The Silver Fern

@Donsteppa said in Australia v India:

Marsh

Lineage.

@MN5 radio commentators for cricket are God Tier

@MN5 said in Black Caps vs England Series:

@No-Quarter said in Black Caps vs England Series:

@booboo said in Black Caps vs England Series:

@Crazy-Horse said in Black Caps vs England Series:

I fail to see the point of Philips. Not good enough at bowling, doesn't contribute enough with the bat and has brain farts I the field. Second thoughts, he's a traditional Black Caps all-rounder

He's made me think he's a really promising batsman. Just not delivered on that in this series.

The bowling and fielding is a bonus.

I want him to deliver on his primary role, which because of my fanboi-ing I'm sure he can ...

We haven't used Phillips well. He's at best a part time bowler, and his first class record suggests that - decent enough averages but has never bowled a huge amount of overs. So batting him at 7 just makes no sense. It makes even less sense when you consider we've been insisting on playing Blundell as an all rounder and batting him at 6 when leading up to that century he'd been averaging about 14 for the past year, on top of his glove work being generally untidy.

Swapping them around would benefit both players. It'd give Phillips a chance to bat with batsmen more instead of managing the tail, to see if he can replicate his 40 FC average at test level. It would also mean he can come out with a license to play his natural attacking game knowing there is still enough batting left to eek out some more runs if needed. For Blundell it'd take some pressure off his batting and hopefully allow him to focus a bit more on his glovework which is his primary role in the team.

This is an astonishingly well thought out post. Too much sense for it to be written by a Ferner !

Totally agree

@No-Quarter are you @Mauss ?

@frugby said in All Blacks 2025:

Milner-Skudder - 24

We'll always have 2015. What a year for him

R Ashwin retires.

Amazing player

@MN5 said in Australia v India:

Travis Head is a very good test batsman but Harry Brook is a generational talent.

how do you rate him vs Gayle?

Players off between innings - lightning. Rain expected. That'll be that - good effort by the Indian tailenders

@MN5 said in Australia v India:

@nzzp said in Australia v India:

@NTA said in Australia v India:

@nzzp look... (sigh) Marsh has made some good contributions of late, and Cam Green's not doing himself any favours on the injury front in terms of selecting an all rounder.

Also: eat a bag of dicks.

if you want to start a club, the website MMCGFH.com is available (Mitch Marsh Can Go Fuck Himself)

A computer nerd like @NTA could whip that up in his lunch break

surprised we can't use his anger as a renewable energy source to drive steam turbines and power his house. Better than solar and more reliable!

@NTA said in Australia v India:

@nzzp look... (sigh) Marsh has made some good contributions of late, and Cam Green's not doing himself any favours on the injury front in terms of selecting an all rounder.

Also: eat a bag of dicks.

if you want to start a club, the website MMCGFH.com is available (Mitch Marsh Can Go Fuck Himself)

here we go, Sept 2018
“He is an extremely popular member of the team, he has great humility and, given his lineage, he understands and respects the responsibility which comes with representing Australia and Australians,” Hohns said.

Fans hit out at Aussie selectors over bizarre Marsh explanation

Australia's decision to appoint dual Test vice-captains has been questioned, with chairman of selectors Trevor Hohns under fire.

@bayimports said in Australia v India:

@nzzp said in Australia v India:

@bayimports said in Australia v India:

why play Marsh if you dont bowl him?

pedigree.

potentially but he is there as the allrounder and clearly they should possibly be blooding some younger talent as you mention, look at the ages of half that team, especially if one of your older guys break down..(like what just happened)

sorry mate, it was a long ago call by the selectors where he got picked because of the surname. @NTA will get triggered by this, and show up to tell me to eat a bag of dicks.

@bayimports said in Australia v India:

Hazelwood on last legs with ageing type of injuries,

holy shit, this! He missed the last test with a side strain - and then struglged to get past 5 overs in this test. Unfortunate, but you do wonder if he's done now.

he's 34 in Jan, Starc is 35 in Jan, Cummins is 32 in May -

@bayimports said in Australia v India:

why play Marsh if you dont bowl him?

pedigree.

Cracking effort by the indian 11 and Bumrah to get past the followon. Should ice the game unless Australia go for a very sporting declaration.

@ACT-Crusader said in Black Caps vs England Series:

how we use our bowlers in the difficult periods.

Drop Southee, play Santner, WOR, Henry and one of Kyle (if fit), Smith or Sears.

Simple?

Australia are quite good at cricketing

@KiwiMurph said in Black Caps vs England Series:

Fair to say Young and Santner paid back the faith in their selection

Santner has astonsihed me this year. I did not think he'd clean up the way he did in India, and particularly in this test. Ridiculous.

@Virgil said in Black Caps vs England Series:

Equals our biggest win which was against Sri Lanka in 2018

should have batted on

Cummins is some bowler.
India in real trouble again.

WOR is some talent. Great spell and good bowling to Brooke