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mal wrote:QUESTIONS

Playing for a draw , late in the game
Why did The Lab[sweep] and Painey [pull]play such rash shots?


4 wickets left
3 balls to go
Why not bowl the last 3 balls,and maybe getting Cummins or Head, or more out ?
Only the batters should wanna walk off, in that instance
If I was Cummins when the game is called off , I would be contented.
Does anyone agree ?

Why did Head not take a single of the last ball of the 2nd last over ?
Why expose Cummins , and then maybe Siddle, Hazelwood and Lyon ?

Should there be a concussion sub rule ?
Plenty of players get injured, and cant bat or bowl in games

My answers;
Labuschagne was sweeping consistently before that and even played a reverse sweep. There was certainly some risk sweeping out the rough, but it worked for him. He was a little unlucky that the ball came off Burns' thigh to Root. I'm still not convinced he caught it. Credit to Labuschagne, given the circumstances he batted very well.
Paine is a worry. They set him up for the hook shot and he couldn't resist. We have to remember Tim Paine is not a great bat, but it would be nice if he learnt to duck under bouncers.
The umpires called stumps after 3 balls because a result could not be achieved, no big deal.
Travis had confidence in Cummins to play out the last over from Leach. It was much easier for right handers to face the spinners and don't forget Travis played and missed at two balls in Denleys last over.
Yes there should be a concussion sub rule. Player safety is paramount.

Paine would have faced Archer shitloads of times at the Hurricanes as would have Wade.


If either Paine Usman Warner are playing in the first home test I will be pissed.

Armchair expert wrote:Paine would have faced Archer shitloads of times at the Hurricanes as would have Wade.


If either Paine Usman Warner are playing in the first home test I will be pissed.

Paine has to unless Smith's captaincy ban is up by then.

Lightning McQueen wrote:

Armchair expert wrote:Paine would have faced Archer shitloads of times at the Hurricanes as would have Wade.


If either Paine Usman Warner are playing in the first home test I will be pissed.

Paine has to unless Smith's captaincy ban is up by then.

Just give Head the captaincy, Smith is making most of the on-field decisions anyway. The only captaincy Paine is doing is the reviews which his stuffing up anyway.

twe wrote:

jackpot jim wrote:

twe wrote:**** me do these blokes even know how to know how to watch a ball and evade anymore ? yes hes quick but watch the ball ffs !

Maybe its playing so much flat track T20 and one day cricket these days that is contributing to players struggling with their technique against fast short pitched bowling?

Whilst a few players got sconned back in the day, 70s & 80s before helmets became the norm, they certainly didnt get hit as regularly as they do these days.

to true jj im sure over your time in the hills you have seen blokes like tarque , taity ,galvin and maybe even gordy cairns or benny warren back in the day and more ..
tried batting with a helmet once in 2000s and never again reverted straight back to the baggy gold and faced all these blokes bar gordy at there peak in a cap got hit once and played the pull and hook all the time both on turf and hard wicket … 100 % agree with your theory …

Yep ive seen and faced my share of fast bowlers over the decades bowling short stuff. I like you have never worn a helmet. Got hit once in U/16s and twice in the last few years. Both times i was extremely lucky to avoid serious injury tho had a sore head for at least a week after on both occasions.
I avoided getting hit in the 35 year gap by not taking on the hook shot to bowlers that i deemed to have my measure with their pace so even tho i felt a bit vulnerable at times its amazing how instinctive your evasive reflexes are when you have a ball coming straight at your head.
Having said that facing a ball at 130 - 140 kmh is a lot different id imagine than 150+ kmh thunderbolts
ps I was glad i was playing with Benny Warren and not against him when he was about 20 as he could be extremely quick at that age. After that he always had footy injury niggles that prevented him from fully letting himself go, not that he had to, to get bags full of wickets every week as he did so much with the ball anyway. Even at 37 yo now he can still slip a slippery bouncer in if he gets hit for 4

Never batted without a helmet and have only faced one bowler I would never ever ever ever attempt to hook. Trevor Bailey, not sure how true it is but apparently he won some Australian fast bowling contest as a under 19 player. It could have been a lie or an exaggeration but it didn't matter he was bloody quick, quicker than anyone I ever faced at district level.

He use to roll up to training wearing his still caps as he was best mates with our coach, grab a ball and start bowling at us as 16 year olds. Ive never heard a sound like his balls hitting the steel cage as I played and missed/bobbed and weaved my way around them.

Cricket went from being a fun sport to genuinely feeling like I could die. Worst part was he never actually played for us, would just come out and bowl at us in the nets.

Was the biggest friendly giant though you could meet and a great person, who had a lot of time for us kids at that stage.

whufc wrote:Never batted without a helmet and have only faced one bowler I would never ever ever ever attempt to hook. Trevor Bailey, not sure how true it is but apparently he won some Australian fast bowling contest as a under 19 player. It could have been a lie or an exaggeration but it didn't matter he was bloody quick, quicker than anyone I ever faced at district level.

He use to roll up to training wearing his still caps as he was best mates with our coach, grab a ball and start bowling at us as 16 year olds. Ive never heard a sound like his balls hitting the steel cage as I played and missed/bobbed and weaved my way around them.

Cricket went from being a fun sport to genuinely feeling like I could die. Worst part was he never actually played for us, would just come out and bowl at us in the nets.

Was the biggest friendly giant though you could meet and a great person, who had a lot of time for us kids at that stage.

Yep, Stinger was pretty bloody sharp, yes he did win the Gestener fast bowling comp.

They had trials during the lunch breaks of the tests at each venue, he won the Adelaide Oval one and I'm pretty sure he took out the national comp.

Another Elizabeth District CC product that could've been anything but found other interests as a young lad.

whufc wrote:Cricket went from being a fun sport to genuinely feeling like I could die.

Half the thrill i reckon.. nothing gets the heart racing like facing someone who when they bowl the ball makes a fizzing sound as it flies past your ear.

The Bedge wrote:

whufc wrote:Cricket went from being a fun sport to genuinely feeling like I could die.

Half the thrill i reckon.. nothing gets the heart racing like facing someone who when they bowl the ball makes a fizzing sound as it flies past your ear.

Nope!!

The Bedge wrote:

whufc wrote:Cricket went from being a fun sport to genuinely feeling like I could die.

Half the thrill i reckon.. nothing gets the heart racing like facing someone who when they bowl the ball makes a fizzing sound as it flies past your ear.

Pretty much describes 50% of the balls I faced as a senior cricketer.

The Bedge wrote:

whufc wrote:Cricket went from being a fun sport to genuinely feeling like I could die.

Half the thrill i reckon.. nothing gets the heart racing like facing someone who when they bowl the ball makes a fizzing sound as it flies past your ear.

That and the thump when it pitches. You know a guy is quick when the ground snakes as it pitches.

The Bedge wrote:

whufc wrote:Cricket went from being a fun sport to genuinely feeling like I could die.

Half the thrill i reckon.. nothing gets the heart racing like facing someone who when they bowl the ball makes a fizzing sound as it flies past your ear.

I just had the idea the quicker and shorter they bowled, the quicker and further they went over the fence

James Anderson has been ruled out of the third test and England have named an unchanged squad of 12 for the match.

As a part of his rehab from his calf injury Anderson will play second eleven for Lancashire in a three day match this week instead of joining the test squad.

The Dark Knight wrote:James Anderson has been ruled out of the third test and England have named an unchanged squad of 12 for the match.

As a part of his rehab from his calf injury Anderson will play second eleven for Lancashire in a three day match this week instead of joining the test squad.

Hopefully he is back by the 4th test. The thought of having jimmy, archer, broad and woakes bowling in english conditions together is quite exciting.

batmanbegins wrote:

The Dark Knight wrote:James Anderson has been ruled out of the third test and England have named an unchanged squad of 12 for the match.

As a part of his rehab from his calf injury Anderson will play second eleven for Lancashire in a three day match this week instead of joining the test squad.

Hopefully he is back by the 4th test. The thought of having jimmy, archer, broad and woakes bowling in english conditions together is quite exciting.

Will be interesting to see how Root manages Archer in the upcoming tests. He wouldn't want to over bowl him and break his new toy.

Must be tempting to unleash Starc this Test. Fight fire with fire

Senor Moto Gadili wrote:

batmanbegins wrote:

The Dark Knight wrote:James Anderson has been ruled out of the third test and England have named an unchanged squad of 12 for the match.

As a part of his rehab from his calf injury Anderson will play second eleven for Lancashire in a three day match this week instead of joining the test squad.

Hopefully he is back by the 4th test. The thought of having jimmy, archer, broad and woakes bowling in english conditions together is quite exciting.

Will be interesting to see how Root manages Archer in the upcoming tests. He wouldn't want to over bowl him and break his new toy.

He failed miserably at it this test, over bowled him and under bowled woakes. He will destroy him if he uses him like that. Frankly roots captaincy has been average same with his batting for some time, he has to lift on both fronts for us to win.

northerner wrote:Must be tempting to unleash Starc this Test. Fight fire with fire

Worse move we could make. Once you start going against your own plan and react to what the other team are doing your in trouble.

Even if you wanted to Starc has never had that dangerous a short ball for someone who bowls at his speed, definitely not in the same class as a Lee, Johnson or Gillespie.

Jofra isn't going to change his plan attack just because he will cop a few back, remembering we were the ones who started the short stuff. If your an aussie batter and he is fizzing them around your head, in the heat of the battle it means nothing that Starc is sitting up there able to give them back.

For mine we need to trust the process which is to tie these blokes down, test their lack of patience. We have bowled well so far.

The batting needs a shake up and we need tough characters. I would have Labuschagne in for Smith (if his not fit), if Smith plays Labuschagne comes in for Khawaja for mine who has the heart of a pea.

batmanbegins wrote:

Senor Moto Gadili wrote:

batmanbegins wrote:

The Dark Knight wrote:James Anderson has been ruled out of the third test and England have named an unchanged squad of 12 for the match.

As a part of his rehab from his calf injury Anderson will play second eleven for Lancashire in a three day match this week instead of joining the test squad.

Hopefully he is back by the 4th test. The thought of having jimmy, archer, broad and woakes bowling in english conditions together is quite exciting.

Will be interesting to see how Root manages Archer in the upcoming tests. He wouldn't want to over bowl him and break his new toy.

He failed miserably at it this test, over bowled him and under bowled woakes. He will destroy him if he uses him like that. Frankly roots captaincy has been average same with his batting for some time, he has to lift on both fronts for us to win.

In fairness to Root he doesn't have a lot of support around him.

All the other top five batters are trying to forge their own careers nevermind playing leadership roles.

Bowling wise Broad has experience but there has always been rumours that Broad is a fairly self centred personality amongst the team (nothing wrong with this as it makes him the star he has been) but probably doesn't help Root.

Look at the Aussies on the other hand and Paine does have Smith, Warner, Khawaja who are all long term test cricketers

Bairstow, Stokes and Woakes have all played enough International cricket. Buttler and Roy in other forms too.

Why is it that most English captains come to look as if the weight of the world is upon them, whereas all Aussie captains take it on with a positive approach? Paine has been pretty much on a hiding to nothing over the last 12 months but always looks likes he wants the challenge.

Kwahaja was stiff in the second innings, Archer got him with a good one, but that is why he needed to make the most of the starts in other innings.

Wade is a tough one. He took the game away from England in the first test but his other three innings haven't been worth much. I had Marnus at 6 before the series because I thought he was more consistently reliable to play the sort of innings he did Sunday, supporting Smith and Head or making those handy, annoying partnerships with Paine, Cummins, Pattinson just when the opposition have got a sniff.