Aussie Cricket
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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
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Yeah - Aussies seem to be being a bit too cute with their selections. They've lost three series this season fielding teams with rested players (to SA, NZ and now SL).
India - I presume under this new model where they own cricket (with Oz and England minor partners) they don't actually have to travel any more? Sit at home and wait for everyone to come play in their subcontinent conditions and go home with their arses in their hats. How many home se3ries have they played in a row now?
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@Chris-B. said in Aussie Cricket:
Yeah - Aussies seem to be being a bit too cute with their selections. They've lost three series this season fielding teams with rested players (to SA, NZ and now SL).
India - I presume under this new model where they own cricket (with Oz and England minor partners) they don't actually have to travel any more? Sit at home and wait for everyone to come play in their subcontinent conditions and go home with their arses in their hats. How many home se3ries have they played in a row now?
About 30 at last count..
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dudes we did this just last week on the other thread.
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First test starts in India today.
The pitch is a little, well, home town. It's dry as fuck, and already cracked.
And reports are the Aussies are a bit lost at the selection table. There is a chance they will leave out Josh Hazlewood, which could the dumbest thing i have ever heard. Instead they are going to pick a bunch of substandard spinners, in the hope that the Indian batsmen, i don't know, laugh themselves out?
3 day test in the offering here.
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@mariner4life said in Aussie Cricket:
dudes we did this just last week on the other thread.
From cricinfo, you may have already read this article..
Consider some more facts. India have not lost a Test - any Test, anywhere - since August 2015. That is a stretch of 19 consecutive Tests they have either been won or drawn. Admittedly, since they were last defeated, by Sri Lanka in Galle, they have played only one away series, against West Indies last year.
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Aus win the toss and bat (fuck batting last). Resisted the temptation, and have picked their two great seamers; plus Lyon and O'Keefe. Oh, and Mitch Marsh (that just gave @NTA a rage hard-on)
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@mariner4life said in Aussie Cricket:
First test starts in India today.
The pitch is a little, well, home town. It's dry as fuck, and already cracked.
And reports are the Aussies are a bit lost at the selection table. There is a chance they will leave out Josh Hazlewood, which could the dumbest thing i have ever heard. Instead they are going to pick a bunch of substandard spinners, in the hope that the Indian batsmen, i don't know, laugh themselves out?
3 day test in the offering here.
Not picking Hazlewood would have been silly. They picked basically their best team but i would have gone for Maxwell ahead of Mitch Marsh. I think they will do better than the English did because Australia have the better spinners. O'Keefe is a very good spinner, perhaps better than Lyon.
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Thought I'd have a look at cricinfo to see how delusional the Indian fans are after the good Aussie start ... I wsan't disappointed.
Aashish Calla: "Not a huge amount of experience and/or ability against spin in the batting after these 2, is there? One more wicket and we might be in for a collapse? Calling for 200-225 all out, anyone?"
Ravi Aggarwal: "The scoreboard suggests that Australia is in ascendancy for sure, however, on such tricky surfaces, a collapse is never too far away. Kohli and company won't be sweating just as yet and Australia will want to go past 250 with not more than three or four down to start to take control of the game. These two will have to do majority of the scoring as the rest of the batting order is a tad inexperienced."
Vishwajit: "A decent start from India given the fact that Australia generally like to play the first Test innings with a run-rate of around 4 run/over."
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@Chris-B. said in Aussie Cricket:
Yeah - that's an odd one. The two openers appear to have left at the same time.
Dean Jones will be fuming!
Warner got bowled behind his legs earlier, but the spinner had overstepped.
India v Australia, first Test: Matt Renshaw bizarrely forced to ‘retire ill’ before lunch on day one
Border: ‘I hope he’s lying on the table half dead’
“I hope he is lying on the table in there half dead. Otherwise as captain I would not be happy,” Border said on Fox Sports’ lunch break show.
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@MajorRage almost as unsurprising as the wicket, which Warne describes as "an 8th Day wicket".
Guess it works if you're allowed to play nearly every game at home.
I hope we post something reasonable and fucking flog them, using spin.
