Aussie Cricket
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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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ODI series underway. Aus 65/3, with Warner, Smith, and Lynsanity back in the sheds already (of course Lyn hit a 6 over mid-wicket before getting out). Travis Head doing all the scoring, and he's joined by the awesome (just for you @NTA ) Mitch Marsh
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Now Head gone, and it's 70/4 after 13.
Weeeelllll, well it's The Big Show!
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Have Aus let the test success go to their heads? They've picked a great T20 side, but it looks ultra reliant on Smith batting for a long time. It's a team made up of hitters.
And now Marsh goes and they are in deeeep shit. Relying on Maxwell, Wade and Faulkner to bat for 33 overs.
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@mariner4life said in Aussie Cricket:
Have Aus let the test success go to their heads? They've picked a great T20 side, but it looks ultra reliant on Smith batting for a long time. It's a team made up of hitters.
And now Marsh goes and they are in deeeep shit. Relying on Maxwell, Wade and Faulkner to bat for 33 overs.
They should have picked Usie but it is still a good line up. Just so happens that most of their best batsmen are hitters.
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@hydro11 Either he or Bailey are needed to pull that lineup together a bit i reckon.
Of course, if Smith did his usual, we wouldn't even be making the comment.
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Maxwell looked to be doing the job, then got out, 161/6 after 31
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Faulkner gone now as well
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After a summer of fuck ups, Wade saves his career with a ton
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Not enough has been made I the ball hitting the stumps and the bails not coming off.
Fancy bails that light up when hit are all well and good but they're clearly not fit for purpose if a fast bowler can hit them on the full and they stay on.
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Early wickets for the Pakis again.
68 for 3 in the 14th.
However ww all know the Aussies can escape from these sorts of spots.
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@booboo said in Aussie Cricket:
Early wickets for the Pakis again.
68 for 3 in the 14th.
However ww all know the Aussies can escape from these sorts of spots.
It's in the bag, must still be a Marsh or 2 left to bat?
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Aus hanging in there, Pakistani spinners making life difficult.
But the Aussies have Hazlewood, Starc, Cummins and Faulkner. They could probably declare now.
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A feast of cricket today, the test and now Aus v Pak and Ind v Eng. Though Ind v Eng is hard to watch as there's a weird high pitched siren-type noise going the whole time.
Pakistan in with a real shout here. 140 needed from 192 balls (take note Sky NZ - that graphic is up 100% of the time) with 9 wickets in hand. Helped by Smith dropping a sitter.
I wish they'd just leave Lawry in the box for the entire game. He does a great job evening out the constant flow of crap from the other comms.
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Well, despite the recent criticism Pakistan have done what we didn't really get close to doing - beat Aus in Aus. When you see them put a complete performance like that together you have to wonder how they have been so dire the past couple of months.
In the other match England smacked 350 from their 50 and then had India 63/4... and lost fairly comfortably in the end after Kohli and Jadhav went beserk. Pretty awesome match by the looks. Fuck India are hard to beat at home.
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Not enough batting batsmen in our lineup.
Marsh coming in at 4? What?
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Amazing bowling from Ish last night. I'm sure an IPL contract isn't too far away.
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@Bovidae said in Aussie Cricket:
Amazing bowling from Ish last night. I'm sure an IPL contract isn't too far away.
6-11. Nice work.
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7th bowler used too! http://www.espncricinfo.com/big-bash-league-2016-17/engine/match/1023637.html
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Holy fuck 6 wickets in 3.3 overs, that's nuts!! Please bring that form back to NZ...
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Haha Warnies ego might take a hit if he reads this:
"The boys have rejuvenated my love for the game," he said. "On the field and off it, just the conversations I had with guys like Brad Hodge. Today I got to meet one of my heroes growing up, Stuart McGill, and you can't put a price on that. I will take some great experiences back home with me and hopefully I can impact some of my team-mates."
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3rd ODI under way in Perth. Aus win the toss and... bowl?
Starc rested, Mitch Marsh out, Handscomb in
14/0 in the 3rd
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@mariner4life said in Aussie Cricket:
3rd ODI under way in Perth. Aus win the toss and... bowl?
What parallel universe is this?
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I don't know, but in this universe some kid called Stanlake is getting his ass handed to him some bloke called Khan, and it's 36/0 after 4
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make that 36/1 because Hazlewood is quite good at the crickets
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