03-28-2017, 04:08 AM
A lot of god stuff on this tour, but also a lot of bad and repetition of the same old mistakes.
Putting performances of individuals to one side, the selection policies and tactics have at times been beyond baffling - all the talk pre series about all rounders, and then across 4 tests Marsh / Maxy bowled 8 overs!!! How can the selectors and captain be so out of sync??? Same happened at the SCG with Cartwright - we just keep doing the same thing over and over. If Smith doesn't rate these guys as bowlers then just pick the best No6 batsman and be done with it.
And the batting of Wade yesterday was some of the dumbest cricket I've ever seen - to bat for 15 overs on that pitch for 15 runs was just pure madness. Our only chance was to score runs, push the field back and put some pressure on India. Instead we did exactly what they wanted us to do. Finally Cummins gets out, and when Lyon comes in Wade takes a single off the first ball of the over to expose Lyon, who nicks the second ball he faces. At this point, 9 down, Wade starts swinging and get 15 runs before mistiming a run on the last ball of an over to expose JH. And that was all she wrote.
These guys are professional, full time cricketers with a coach, and this is the sort of stupidity they show when the game and series is on the line. It annoys the hell out me that we get undone by boneheaded play so often.
Putting performances of individuals to one side, the selection policies and tactics have at times been beyond baffling - all the talk pre series about all rounders, and then across 4 tests Marsh / Maxy bowled 8 overs!!! How can the selectors and captain be so out of sync??? Same happened at the SCG with Cartwright - we just keep doing the same thing over and over. If Smith doesn't rate these guys as bowlers then just pick the best No6 batsman and be done with it.
And the batting of Wade yesterday was some of the dumbest cricket I've ever seen - to bat for 15 overs on that pitch for 15 runs was just pure madness. Our only chance was to score runs, push the field back and put some pressure on India. Instead we did exactly what they wanted us to do. Finally Cummins gets out, and when Lyon comes in Wade takes a single off the first ball of the over to expose Lyon, who nicks the second ball he faces. At this point, 9 down, Wade starts swinging and get 15 runs before mistiming a run on the last ball of an over to expose JH. And that was all she wrote.
These guys are professional, full time cricketers with a coach, and this is the sort of stupidity they show when the game and series is on the line. It annoys the hell out me that we get undone by boneheaded play so often.