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Many of the Australians who play IPL aren't in the frame for test selection, and others, like Smith, had very poor recent IPL form.
Let's be honest, Australian men's cricket has been in the doldrums since....covid struck last year. Never played enough to work up any sustainable form.
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The IPL pitches are nothing like the test prepared pitches either, when I saw India picked 3 spinners, were one nil down I knew what was coming. Was like the old days when they would open with one quick and a spinner and look to get the shine off the ball real quick. Joe Root said they would be better playing on a beach than the Chennai wicket..
Moeen Ali was bowling the ball at right angles and he usually can't get them off the straight which tells you how fit the pitch was for test cricket..
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02-14-2021, 11:30 PM
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(02-14-2021, 10:13 PM)ElwoodBlues1 date Wrote:Moeen Ali was bowling the ball at right angles and he usually can't get them off the straight which tells you how fit the pitch was for test cricket.. Yes, the double standard and hypocrisy is a joke, but nobody has the balls to do anything about it because they all want to line up and put out their hand for the BCCI cash.
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Some Indian commentator claiming on SEN that's it's not a doctored pitch because India made 284 in the third innings.
I'm calling this F wit out.
It's semantics champ. It might not be "doctored" but it was prepared to spin from day one. Balls going through the top in the first session day one is NOT TEST Standard. It was BODGY before the game started and further diminishes India in the cricketing world's eyes.
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Anyone interested in class keeping then watch Englands Ben Foakes, there is daylight between Foakes and the other world keepers especially keeping to spinners. Given the emphasis on keepers being able to bat its reduced the standard of keeping IMHO but this bloke is the real deal and it must be politics keeping him out of the English team because he makes Butler and Bairstow look like hacks with the gloves and its not like he cant bat either.
Got robbed of a stumping too, forgot the Indian batsmans name but he had him cold with the bat on the line not behind it but the 3rd umpire didnt have the gonads to give it out as the Indian public would have disassembled the stands but it was out and brilliant keeping.
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(02-16-2021, 01:27 AM)ElwoodBlues1 date Wrote:Anyone interested in class keeping then watch Englands Ben Foakes, there is daylight between Foakes and the other world keepers especially keeping to spinners. Given the emphasis on keepers being able to bat its reduced the standard of keeping IMHO but this bloke is the real deal and it must be politics keeping him out of the English team because he makes Butler and Bairstow look like hacks with the gloves and its not like he cant bat either.
Got robbed of a stumping too, forgot the Indian batsmans name but he had him cold with the bat on the line not behind it but the 3rd umpire didnt have the gonads to give it out as the Indian public would have disassembled the stands but it was out and brilliant keeping. 1000% in agreement here [member=57]ElwoodBlues1[/member], the world has been conned by the career of Gilchrist!
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Vics showing that some of the NSW test "stars" are no where near as good as they think they are.
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02-17-2021, 11:07 PM
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(02-17-2021, 10:27 PM)Professer E date Wrote:Vics showing that some of the NSW test "stars" are no where near as good as they think they are. Individual games are swings and roundabouts, but to me it's clear being a welded on test player is not good for cricket in general. There isn't that much difference between Smith and the rest, not as much as the media and managers make out. I have much the same opinion about AFL players, if you sacked all the incumbents and replaced them with the next 750 in the pecking order you would hardly notice a difference after just one pre-season.
I'm not asking for babies to be thrown out with the bath water, but players have to have a fair crack at being selected or else we'll find fewer and fewer players interested in playing Test Class cricket for Australia, they'll become too jaded and end up IPL pros who are slowly removing themselves from Australian cricket, IPL and BBL is not Australian cricket.
In fact I'm not even sure T20 is cricket at all, you could well replace most bowlers with a machine and pitches with concrete runways!
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Faf Du Plessis just retired from test cricket to chase the T20 retirement dollars.
Graham Smith is right when saying the game now revolves around the big 3 cricket nations and the once strong South African team is a shadow of the old era that had AB, Steyn, Smith, S Pollock and crew. They may get some players back who signed Kolpak deals to play in England now that scheme is over which should give them more depth but we need a strong Saffie team to keep Test Cricket alive and have a voice in world cricket to help stop the Indian domination of the game.
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Needs a bloc of test teams to counter India's game dominance ... and how likely is that?
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