God help me - the Test Cricket thread

[Professer E]

Both.

I'd like to know how Starc keeps getting games.  Has been mediocre for 18 months,  down on pace and bowls two four balls every over.  Patterson was clearly told, or read the writing on the wall,  you just won't be selected.  Neser is another in selection limbo. When are other blokes going to get a look in, we're just flogging the same quartet.

T20 batting selections that are simply weird.

Warner is another rusted-on selection, his selection in last summer's test series was an ego-driven disaster.

I agree selection ain't easy with the lack of batting talent pushing through,  but surely we need to give others a try.

[Professer E]

Looks like Patto is going to do a "Kolpak" and consider country cricket

[ElwoodBlues1]

Reckon if Starc was a right arm quick from Victoria he wouldn't be playing.
Being left arm gives him a point of difference and he is a bit quicker than the others. But as Thakur for India showed when he gets hit around he loses it and bowls repeated Pies even to tailenders..Cummins will think it through but Starc doesn't have a plan B.

[LP]

Reckon if Starc was a right arm quick from Victoria he wouldn't be playing.
Being left arm gives him a point of difference and he is a bit quicker than the others. But as Thakur for India showed when he gets hit around he loses it and bowls repeated Pies even to tailenders..Cummins will think it through but Starc doesn't have a plan B.

I watched some highlights the other night and both Hazelwood and Cummins were bowling faster than Starc who was going half-rat pace!

But it must be tough for bowlers when no matter when the bowl, first or second innings, they have to restrict an opposition to under 130 to have a 50/50 chance of winning!

Overall, the current T20 is showing Australia's specialist T20 - ODI - Test selection policies to be bogus, I can't see the coach surviving he's done!

[Professer E]

I reckon Warner and Finch are both very close to the end,  there's a pair of elephants in the short overs room.  Then specific T20 openers can get a gig.

[ElwoodBlues1]

I reckon Warner and Finch are both very close to the end,  there's a pair of elephants in the short overs room.  Then specific T20 openers can get a gig.

Ditto Smith.....not sure I'd be burning Cummins and Hazelwood up in T20 cricket either, England dont play their test quicks other than Woakes.Tymal Mills has just got injured for England and is out of the comp replaced by Topley, imagine that had been Anderson or Broad or we had lost either Cummins or Hazlewood with the Ashes coming up.

[LP]

T20 is a bit Mickey Mouse, but I was glad to read Wade had some success.

I wish him and some of the other fringe players well because I think they have had far from a fair trot at representing Australia in other forms of the game.

[Professer E]

The shorter forms of the game throw up some odd results.

NZ making the finals doesn't surprise me,  but if somebody has said Aust would make the final I'd have told them to F off.  Other results have been mystifying...the Windows,  SL and India bombing out?  England crashing at the penultimate hurdle? 

[LP]

The shorter forms of the game throw up some odd results.

NZ making the finals doesn't surprise me,  but if somebody has said Aust would make the final I'd have told them to F off.  Other results have been mystifying...the Windows,  SL and India bombing out?  England crashing at the penultimate hurdle?

Agree, it's that luck element that makes it interesting to many but reduces my interest in the short form. However, I still hope guys like Wade and Maxwell do well enough to show up the institutions ruining the long form of the game.

Maxwell is to me a modern version of Doug Walters. A once in a generation player who every 4 or 5 innings could score a ton in a session, or a triple ton in a day, runout opponents like Viv Richards and take catches like Pontin, but he's consigned to joke cricket!

[Professer E]

Warner is called  a flog because he hits a rank ball for six,  but no comment when he walks when he wasn't out.  We all know who the flog is in this case.  Funnily enough,  it isn't an Australian, although there are many who claim that we're the source of all evil.