ochre]

So they've made it the road we all suspected which obviously means sack the selectors

 

[RookiePick]

So they've made it the road we all suspected which obviously means sack the selectors

Let's see both sides bat first. If England make 450+ first dig I expect we will collapse for SFA. Pressure doesn't seem to produce diamonds in The Australian side anymore

I blame the closure of Argyle.

 

[Cuzz09]

Everything to do with the Australian Cricket side since winning the Ashes has screamed "job done, kick back"

 

[squashface]

Not really sure what Green is doing here

 

[FKASC]

Everything to do with the Australian Cricket side since winning the Ashes has screamed "job done, kick back"

Can you really blame them? Ageing side etc. England obviously trying pretty hard to save face too

 

[Ochre]

Let's see both sides bat first. If England make 450+ first dig I expect we will collapse for SFA. Pressure doesn't seem to produce diamonds in The Australian side anymore

I blame the closure of Argyle.

We have Webster, Neser and Starc at 8/9/10, they'll make 450 themselves on this.

 

[RookiePick]

We have Webster, Neser and Starc at 8/9/10, they'll make 450 themselves on this.

They'll need to after the top order lay the typical eggs

 

[squashface]

Can you really blame them? Ageing side etc. England obviously trying pretty hard to save face too

Should have used it as an opportunity to rest guys like Starc and Boland then and given guys like Richo and Connolly/Rocc a go (My Perth bias showing here, Murphy more likely probs)

 

[Ochre]

Should have used it as an opportunity to rest guys like Starc and Boland then and given guys like Richo and Connolly/Rocc a go (My Perth bias showing here, Murphy more likely probs)

Still have World Test Champs points on the line, don't want to throw them away

 

[darksquare]

Not really sure what Green is doing here

Zero false shots against other bowlers. But against Green, Brook slashed and missed twice, and Root skewed one over backward point. It’s not good, but the alternative is being milked at 5 an over without risk.

 

[Godfather32]

So they've made it the road we all suspected which obviously means sack the selectors

There's a hell of a lot of difference between people questioning there not being a spinner in the team and sack the selectors.
Literally no one has said that

 

[Dazzler9]

Sack the selectors!

 

[Cuzz09]

Good old Victoria and NSW ruining everyone's good time

 

[RookiePick]

Zero false shots against other bowlers. But against Green, Brook slashed and missed twice, and Root skewed one over backward point. It’s not good, but the alternative is being milked at 5 an over without risk.

England happy to milk Green for 7 an over with a sniff of risk. The Bazball philosophy!

Green is trash tier this summer. I thought he did pretty good in the West Indies working his way back from the back issue, but it's like he has done zero red ball work in the interim.

Seems the type to enjoy the smell of his own farts and is getting an armchair ride from the selectors. Not sure where the incentive to improve is going to come from.

Not fit to tie Watto's shoelaces and in real danger of not being as good as the much maligned MMarsh.

 

[FKASC]

We have Webster, Neser and Starc at 8/9/10, they'll make 450 themselves on this.

Shortest tail of all time. Even the number 11 used to open

 

[Ochre]

Seems the type to enjoy the smell of his own farts and is getting an armchair ride from the selectors. Not sure where the incentive to improve is going to come from.

See I think it's the exact opposite, he appears to be the only person alive who doesn't know how much talent he has and looks scared of failing whenever he's at the crease, but when he goes back to Shield cricket where he's proven himself he makes runs for fun.

I get the arguments for dropping him but if he can have that one break through knock he might never stop scoring. Annoyingly he had it in NZ but did his back straight after.