God help me - the Test Cricket thread

[Professer E]

Don't understand it myself.... Running down the pitch and missing a very average spinner by a metre, saw better at U12s on Saturday. 

[ElwoodBlues1]

Saffie tour is off due to CoVid, Saffers not happy as they said they complied with all our demands. Was talk the series might have been played in Perth but Graham Smith now head of cricket in SA said a quick No to that idea.

[LP]

Saffie tour is off due to CoVid, Saffers not happy as they said they complied with all our demands. Was talk the series might have been played in Perth but Graham Smith now head of cricket in SA said a quick No to that idea.

I suppose this is off the back of the news about the SA COVID variant being perhaps even more infectious than the UK variant, as well as some reports claiming it is less susceptible(more resistant) to the vaccination regimes now on offer.

What does it mean for the two squads hypothesis?

[member=57]ElwoodBlues1[/member] Where would you think it's safer to tour, Sth Africa or India?

I ask because I suspect the bulk of the players will be back at the IPL as soon as possible regardless of the COVID situation.

[ElwoodBlues1]

I suppose this is off the back of the news about the SA COVID variant being perhaps even more infectious than the UK variant, as well as some reports claiming it is less susceptible(more resistant) to the vaccination regimes now on offer.

What does it mean for the two squads hypothesis?

[member=57]ElwoodBlues1[/member] Where would you think it's safer to tour, Sth Africa or India?

I ask because I suspect the bulk of the players will be back at the IPL as soon as possible regardless of the COVID situation.

Yep its based around the SA CoVid variant......SA or India?...good question LP, Pakistan have/are touring SA and things seem ok and the SA Govt are saying they are on top of their second wave. I guess if you are playing IPL for big money it makes the choice easier but for me I'd prefer SA, the Saffers were sending their own team and staff into quarantine for 14 days prior to the series beginning and complying with most of what we asked for. Having travelled to India when I was younger I would be a bit more dubious of their healthcare measures..

[laj]

We likely out of the World Test Championship Final (WTC) unless results fall our way in the India v England Series. If bloody Tim Paine had've kept control of the over rate in Melbourne and not got WTC points docked  for it then Australia would be playing NZ. Between this, his awful panicky captaincy and catching in the last two Test, Paine has made a complete debauchery of Australia making the WTC final. Really shouldn't hold his job after his efforts against India. Batting was alright but he made a hash of everything else.

[ElwoodBlues1]

We likely out of the World Test Championship Final (WTC) unless results fall our way in the India v England Series. If bloody Tim Paine had've kept control of the over rate in Melbourne and not got WTC points docked  for it then Australia would be playing NZ. Between this, his awful panicky captaincy and catching in the last two Test, Paine has made a complete debauchery of Australia making the WTC final. Really shouldn't hold his job after his efforts against India. Batting was alright but he made a hash of everything else.

NZ are now through and it's probably out of India and England to see if they can overtake us. Paine will keep the job for the ashes series now, on his last chance.
Be nice to see NZ win the test final if we don't make it...

[Professer E]

The whole things a scam EB,  the Indian's over rates were excremently bad all series  yet we get fined...  I smell a rat...really convenient that we're out the running via a penalty,  but the while test championship thing is a joke anyway.  Didn't we utterly flog NZ,  yet they are ranked above us?

[LP]

The whole things a scam EB,  the Indian's over rates were excremently bad all series  yet we get fined...  I smell a rat...really convenient that we're out the running via a penalty,  but the while test championship thing is a joke anyway.  Didn't we utterly flog NZ,  yet they are ranked above us?

We failed in our duty, we should have implemented a better slow over-rate policy, and made sure our policy resulted in action to mitigate slow over-rates.

If we are accused of slow over-rates;

1- Accuse the accuser of racism.

2 - Threaten to boycott the game, walk-off or end the series by packing up and going home.

[Professer E]

Exactly what id do after the first crap word comes over the fence when we're over there.

Apparently only white male Australians are racists. 

[LP]

Exactly what id do after the first crap word comes over the fence when we're over there.

Apparently only white male Australians are racists.

The problem is the money situation isn't symmetric.

The BCCI have used IPL generated dollars to politically leverage the old establishment, I can't see that new order ever going away!

They do not need us, if we do not play nice with them, they can just play with themselves and still be rich and powerful! ;D

I think the old establishment made a mistake, they sold out for the BCCI/IPL dollars and they grossly failed to recognise or leverage in importance of prestige in sport! More than the dollars, someone like Kholi wants to be recognised as the best, all top sportspeople are like that, they do it for free in fact they might even pay their way to be there like an Olympian!