Well Dmaxer, the first game approaches ever closer, have replenished the grog cupboard in anticipation of long sessions in front of the tv.
What will my learned friend be doing? Will he discard the wig and gown for more comfortable attire? (not the Budgie smugglers I hope?)
Dougwe said
11:10 AM Oct 30, 2025
You don't have to wait until cricket mate. I have been involved heavily in baseball over the years and still a big fan of the game, both here in OZ and OS. I follow Melbourne ACES here and Atlanta Braves OS.
It's been a busy and great week here as I have the World Series happening OS and ACES playing in their new comp OS in South Korea. Both live broadcasts. ACES left Australian Baseball Legue at end of last season and joined an OS comp. On Tuesday just gone an 18 innings game was witnessed by me and thousands of other fans through a live broadcast and 58,000 people at the LA Dodgers, Dodger Stadium. 9 innings is a standard game. The game went for so long I had a numb bum. The Dodgers won that game, but Toronto Bluejays won yesterday's game, making it 2 all.
Melbourne ACES have won 7 out of nine games and play in semifinal tomorrow sometime TBC. Then if they win that game go into the final Saturday. Their move to the OS scene has paid off for them but I wasn't too confident earlier this year.
So, see, Cricket is not everything
Must go as World Series about to start game 5.
Magnarc said
12:24 PM Oct 30, 2025
Pour yourself a beer sit down and enjoy your sport Doug. I agree that cricket is not the be all and end all.
Have a nice day mate.
Dougwe said
06:37 AM Oct 31, 2025
The beer will be tonight (Friday) during happy hour more like 4-5 hours
2.00pm today (Friday) here is the ACES game.
Toronto won game 5 yesterday Phil making them 3 wins and the Dodgers 2 wins. If Toronto win game 6 tomorrow they win the World Series and happy times. If not, goes to game 7 on Sunday. It's really the pointy end of the tick (Bat) now.
Keep Safe on the roads and out there Phil (and enjoy your cricket)
Collo said
06:32 PM Dec 7, 2025
Well, it looks like Bazball is a flop. English bowling is below par, and the batting is not much better.
Australia 5/0
Cheers,
Collo.
Magnarc said
07:50 AM Dec 8, 2025
There will be a couple of hard decisions for George Bailey and his mates before the Adelaide test Collo. Lyon was crapped off big time at being left out and Cummins returning.
The interview with McCullum was interesting. It looks like he is having second thoughts about bazball, but it might just be too late!!
rmoor said
09:36 AM Dec 8, 2025
I reckon McCallum and Stokes have put England well behind with that ridiculous Bazball rubbish.
The only time England looked to be able to fight back was when Stokes and Jacks played like "real" batsman to nearly put England back in the game again.
Starc has been dominant and brilliant but he has also been assisted by some backyard cricket batting from a talented but coaching misguided top order.
The first test was a farce and McCallum and Stokes style of play indicated a massive weakness.
I think the selectors have an easy job for Adelaide.
Cummins in, Lyon in (although his behaviour with his comments when "rested" were very poor and could consider himself lucky to get a berth). If I were a selector I would be pulling him aside for a quiet but succinct chat.
Doggett out, Inglis out. Carey is good enough to bat six against a third rate England team and Starc 7, Neser 8 and Cummins 9 can currently hold a bat better that the England top three.
Inglis a bit unlucky but Doggett lacked penetration and might be a good shield bowler but didn't worry the Poms too much and he is probably 10KM below in pace.
Khawaja out, he is not fit enough now for that level and his footwork has always been poor, Weatherald has superior footwork to Khawaja who pokes too much outside off peg early.
Also, not impressed with Khawaja for his bringing his politics into sport, happy to see him fade away. A bit like Lyon, let the performances talk instead, my late father always used to say to me "runs talk" or, "let the ball do the talking".
Head is good enough and versatile enough to bat anywhere, if a young opener (other that that grossly over-rated Konstas) shows some ability, then Head can easily drop back to his preferred batting spot.
All in all, the tour has been a sad flop so far with a very talented England team hamstrung by poor team management.
They have probably brought out their most lethal bowling attack since John Snow, but the fact their major strike bowler brings a pillow to a test match says lots about their commitment and drive.
Ineedabiggerboat said
11:23 AM Dec 8, 2025
I was expecting Archer to turn up with a Teddy Bear yesterday.
Magnarc said
07:56 AM Dec 9, 2025
Rmoor, totally agree with your comments. In an interview with McCullum after the game, he said that if anything, they had "over trained"prior to the match and they are now heading off to Noosa for a few days R and R!!!! That says it all for me.
I have always been doubtful of Stokes ability as Captain, and I wasn't all that surprised when McCullum sent a message out to him to change his field settings. I have been watching the great game for more years than I care to remember and I have never seen that happen to a Captain.
There was obviously some tension between Archer and Stokes, maybe because of his field settings, Archer did not bowl at his best speed and , when he had a few words with Smithy, frustration?, he came off second best with that as well.
rmoor said
08:32 AM Dec 9, 2025
I have never considered Stokes as captain material, neither do I recognise McCallum as a quality coach.
When this Bazball rubbish first surfaced I thought it to be a ridiculous tactic. There is a time and place to turn the heat up with the bat. First ball of an innings is not an good choice one would think.
I spotted that fielding instruction to be sent out, I think Ricky Ponting picked the same thing at the time.
This "over training" bit is more McCallum rubbish. Steve Waugh used to say "the more I train, the luckier I get".
It seemed to work OK for him.
I think McCallum, like Justin Langer was with Australia are, put simply, just poor choices as coaches.
A mate I play golf with mentioned on Saturday, when his son was playing for Australia, Langer played with his head and set his career back terribly at the time.
I don't think he was the only one, another old team mate's brother was the Australian bowling coach at the time and Langer abused him also, only to cop it back bigger and better.
Puny batsmen taking on big burly fast bowlers can have bones in it.....
Back in the 70's teams did not have coaches, why do teams need these ego driven over-paid washed up old cricketers anyway???
I played under some excellent captains, several former Sydney first grade captains, two country firsts captains, they were all great cricket minds and tacticians.
I really don't see the need for all these coaches, bowling coaches, batting coaches, a head coach - really???
Possibly one assigned tactician maybe, all a bit too much.
Maybe England would be better off with a "batman" to carry all Archer's pillows and sleeping attire into matches for him if he is that tired?
Smith seemed to rightly point out to Archer in that heated moment that he only bowled faster when the test was effectively over.
Pretty fair comment that, Archer looked pedestrian in his first spell of the match but then turns on the heat when the match is all but over? Go figure.
Maybe he was just a bit too tired at the time?
Anything over 150 KM per hour is frightening and really stirs a game of cricket up.
Against the new ball I once faced one of the fast bowlers John Dyson once named as one of the six top fast bowlers he ever faced in his whole career.
In about the his 3rd or 4th over he bowled me 3 balls I could not see. I had a rough idea where they were, but was simply rooted to the spot and dumbfounded where the ball was.
It wasn't until the third one I found out where it was, I felt the wind from it as it passed between my top lip and my nose at it went past - unseen.
It is frightening when someone sends them down at that pace.
Also that was in the pre-helmet days.
Absolutely scary stuff, I remember walking away to square leg, bewildered and with fear setting in.
The likes of Lillee, Thomson, Aktar, Holding, Roberts etc really liven up a game of cricket.
It is shame the two England quicks are so brittle and sleepy, they are the key to any success England may have.
Ineedabiggerboat said
12:16 PM Dec 9, 2025
Im still trying to work out what bazball is.
In any case, one strategy wont fit. A good captain observes whats going on and develops and implements a plan to tempt a batsman into playing a shot and sets the field accordingly like a trap.
Steve Smith is an expert at it.
Stokes, not so much.
rgren2 said
09:16 PM Dec 9, 2025
And neither is Pat.
Magnarc said
07:29 AM Dec 10, 2025
I assume that you are referring to Pat Cummins.
Captained the side in 37 tests and won 23.
" " " in 17 ODIs and won 13.
Can't be a lot wrong with his tactics????
rmoor said
08:35 AM Dec 10, 2025
Cummins has had some pretty good cattle in his herd.
There has always been conjecture about bowlers as captains.
Richie Benaud wasn't a bad one.
I think Cummins is a good captain, he seems to display all the right qualities.
Noted that Wood has returned to England and out of this series with his dicky knee playing up.
England really needed Wood and Archer to be bowling 150 plus to give our Aussies some some ginger but the dicky knee and the pillow display has left the poms with a pedestrian popgun attack for the rest of the series.
Good. Stokes, the former "wanderer" Bairstow, Broad etc have a touch of arrogance about them and a bit of come uppence from the Aussies brings a chuckle.
With the huge amount of money these players earn now it is little wonder that Khawaja, Hazlewood, Lyon etc hang around for so long.
It appears the wear and tear on the body could see the end of Khawaja and sadly Hazlewood's careers in the very near future.
I think it would be a selectors error to include a doubtful fitness Khawaja into a winning side in Adelaide.
Would rather see Kellaway blooded and retain a fighting Weatherald than a 38 year old Khawaja re-instated.
Magnarc said
09:32 AM Dec 10, 2025
Ditto.
Craig1 said
08:11 AM Dec 18, 2025
End of Day 1 in Adelaide. Carey quoted " obviousely I am not a walker " Good on ya KIT
rmoor said
09:22 AM Dec 18, 2025
With England in such a good position after a few Australians threw away their wickets on a perfect batting track, it will be interesting to watch and see if England play "kiddies cricket" again?
A couple of times so far in this test series England have thrown away some distinct advantages following their coach's "backyard cricket" batting tactics.
In life I have always put my hand up and say "I was wrong". I think any prudent, fair thinking Australian has that philosophy.
So when it comes to Usman Khawaja - I was wrong......
He played really well answering the call at the eleventh hour.
Of interest, I play golf each weekend with a mate who's son played for Australia at various levels over recent years and is still in the NSW squad.
I mentioned Renshaw as a possible long term replacement in the opening role and he said he is "mad as".
He may have matured by now and would now be a fit in the current team, be an interesting watch, at this stage Kellaway has the inside running.
Attitude is everything in cricket, been watching with interest the movements of one pommie fast bowler - he looks "soft".
Magnarc said
07:16 AM Dec 19, 2025
One of Sevens commentators reckoned he would be a bit faster if he removed the gold chain round hie neck. I too have to eat my words. Khawaja did a good job. It will be interesting to see if he gets his old job back.
Craig1 said
08:44 AM Dec 19, 2025
Had the toast buttered then forgot to put on the vegemite. Let Archer get another respectful score
rmoor said
11:17 AM Dec 19, 2025
Some observations :
The keeper is calling Boland Barrel and Baz.
I wonder if that is a reference to gun-barrel straight?
I wish they would halve Langers time on the mike and double Bumble Lloyds air time.
Archer looks a difficult one to manage from a team management perspective.
Why would ANY first class cricketer bat wearing a watch??
That is an unusual choice, fraught with danger on two counts and there is a huge clock on ground?
Strange fish that one.......
The first 5 pommie batsmen yesterday were all out with awful front foot movement.
Left me wondering if this crazy Bazball rubbish has taught them bad habits trying to clear the elbows to make room for a slash or bash?
One of the first things taught to young players is get to the pitch of the ball, their footwork is very poor, nearly all the time.
I found after many seasons, if in a form slump or early in the season, dance. I Found it was best to over-accentuate foot movement and go the wrong way, forward or back, rather than stay rooted to the spot and present the bowler with a much better opportunity all round.
It is critical to get in behind the ball, or get to the pitch of it early rather than play from no mans land.
One wonders if Stokes is sending a message to some in his dressing rooms with the excellent way he batted yesterday and so far today. Front foot moving, full face of the bat.
At an interesting stage this test and far more enjoyable with this Bazball rubbish on the shelf this time around.
rgren2 said
11:48 AM Dec 19, 2025
Stokes just said some rude words.
rmoor said
03:33 PM Dec 19, 2025
Stokes doesn't appear to be the ideal role model??
Archer has a patch on his left side.
Might explain him bowling at half rat power today.
Either that or he is a bit precious and soft?
As Matthew Hayden said - now we know where the pillow is...ha ha
Labuschagne fell the same way many of the poms did - poor footwork.
When he first came on the scene his footwork was excellent.
Must be like the rest of us eh? Age ha ha
Ineedabiggerboat said
05:23 PM Dec 19, 2025
Lots of TravBall T shirts in the crowd. Gotta love it.
BBN2 said
09:55 PM Dec 19, 2025
Back to the cricket: let's forget about those Jews.
Ineedabiggerboat said
11:04 PM Dec 19, 2025
That is the most twisted offensive irrelevant post I have ever seen on a forum.
Shame on you.
Magnarc said
07:16 AM Dec 20, 2025
Bruce,
Unfortunately there always seems to be a BBN on any forum, indeed there are more than one on some that I have seen. A stupid and crass remark that does him/her no credit. Just goes to show where the mindset is.
-- Edited by Magnarc on Saturday 20th of December 2025 07:18:13 AM
rmoor said
08:55 AM Dec 20, 2025
Hopefully Head and Carey will demolish the poms today.
Strange camp the poms, Stokes didn't bowl yesterday, was noticeably limping at one stage and they said this morning he wasn't injured?
They also don't seem to be physically fit? The Aussies immediately hit top pace and look fit and strong.
Whereas the English look brittle, Archer in particular looks soft to me?
Maybe he only howls in when Steve Smith is at the wicket.
Inglis would be fairly nervous and is desperate for a score.
I was also pondering when Starc, Cummins, Hazlewood and Boland all retire if Green becomes the 4th line quick and they bat him at 7?
Carey stay at 6 going forward.
Green an Inglis are at risk for Melbourne and Sydney with Khawaja peeling off 122 in this test in two digs.
The question is then where does Khawaja bat? Anywhere by the looks of it. Possibly even at 3 looking at the way Labuschagne is poking around aimlessly.
Craig1 said
08:19 AM Dec 23, 2025
And now the Cticket Australia Circus, who it would seem cant organize a night out in Hay St, have cancelled their non existant date for the Allan Border Awards night. Cannot find a date that will get enough players together. Gawd spare me.
rmoor said
09:15 AM Dec 29, 2025
The MCG management claim they have the best green keeper in the country is now under a cloud.
What idiot leaves 10 mm of grass on a test pitch?
It cost Cricket Australia 10 million or so in ticket refunds and was a fizzer of a test.
I don't say that because we lost, it was simply a case of win the toss, win the test.
Over in two days is completely ridiculous.
My brother in law was telling me over Christmas that it was very difficult and time consuming to buy tickets to the Sydney Test.
When he could eventually get the system to work it cost $250 per ticket to day 4 at Sydney.
That is an absolutely ridiculous price for a ticket to watch sport?
My sister said she hopes it is over by day 3 so they can get a refund!!!
BBN2 said
02:38 PM Dec 29, 2025
rmoor wrote:
What idiot leaves 10 mm of grass on a test pitch?
Where, in the rules of cricket, does it say the wicket grass may not be 10mm long?
Well Dmaxer, the first game approaches ever closer, have replenished the grog cupboard in anticipation of long sessions in front of the tv.
What will my learned friend be doing? Will he discard the wig and gown for more comfortable attire? (not the Budgie smugglers I hope?)
You don't have to wait until cricket mate. I have been involved heavily in baseball over the years and still a big fan of the game, both here in OZ and OS. I follow Melbourne ACES here and Atlanta Braves OS.
It's been a busy and great week here as I have the World Series happening OS and ACES playing in their new comp OS in South Korea. Both live broadcasts. ACES left Australian Baseball Legue at end of last season and joined an OS comp. On Tuesday just gone an 18 innings game was witnessed by me and thousands of other fans through a live broadcast and 58,000 people at the LA Dodgers, Dodger Stadium. 9 innings is a standard game. The game went for so long I had a numb bum. The Dodgers won that game, but Toronto Bluejays won yesterday's game, making it 2 all.
Melbourne ACES have won 7 out of nine games and play in semifinal tomorrow sometime TBC. Then if they win that game go into the final Saturday. Their move to the OS scene has paid off for them but I wasn't too confident earlier this year.
So, see, Cricket is not everything
Must go as World Series about to start game 5.
Pour yourself a beer sit down and enjoy your sport Doug. I agree that cricket is not the be all and end all.
Have a nice day mate.
The beer will be tonight (Friday) during happy hour
more like 4-5 hours 
2.00pm today (Friday) here is the ACES game.
Toronto won game 5 yesterday Phil making them 3 wins and the Dodgers 2 wins. If Toronto win game 6 tomorrow they win the World Series and happy times. If not, goes to game 7 on Sunday. It's really the pointy end of the tick (Bat) now.
Keep Safe on the roads and out there Phil (and enjoy your cricket)
Well, it looks like Bazball is a flop. English bowling is below par, and the batting is not much better.
Australia 5/0
Cheers,
Collo.
There will be a couple of hard decisions for George Bailey and his mates before the Adelaide test Collo. Lyon was crapped off big time at being left out and Cummins returning.
The interview with McCullum was interesting. It looks like he is having second thoughts about bazball, but it might just be too late!!
The only time England looked to be able to fight back was when Stokes and Jacks played like "real" batsman to nearly put England back in the game again.
Starc has been dominant and brilliant but he has also been assisted by some backyard cricket batting from a talented but coaching misguided top order.
The first test was a farce and McCallum and Stokes style of play indicated a massive weakness.
I think the selectors have an easy job for Adelaide.
Cummins in, Lyon in (although his behaviour with his comments when "rested" were very poor and could consider himself lucky to get a berth). If I were a selector I would be pulling him aside for a quiet but succinct chat.
Doggett out, Inglis out. Carey is good enough to bat six against a third rate England team and Starc 7, Neser 8 and Cummins 9 can currently hold a bat better that the England top three.
Inglis a bit unlucky but Doggett lacked penetration and might be a good shield bowler but didn't worry the Poms too much and he is probably 10KM below in pace.
Khawaja out, he is not fit enough now for that level and his footwork has always been poor, Weatherald has superior footwork to Khawaja who pokes too much outside off peg early.
Also, not impressed with Khawaja for his bringing his politics into sport, happy to see him fade away. A bit like Lyon, let the performances talk instead, my late father always used to say to me "runs talk" or, "let the ball do the talking".
Head is good enough and versatile enough to bat anywhere, if a young opener (other that that grossly over-rated Konstas) shows some ability, then Head can easily drop back to his preferred batting spot.
All in all, the tour has been a sad flop so far with a very talented England team hamstrung by poor team management.
They have probably brought out their most lethal bowling attack since John Snow, but the fact their major strike bowler brings a pillow to a test match says lots about their commitment and drive.
Rmoor, totally agree with your comments. In an interview with McCullum after the game, he said that if anything, they had "over trained"prior to the match and they are now heading off to Noosa for a few days R and R!!!! That says it all for me.
I have always been doubtful of Stokes ability as Captain, and I wasn't all that surprised when McCullum sent a message out to him to change his field settings. I have been watching the great game for more years than I care to remember and I have never seen that happen to a Captain.
There was obviously some tension between Archer and Stokes, maybe because of his field settings, Archer did not bowl at his best speed and , when he had a few words with Smithy, frustration?, he came off second best with that as well.
When this Bazball rubbish first surfaced I thought it to be a ridiculous tactic. There is a time and place to turn the heat up with the bat. First ball of an innings is not an good choice one would think.
I spotted that fielding instruction to be sent out, I think Ricky Ponting picked the same thing at the time.
This "over training" bit is more McCallum rubbish. Steve Waugh used to say "the more I train, the luckier I get".
It seemed to work OK for him.
I think McCallum, like Justin Langer was with Australia are, put simply, just poor choices as coaches.
A mate I play golf with mentioned on Saturday, when his son was playing for Australia, Langer played with his head and set his career back terribly at the time.
I don't think he was the only one, another old team mate's brother was the Australian bowling coach at the time and Langer abused him also, only to cop it back bigger and better.
Puny batsmen taking on big burly fast bowlers can have bones in it.....
Back in the 70's teams did not have coaches, why do teams need these ego driven over-paid washed up old cricketers anyway???
I played under some excellent captains, several former Sydney first grade captains, two country firsts captains, they were all great cricket minds and tacticians.
I really don't see the need for all these coaches, bowling coaches, batting coaches, a head coach - really???
Possibly one assigned tactician maybe, all a bit too much.
Maybe England would be better off with a "batman" to carry all Archer's pillows and sleeping attire into matches for him if he is that tired?
Smith seemed to rightly point out to Archer in that heated moment that he only bowled faster when the test was effectively over.
Pretty fair comment that, Archer looked pedestrian in his first spell of the match but then turns on the heat when the match is all but over? Go figure.
Maybe he was just a bit too tired at the time?
Anything over 150 KM per hour is frightening and really stirs a game of cricket up.
Against the new ball I once faced one of the fast bowlers John Dyson once named as one of the six top fast bowlers he ever faced in his whole career.
In about the his 3rd or 4th over he bowled me 3 balls I could not see. I had a rough idea where they were, but was simply rooted to the spot and dumbfounded where the ball was.
It wasn't until the third one I found out where it was, I felt the wind from it as it passed between my top lip and my nose at it went past - unseen.
It is frightening when someone sends them down at that pace.
Also that was in the pre-helmet days.
Absolutely scary stuff, I remember walking away to square leg, bewildered and with fear setting in.
The likes of Lillee, Thomson, Aktar, Holding, Roberts etc really liven up a game of cricket.
It is shame the two England quicks are so brittle and sleepy, they are the key to any success England may have.
I assume that you are referring to Pat Cummins.
Captained the side in 37 tests and won 23.
" " " in 17 ODIs and won 13.
Can't be a lot wrong with his tactics????
There has always been conjecture about bowlers as captains.
Richie Benaud wasn't a bad one.
I think Cummins is a good captain, he seems to display all the right qualities.
Noted that Wood has returned to England and out of this series with his dicky knee playing up.
England really needed Wood and Archer to be bowling 150 plus to give our Aussies some some ginger but the dicky knee and the pillow display has left the poms with a pedestrian popgun attack for the rest of the series.
Good. Stokes, the former "wanderer" Bairstow, Broad etc have a touch of arrogance about them and a bit of come uppence from the Aussies brings a chuckle.
With the huge amount of money these players earn now it is little wonder that Khawaja, Hazlewood, Lyon etc hang around for so long.
It appears the wear and tear on the body could see the end of Khawaja and sadly Hazlewood's careers in the very near future.
I think it would be a selectors error to include a doubtful fitness Khawaja into a winning side in Adelaide.
Would rather see Kellaway blooded and retain a fighting Weatherald than a 38 year old Khawaja re-instated.
Ditto.
A couple of times so far in this test series England have thrown away some distinct advantages following their coach's "backyard cricket" batting tactics.
In life I have always put my hand up and say "I was wrong". I think any prudent, fair thinking Australian has that philosophy.
So when it comes to Usman Khawaja - I was wrong......
He played really well answering the call at the eleventh hour.
Of interest, I play golf each weekend with a mate who's son played for Australia at various levels over recent years and is still in the NSW squad.
I mentioned Renshaw as a possible long term replacement in the opening role and he said he is "mad as".
He may have matured by now and would now be a fit in the current team, be an interesting watch, at this stage Kellaway has the inside running.
Attitude is everything in cricket, been watching with interest the movements of one pommie fast bowler - he looks "soft".
One of Sevens commentators reckoned he would be a bit faster if he removed the gold chain round hie neck. I too have to eat my words. Khawaja did a good job. It will be interesting to see if he gets his old job back.
The keeper is calling Boland Barrel and Baz.
I wonder if that is a reference to gun-barrel straight?
I wish they would halve Langers time on the mike and double Bumble Lloyds air time.
Archer looks a difficult one to manage from a team management perspective.
Why would ANY first class cricketer bat wearing a watch??
That is an unusual choice, fraught with danger on two counts and there is a huge clock on ground?
Strange fish that one.......
The first 5 pommie batsmen yesterday were all out with awful front foot movement.
Left me wondering if this crazy Bazball rubbish has taught them bad habits trying to clear the elbows to make room for a slash or bash?
One of the first things taught to young players is get to the pitch of the ball, their footwork is very poor, nearly all the time.
I found after many seasons, if in a form slump or early in the season, dance. I Found it was best to over-accentuate foot movement and go the wrong way, forward or back, rather than stay rooted to the spot and present the bowler with a much better opportunity all round.
It is critical to get in behind the ball, or get to the pitch of it early rather than play from no mans land.
One wonders if Stokes is sending a message to some in his dressing rooms with the excellent way he batted yesterday and so far today. Front foot moving, full face of the bat.
At an interesting stage this test and far more enjoyable with this Bazball rubbish on the shelf this time around.
Archer has a patch on his left side.
Might explain him bowling at half rat power today.
Either that or he is a bit precious and soft?
As Matthew Hayden said - now we know where the pillow is...ha ha
Labuschagne fell the same way many of the poms did - poor footwork.
When he first came on the scene his footwork was excellent.
Must be like the rest of us eh? Age ha ha
Bruce,
Unfortunately there always seems to be a BBN on any forum, indeed there are more than one on some that I have seen. A stupid and crass remark that does him/her no credit. Just goes to show where the mindset is.
-- Edited by Magnarc on Saturday 20th of December 2025 07:18:13 AM
Strange camp the poms, Stokes didn't bowl yesterday, was noticeably limping at one stage and they said this morning he wasn't injured?
They also don't seem to be physically fit? The Aussies immediately hit top pace and look fit and strong.
Whereas the English look brittle, Archer in particular looks soft to me?
Maybe he only howls in when Steve Smith is at the wicket.
Inglis would be fairly nervous and is desperate for a score.
I was also pondering when Starc, Cummins, Hazlewood and Boland all retire if Green becomes the 4th line quick and they bat him at 7?
Carey stay at 6 going forward.
Green an Inglis are at risk for Melbourne and Sydney with Khawaja peeling off 122 in this test in two digs.
The question is then where does Khawaja bat? Anywhere by the looks of it. Possibly even at 3 looking at the way Labuschagne is poking around aimlessly.
What idiot leaves 10 mm of grass on a test pitch?
It cost Cricket Australia 10 million or so in ticket refunds and was a fizzer of a test.
I don't say that because we lost, it was simply a case of win the toss, win the test.
Over in two days is completely ridiculous.
My brother in law was telling me over Christmas that it was very difficult and time consuming to buy tickets to the Sydney Test.
When he could eventually get the system to work it cost $250 per ticket to day 4 at Sydney.
That is an absolutely ridiculous price for a ticket to watch sport?
My sister said she hopes it is over by day 3 so they can get a refund!!!
Where, in the rules of cricket, does it say the wicket grass may not be 10mm long?