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Post by nemouk on Dec 17, 2021 9:55:15 GMT
90 minutes in the dark. Grand.
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Post by pierredelafranchesca on Dec 17, 2021 9:59:41 GMT
I'm absolutely dreading this.....
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Post by nemouk on Dec 17, 2021 10:00:50 GMT
I'm absolutely dreading this..... Surprised they let you post whilst walking out to the middle, Rory.
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Post by pierredelafranchesca on Dec 17, 2021 10:13:55 GMT
Absolutely inevitable wasn't it. I know there is no one else, no genuine other options, but I don't see how Burns plays the next test unless he gets some runs in the 2nd innings.
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Post by pierredelafranchesca on Dec 17, 2021 10:24:53 GMT
Damning, absolutely damning
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Post by nemouk on Dec 17, 2021 10:30:01 GMT
At least 2017 gave us S Smith b COverton
And to be fair, Anderson and Woakes took 9-79 between them in the second innings in 2017
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Post by Balladeer on Dec 17, 2021 10:42:03 GMT
This is the series that breaks Rory Burns Test Opener isn't it. Based on county scores absolutely the best around. There really is a systemic issue in English cricket (by which I mean another one besides racism).
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Post by nemouk on Dec 17, 2021 17:17:23 GMT
I know it's boosted by playing against us a lot, but Marnus Labuschagne and Steve Smith have the second and fourth best averages in the history of test cricket.
Adam Voges is between them, probably don't need to tell you who is top.
I do find it fascinating that I managed to persuade myself that this series would be anything *other* than a hiding. Two brilliant batsmen, plus Warner, plus three incredible quicks and one of the best orthodox finger spinners there's ever been. Sure, there's some middling players in there too, but miles ahead of Joe Lara and his band of merry men.
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Post by pierredelafranchesca on Dec 17, 2021 22:05:47 GMT
Labushagne's ratio of how many times he's caught vs chances he gives up is incredible! Something like only 60% of chances result in catches being held, by far and away the lowest % of current batsmen. What is it Arnold Palmer said about luck?
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Post by pierredelafranchesca on Dec 17, 2021 22:10:12 GMT
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Post by pierredelafranchesca on Dec 18, 2021 8:15:09 GMT
I know that the other options aren't any good either, but we're at the point where honestly Crawley, Bairstow, Bracey in for burns, pope and buttler literally could not make us worse
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Post by nemouk on Dec 18, 2021 8:24:13 GMT
Bracey has been sent home along with the rest of the Lions. We're stuck with the squad we have.
It's not the only difference between these two sides but Aus just don't drop catches. It makes it a whole lot easier for them that they only have to take ten wickets and not fifteen.
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Post by pierredelafranchesca on Dec 18, 2021 20:00:13 GMT
Come the 5th test, if as expected we#re 4-0 down, a REALLY good idea would be to swap bowling attacks, we take 3 of their quicks and Lyon, they can have any 3 of ours and Leach.....I think that'd really even up the sides and make it a much fairer contest, give the watching fans something to actually watch
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Post by pierredelafranchesca on Dec 18, 2021 20:06:43 GMT
Bracey has been sent home along with the rest of the Lions. We're stuck with the squad we have. It's not the only difference between these two sides but Aus just don't drop catches. It makes it a whole lot easier for them that they only have to take ten wickets and not fifteen. Yeah, in normal times i'd be banging on about how utterly stupid a decision it was, but in Covid bubble times, well, I get it and think from a human POV it's the right call to send the squad back, tho i'd maybe have kept one or two of the better looking batters around
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Post by waughandpeace on Dec 19, 2021 4:18:43 GMT
Root unable to field this morning, hope he's ok to bat - not to save the test, but to get the calendar year runs record, which he thoroughly deserves for attempting to single-handedly carry this train wreck all year!
Couldn't sleep so catching a few overs, with two poles already I think I'll dash, Smith and Labuschagne supremacy incoming on a flat pitch where Malan is now our best spinner xD
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