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Re: God help me - the Test Cricket thread - LP - 06-28-2023
That wicket isn't doing as much as people thought, and Root had an impact on something that was supposed to be a seamers paradise. It's probably the case that curator was given the word to green things up too late, and the result is superficial as the Poms would put it the pitch is a Mickey Mouse green top!
If the ball doesn't swing Starc will be a liability and he'll literally concede a cricket score, I hope I'm wrong, but I fear I'll be right!
Re: God help me - the Test Cricket thread - DJC - 06-29-2023
(06-26-2023, 12:37 AM)ElwoodBlues1 link Wrote:Reckon the next test wicket might have a bit more life for Sir Jim but I'd also expect him to be rested in rotation.
Think he is nearly done though and should retire at seasons end .I'd expect the new King to bestow a knighthood on him in the near future. Good bowler but I have never rated him as highly as the cricket experts and find him conceited and full of himself....
Probably desirable attributes for a Pommy test cricketer
Re: God help me - the Test Cricket thread - LP - 06-29-2023
(06-29-2023, 06:06 AM)DJC date Wrote:Probably desirable attributes for a Pommy test cricketerIs perhaps what [member=57]ElwoodBlues1[/member] has seen in Jimmy more of an observation about intelligence and lucidity?
Anderson comes across to me as a pretty blunt tool, athletically gifted courtesy of great genetics, but not a lot of tactical genius!
Re: God help me - the Test Cricket thread - ElwoodBlues1 - 06-29-2023
Jimmy has a bowling average of 26 which is good but doesn't make him a great imho. He has played a lot of tests but I put that down to a thin pool of bowlers England have produced and a failed county system that favours short format cricket for the money.
Re: God help me - the Test Cricket thread - Professer E - 06-29-2023
Unimpressed by Starc. Reeks of an ego selection.
Re: God help me - the Test Cricket thread - LP - 06-29-2023
(06-29-2023, 09:25 PM)Professer E date Wrote:Unimpressed by Starc. Reeks of an ego selection.They would have known 1/2-over in they made the wrong selection.
Re: God help me - the Test Cricket thread - Professer E - 06-29-2023
Starc is a pie chucker and his selection has cost the side before. You could handle it if he was taking wickets, but going at 6 an over !?! Too many mates get selected in these sides, time to pick blokes who actually deliver. Surely Nathan's replacement will be Murphy, but then again I'm sure NSW can wheel out another mate.
Re: God help me - the Test Cricket thread - ElwoodBlues1 - 06-29-2023
Ridiculous cricket late last night....Aus bowling 6 bouncers an over with everyone on the boundary in one day mode.
We have slipped to England's Bazball stupidity and it's a blight on the game.
It's going to cost us Lyon for the series after he popped a calf trying to take an outfield catch.
Some of the worst cricket I have seen ever...Starc and Green bowled garbage and even the accurate Hazelwood was forced to bowl bouncers every ball.
Might as well just play one day cricket for the ashes from now on down at a local park..what a joke from McCullum, Stokes and now Cummins.
Re: God help me - the Test Cricket thread - Professer E - 06-29-2023
100%. Utterly brainless stuff. Simply bizarre, but after all they are BDQs...
Everyone knows that spinners are the only bowlers given a skerrick of intelligence.
Re: God help me - the Test Cricket thread - LP - 06-30-2023
(06-29-2023, 11:11 PM)ElwoodBlues1 date Wrote:Might as well just play one day cricket for the ashes from now on down at a local park..what a joke from McCullum, Stokes and now Cummins.And they are captained by a bar room brawler, a street thug, what do we expect?
But we haven't any high ground to take when we keep playing Warner and selecting Starc!
Bazball is OK, but as Mark Nicholl stated last night on the broadcast, test cricket is a long game that requires changes in tactics and momentum, if you are silly enough to fall into using the same tactic over and over eventually you'll be shown up as falling short.
The real trick might be to have smart leadership that can think on it's feet!