Aussie Summer of Cricket
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Winning a test in Australia is not easy, well done the Windies, magnificent effort.
For all the earlier shit opener comments, some credit to Smith, great innings even to hang in there
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@bayimports said in Aussie Summer of Cricket:
Winning a test in Australia is not easy, well done the Windies, magnificent effort.
For all the earlier shit opener comments, some credit to Smith, great innings even to hang in there
Haha one innings and 3 failures do not make an opener.
We will see -
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@Chris said in Aussie Summer of Cricket:
@NTA said in Aussie Summer of Cricket:
@Chris 6 and 12 were bad
91* was good.
Not sure what he's meant to do about 11*
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Ah yeah. He should have got the other 15 on offer in an innings total of 26 to win 🤔
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@NTA said in Aussie Summer of Cricket:
@Chris said in Aussie Summer of Cricket:
@NTA said in Aussie Summer of Cricket:
@Chris 6 and 12 were bad
91* was good.
Not sure what he's meant to do about 11*
Score more
Ah yeah. He should have got the other 15 on offer in an innings total of 26 to win 🤔
Or at least 12* not 11* a complete fail.
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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
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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
