The Ashes
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@mariner4life said in The Ashes:
You really pumping for a part time off spinner as 5th bowler at the WACA?
if that 5th bowler is Mitch Marsh, then yep. What exactly is he offering except rest time for Starc and the boys? It's not wickets. It's not containment. It's not runs with the bat.
He's reminiscent of some of the ' all rounders' NZ tried to shoehorn into the team in the not so distant past.
In terms of Sri Lanka they've produced more legends of the game in a shorter period of time than we have. This irks me.
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A bit on ahead of todays 3rd test starting
http://www.espncricinfo.com/story/_/id/21761154/ashes-test-overshadowed-spot-fixing-claim
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Andrew Strauss heads home after wife is diagnosed with cancer.
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@antipodean said in The Ashes:
Andrew Strauss heads home after wife is diagnosed with cancer.
massive unlike.
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I've found out why M Marsh has been called in. He's the guy going to fix the test, so the Indians can make money. Coach must be in on it...
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@mariner4life said in The Ashes:
I've found out why M Marsh has been called in. He's the guy going to fix the test, so the Indians can make money. Coach must be in on it...
The vids won't work outside Australia. Can you give us a rundown on what its all about?
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@mn5 can't read either?
Dunno, looks a bunch of rubbish about a network of players around the world fixing spot-betting situations. It's not so much match results, as fall of wicket/number of runs, that kind of rubbish.
Apparently, The Sun has done an investigation, and handed over their info to "cricket chiefs".
The article is very short on detail, but very big on boastful Indians.
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http://www.espncricinfo.com/story/_/id/21745779/inside-remaking-mitchell-marsh
@NTA @mariner4life something to read on the shitter later this avo
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http://www.espncricinfo.com/story/_/id/21745779/inside-remaking-mitchell-marsh
@NTA @mariner4life something to read on the shitter later this avo
Something to put in the shitter.
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What surprised me was how short Oz bowled when the common wisdom is pitch it up.
Total wasted effort. I only saw the last session but I don't think I saw one they dug in cause any trouble for the batsman - and as for the review - fucking muppets
Mind you apart from the first over with the second new ball Malan and Bairstow looked totally untroubled.
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@dogmeat the short stuff worked Stoneman over nicely, and then Mitchell "Fucking" Marsh dropped him. Malan was taking it on and not always executing cleanly. It wasn't a bad tactic considering a lot of the full stuff was disappearing to the fence.
Keeping it full on that pitch, with a wearing ball, was a recipe for getting driven repeatedly. With the new ball we had another chance put down, then a bunch of streaky edges through slip. None of the LBWs were sticking because of height.
That review was, again, fucking stupid.
The execution could have been better, but there was a lot to like about the short ball work in the middle of the day.
