Aussie Cricket
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@hydro11 said in Aussie Cricket:
Warner is getting credit for not making a dick of himself in an interview! That;s ridiculous. Hiring a PR person doesn't show maturity. It would show maturity if he didn't need one.
It all incrementally adds up to; he'll be back in Baggy Green.
CA is probably wishing that one of the banned three was a bowler that they'd be getting back...
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Marnus at 3.
Strange decision on the surface. Bring in a kid, who can help out with undeveloped leg spin, and bat him in a pivotal batting position in his 3rd test and first at home?
In a must win game?
No one else in all of Australia can bat 3? You give it to a project player?
Marnus is 0 from 6 balls at time of writing, so hopefully he scores big and exposes me to be a doubting thomas
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@Siam said in Aussie Cricket:
Marnus at 3.
Strange decision on the surface. Bring in a kid, who can help out with undeveloped leg spin, and bat him in a pivotal batting position in his 3rd test and first at home?
In a must win game?
No one else in all of Australia can bat 3? You give it to a project player?
Marnus is 0 from 6 balls at time of writing, so hopefully he scores big and exposes me to be a doubting thomas
At 236 for 6 and Labuschagne with the second highest score...it suddenly looks a good decision!
If I am India, I'm still not setting them less than 500 in three sessions!
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@Chris-B said in Aussie Cricket:
@Siam said in Aussie Cricket:
Marnus at 3.
Strange decision on the surface. Bring in a kid, who can help out with undeveloped leg spin, and bat him in a pivotal batting position in his 3rd test and first at home?
In a must win game?
No one else in all of Australia can bat 3? You give it to a project player?
Marnus is 0 from 6 balls at time of writing, so hopefully he scores big and exposes me to be a doubting thomas
At 236 for 6 and Labuschagne with the second highest score...it suddenly looks a good decision!
If I am India, I'm still not setting them less than 500 in three sessions!
Make the fuckers follow on ... unless your bowlers are too precious and you have to save them for the T20 in a month's time ...
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@booboo nup, wrong again 😉
Bat again till day 5 then bask in 7 hours in the sunshine at work thinking about your lifetime of having your whole country love you to pieces for ever. You know, a Stephen Donald like existence😁
But seriously bat again, it's entirely in the spirit of cricket, and this series win is HUGE for a billion people
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@Siam said in Aussie Cricket:
@booboo nup, wrong again 😉
Bat again till day 5 then bask in 7 hours in the sunshine at work thinking about your lifetime of having your whole country love you to pieces for ever. You know, a Stephen Donald like existence😁
But seriously bat again, it's entirely in the spirit of cricket, and this series win is HUGE for a billion people
Just throwing out some rancid bait.
If they had to win I'd want them to enforce.
But given a draw is fine and they'll lead by 3 hundy go ahead and pad the averages and piss the Aussies off
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Everyone decided to head to the pub by the looks. Rain and more rain forecast. India win 2-1. Once they tweaked a couple of selections - particularly the opening bats - they just had too much.
Our bowlers had a sniff with some help from the deck in Perth, but the bowlers didn't have enough discipline in Melbourne on a less variable wicket, where India did.
When the batsmen crumbled, the bowlers ended up spending too much time in the middle, and their line and length got worse. Sure, Warner and Smith are worth runs, but it is sad that Australian cricket has been reduced to the point where two batsmen are the difference between winning and losing.
The record books will say 2-1 but it could really have a 4-zip.
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@NTA said in Aussie Cricket:
Everyone decided to head to the pub by the looks. Rain and more rain forecast. India win 2-1. Once they tweaked a couple of selections - particularly the opening bats - they just had too much.
Our bowlers had a sniff with some help from the deck in Perth, but the bowlers didn't have enough discipline in Melbourne on a less variable wicket, where India did.
When the batsmen crumbled, the bowlers ended up spending too much time in the middle, and their line and length got worse. Sure, Warner and Smith are worth runs, but it is sad that Australian cricket has been reduced to the point where two batsmen are the difference between winning and losing.
The record books will say 2-1 but it could really have a 4-zip.
Is that the first time India has won a series in Oz?
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@canefan said in Aussie Cricket:
@NTA said in Aussie Cricket:
Everyone decided to head to the pub by the looks. Rain and more rain forecast. India win 2-1. Once they tweaked a couple of selections - particularly the opening bats - they just had too much.
Our bowlers had a sniff with some help from the deck in Perth, but the bowlers didn't have enough discipline in Melbourne on a less variable wicket, where India did.
When the batsmen crumbled, the bowlers ended up spending too much time in the middle, and their line and length got worse. Sure, Warner and Smith are worth runs, but it is sad that Australian cricket has been reduced to the point where two batsmen are the difference between winning and losing.
The record books will say 2-1 but it could really have a 4-zip.
Is that the first time India has won a series in Oz?
The Indian Australian next to me with the big shit eating grin says yes.
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@NTA said in Aussie Cricket:
When the batsmen crumbled, the bowlers ended up spending too much time in the middle, and their line and length got worse. Sure, Warner and Smith are worth runs, but it is sad that Australian cricket has been reduced to the point where two batsmen are the difference between winning and losing.
I think the two batsmen aren't the difference between winning and losing. The Indians scored over 600 in the first innings of the last test, which isn't the batsmen's fault.
Perhaps the difference between winning and losing is the amount of sandpaper applied to the ball.
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Australia ODI squad: Aaron Finch (c), Usman Khawaja, Shaun Marsh, Peter Handscomb, Glenn Maxwell, Marcus Stoinis, Mitchell Marsh, Alex Carey, Jhye Richardson, Billy Stanlake, Jason Behrendorff, Peter Siddle, Nathan Lyon, Adam Zampa.
The axe has been swung - Lynn and Short are dumped, the three test quicks rested and spaces found for the S&M Marshes.
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@canefan said in Aussie Cricket:
@NTA said in Aussie Cricket:
Everyone decided to head to the pub by the looks. Rain and more rain forecast. India win 2-1. Once they tweaked a couple of selections - particularly the opening bats - they just had too much.
Our bowlers had a sniff with some help from the deck in Perth, but the bowlers didn't have enough discipline in Melbourne on a less variable wicket, where India did.
When the batsmen crumbled, the bowlers ended up spending too much time in the middle, and their line and length got worse. Sure, Warner and Smith are worth runs, but it is sad that Australian cricket has been reduced to the point where two batsmen are the difference between winning and losing.
The record books will say 2-1 but it could really have a 4-zip.
Is that the first time India has won a series in Oz?
First time any subcontinent team has won a series in Aus. This is pretty massive - a big psychological barrier overcome. Well done the Indians - if they can harness their population, they will be very very hard to beat with the money they have.
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I thought the Indians actually demonstrated a blueprint for winning cricket in Australia on modern ocker pitches, right in the gaze of the Aussies!
Don't try to dominate early in your innings. Trust patience and the rewards will come.
Leave the ball, often
Play the ball under your eyes with soft hands
Defend, evade and think " meh" for all the short bowling. Don't look to score boundaries or hit the short stuff out of the attack for a long time.
Leave lots so they straighten their line then get bread and butter runs through mid wicket
If you attack Lyon, do it straight, don't sweep.Bowl outside off but predominantly pitch it up.
Use the short stuff as an exception not a rule
3 and 4 over spells with lots of rotation. Some seamers bowled 2 short spells in 60-90 minutes
Use 2 spinners to take the pace off. Aussie pitches hardly resemble the traditional pitches of a decade ago, so take some pace off and build pressureFielding was pretty similar for both teams
Field placements were as conservative as ever but square sweepers in the first hour seem to be a given these days. Similar from both teams overall
Aussies ran better between wickets but that's about it
It was an historic victory borne from 3 years prep ( just like when Aus finally won in India) and Kohli and Shastri deserve huge praise for fitness levels and preparing the seamers for the challenge.
As for Australia, get rid of Hohns and Chappell. For 5 years now those two have churned through untold project and potential players in what can only be described as pick and hope. How they didn't get the new broom treatment beggars belief.
Would've been a wise man to predict 2-1 at the start of the series.....😉
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