12-19-2022, 01:09 AM
(12-18-2022, 11:16 PM)DJC date Wrote:One of the ABC commentators, a former Aussie women's cricketer I believe, played down criticism of the pitch and gave the bowlers, from both teams, all of the credit. She said that she didn't think any dismissals were the result of poor batting, just good bowling.Shizen, when you go back to the replays and see some of the gaps left between bat and pad it's hard to agree with that assessment, seriously some blokes were missing pills that barely deviated by almost two stumps!
I must admit, in live action I thought the bowling was better than expected, on review the batting was awful. They were batting like the bowlers were throwing grenades at them!
Boland stated after the match that they(Aussie bowlers) thought the pitch quickened up a bit in the 2nd day, but batting got worse! :o
"Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck ....... Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck"