Aussie Cricket
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@nta said in Aussie Cricket:
@mn5 said in Aussie Cricket:
What's wrong with Warnie as a commentator?
Besides being a giant fucking douchecopter who basically bags everyone but himself out while talking about which pizza he's going to stuff down the fake-white maw stuck in his oompah-loompah tanned face under the "Yeah yeah!" hair?
Nothing.
Great player. Average human.
Actually now you mention it he did have a feud with my second favourite Waugh so loses marks for that.
As you were.
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@mariner4life said in Aussie Cricket:
I rate Hazlewood ahead of McGrath. Very similar bowlers.
This Aussie attack is fucking lethal. Their batsmen may be sub-par, but their 4 frontline bowlers are so fucking good.
Another one goes - another shit shot playing wide outside off stump.
Yeah - Oz batting and bowling are chalk and cheese. I think Little Kane has more test hundreds than the entire Australian batting line-up.
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Far out why the hell are they chasing wide deliveries from Hazlewood on the first morning of a test. Atrocious batting. Huge chance for India to knock Aussie off at home and their batsmen are just throwing it away, which is hilarious to watch.
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for such a vaunted batting line up, their career averages are a little NZ-esque
37, 39, 50, 55, 41, 40
That's not exactly a "holy shit" top 6.
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@mariner4life that's because, despite playing at home on flat dustbowls a lot, eventually the BCCI has to allow them out to decent wickets.
Like Australia, really.
THis is a good catch
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@nta said in Aussie Cricket:
@mariner4life that's because, despite playing at home on flat dustbowls a lot, eventually the BCCI has to allow them out to decent wickets.
Like Australia, really.
THis is a good catch
to be fair, Australia is a good place to play as a batsman.
Once you get used to the pace and bounce.
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@mn5 said in Aussie Cricket:
@rotated said in Aussie Cricket:
@hooroo said in Aussie Cricket:
@rotated said in Aussie Cricket:
That Seven commentary team looks unlistenable, the b-list commentators available from the late 90-00's and some pretty cynical picks for diversity. Oh and Bruce 2000 during the intermission - outstanding.
Most good cricket commentators have been good skippers who thought the game well or absolute battlers who were lucky to get a handful of caps. Seems to hold true for that group although Gillespie may be an exception.
Can you list the comms team? I have no idea and can only listen in silence at work
Ricky Ponting, Damien Fleming, Michael Slater, Glenn McGrath, Alison Mitchell, Mel McLaughlin, James Brayshaw, Lisa Sthalekar, Tim Lane, Abbey Gelmi, Greg Blewett, Simon Katich, Jason Gillespie, Brad Hodge, Dirk Nannes
Where's Mark Nichols?
Geez....seeing that written one could be mistaken for thinking I was upset he's not there....
Him Channel 9. This on Channel 7.
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@mariner4life said in Aussie Cricket:
@nta said in Aussie Cricket:
@mariner4life that's because, despite playing at home on flat dustbowls a lot, eventually the BCCI has to allow them out to decent wickets.
Like Australia, really.
THis is a good catch
to be fair, Australia is a good place to play as a batsman.
Once you get used to the pace and bounce.
And don't throw your wicket away...
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@nta said in Aussie Cricket:
Pujara must be frustrated
And kohli. At least he went to a screamer of a catch. Everyone else is playing park cricket in a rush to beat the approaching storm.
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@nta said in Aussie Cricket:
They won't be this shit second time around. Pujara will probably save their arses on Day 1 and look to build, if his partners stay around.
THis session will sort the men from the boys. Forecast is for "fuck that" today and tomorrow.
Pujara saved them alright. Kept them in the game, some pressure on the Aus lineup now as they won't want to be chasing much in the 4th.
And fuck those temperatures, which will be even hotter out in the middle.
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@donsteppa I'm going to shamelessly continue spruiking India in this series, till the Aussies do what they nearly always do ( cough, South Africa) and win a test series at home, comfortably.
India were good in England, but took 2 games to get the conditions. Started poorly. Pretty similar this time round as you rightly say.
My confidence in India comes from Kohli ( Shastri must be a factor too) and I sensed his team had a different swagger in England where 4-1 was flattering to the home team, they scored runs from test 3.
Today Aus actually didn't bowl too many Indian batsmen out. The Kohli team will surely get a dressing down for those top order wafts and Pujara laid the blueprint for all to follow, which my bias suggests is ominous.
A great start by Aus, just the fillip a low on confidence team needs, but jeez they were given edges. Still, 2 sessions won well although 250 seems less reward than they probably deserved.
Indian steamers will have to be better than any team before them to pull off the series, so that'll be worth keeping an eye on.
Aussies will fight this tooth and nail, despite whatever happens, to question the effort would be churlish in the extreme and we'll see some real passion, nearly apologetic to a chastising public
But the batting without Smith and Mr Self Aware is the spice in this fight. Finch? Tiny terrors brother? Head at last? Half of everyone's favourite twins? No one? 😉
Day 1 had heaps, this series will be well worth the watch!
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@nta said in Aussie Cricket:
@mn5 said in Aussie Cricket:
What's wrong with Warnie as a commentator?
Besides being a giant fucking douchecopter who basically bags everyone but himself out while talking about which pizza he's going to stuff down the fake-white maw stuck in his oompah-loompah tanned face under the "Yeah yeah!" hair?
Nothing.
Great player. Average human.
You don't play 145 tests for Australia by being a good human now do you?
Warne, like almost every tenured Aussie cricketer has a boatload of opinions and many axes to grind. The fact that he has thicker skin than most and isn't shy about giving those opinions is to his credit.
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@siam said in Aussie Cricket:
Today Aus actually didn't bowl too many Indian batsmen out. The Kohli team will surely get a dressing down for those top order wafts and Pujara laid the blueprint for all to follow, which my bias suggests is ominous.
I actually disagree with this assessment. If you just watched the wickets themselves, it would be easy to think that Australia were handed 4-6 wickets simply by poor Indian shots.
But what it didn't show were the 5-6 over spells where Cummins, Starc and Hazelwood had the ball on a string, and tied the Indian top order down. There was barely a ball wasted. When they pushed the ball wider, they enticed the Indians into poor shots to try and relieve the pressure that had built up.
It really was great cricket. Can they produce that effort consistently? I'm not sure. But it's promising to be a cracking series. I feel like previous Indian teams may have capitulated completely, but Pujara is class and the tail stuck with him well.
The play of the day, though, was Cummins run out. On the second last ball of the day, in extreme heat, after bowling 19 overs... wow. That is a simply amazing piece of play. For those that missed it:
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@barbarian the first four wickets happened inside 21 overs. India didn't even try to settle, with both openers playing like number 5 batsmen in a T20 game. It was pure arrogance.
Yes there was lots of good bowling later, but that first session was idiocy. Chasing a swinging ball, angling across at points, with big lusty hoiks outside a second set of stumps? Tell 'em they're dreamin'
