Aussie Summer of Cricket
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Shamar Joseph looks frigging awesome. 12 months ago he was playing amateur cricket and working as a security guard. Delighted for West Indies Cricket. It's not often the Aussies lose at the Gabba. Awesome to see them humbled.
A great second innings turn around by England to beat India by 20 runs. They don't lose many at home either.
A wonderful few hours for Test Cricket.
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Amazing spell of bowling. His ability to bowl at pace in those conditions was great to watch. A number of Aussie batsmen were battling in the humidity whilst Joseph x2 were using them to get movement.
There have been lots of criticisms in the wash up - poor captaincy by Cummins for the bowling changes, Smith not scoring quicker/more, the Aussie middle order being brittle, Oz inability to handle conditions etc.
One side story, the case for 4 day tests will continue after what happened at the Gabba and overnight in Hyderabad
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@mariner4life said in Aussie Summer of Cricket:
If we completely shit the bed against this Aussie team I will be so pissed
Their bowling is awesome, but their batting is not
But we have that mental block
Apart from the mental block. Which is a thing.
I'd not get too optimistic. Both teams going through similar phases IMO, with the decline of their batting units. Still looking good on paper but a bit shit in reality. Big difference between the two teams is Aus bowling is still boss.
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@NTA said in Aussie Summer of Cricket:
Lost to Windies in cricket
Lost to Ireland in womens 7s
Lost to Argentina in mens 7sShit day to be an Aussie, unless you like coming second.
You won the Netty
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@Rapido said in Aussie Summer of Cricket:
@mariner4life said in Aussie Summer of Cricket:
If we completely shit the bed against this Aussie team I will be so pissed
Their bowling is awesome, but their batting is not
But we have that mental block
Apart from the mental block. Which is a thing.
I'd not get too optimistic. Both teams going through similar phases IMO, with the decline of their batting units. Still looking good on paper but a bit shit in reality. Big difference between the two teams is Aus bowling is still boss.
They have four batsmen ranked in the top ten in the world, then again Henry Nicholls got in there at one stage…..
But yeah, let’s not write their ‘shit’ batting unit off quite yet. Us and England have a couple, Pakistan and India just the one each…..
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@MN5 said in Aussie Summer of Cricket:
@Rapido said in Aussie Summer of Cricket:
@mariner4life said in Aussie Summer of Cricket:
If we completely shit the bed against this Aussie team I will be so pissed
Their bowling is awesome, but their batting is not
But we have that mental block
Apart from the mental block. Which is a thing.
I'd not get too optimistic. Both teams going through similar phases IMO, with the decline of their batting units. Still looking good on paper but a bit shit in reality. Big difference between the two teams is Aus bowling is still boss.
They have four batsmen ranked in the top ten in the world, then again Henry Nicholls got in there at one stage…..
But yeah, let’s not write their ‘shit’ batting unit off quite yet. Us and England have a couple, Pakistan and India just the one each…..
There's no chance Head gets another king pair..although that would be great to watch!
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@Duluth said in Aussie Summer of Cricket:
I thought the list of people who have carried their bat would be longer:
carrying-bat-through-a-completed-inningsOpeners don't get that many not outs as it is, and getting them by having the rest of the team get out just doesn't happen much in tests.
Also epic win by the WIndies!
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Fucking insidious disease. It killed my old man. I had no idea just how awful it can be and how widespread the effects until his last few months.
Good on AB. Seems to be dealing with it as well as he can. Gonna be tough on him and even tougher on those around him
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@bayimports said in Aussie Summer of Cricket:
@MN5 said in Aussie Summer of Cricket:
@Rapido said in Aussie Summer of Cricket:
@mariner4life said in Aussie Summer of Cricket:
If we completely shit the bed against this Aussie team I will be so pissed
Their bowling is awesome, but their batting is not
But we have that mental block
Apart from the mental block. Which is a thing.
I'd not get too optimistic. Both teams going through similar phases IMO, with the decline of their batting units. Still looking good on paper but a bit shit in reality. Big difference between the two teams is Aus bowling is still boss.
They have four batsmen ranked in the top ten in the world, then again Henry Nicholls got in there at one stage…..
But yeah, let’s not write their ‘shit’ batting unit off quite yet. Us and England have a couple, Pakistan and India just the one each…..
There's no chance Head gets another king pair..although that would be great to watch!
Only the 23rd time it’s happened in tests.
A couple of my favourite big hitters in Virender Sehwag and Adam Gilchrist have both managed it !
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@MN5 said in Aussie Summer of Cricket:
@bayimports said in Aussie Summer of Cricket:
@MN5 said in Aussie Summer of Cricket:
@Rapido said in Aussie Summer of Cricket:
@mariner4life said in Aussie Summer of Cricket:
If we completely shit the bed against this Aussie team I will be so pissed
Their bowling is awesome, but their batting is not
But we have that mental block
Apart from the mental block. Which is a thing.
I'd not get too optimistic. Both teams going through similar phases IMO, with the decline of their batting units. Still looking good on paper but a bit shit in reality. Big difference between the two teams is Aus bowling is still boss.
They have four batsmen ranked in the top ten in the world, then again Henry Nicholls got in there at one stage…..
But yeah, let’s not write their ‘shit’ batting unit off quite yet. Us and England have a couple, Pakistan and India just the one each…..
There's no chance Head gets another king pair..although that would be great to watch!
Only the 23rd time it’s happened in tests.
A couple of my favourite big hitters in Virender Sehwag and Adam Gilchrist have both managed it !
how the hell Chris Martin avoided this list is beyond me
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@bayimports said in Aussie Summer of Cricket:
@MN5 said in Aussie Summer of Cricket:
@bayimports said in Aussie Summer of Cricket:
@MN5 said in Aussie Summer of Cricket:
@Rapido said in Aussie Summer of Cricket:
@mariner4life said in Aussie Summer of Cricket:
If we completely shit the bed against this Aussie team I will be so pissed
Their bowling is awesome, but their batting is not
But we have that mental block
Apart from the mental block. Which is a thing.
I'd not get too optimistic. Both teams going through similar phases IMO, with the decline of their batting units. Still looking good on paper but a bit shit in reality. Big difference between the two teams is Aus bowling is still boss.
They have four batsmen ranked in the top ten in the world, then again Henry Nicholls got in there at one stage…..
But yeah, let’s not write their ‘shit’ batting unit off quite yet. Us and England have a couple, Pakistan and India just the one each…..
There's no chance Head gets another king pair..although that would be great to watch!
Only the 23rd time it’s happened in tests.
A couple of my favourite big hitters in Virender Sehwag and Adam Gilchrist have both managed it !
how the hell Chris Martin avoided this list is beyond me
Not that surprising really, despite his well, limitations with the bat ( I don’t want to sound mean cos @Bones knows him ) he wouldn’t have batted twice in an innings a hell of a lot given he was ALWAYS number 11 ( 104 innings in 71 tests, thanks cricinfo ) often bowlers would have bowled balls that were possibly too good for him to get an edge too. That sort of thing.
But then as if to completely prove me wrong he did get the most pairs in test cricket though, seven in total. No one else has more than four. Good enough to last at least a ball in all of them though, classic battler.
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@MN5 said in Aussie Summer of Cricket:
Only the 23rd time it’s happened in tests.
I had to google Ian Colquhoun. He had an interesting test career - I wonder how he scored his run? Hopefully a blazing cover drive that someone miraculously stopped, rather than an edge onto his pad that trickled into vacant territory.
He did catch Len Hutton out twice so had something to tell the grandkids.
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@Chris-B said in Aussie Summer of Cricket:
@MN5 said in Aussie Summer of Cricket:
Only the 23rd time it’s happened in tests.
I had to google Ian Colquhoun. He had an interesting test career - I wonder how he scored his run? Hopefully a blazing cover drive that someone miraculously stopped, rather than an edge onto his pad that trickled into vacant territory.
He did catch Len Hutton out twice so had something to tell the grandkids.
Looks like the responsibility of moving from 11 all the way up to 9 was too much to handle.
Kind of an early Southee if you wil..
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