Aussie Cricket
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@Damo said in Aussie Cricket:
This is a pretty ordinary excuse for a test match so far. Dead pitch, uninspiring batting and impenetrative bowling.
This has draw written all over it.
Further to my previous comment.
I still believe that a players test record ultimately decides where he ( sorry SJWs I don't follow women's cricket ) sits in the echelon of greats of the game going back to all the classic old names like Bradman, WG Grace, Hobbs, Sutcliffe, Hammond etc. Any fluffybunny can have his day in the sun top edging a bunch of sixes or alternatively getting a bunch of wickets when those edges become catches in the shorter forms......
But dominating the test arena decides where they sit in the pantheon of greats.
I hope that never, EVER changes and test cricket lives forever.
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I'll just leave this here. Some good points about some of the claims, that fuels my Warner like screaming hatred for the Aussie Cricket Team Elite Arrogance
Australia were far and away the funniest cricket team in 2018 – but who was their MVP?
The story of international cricket in 2018 is really just all the stuff that happened with Australia. This seems a bit narrow and exclusive for an end-of-year retrospective, so we thought we'd instead focus on all the funny things that happened in 2018 to try and broaden it out a bit. Having taken...
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@nzzp said in Aussie Cricket:
I'll just leave this here. Some good points about some of the claims, that fuels my Warner like screaming hatred for the Aussie Cricket Team Elite Arrogance
Australia were far and away the funniest cricket team in 2018 – but who was their MVP?
The story of international cricket in 2018 is really just all the stuff that happened with Australia. This seems a bit narrow and exclusive for an end-of-year retrospective, so we thought we'd instead focus on all the funny things that happened in 2018 to try and broaden it out a bit. Having taken...
Nice @nzzp
Went down some rabbit holes following some of their links. Quite entertaining.
(They do seem to have forgotten/neglected the SBW stuff, which reflected more poorly on SA, but was a contributing factor in the ridiculousness of DW.)
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@booboo said in Aussie Cricket:
@NTA said in Aussie Cricket:
@Damo only way we can win it is run down India before lunch on day 4 then push into a leaf and try to rip them out on a wearing deck
Test cricket?
Just on my point here.
Think some of the pitch whinging has been a bit OTT.
Yeah the pitch is a bit dodgy but surely grinding out a decent first innings in a test is what test cricket actually is? Just coz it's not 360 for 8 on day one doesn't mean it's not good cricket.
I'll admit the Rahane lbw to Lyon was next to unplayable. But it's test cricket.
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@NTA said in Aussie Cricket:
India dawdle to 7 declared for just shy of 450. Kohli wasn't going to expose his bowlers to more short stuff, and fair enough IMHO. Tricky 7 overs negotiated down to 6 after young bloke got rapped on the helm.
Aussie start again tomorrow at
0/88/0Fixed it for you. In future can you try and remember you're on a New Zealand forum. Cheers.
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@Siam @booboo if it looked anything like survival to the end of the day as per the previous test, you might have a point. But at 2 wickets down, and very little swing or seam or spin, there was no excuse. They just dawdled, completely uninterested in getting anything like a challenging lead in a challenging time.
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@Siam said in Aussie Cricket:
@booboo Yep, wonder if Aus were 220 for 2 if the wailing would be so whiney?
If Australia is touring and a substandard pitch turns up it is decried by the Aussie media as home cooking.
Australian groundsman prepare a pitch that overplays to Australia's strengths to teh detriment of the contest and the entire format of test cricket is the issue.
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@NTA said in Aussie Cricket:
@rotated Aussie public has had enough of road beds.
yep, gone are the days of the Aussie test venues having decent pitches that were all a bit different. Over the last few years they all turned in to variations of the same flat belter for batting. Shit, they had to make Adelaide a day/nighter to get a result there.
Then the last test in Perth sort of got people to remember what a decent pitch could look like, so when this thing was served up, people fucking hated it.
And while it is easy to paint this as entitled Aussie fans whinging about India's play, that's not what i have seen. The ire seems directed at the wicket, which has led to this standard of play.
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Australia in deep shit now at 89/4.
