Aussie Cricket
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Our batting lineup is still so fragile though.
Can't remember a period where we rely on one or two players as much as we do now. If Warner and Smith fire, we win. If they don't, we lose.
Renshaw and Handscomb are coming along nicely (though thanks to Warner they've never been in under any real pressure), and Khawaja is in good touch too. But none have the game breaking ability that Smith and Warner do.
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Not bad players to rely on though
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True.
Renshaw brings up a brilliant century, so happy for him. Held down an end while Warner was going bananas, and then pushed on in the afternoon. And then got clonked on the helmet in the 90s, but it didn't phase him.
This is a big partnership now. Pakistan have done well to hang in there, and another wicket here brings them right back into the game. But if Handscomb and Renshaw push on and take it to 3/300 then it could be lights out.
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This is not an NZ v Aussie thing, more a personal dig at Warner, but from what I gather Warner turned down a 3rd run to ensure he kept strike, so that he could hit a ton in one session. The other day Kane told Neesh to finish the job leaving himself stranded on 95* with no chance of a century.
Both very driven blokes. One focussed on personal milestones, one focussed on his teams success regardless of any personal milestones.
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@NTA said in Aussie Cricket:
Yeah. Shame Cricinfo don't keep stats on Top Bloke, eh?
They should keep stats on "acted like a cock". Kohli and Warner would be miles ahead
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But yeah it is a shame they don't keep stats on Top Bloke. Black Caps would then sit in their rightful position of #1 ranked team instead of you bastard Aussies...
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@No-Quarter said in Aussie Cricket:
This is not an NZ v Aussie thing, more a personal dig at Warner, but from what I gather Warner turned down a 3rd run to ensure he kept strike, so that he could hit a ton in one session. The other day Kane told Neesh to finish the job leaving himself stranded on 95* with no chance of a century.
Both very driven blokes. One focussed on personal milestones, one focussed on his teams success regardless of any personal milestones.
Kane did that in an ODI against Bangladesh. It was a nothing game and a nothing innings that meant nothing.
Warner's innings was truly historic. He did something that has never been done in a test match in Australia. If he tried to slog sweep a ball on middle stump on the last ball before lunch I'd agree with you, but what he did was pretty reasonable IMO.
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@No-Quarter said in Aussie Cricket:
This is not an NZ v Aussie thing, more a personal dig at Warner, but from what I gather Warner turned down a 3rd run to ensure he kept strike, so that he could hit a ton in one session. The other day Kane told Neesh to finish the job leaving himself stranded on 95* with no chance of a century.
Both very driven blokes. One focussed on personal milestones, one focussed on his teams success regardless of any personal milestones.
People need to lay of Warner. He seems a bit of a dick but he's certainly no Brad Haddin.
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@No-Quarter said in Aussie Cricket:
They should keep stats on "acted like a cock". Kohli and Warner would be miles ahead
Yeah. On the other hand: record-breaking ton in front of your home crowd, putting an already struggling attack to the sword, and setting up the game for your team.
With the added bonus of not having to sit through lunch stuck in the 90s.
Now, stand back while I trigger @Virgil
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@barbarian said in Aussie Cricket:
@No-Quarter said in Aussie Cricket:
This is not an NZ v Aussie thing, more a personal dig at Warner, but from what I gather Warner turned down a 3rd run to ensure he kept strike, so that he could hit a ton in one session. The other day Kane told Neesh to finish the job leaving himself stranded on 95* with no chance of a century.
Both very driven blokes. One focussed on personal milestones, one focussed on his teams success regardless of any personal milestones.
Kane did that in an ODI against Bangladesh. It was a nothing game and a nothing innings that meant nothing.
Warner's innings was truly historic. He did something that has never been done in a test match in Australia. If he tried to slog sweep a ball on middle stump on the last ball before lunch I'd agree with you, but what he did was pretty reasonable IMO.
Just because Aussie weren't playing doesn't make it a nothing innings & a nothing game
Kane's conversion rate in ODIs could do with some improving so I was very keen for him to hit the ton.But, fair enough, I wasn't watching so don't have a feel for the atmosphere at the time. But it's pretty obvious some players focus more on themselves than the team, I don't think Kane or your own Smith would be concerned enough about "scoring a ton in a session" (which is impressive but hardly out of this world) that they would farm the strike on the first morning of a test with anyone other then a tail ender at the other end.
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I see your point, but I think what he did was OK. He only did it once, wasn't like he was doing it for overs in advance.
It's not too uncommon to see a batsmen try and reach their ton in the last over of a session, so as not to have it hanging over them for ages.
Warner was just doing that. Opting for an easy 2 instead of a hard 3 is not ideal, but hardly unforgiveable in that context. Much better than pushing for a very hard 2 to get back on strike, putting his wicket in danger.
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@No-Quarter said in Aussie Cricket:
"scoring a ton in a session" (which is impressive but hardly out of this world)
Doing it in the first session of a test match is rare
5th Batsmen to score century before lunch on the first day of a Test. David Warner became the latest to join Victor Trumper, Charles Macartney, Don Bradman and Majid Khan to achieve this feat. The last such instance was more than 40 years ago when Majid did it against New Zealand in Karachi in October 1976. The first three were all before World War II. -
@Duluth I'm surprised Sehwag isn't on that list given the way he played and the lifeless pitches he often batted on.
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@Duluth said in Aussie Cricket:
@No-Quarter said in Aussie Cricket:
"scoring a ton in a session" (which is impressive but hardly out of this world)
Doing it in the first session of a test match is rare
5th Batsmen to score century before lunch on the first day of a Test.And I think the first to do it in Australia?
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@barbarian said in Aussie Cricket:
@No-Quarter said in Aussie Cricket:
This is not an NZ v Aussie thing, more a personal dig at Warner, but from what I gather Warner turned down a 3rd run to ensure he kept strike, so that he could hit a ton in one session. The other day Kane told Neesh to finish the job leaving himself stranded on 95* with no chance of a century.
Both very driven blokes. One focussed on personal milestones, one focussed on his teams success regardless of any personal milestones.
Kane did that in an ODI against Bangladesh. It was a nothing game and a nothing innings that meant nothing.
Warner's innings was truly historic. He did something that has never been done in a test match in Australia. If he tried to slog sweep a ball on middle stump on the last ball before lunch I'd agree with you, but what he did was pretty reasonable IMO.
Yep, giving up one run against a crappy Pakistani team is hardly going to make a difference. What annoys me more is when declarations are delayed by a few overs just to allow a batsman to achieve a milestone.
