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Holy shit Aus cricket has a hard on for the Marsh brothers. Khawaja appears to be dropped for the first test in favour of Shaun Marsh
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@mariner4life said in Aussie Cricket:
Holy shit Aus cricket has a hard on for the Marsh brothers. Khawaja appears to be dropped for the first test in favour of Shaun Marsh
Doesn't Khawaja buck the cliche of Asians being good players of spin?
While S Marsh has scored well in Asia.
Probably some logic.
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Marsh was bamboozled by Santner at Eden Park. I'd say the Indian spinners will be licking their lips.
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@Rapido said in Aussie Cricket:
@mariner4life said in Aussie Cricket:
Holy shit Aus cricket has a hard on for the Marsh brothers. Khawaja appears to be dropped for the first test in favour of Shaun Marsh
Doesn't Khawaja buck the cliche of Asians being good players of spin?
While S Marsh has scored well in Asia.
Probably some logic.
Khawaja is terrible against spin. It's tough because he is obviously one of Australia's best batsmen. I would back Marsh to score more against him in India though. Most teams don't really do a horses for courses in the batting whereas they do with the bowlers.
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@mariner4life said in Aussie Cricket:
holy shit! I'm all for anything having a go at the illiterate, beligerent dwarf, but that is some of the biggest bullshit i have ever read. Fuck me.
David Warner only scores at a run a ball in the 90s. What a fluffybunny. And this one time, he took more than that. Hanging's too good for 'im!
Fact of the matter is he has 13 hundreds in 91 innings. He averages 45. His average strike rate is 97. I think he's doing okay (and I'm pretty sure Ross Taylor would kill of his record)
Yeah sure he slows down in the 90s.
But he's probably the fucking quickest to 89.
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@mariner4life said in Aussie Cricket:
Yeah sure he slows down in the 90s.That has to be a sick hit piece.
I'm no fan of Davey as a person, but his qualities as a batter cannot be underestimated. He is amazing. Annoying, and amazing.
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@nzzp said in Aussie Cricket:
@mariner4life said in Aussie Cricket:
Yeah sure he slows down in the 90s.That has to be a sick hit piece.
I'm no fan of Davey as a person, but his qualities as a batter cannot be underestimated. He is amazing. Annoying, and amazing.
He's the batsman most Kiwis think McCullum was...
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@gollum said in Aussie Cricket:
@nzzp said in Aussie Cricket:
@mariner4life said in Aussie Cricket:
Yeah sure he slows down in the 90s.That has to be a sick hit piece.
I'm no fan of Davey as a person, but his qualities as a batter cannot be underestimated. He is amazing. Annoying, and amazing.
He's the batsman most Kiwis think McCullum was...
You claim to know what most kiwis think?
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@Siam said in Aussie Cricket:
You claim to know what most kiwis think?
"Where's the nearest KFC?"
"This year will be the year the BCs really deliver"
"Ok, I'm just killing time till the start of the rugby championship, I'm not even that into cricket"
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@gollum said in Aussie Cricket:
@nzzp said in Aussie Cricket:
@mariner4life said in Aussie Cricket:
Yeah sure he slows down in the 90s.That has to be a sick hit piece.
I'm no fan of Davey as a person, but his qualities as a batter cannot be underestimated. He is amazing. Annoying, and amazing.
He's the batsman most Kiwis think McCullum was...
Nail. Head.
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As much as I'd love to froth at the mouth over dropping Khawaja for Marsh, it might make sense.
If Usman can't play on Indian decks, and everyone knows it, and he's batting like shit at training, why put him out there? Yeah he's great on harder tracks, but cricket in India is a different game.
Meanwhile Marsh goes out and bags a hundred against India A overnight.
I'd think this was a bit much if they dropped Khawaja for a match at the SCG, or Headingley or something. But this is India, and I think a totally different approach may well be justified.
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@barbarian said in Aussie Cricket:
Meanwhile Marsh goes out and bags a hundred against India A overnight.
Let's hope it continues, and that he wasn't facing Crapluchistan's U16 3rd XI
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@NTA said in Aussie Cricket:
@barbarian said in Aussie Cricket:
Meanwhile Marsh goes out and bags a hundred against India A overnight.
Let's hope it continues, and that he wasn't facing Crapluchistan's U16 3rd XI
THEY'RE OLDER THAN 16
um
I mean, yeah.
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I've read these stories before, but Brett Geeve's account of his one and only IPL season is pretty funny.
how to not get invited back for a 2nd IPL season
Also Australia's T20 side has predictably lost their series, losing game two last night on the last ball (after having Sri Lanka 5-40). There's a dead rubber on Wednesday in Adelaide
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@mariner4life said in Aussie Cricket:
I've read these stories before, but Brett Geeve's account of his one and only IPL season is pretty funny.
That's a ripper. I'm surprised he just didn't beam him in the nets!
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Bizarre week in Australian cricket and a bit of a face palm for the administrators as they throttle the golden goose
Listening to radio news on the hour and 2 stories about the Australian cricket team...huh? - trouble was, for the first time ever I guess, there are 2 Australian Cricket teams...both underwhelming against Asian teams again
Thank christ for the Sri Lankan fans otherwise the crickets would have been chirping at the cricket. Weird b grade fixture all round (except for the plucky performances from the Lankans)
Once upon a time the Indians were being roasted by Australians for being a team that didn't respect world cricket, devalued the game, played by their own rules and only ever did well at home...hmmm
Aussie cricket scene is still very very good and quite robust but they've gone a long way away from what made them the greatest team in cricket and this constant tampering and short term thinking has me wondering what they're trying to achieve, or indeed if they're overthinking the whole thing.
A win in India will change all that but it wasn't too long ago that SA hammered the Ausiies at home and the dis-interested paki series barely papered over the cracks. Ashes build up will also be of such a fervour that no one will notice the thickly applied make up adorning arguably the greatest cricket nation ever
Contrast to what Kohli et al has brought to Indian cricket and they're starting to resemble the successful Aussie model, i.e. stick with the same players, play aggressive and positive cricket, let the captain be the focus, (don't rest him for a series for fucks sake!) do the same things over and over until you get it right, limit the back room staff, resist the need for fact finding missions pre tour and just practice and play the bloody game.
Interesting times
oh and if you're looking at Pat Howard's CV and thinking about how impressive his KPI's look on paper, don't bother. The whole thing has looked admin heavy, corporate driven and superficial ever since the bloke became the bright new thing.
ps yeah, i like occasionally seeing the Aussie cricket team fall over their own bluster, I won't deny it, like most non dominant fans (All Blacks, Man Utd, Patriots, etc) enjoy the same thing but I also admire the way they useditalicised text** to get the job done - it's just that, like Cadbury's they seem to have got the recipe wrong lately.
They're ignoring what made them so formidable
