Australian International Summer 2023/24

[Armchair expert]

Cummins for MOM

Don't discount Agha Stokes

[locky801]

Cummins for MOM

Don't discount Agha Stokes

He's having a good dip here and good on him

[Armchair expert]

2 to go

[Armchair expert]

BISON BISON BISON

what a catch

[Armchair expert]

Wooooohooooooo

Good on Pakistan for making it a contest

[locky801]

well that finished quick lost 5/18 off 7 overs

[mal]

well that finished quick

Yeah STARc only gets tailenders

[locky801]

well that finished quick

Yeah STARc only gets tailenders

you finally agree with me

Now to get ready for full (triple time) media crap for the next week on Davey

[The Dark Knight]

Starc moves to 340 test wickets, Cummins 252, Lyon 505 and Hazlewood 244.

[locky801]

Starc moves to 340 test wickets, Cummins 252, Lyon 505 and Hazlewood 244.

Pretty impressive attack

[dedja]

Now to get ready for full (triple time) media crap for the next week on Davey

Series won, drop him and play a youngster.

I’m sure he and the missus will find a way to monetise it.

[The Dark Knight]

Starc moves to 340 test wickets, Cummins 252, Lyon 505 and Hazlewood 244.

Pretty impressive attack

Announced by ABC statistician Ric Finlay earlier in the match, the quartet have now taken over 400 wickets whilst playing together (390 before the Boxing Day match started), second only to England's quartet of Anderson, Broad, Stokes and Ali who took 416 between them.

[stampy]

rushdie went ok for the pakis

cummins, what a bowler!!

mitchell marsh has made us all eat humble pie

[gadj1976]

Wooooohooooooo

Good on Pakistan for making it a contest

They aren't as bad as I'd imagined. If not for dropped catches and some ordinary fielding - and some interesting batting at times, they'd have won this test. Something not many teams can say they've achieved in Australia in the past decade or so.

I expect Sydney to be a slightly different story, with no front line spinner for the Pakis. They may struggle.

[Jim05]

Wooooohooooooo

Good on Pakistan for making it a contest

They aren't as bad as I'd imagined. If not for dropped catches and some ordinary fielding - and some interesting batting at times, they'd have won this test. Something not many teams can say they've achieved in Australia in the past decade or so.

I expect Sydney to be a slightly different story, with no front line spinner for the Pakis. They may struggle.

Seen the forecast for Sydney?
Might lose plenty of time as usual

[The Dark Knight]

Wooooohooooooo

Good on Pakistan for making it a contest

They aren't as bad as I'd imagined. If not for dropped catches and some ordinary fielding - and some interesting batting at times, they'd have won this test. Something not many teams can say they've achieved in Australia in the past decade or so.

I expect Sydney to be a slightly different story, with no front line spinner for the Pakis. They may struggle.

Seen the forecast for Sydney?
Might lose plenty of time as usual

Might be typical Sydney test match weather again lol.

[stan]

Wooooohooooooo

Good on Pakistan for making it a contest

They aren't as bad as I'd imagined. If not for dropped catches and some ordinary fielding - and some interesting batting at times, they'd have won this test. Something not many teams can say they've achieved in Australia in the past decade or so.

I expect Sydney to be a slightly different story, with no front line spinner for the Pakis. They may struggle.

If they hung on to that Marsh catch when he was in the 20s, then they would have won that match.

Add to that being unlucky with the Rizwan DRS decision.

[FlyingHigh]

I know it's the playing conditions and we've seen it before, but I think the Paki's were dudded by the "extra half hour to get a result".

They'd already played the extra half-hour that's now just accepted as the game, and a few minutes before stumps they're 6 down and lose a wicket, then all of a sudden it's not stumps.

I understand the intention, but it needs tweaking. Perhaps make the decision at the start of the last half-hour and then teams know what's going on and the waiting batsmen can prepare properly at what can be a pretty critical time of the game. Imagine is the Paki's needed 80 this morning with three wickets left.

That the time of stumps can be altered because a wicket falls in the last few minutes of what is already overtime seems too far in favour of the bowling team.

I know there will be counter arguments and situations such as when a team is 300 ahead with three wickets left but the team could still bat out the next day maybe with the help of weather. Or if the Paki's were 5 down and Lyon took a hat-trick with 20 minutes left. But for fairness to both teams it needs looking at IMO

[dedja]

I really don’t see what the problem is, everyone knows that if a team is chasing a win and they have the opposition 7 wickets down at the usual stumps time, then the extra 30 mins is offered to the fielding team.

There’s no ‘all of a sudden’ at all. If they don’t know the Laws then they shouldn’t be out there.

[FlyingHigh]

I really don’t see what the problem is, everyone knows that if a team is chasing a win and they have the opposition 7 wickets down at the usual stumps time, then the extra 30 mins is offered to the fielding team.

There’s no ‘all of a sudden’ at all. If they don’t know the Laws then they shouldn’t be out there.

It's not "all of a sudden" the rules change in the game, the teams know them going into the series.

It is "all of a sudden" in that a days play can be altered because of what happens with one ball at 5.25. Which is already 25 minutes past stumps.

It needs a tweak, that is all.

Last night was not as exciting or intriguing compared to needing 80 runs or 3 wickets this morning.