Aussie Cricket
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India v Australia, first Test, Pune: Five things we learned from day one
Starc closes in on incredible India record
Mitchell Starc is just a handful of runs away from overtaking vice-captain David Warner as the leading Test run-scorer on Indian soil among Australia’s current XI.
Starc’s rearguard, unbeaten 57 from 58 balls included five fours and three sixes, with 49 of his runs coming in an unbeaten tenth wicket stand of 51 with Josh Hazlewood (1 not out).
Incredibly, his 202 Test runs at 50.50 apiece in India is just 31 shy of David Warner’s total of 233 and ahead of captain Steve Smith’s 188.
Thursday’s 57 was his second highest score in India, trailing his 99 in Mohali in 2013. He also made scores of 3, 8 and 35 in that series.
Starc has also been in imperious Test batting form this season, hitting three half centuries in his past five innings to push his average above 25 and career aggregate past 1000 runs.
Such commanding numbers in Australia’s fragile lower order begs the question, why is he not given stronger consideration as the solution to Australia’s ‘all-rounder problem’?
According to ICC rankings prior to this Test, Starc was the world’s seventh highest ranked all-rounder in the five-day format, one position ahead of Stuart Broad and three behind Ben Stokes.
His Test batting record also compares favourably to current number six Mitchell Marsh (630 runs @ 22.50) and the most likely all-rounder to be selected if changes are desired, Glenn Maxwell (80 runs @ 13.33).
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@Bovidae said in Aussie Cricket:
@hydro11 said in Aussie Cricket:
If someone gets out LBW and your team has two reviews left and they are an established batsman then they should pretty much always review.
Kane talked Brownlie out of reviewing his LBW decision, which replays showed was missing leg stump.
That was in an ODI though. ODI's you only have one review so it is a bit different. If Brownlie had reviewed there was still Taylor and Williamson our two best batsmen to come. Having said that, there is little point in saving a review in an ODI. Wickets in hand become progressively less important as the game continues. If you still have a review left after 25 overs I would be using it at my next available opportunity. It's not that important in the 50th over if you get a howler.
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@Chris-B. said in Aussie Cricket:
@hydro11 You'd presumably also need to include slip catches and catches at short leg and otherwise close to the wicket in your reviewable list. I also think - anecdotally - since the DRS was introduced, that umpires have realized that spinners actually get lot more lbws than they were previously given - so there's been a change in how those are umpired.
Obviously, there's tactical situations where you might as well just "review and hope", but I thought it would be a bit "Aspergersy" to list them all.
@Bovidae In ODIs I think my rule applies even more. Good policy call from Kane - even though technically it wasn't a good call!
That's true. It's quite rare that I see a slip catch reviewed. Slip catches aren't such an issue because most of them happen early in an innings anyway (or after a 2nd new ball is taken). Catch at short leg is possible in India, I suppose. Most of the time I don't see the point in not reviewing with two reviews left. A caught behind should be an obvious call so you should be fine. I just can't remember an instance of a batting team in test cricket running out of reviews and that team being negatively affected by it. I'm sure it's happened but it's rare. There are plenty of examples when a not out batsman doesn't review.
Shane Watson got a lot of stick for always going for reviews but other batsmen have probably cost their team more by not going for reviews.
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I should also point out that the actual number is probably a fair bit lower than 30% of wickets being reviewable. A few lbw wickets come from a player being given not out and the fielding side challenging. In that situation obviously the batsman doesn't have to make a decision to review.
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@NTA said in Aussie Cricket:
@Virgil said in Aussie Cricket:
Still a c*nt tho
Nice guys don't win World Cups.
Then why cant your Wallabies win them.
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ladies, please.
Aus all out, and Hazlewood has already grabbed his first of the tour, fuck he's class. 27/1
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@NTA said in Aussie Cricket:
We've got two of them, in case you'd forgotten, you bitter, bitter little man.
Meanwhile your last Cricket World Cup win was?
Ouch, take it easy Nick, did you miss the comments before mine, pretty sure several used nasty bitter name calling.
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Loving the Aussie quicks ripping through them
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Good thing they had a sympathetic wicket...
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@Donsteppa said in Aussie Cricket:
Kohli carelessly throwing his wicket away symptomatic of their whole approach?
They'll learn quickly. Doubt he will do that again with this total
