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The_Dud wrote: ↑Thu 16 Dec 2021 3:36pm
Surely that's the end of Harris, clearly not up to it!
Unless he does something out of the ordinary in the second innings. Test average of 23. 22 innings, 450 runs. Nowhere near adequate for a test opener. Khawaja to replace him - or Hunt if they go for another out and out opener.
Just about to turn 25, FC average of 44. Building a good first career ( as much as anyone can build a first class career in the midst of the T20 dominated cricketscape)
Super impressed by Warner's knock. When he reached 30 it was already better than the knock in Brisbane. He would have been yesterday's news if I'd been selector on & after the last Ashes tour (& after the Sth African sh!t show) but this knock is a very good one.
While England's bowlers arent going well, Warner, Labushagne and Smith are going to finish their careers in Australia's best ever top 10, after that, there isn't a lot.
It must be nice for Anderson and Broad, both fine young boys approaching 40 years of age, eating their Wheaties this morning, to know that it will be 36 degrees when they walk out and bowl at a total of 2/220 ish as England walk into death valley again.
shanegrambeau wrote: ↑Fri 17 Dec 2021 9:43am
It must be nice for Anderson and Broad, both fine young boys approaching 40 years of age, eating their Wheaties this morning, to know that it will be 36 degrees when they walk out and bowl at a total of 2/220 ish as England walk into death valley again.
There are four things I really despise in sport and love seeing struggle or shut down.
The Collingwood Football club.
Filth supporters.
The pommie cricket team.
Their f****** balmy army.
Yes indeed. Ah the Schadenfreude. It aint over yet. But if the Aussies can put up 450 plus then bowl the Poms out cheaply, hard to see the series going any other way than Australia's.
Anderson in particular is a twat. Love to see someone get hold of him and smack him out of the attack. Still.......have to give respect. 630 wickets is fairly handy.
But for some better catching in the last two matches by the English the games could have been much tighter -- how about that howler from their WK?
Which is a bit worrying given how mediocre this English team is.
This was my father's belief
And this is also mine:
Let the corn be all one sheaf--
And the grapes be all one vine,
Ere our children's teeth are set on edge
By bitter bread and wine.
roskilde wrote: ↑Fri 17 Dec 2021 1:54pm
You know I think we've been a bit lucky.
But for some better catching in the last two matches by the English the games could have been much tighter -- how about that howler from their WK?
Which is a bit worrying given how mediocre this English team is.
Yes indeed catches win matches. Butler takes Marnus first chance and Aus are 2-62. Very costly let off. And yep what a howler for a WK to drop that chance in the closing overs.
Warner in his interview last night said that he and Marnus were batting out of their crease knowing they could leave good length balls on the basis of height. He said the length they were bowling would have been hitting the stumps in England but not here. Basically he said they bowled too short. Also evidenced by the ratio of play and misses to edges.
Hoping for our boys to grind them into the dirt for about 70 overs today, declare around 500 and then come out and have them 3 or 4 for not many by stumps.
As much as I detest Cricket Australia and the direction they've driven cricket in the last decade, when the baggy greens come out I'm hooked.
There's lots of luck involved in cricket, sometimes it goes your way and sometimes not. The WK dropping a sitter is great luck, but Cummins missing is not!
Swings and roundabouts.
All posters are equal, but some posters are more equal than others.
How a match changes in an hour. Excellent spell from Starc, Lyon & Green.
Green could be dropped on his two knocks but his bowling is too valuable. He now has one of the best bats in the world out twice, both times when he was set. Besides his Test average is still better than that of Harris.
Mitch Marsh is a touch unlucky, he should have found this form before Australia found Green. We can't go backwards. That said, he'd be a better opener than Harris.
Give Green plenty of time. He can bat and he likes to make big hundreds. He will be an excellent top order test player.
Lyon is serially underrated. He's matured into an excellent off spinner. Flight, drift, dip and bounce. Say what you like about him but 20 odd more wickets and he will be in the top 10 wicket takers of all time.
16 more wickets and he'll go past Harbhajan, Pollock and Wasim Akram - all of whom were world class bowlers - and in about the same number of tests as each of them. Harbhajan 103, Pollock 104, Wasim 108, Lyon playing his 103rd.
Well, the Poms are putting up a fine fight (by their standards) . Looks like we'll be in for a well-balanced series. The balance looks like somewhere between 5-0 and 4-0.
