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Your comment regarding not working hard enough on technique and being prepared to bat for long periods are spot on.
Grinds my gears to see blokes play get out shots. Sometimes the pitch plays tricks or a bowler is simply too good but yesterday Finch inexplicably committed batting suicide, Harris shows no idea how to play off spin, Head drove around one (misread line) and Mitch was deadest clueless. That attempt to take Jajeda down was embarrassing.
Basic skill deficiencies. So what are we going to do about it? Finch should never play again (=replace), Harris and Head have things to work on...but Marsh, he just can't bat. He must go.
I know he isn't popular but Maxwell must be considered for six, he at least has a clue how to serve it up to the spinners and his shield average isn't disgraceful. If he can contribute a few overs that will help too.
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Nothing will change EB1 while we allow them to make more money in the IPL than they get for representing their country, and India knows it.
WSC set the template, it destroyed most of Australia's serious opposition, now India is following our example using the IPL.
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How does India taking the extra time yesterday affect things? Anybody familiar with the playing conditions?
Excluding rain delays, does this mean a maximum of 82 overs instead of 90, or a half hour less play at the end of the day?
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Marnus Labuschagne added to the squad for Sydney. Averaging 29 with the bat and 59 with the ball in shield cricket this year. Don't mind the bloke, but the process of selection for Australian Test cricket at the moment is absolutely baffling to say the least
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(12-30-2018, 04:47 AM)Jack Burton link Wrote:Marnus Labuschagne added to the squad for Sydney. Averaging 29 with the bat and 59 with the ball in shield cricket this year. Don't mind the bloke, but the process of selection for Australian Test cricket at the moment is absolutely baffling to say the least
Why am I not surprised by that?
The ex-cricketers on the wireless thought he might get the nod ahead of far more deserving players > 
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They read like my figures. Seriously, this has to be a joke doesn't it....we need a new panel because this one is out of touch.
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Ed Cowan didn't hold back in his comments about the selectors and Hohns in particular. He said that Hohns should be fronting up to answer questions about selection criteria and the team's poor performances.
He also ridiculed the comments Hohns did make about one of the blokes selected for the Tests against Pakistan; something along the lines of, "He can bat and he can bowl" :o
More former cricketers need to call out the lack of rigour and judgement applied to Test selection.
On a more positive note, how good a cricketer is Pat Cummins going to be? I reckon he is a future captain.
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If you scroll back you'll see I predicted Cumming to be the cricketer of the summer, although I am pained to see that his injuries have forced him to remodel his action and he has lost the outswing he displayed in his initial test.
If they want a second spinner, go with Maxwell or Farwhad, who would damn near kill to have a go at the Indians - and he's rat cunning enough to take a few down as well.
Our old ball bowling has stunk - I'm looking at you Starc. I'm at a bit of a loss how the Indians got it reversing so much on a non abrasive drop in pitch yesterday.... Better not be any shenanigans going on. I'm suspicious whenever I see any reverse action, especially since Starc hasnt moved an old (or new) ball since sandpaper-gate.
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(12-30-2018, 05:46 AM)Professer E link Wrote:If you scroll back you'll see I predicted Cumming to be the cricketer of the summer, although I am pained to see that his injuries have forced him to remodel his action and he has lost the outswing he displayed in his initial test.
If they want a second spinner, go with Maxwell or Farwhad, who would damn near kill to have a go at the Indians - and he's rat cunning enough to take a few down as well.
Our old ball bowling has stunk - I'm looking at you Starc. I'm at a bit of a loss how the Indians got it reversing so much on a non abrasive drop in pitch yesterday.... Better not be any shenanigans going on. I'm suspicious whenever I see any reverse action, especially since Starc hasnt moved an old (or new) ball since sandpaper-gate.
It was good listening to Dirk Nannes talk about the bowling. He felt that the Indians had better technique and used the seam very well. He also said that Bumrah would have had his action changed in the Australian system and would be a mediocre bowler as a result. To be fair, Bhogle said that the Indian system would have done the same and it was fortunate that Bumrah had arrived via T20 and not the establishment pathway.
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I’m a bit too reactive I think, in both cricket and football. After losing this Test I was sitting here thinking the sky is falling and we’ll never win another Test match ever. But we won one against the world’s number 1 team only 12 days ago. How did we do that? Our openers put on partnerships of 112 and 59, with both making 50’s in the first innings. They didn’t perform well in this Test, but surely we stick with them for a while based on that. Head got a 50 in the first innings and Khawaja in the second innings, while S Marsh got 45 in the first. Paine made 38 and 37, which is handy from a keeper. And all this against the best pace attack to come to Australia since the mighty Windies teams of the 80’s (yes the stats do back up this big statement). Maybe our batting is not as bad as I think it is, just needs a chance to get used to Test cricket? I don’t have any problem with Paine’s keeping, so no problem there. The bowling? Well Starc and Hazlewood each got an early wicket in both innings, and we had them 2/8 in the first, and 2/13 in the second innings. Despite a Kohli century, Lyon got 5 wickets and we bowled them out for 286 in the first innings (lead for us of 43 runs), then we rolled them for 140 in the second innings, with the bowlers sharing the wickets, to win by 146 runs. I hated getting rolled in this Test, but we need to be careful about kneejerk reactions, maybe we aren’t that far away….
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