Aussie Summer of Cricket

MN5

@antipodean said in Aussie Summer of Cricket:

@MN5 said in Aussie Summer of Cricket:

I’ve never actually minded Warner and his antics haven’t irked me as much as they have others.

….but from a purely cricketing point of view and not even taking the sandpaper into consideration he isn’t actually a modern great in the Ponting, Border, S Waugh, Warne, McGrath, bracket. Matthew Hayden and Justin Langer were better openers than he was.

Warner is in that next tier of very good players…..M Waugh, Martyn, Gillespie etc. I don’t think he has the right to demand anything.

HIs away record is just a cricketing reason for me to not like him. HIs misshaped head, piston wristed gibbon personality and crocodile tears are the real basis.

Yeah an Australian Henry Nichols you might say.

MajorRage

Proof that top top level cricket teams are pretty much so an old boys club.

Warner shouldn't have even been the opener in the Ashes this year.

bayimports

https://www.news.com.au/sport/cricket/never-seen-that-mindblowing-cricket-photo-goes-viral/news-story/b5536d4bb90704405df71957c66817c5

antipodean

@bayimports I've seen that happen before in park cricket. Bails applying force against each other - batsman didn't walk.

bayimports

@antipodean I have never seen that, you have to feel for the bowler for sure!

KiwiMurph

Dec 9, 2023

O’Keefe reveals disappointment with Australia’s dwindling passion for cricket

"Give yourself an uppercut."

MN5

@KiwiMurph said in Aussie Summer of Cricket:

Dec 9, 2023

O’Keefe reveals disappointment with Australia’s dwindling passion for cricket

"Give yourself an uppercut."

Sounds like Australia might get back up there if India find some league players to talk about.

NTA

Ironic given he was on the Fox Cricket commentary team that (checks notes) took a sizeable portion of cricket games to an alternative platform that wasn't free to air

dogmeat

Is Aussie so bereft of openers that the only options are DDD or Loose bus change?

NTA

@dogmeat said in Aussie Summer of Cricket:

Is Aussie so bereft of openers that the only options are DDD or Loose bus change?

No, but it looks like Warner has compromising information on everyone. Apparently Mitchell Johnson has been stood down from a commentating gig because of the fracas.

Duluth

Pakistan in Australia

Masood's Pakistan out to buck history against high-flying Australia

AUS v PAK 2023/24 Australia vs Pakistan Match Preview: Pakistan pick two debutant quicks for the first Test while the home side will go in with Mitchell Marsh in the XI

Aus v Pakistan starts in a couple of hours

Both XI’s named already

Australia XI: 1 David Warner, 2 Usman Khawaja, 3 Marnus Labuschagne, 4 Steven Smith, 5 Travis Head, 6 Mitchell Marsh, 7 Alex Carey (wk), 8 Mitchell Starc, 9 Pat Cummins (capt), 10 Nathan Lyon, 11 Josh Hazlewood

Pakistan XI: 1 Abdullah Shafique, 2 Imam-ul-Haq, 3 Shan Masood (capt), 4 Babar Azam, 5 Saud Shakeel, 6 Sarfaraz Ahmed (wk), 7 Salman Ali Agha, 8 Faheem Ashraf, 9 Shaheen Shah Afridi, 10 Aamer Jamal, 11 Khurram Shahzad