Australian Cricket - Crisis, What Crisis ??

[spf]

Overall a pretty meaningless series but we did ok given our craptastic batting.  Gave up 20 - 30 too many bowling and  our top order Fing useless again.  Lynn opening,  which Muppet came up with that brainiac decision?  Lasted as long as I expected against Steyn - one ball.  As for Head,  I thought bats had to make runs to get a gig?  What's he ever done?    I get the feeling Maxy is coming in too late in the order, needs to bat one slot higher. A lot of work to do but it could be worse.

Here's one for you; open with him. It worked for Gilchrist, it was the reason he ended up opening with Mark Waugh, they had to change things up after losing the first three games. Steve Waugh had a moment of inspiration, swapped him with Tom Moody with 20 minutes warning, the rest is history. Why couldn't Maxwell open as an unorthodox attacking opener?

[Professer E]

Agreed,  he has a more solid technique than Lynn,  more chance of keeping out the good ones you expect early.

[malo]

Agreed,  he has a more solid technique than Lynn,  more chance of keeping out the good ones you expect early.

Yeah, I'm inclined to agree...Lynn's reputation has been built on Big Bash...and it is plainly obvious how much of a step up international 50 over cricket is.

What was also highlighted very clearly yesterday was the difference in bowling plans & / or execution for the last 10 overs.  They scored 140 off the last 10 FFS !!!  We used to have the best finishers in the game going back to Waugh & O'Donnell, McDermott, McGrath...now these guys are just providing hitting length balls with the same pace on each.  Cummings, as much as I love him as a bowler, is a Test Match specialist.  Starc...where's the yorkers when you need them, Hazelwood, again is better at Test level.  The Saffers showed us exactly how to bowl in the last 10.

Anyway.....onto the Tests in November as usual.

I suppose yesterday will give S.Marsh a free ticket to all 4 of them.

[LP]

Maxwell is suffering from his lack of friends, not from his lack of ability.

Even when he came in last night and got to 20 odd runs off 10 balls they were bagging him for erratic batting, like he could do better, like anybody could do better than that!

It was moronic commentary, one minute they were bleating that we needed get on with things because we needed 12 runs an over, then they were complaining about the bloke who was scoring at 12 runs an over!

[Bear]

Happy to stick with Lynn... think he deserves his chance in the short formats.

[JonHenry]

Happy to stick with Lynn... think he deserves his chance in the short formats.

Lynn is a pig of a bat.
Either to scared to get behind it or his technique is not good enough.
Either way he ain't good enough for a world cup, which is only 8 months away.

Khawaja, Smith and dare I say it, Warner must play world cup.

The bowlers need a kick up the asss for that effort yesterday too.

[Professer E]

That's what jerks my chain too Malo.  Bloody Marsh makes one score any suddenly he's a lock again.  His inconsistency is so frustrating.  I think the stats say that only one in five of his innings exceed single figures. You just  can't bank on him making runs.

I thought his dismissal in the second ODI for 22 was particularly poor.  Lazy shot,  from a bloke that has catastrophic lapses in concentration.

I'd be worried if i was Mitch Marsh,  Stoinis is becoming a more consistent player.  He gets wickets but his bowling is a bit inconsistent.  Don't know if he land enough balls in the right place often enough to be a threat in the longer form.

We've found out next keeper though.

Oh,  and another thing,  I'm getting tired of the Faf  du P good bloke Schtick.....he gamed that DRS call and it was very, very poor form.  Kohli ripped Smith for that issue last tour,  seems Faf didn't get the memo.

[LP]

If as a team you only had one good game in five, you'd be dead last on the various competition tables. For Carlton that would be 4 wins in a season, and our fans would still be screaming!

Guess where Australia is heading?

We have guys retaining their spot in the squad based on roughly one good game in five, bowlers and batsmen, some of them incapable of fielding or throwing as well!

You cannot move forward as a group under these circumstances, either they have to find ways to contribute when their batting and bowling fails, like catching, runouts, etc., etc., or they have to make way for players who do!

All or nothing usually means nothing!

[flyboy77]

That's what jerks my chain too Malo.  Bloody Marsh makes one score any suddenly he's a lock again.  His inconsistency is so frustrating.  I think the stats say that only one in five of his innings exceed single figures. You just  can't bank on him making runs.

I thought his dismissal in the second ODI for 22 was particularly poor.  Lazy shot,  from a bloke that has catastrophic lapses in concentration.

I'd be worried if i was Mitch Marsh,  Stoinis is becoming a more consistent player.  He gets wickets but his bowling is a bit inconsistent.  Don't know if he land enough balls in the right place often enough to be a threat in the longer form.

We've found out next keeper though.

Oh,  and another thing,  I'm getting tired of the Faf  du P good bloke Schtick.....he gamed that DRS call and it was very, very poor form.  Kohli ripped Smith for that issue last tour,  seems Faf didn't get the memo.

Not sure why you're ripping into Marsh, he's no worse than any of the other so called 5 or 6 batsmen!

[LP]

Not sure why you're ripping into Marsh, he's no worse than any of the other so called 5 or 6 batsmen!

A lot of them won't get so many chances though!