Aussie Cricket
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This is not an NZ v Aussie thing, more a personal dig at Warner, but from what I gather Warner turned down a 3rd run to ensure he kept strike, so that he could hit a ton in one session. The other day Kane told Neesh to finish the job leaving himself stranded on 95* with no chance of a century.
Both very driven blokes. One focussed on personal milestones, one focussed on his teams success regardless of any personal milestones.
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Yeah. Shame Cricinfo don't keep stats on Top Bloke, eh?
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@NTA said in Aussie Cricket:
Yeah. Shame Cricinfo don't keep stats on Top Bloke, eh?
They should keep stats on "acted like a cock". Kohli and Warner would be miles ahead
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But yeah it is a shame they don't keep stats on Top Bloke. Black Caps would then sit in their rightful position of #1 ranked team instead of you bastard Aussies...
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@No-Quarter said in Aussie Cricket:
This is not an NZ v Aussie thing, more a personal dig at Warner, but from what I gather Warner turned down a 3rd run to ensure he kept strike, so that he could hit a ton in one session. The other day Kane told Neesh to finish the job leaving himself stranded on 95* with no chance of a century.
Both very driven blokes. One focussed on personal milestones, one focussed on his teams success regardless of any personal milestones.
Kane did that in an ODI against Bangladesh. It was a nothing game and a nothing innings that meant nothing.
Warner's innings was truly historic. He did something that has never been done in a test match in Australia. If he tried to slog sweep a ball on middle stump on the last ball before lunch I'd agree with you, but what he did was pretty reasonable IMO.
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@No-Quarter said in Aussie Cricket:
This is not an NZ v Aussie thing, more a personal dig at Warner, but from what I gather Warner turned down a 3rd run to ensure he kept strike, so that he could hit a ton in one session. The other day Kane told Neesh to finish the job leaving himself stranded on 95* with no chance of a century.
Both very driven blokes. One focussed on personal milestones, one focussed on his teams success regardless of any personal milestones.
People need to lay of Warner. He seems a bit of a dick but he's certainly no Brad Haddin.
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@No-Quarter said in Aussie Cricket:
They should keep stats on "acted like a cock". Kohli and Warner would be miles ahead
Yeah. On the other hand: record-breaking ton in front of your home crowd, putting an already struggling attack to the sword, and setting up the game for your team.
With the added bonus of not having to sit through lunch stuck in the 90s.
Now, stand back while I trigger @Virgil
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@barbarian said in Aussie Cricket:
@No-Quarter said in Aussie Cricket:
This is not an NZ v Aussie thing, more a personal dig at Warner, but from what I gather Warner turned down a 3rd run to ensure he kept strike, so that he could hit a ton in one session. The other day Kane told Neesh to finish the job leaving himself stranded on 95* with no chance of a century.
Both very driven blokes. One focussed on personal milestones, one focussed on his teams success regardless of any personal milestones.
Kane did that in an ODI against Bangladesh. It was a nothing game and a nothing innings that meant nothing.
Warner's innings was truly historic. He did something that has never been done in a test match in Australia. If he tried to slog sweep a ball on middle stump on the last ball before lunch I'd agree with you, but what he did was pretty reasonable IMO.
Just because Aussie weren't playing doesn't make it a nothing innings & a nothing game Kane's conversion rate in ODIs could do with some improving so I was very keen for him to hit the ton.
But, fair enough, I wasn't watching so don't have a feel for the atmosphere at the time. But it's pretty obvious some players focus more on themselves than the team, I don't think Kane or your own Smith would be concerned enough about "scoring a ton in a session" (which is impressive but hardly out of this world) that they would farm the strike on the first morning of a test with anyone other then a tail ender at the other end.
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I see your point, but I think what he did was OK. He only did it once, wasn't like he was doing it for overs in advance.
It's not too uncommon to see a batsmen try and reach their ton in the last over of a session, so as not to have it hanging over them for ages.
Warner was just doing that. Opting for an easy 2 instead of a hard 3 is not ideal, but hardly unforgiveable in that context. Much better than pushing for a very hard 2 to get back on strike, putting his wicket in danger.
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@No-Quarter said in Aussie Cricket:
"scoring a ton in a session" (which is impressive but hardly out of this world)
Doing it in the first session of a test match is rare
5th Batsmen to score century before lunch on the first day of a Test. David Warner became the latest to join Victor Trumper, Charles Macartney, Don Bradman and Majid Khan to achieve this feat. The last such instance was more than 40 years ago when Majid did it against New Zealand in Karachi in October 1976. The first three were all before World War II.
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@Duluth I'm surprised Sehwag isn't on that list given the way he played and the lifeless pitches he often batted on.
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I love watching Warner bat. For some reason I find myself warming to him as well.
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@Hooroo said in Aussie Cricket:
I love watching Warner bat. For some reason I find myself warming to him as well.
Stockholm syndrome type of reaction, (or your just fucking sick).
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@Duluth said in Aussie Cricket:
@No-Quarter said in Aussie Cricket:
"scoring a ton in a session" (which is impressive but hardly out of this world)
Doing it in the first session of a test match is rare
5th Batsmen to score century before lunch on the first day of a Test.
And I think the first to do it in Australia?
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@barbarian said in Aussie Cricket:
@No-Quarter said in Aussie Cricket:
This is not an NZ v Aussie thing, more a personal dig at Warner, but from what I gather Warner turned down a 3rd run to ensure he kept strike, so that he could hit a ton in one session. The other day Kane told Neesh to finish the job leaving himself stranded on 95* with no chance of a century.
Both very driven blokes. One focussed on personal milestones, one focussed on his teams success regardless of any personal milestones.
Kane did that in an ODI against Bangladesh. It was a nothing game and a nothing innings that meant nothing.
Warner's innings was truly historic. He did something that has never been done in a test match in Australia. If he tried to slog sweep a ball on middle stump on the last ball before lunch I'd agree with you, but what he did was pretty reasonable IMO.
Yep, giving up one run against a crappy Pakistani team is hardly going to make a difference. What annoys me more is when declarations are delayed by a few overs just to allow a batsman to achieve a milestone.
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Renshaw finally out for 184.
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That was awesome. Thunder need 5 from he last ball and Morgan slaps it for 6. Epic.
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What? WE WON?!!
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Lynn and Baz just tore Perth a new one. Baz 50 from 31 balls and playing 2nd fiddle to Lynn who belted 11 sixes to finish 98 from 49. Awesome hitting.
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Was only going to watch until BMac got out ...
BMac scratchy for his first 30 odd then started to time it.
Lynn however was awesome.
Peirson hits a reasonable ball too.
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Really enjoying the BBL this year as I have found a team to follow with the Heat.
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@No-Quarter said in Aussie Cricket:
Lynn and Baz just tore Perth a new one. Baz 50 from 31 balls and playing 2nd fiddle to Lynn who belted 11 sixes to finish 98 from 49. Awesome hitting.
Bloody foreign imports, denying our man a century
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That was quite extraordinary from Lynn.
Laughed at his tweet about a "man crush" for Baz - and Baz was the first person he showed the tweet to. The Heat do seem to be enjoying themselves. Have yet to see anything from Dan V, been very quiet.
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Pakistan collapsing on day 5 again..
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Pakistan continue their meek plummet down the test rankings.
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Shane Watson may be a tool, and an ordinary test player, but shit he's a handy T20 player. Great bowling last night backed up with some huge hitting to keep his side "alive".
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He was always quality in the shorter forms, one of the best allrounders going at his peak. I don't think he was handled that well in tests, though him being a cock probably had a lot to do with that.
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Thunder lose Dre Russ, and suddenly find form.
Coincidence?
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Fuck I love Brett Geeves's writing.
On Monday, he wrote a pretty decent article about the prep for playing a test in India, based on suggestions that Matt Renshaw was astoundingly not guaranteed his place on the plane to India. It was a fair article about scheduling etc
Darren Lehman was asked about, and pretty much wrote it off because Geeves "wasn't a very good player"
And so today to Geeve's response
Delightfully pissy at the bottom
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Why no DRS in BBL?
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They don't seem to use it in any T20s that I've watched.
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@NTA said in Aussie Cricket:
@booboo said in Aussie Cricket:
Why no DRS in BBL?
Speed!!!
Yeah I wondered. Obviously no lack of $$.
Been a couple of caught behinds in the last couple of games I watched that were pretty obviously out.
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Anyone else watch that amazing BBL game last night? Everyone for the Renegades chipped in as they smashed 222/4 (hitting 9 sixes between them). Hard to lose from there right?
Hobart ran them down on the last ball. Young McDermott hit 114 off 52 (with 9 sixes), Bailey hit 59, and Stuart Broad hit 11 off 4 in the last over to get them home. Great chase, great game.
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Caught the last ball, saw the score, then realised the TiVo had the last half hour buffered so I rewound for a look.
The Hurricanes were utterly in the shit from about 15 overs, losing wickets like a pack of shunts. Bailey helps steady the ship, then shit goes sour when Finch puts on his worst fucking bowler for the last over when the opposition go 8 down.
Seriously, he should have put himself on. Perera is crap. Nice step-across by Broad for the first 4, but the rest was just shit.
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Was an amazing game. Normally around 30% of BBL games are fizzers, and you can pretty easily call the winner after the first innings. This year I reckon that's dropped to about 10%, it's great.
Agree with Nick though, Perera's bowling in that last over was just dross.
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That full-toss wide was basically sealed the deal.
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The last over has really cost the Renegades. When Finch had to bowl the last against the Scorchers, and Agar put him over the fence was another close one lost at the last second
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Incredible thing last night was how well Narine bowled. The other 16 overs just had to go for slightly under 200 and the Renegades would have won.
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