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11-23-2017, 05:56 AM
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(11-23-2017, 05:35 AM)laj link Wrote:Still nothing in the pitch. Reckon I can bat well on it.
Reckon If Johnson and Steyn were bowling England would be 5 for not many......these two batsman average less than 30 in test cricket, they are county hackers.
Starc and Hazlewood have been getting hat tricks and wickets galore in shield cricket, just been off in intensity IMO...no fire at all..
You would make runs today.  ...been that many half volleys....
Nice ball from Cummins..seamed back nicely......
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(11-23-2017, 05:56 AM)ElwoodBlues1 link Wrote:Reckon If Johnson and Steyn were bowling England would be 5 for not many......these two batsman average less than 30 in test cricket, they are county hackers.
Starc and Hazlewood have been getting hat tricks and wickets galore in shield cricket, just been off in intensity IMO...no fire at all..
You would make runs today. ...been that many half volleys....
Nice ball from Cummins..seamed back nicely......
Not sure they would be. Too easy to bat on.
To me it was just like bowling a tennis ball at brick walls. Nothing in the pitch was helping the bowlers. If County hackers were getting runs then it shows the pitch is easy to bat on. Our bowlers aren't exactly crap. As a group are the best going around.
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11-23-2017, 11:23 PM
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(11-23-2017, 02:49 AM)crashlander link Wrote:Those who claim 'everybody' doctors pitches to benefit their side have obviously not batted much in Australia. In recent years we have dealt up a LOT of roads, some of them real Freeways. Maybe they are worried we might find a batsman?
Producing roads doesn't produce batsmen.
FFS, we have a country full of drop in pitches that might as well be self-leveling teflon filled concrete, no deviation, no uneven bounce, and no variation from venue to venue, yet most of the spuds still cannot make runs!
From what I can tell early in the Shield season the curators offered up some pitches with life in them and our countries best batting stocks turn to pudding faces, almost as quickly as the Scott brothers when the opposition get a free kick! Shield teams were all out for not much!
Are we are suffering from having too many batsmen involved in the running cricket around the country?
Give them some real pitches, pitches they have to work hard on to get runs, not the 20/20 batting surfaces that currently get served up, and we will really cut the men from the boys!
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(11-23-2017, 05:56 AM)ElwoodBlues1 link Wrote:Reckon If Johnson and Steyn were bowling England would be 5 for not many......these two batsman average less than 30 in test cricket, they are county hackers.
Starc and Hazlewood have been getting hat tricks and wickets galore in shield cricket, just been off in intensity IMO...no fire at all..
You would make runs today. ...been that many half volleys....
Nice ball from Cummins..seamed back nicely......
I thought the bowling was too routine and the Poms batted well. Johnson and Steyn would have been trying something different to get a wicket and I guess that's where Smith falls down; he is an unimaginative skipper.
Apparently, Bayliss has a simple philosophy; bat longer than the other team. Unless our bowlers and skipper lift their games, the Poms could do just that.
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I'm tired of only one team batting to win... At least we score fast enough to move the game along. Other sides bat time, placing us under pressure to try and score faster to force a result.
DrE is no more... you ok with that harmonica man?
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(11-23-2017, 11:54 PM)Professer E link Wrote:I'm tired of only one team batting to win... At least we score fast enough to move the game along. Other sides bat time, placing us under pressure to try and score faster to force a result.
Tactics seem to be to grind us into the ground.....Malan is a nice stroke maker and impressive, unusual to see Ali so patient....
Really lack that 5th bowler...
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They're batting to only bat once, sh!t old-school tactics designed to not lose a test and flog our bowlers.
Can see our side being changed for the next test.. bowlers will be stuffed.
Kevin Mitchell - poor effort. It would want to be a better pitch when the Indians come out next time.
DrE is no more... you ok with that harmonica man?
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(11-24-2017, 01:03 AM)Professer E link Wrote:They're batting to only bat once, crap old-school tactics designed to not lose a test and flog our bowlers.
Can see our side being changed for the next test.. bowlers will be stuffed.
Kevin Mitchell - poor effort. It would want to be a better pitch when the Indians come out next time.
Tactics changed, more aggression with shorter pitched bowling and better results....we just bowled too nice yesterday.
Maybe got carried away and gave Broad some extra runs but had to laugh when Anderson came out to bat and got sledged every ball.
Shaun Marsh would want to make some runs...both he and Khwaja are passengers in the field..
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From all reports, Starc and Hazelwood bowled like D divisions bowlers yesterday.
302 is a great result for us.
Bancroft knicked a ball he should have left well alone....
Finals, then 4 in a row!
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(11-24-2017, 03:33 AM)flyboy77 link Wrote:From all reports, Starc and Hazelwood bowled like D divisions bowlers yesterday.
302 is a great result for us.
Bancroft knicked a ball he should have left well alone....
Khwaja out to Ali.....his mind is shot playing spin......
Poms have seen Bancroft in county cricket and seemed to know where to bowl and set the field to him.
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