The Third Test in the Ashes Series - WACA (14 December)

[Professer E]

Must be hard coming in at 4 for 350 on that deck against a tired half baked attack.

Exactly what the team needed but I wouldn't call them hard runs.  A couple of wickets would be just as valuable now.

[flyboy77]

Must be hard coming in at 4 for 350 on that deck against a tired half baked attack.

Exactly what the team needed but I wouldn't call them hard runs.  A couple of wickets would be just as valuable now.

um the bowlers were tired? They'd had a full night's rest, then S. Marsh and Smith added 15 odd runs early today before he was out.

Were they tired then? FFS, simply BS.

[Professer E]

Dunno which game you were watching, that attack was weak, really weak.  Four right arm fast mediums and a crap spinner on a pitch doing f all.  Nice hundred but like I said, a soft kill.

[ElwoodBlues1]

Good knock from the selectors lovechild in Mitch Marsh but I remain unconvinced, his technique is still flawed IMO and he needs to show some resistance on a wicket doing doing something before I am going to get on his bandwagon...

[laj]

Must be hard coming in at 4 for 350 on that deck against a tired half baked attack.

Exactly what the team needed but I wouldn't call them hard runs.  A couple of wickets would be just as valuable now.

It was 4/248 when he got in. Alot of pressure as we were still 155 behind. One more wicket could've changed everything. Then he faced the new ball not long after he got on with bowlers rested overnight. Poms list 6/35.on that deck.

[flyboy77]

Good knock from the selectors lovechild in Mitch Marsh but I remain unconvinced, his technique is still flawed IMO and he needs to show some resistance on a wicket doing doing something before I am going to get on his bandwagon...

well, you can only do what you can do....at the time.

[ElwoodBlues1]

well, you can only do what you can do....at the time.

Agree he played well and did the job but the commentators showed him plenty of love even before he got going...the Marsh bros seem cricketing royalty
at the moment and its got a bit sickening listening to Michael Clarke and crew throwing bouquets at Mitch and then ditto for Shaun as being everyone's favourite teammate.
Neither have proved anything IMO and I want to see further evidence before I join the bandwagon of Marsh fans.....probably the worst English team ever and their bowling is half rat power county scrubs these days with Anderson and Broad having a pre retirement holiday and the rest being sub district standard including one who bowled with a cracked rib.

[LP]

It was 4/248 when he got in. Alot of pressure as we were still 155 behind. One more wicket could've changed everything. Then he faced the new ball not long after he got on with bowlers rested overnight.

Poms list 6/35.on that deck.

You think that is something to do with the deck or bowlers?

I wrote many days ago that this was an opportunistic selection, the WACA pitches have been runs feast fodder for several years now. The slimmest of chances existed that a batsmen in half-form wouldn't make runs on this pitch, not the other way around. England should have made 500 or even 600 from that position, in much the same way the Australia is about to!

The big problem is this, whichever in-from player was picked he was going to more than likely make runs. On a dead-flat benign pitch against an attack that is built around players who are a puddle of their former self. If there wasn't any political bullcrap, we'd have probably played Mitch Marsh and Glenn Maxwell to give ourselves the best chance of fast scoring and favourable result. Instead we get political spin about needing all-rounders for tired bowlers and then only bowl the bloke 9 of 115 overs.

The real question should be asked, how can it be we have blokes so far out of form that we applaud 30s or 40s on that pitch at an SR of 35%? When we have other players around the country making tons, double tons even almost triple tons at strike rates of 70 to 80%

Where does form come into the selections, it looks more like a lottery, one that has been fixed by the mafia!

[sandsmere]

Handscomb had clearly lost all confidence - had to go. Was Marsh the next best choice?

In the eyes of the selectors yes....and they know a f.... load more than us about the players.

yep. Well done selectors and well done Mitch Marsh and Steve Smith.

[Bear]

Going back to that other discussion about unlucky/stiff Australian players... it’s all about timing (eg. when you get selected, and who you play against).

Handscomb last test had to bat under lights with ball hooping, gets dropped, Marsh comes in on his home track and bats on an autobahn and destroys them.