Ashes 2021-22
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@catogrande said in Ashes 2021-22:
@canefan said in Ashes 2021-22:
@rotated said in Ashes 2021-22:
@majorrage said in Ashes 2021-22:
The point is that I think they have the talent pool to do much better than they have. Currently tho they don’t have the mentality.
I’m not an England supporter at all with cricket.
But I really can’t stand crowing Australians. Not that long ago Warne was calling India easily the best team in the world …. After they’d beaten England. Oh, and lost to us a month earlier.
Agree.
They are in opener hell and for that there isn't really an obvious way out - so I kind of give them a pass on that (even though selections have been dubious there)
But between Malan, Morgan, Buttler, Ballance, Bairstow, Vince, Pope and Crawley it's just bizarre they haven't been able to produce three steady test performers going into this series.
Were they underdone going into the series like we were? A test series in Australia is hard enough as it is without some decent warmup games
Yes they were, although that was partly if their own making, having chosen to play little red ball cricket and rotate the squad that was playing red ball.
Also because first test was in Brisbane they spent warm up opportunity time doing quarantine. Should have been re-jigged to start NSW or Vic.
Still would have been a one-sided slaughter regardless. But CA insistence on doing traditional first test at Gabbatoir has probably cost them a few days gate revenue (and rising) over course of the series.
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@mariner4life said in Ashes 2021-22:
Leach might be the worst test cricketer I have seen
And I've seen some really ordinary ones
@mariner4life said in Ashes 2021-22:
Leach might be the worst test cricketer I have seen
And I've seen some really ordinary ones
He makes Satnav look like a world beater.
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@crucial said in Ashes 2021-22:
@mariner4life said in Ashes 2021-22:
Leach might be the worst test cricketer I have seen
And I've seen some really ordinary ones
@mariner4life said in Ashes 2021-22:
Leach might be the worst test cricketer I have seen
And I've seen some really ordinary ones
He makes Satnav look like a world beater.
Fuck no, ridiculous comment. He has a perfectly respectable career, just had a shocker alongside loads of others.
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@nta said in Ashes 2021-22:
@mn5 said in Ashes 2021-22:
I’ve picked on Stokes a bit in the past but I genuinely hope he can battle back, the rest of this cluster fuck of a series could do with some battling displays from him.
You ranga types need to stick together
Oi, you promised!
@nta said in Fernies and Sporties..and the Winners are...:
@canerbry said in Fernies and Sporties..and the Winners are...:
Fuckin robbed.
That's what I was thinking.
I'm not speaking to any of you fluffybunnies for the rest of the year....
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@godder said in Ashes 2021-22:
@nta said in Ashes 2021-22:
@booboo I'm in the area. Will dig out my cricket gear.
May as well, probably still beat the poms in 4 days.
How insulting!
I'll score as many runs a Marnus did last test. 3 days tops 😉
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ABC News Sport lead story announces a rather more pressing dilemma for the once-was-ACB than batsman selections in Sydney.
The author, journalist Russell Jackson, has written an outstanding, thorough exposé - an absolute cracker - centred on predators and an Australian Under 19s tour of India and Sri Lanka in 1985. The team included Reiffel, Moody and Gavin Robertson from Graham Hughes' Talkin' Sport radio program - this bit is important because they still have a prominent involvement in sport and that may lend momentum to public interest in tracking the alleged mongrels down.
The ACB and its consultant lawyers will have been back to work early this year. This outlines why:
... Mitchell ... now has only hazy recollections of the night in question. ... in Colombo ... he was not just ill but barely conscious from an injection administered by the Australian team doctor, Malcolm McKenzie ... (whose) ... role in whatever followed is also now being scrutinised by the AFP. Another barrier has been the wall of silence around a tour considered infamous in cricket circles, and after which the national coach, Robert Clyde Bitmead, now 79, vanished from elite coaching ranks forever. In an interview with ABC Sport, Bob Bitmead denied that he sexually assaulted Jamie Mitchell , and said the events of the tour were unrelated to his departure as coach of the Australian Under-19s. Mitchell and his teammates say that Bitmead's disappearance was never explained by the Australian Cricket Board (now Cricket Australia), and say that as the sport's peak body, it needs to be transparent in its investigation of the matters raised by Mitchell's story.```Read the whole thing, the series of events is alarming. The dereliction of duty by the ACB at the time is world's best, award winning stuff. The tour manager, Jack Bennett, got a pointless OAM for services to cricket in 2003 - they dished 'em out for abject failure, simply astonishing.
The betrayal of trust by the three individuals appointed to protect naive teenagers away from home is another level altogether in my book. One of the predators has carked it but the other remains available for punishment.
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@mick-gold-coast-qld elite mendacity?
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@mick-gold-coast-qld that article is a harrowing but important read. Saw it yesterday when one of the Grade Cricketer lads retreated it. Sounds like a horrendous open secret that has somehow stayed under the carpet for 37 years. Some of the stuff that coach was up to was horrific...
