Australian Cricket - Crisis, What Crisis ??

[sandsmere]

Kiwis 5/109.

Stark 4 wickets.

Well done Australia.

[ElwoodBlues1]

Kiwis 5/109.

Stark 4 wickets.

Well done Australia.

Starc was intimidating and Smith took a blinder to get Williamson, Kiwis are plucky though and I expect Taylor and their keeper Watling to dig in.
Pity Hazlwood is injured and Matty Wade had to roll his arm over for a few interesting overs, we still miss that Ben Stokes type allrounder at No 6.

[laj]

Starc was intimidating and Smith took a blinder to get Williamson, Kiwis are plucky though and I expect Taylor and their keeper Watling to dig in.
Pity Hazlwood is injured and Matty Wade had to roll his arm over for a few interesting overs, we still miss that Ben Stokes type allrounder at No 6.

The all rounder who does look really good, Cameron Greene, has stress fractured his back.

[laj]

Don't know why Head gets a game,  finds ways to get out.  Soft ways. 

He shows a bit with an average of 44 but how many times does he get into a good position then gets himself out with a rubbish shot. It $hits me as it does many others. He's frustrating. Ponting was telling was what was going to happen before it actually happened. Sure enough.............

[Professer E]

That shows that Head is either mentally weak or as dumb as duck sh1t because he isn't learning - that at test level he has to tighten up his technique.  Simply hadn't wised up.  Don't know if we can carry Wade and Head who look to be very similar in style, although Wade has actually made some runs.

Smith isn't batting well either - pressure of expectation seems to have got to him and he hasn't settled in any innings this summer.

If Hazelwood was fit this game would be over.

[capcom]

Wade is effin' useless

[ElwoodBlues1]

That shows that Head is either mentally weak or as dumb as duck sh1t because he isn't learning - that at test level he has to tighten up his technique.  Simply hadn't wised up.  Don't know if we can carry Wade and Head who look to be very similar in style, although Wade has actually made some runs.

Smith isn't batting well either - pressure of expectation seems to have got to him and he hasn't settled in any innings this summer.

If Hazelwood was fit this game would be over.

Prof....agree on Head, why with the field set for the legside flick off the hip would you play at those deliveries?Wagner is making a living out of bowling half trackers@130k and getting away with it, looks like if you bowl at a lower pace you can bowl as much short stuff as you like?. If Starc bowled so much short stuff he would be warned I reckon..
Granted not all of them are shoulder high or above but a great percentage are especially bowling at very short players like Wade, Head etc.....

Smith has got carried away with himself and the hype, being inventive works some of the time but Williamson is employing one day tactics with his bowling and field placements.
NZ aim to bowl dot ball after dot ball and are the maiden kings, Smith has to learn they are waiting for him to get himself out rather than the kiwis bowling him out.
I probably rate Kholi higher in this regard as I could see him playing in a more smart conventional manner and pushing into the gaps rather than trying to blast  good balls to the boundary like Smith.

Wont be long now anyway with the Kiwis struggling at 2 down and still miles behind....

[capcom]

Now 4 down.  They're stuffed

[malo]

Pattinson in for Hazelwood...no brainer.  Unfortunately this doesn't mean that is what will happen. 

I have a fear that our historical misguided obsession with all-rounders (or basically, blokes who can't bat or bowl properly !) could rear it's ugly head again.

[LP]

Pattinson in for Hazelwood...no brainer.  Unfortunately this doesn't mean that is what will happen. 

I have a fear that our historical misguided obsession with all-rounders (or basically, blokes who can't bat or bowl properly !) could rear it's ugly head again.

Yes, I fear the same.

However, there are rumors of Head making way for a 4th bowler, that could be the source of our fears, with Pattinson still replacing Hazelwood!

However, the dark-side might be Siddle in for Hazlewood, and if Marsh bowls this Weds ...... in for Head?