(12-26-2018, 11:34 PM)ElwoodBlues1 link Wrote:Smith will be welcomed back but Warner will only appear if we are going very poorly IMO...
re: The Pitch.....criticism is extreme , its not that bad IMO, our bowling is overated IMO, Hazlewood doesnt make batsman play enough, Starc is inconsistent with line and length and we have become too reliant on Lyon to get the big breakthroughs.
Quality bowlers get wickets on any pitches, if that was real quality like McGrath or Steyn on that pitch we would have seen wickets falling, Cummins showed if you bend your back, attack the batsman you can manufacture wickets.
Mitch Marsh is a plodder with the ball and while he kept the runs down he hardly troubled two good technical player like Pujara and Kohli......
We bowled like we expected them to fold up and make mistakes and paid the price with their new opener scoring some easy runs, I would have applied more pressure on him rather than serving up half volleys with a traditional field...Paine isnt a bad captain but needs to get more inventive than just bringing Lyon onto bowl when he wants a wicket.
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The pitch has played normally, kept low and taken off like a rocket. A few balls doing that on the line of the stumps would have made life very interesting, but there have effectively been nothing on the line of the stumps! It's rubbish bowling, they are so over-rated because they all have highlight reels!
Watch what happens to our lot, the Indians will attack the stumps, they won't bowl bouncers outside leg stump or half-volleys a foot outside off!
Agree about Paine, and that catch wasn't so easy, the reason Haddin or Healy didn't drop those catches is because they wouldn't have tried for one that wide! Those mugs commentate from the cheap seats, they are all perfect after they have retired!
The only thing I agree about Paine this pitch is his fields are not quite right, Punter has that nailed. But why isn't Punter offering Paine free advice, you know as part of patriotism, instead of putting a hand out for an ACB spotters fee?
"Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck ....... Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck"