Ashes 2019
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@NTA said in Ashes 2019:
@MN5 said in Ashes 2019:
Far too many "well done Australia" posts here for my liking.
We need @Virgil to log on for some aussie hate or to mention the Beldisloe results of the last few years.
Found a picture of your homie
My main man Stokesy. Nominated for NZer of the year didn't ya know ?
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@Victor-Meldrew said in Ashes 2019:
@rotated said in Ashes 2019:
Glenn McGrath's solution to the run of bad umpiring decisions this test was novel - a return to home umpiring.
Just googled Joel Wilson - loads of results with "blind umpire" popped up...
McGrath might have a point. No home umpire would dare to be as bad as Wilson has been in this Test
The umpires had a shocker, probably kept the match closer than it really was as Aus stuffed up their revues getting to 122/8.
But McGrath's solution is just plain stupid. The answer is for each side to have 2 reviews each, or unlimited revues if they dont waste them. As is the actual status quo.
The umpires mistakes only become costly after one of the teams has already made 2 mistakes .
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This test was the best advertisement for the DRS I've ever seen.
The final day was a case in point. In the first session Joe Root got two genuine howlers - an LBW call that was missing leg by a foot, and another LBW where he middled the ball onto his front pad. Thankfully overturned on review.
Similarly the call on Day 1 against Steve Smith, where Aleem fired him LBW when the ball was clearly missing off stump.
In a game where one umpire had an absolute nightmare and the other wasn't great either, it's great to get to the end of the test and not point to decisions/non-decisions as a factor in the end result.
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Bancroft is safe for one more game.
Starc has a great record at Lords and will probably come back in. Pattinson might be the one who sits out, just given his injury history and the likelihood he'll be needed later in the series. But they could take the view he'll be right after a week off, and rest Siddle instead.
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@barbarian said in Ashes 2019:
Bancroft is safe for one more game.
Starc has a great record at Lords and will probably come back in. Pattinson might be the one who sits out, just given his injury history and the likelihood he'll be needed later in the series. But they could take the view he'll be right after a week off, and rest Siddle instead.
^ What he said.
Under review: Bancroft, Siddle, Pattinson
Safe because of those Under Review: Warner, SiddleDefinites: Khawaja, Smith, Wade, Paine, Lyon, Cummins
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@NTA said in Ashes 2019:
@barbarian said in Ashes 2019:
Bancroft is safe for one more game.
Starc has a great record at Lords and will probably come back in. Pattinson might be the one who sits out, just given his injury history and the likelihood he'll be needed later in the series. But they could take the view he'll be right after a week off, and rest Siddle instead.
^ What he said.
Under review: Bancroft, Siddle, Pattinson
Safe because of those Under Review: Warner, SiddleDefinites: Khawaja, Smith, Wade, Paine, Lyon, Cummins
I don't think one bad test is cause for concern for Davey surely.
He's a definite for me.
Also Siddle is mentioned twice, is it too much to ask you to proof read your posts ?
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@Rapido said in Ashes 2019:
But McGrath's solution is just plain stupid. The answer is for each side to have 2 reviews each, or unlimited revues if they dont waste them. As is the actual status quo.
The umpires mistakes only become costly after one of the teams has already made 2 mistakes .
I can't see how it's stupid. The idea is you have the best umpires out there, regardless of where they are from.
The DRS provides a safeguard against any allegations of bias.
You get better umpires making more correct decisions, rather than what we saw at Edgbaston where we had clanger after clanger, ruining the flow of the game and undermining all confidence in the officials.
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@barbarian said in Ashes 2019:
Yeah Warner is still the third name on the team sheet, behind Smith and Cummins. He could score six straight ducks and he's still getting picked in the fifth test.
Agreed.
I would bet on him to score a big hundred still somewhere in this Ashes series.
I personally don't like him one bit - but he is a bloody good batsman. Short of him taking a chainsaw to the ball or having a physical altercation with anyone, I can't see him being left out. -
It has to be said that it's simply not possible to heap enough superlatives on Steve Smith.
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@antipodean said in Ashes 2019:
It has to be said that it's simply not possible to heap enough superlatives on Steve Smith.
I think Don Bradman would have crashed a few servers if the interweb was round in his day.
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@antipodean said in Ashes 2019:
It has to be said that it's simply not possible to heap enough superlatives on Steve Smith.
Tremendersperlerifolic!!
I love watching him bat. It's impossible to do what he does but it's not.
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@antipodean said in Ashes 2019:
It has to be said that it's simply not possible to heap enough superlatives on Steve Smith.
and also shows how bloody impossible it is to predict success at Test level. Who would have picked that a dirty leggie would go on to be the finest Aussie batsman of the generation? Just bizarre, even with a body of work at Test level when he started.
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@nzzp said in Ashes 2019:
@antipodean said in Ashes 2019:
It has to be said that it's simply not possible to heap enough superlatives on Steve Smith.
and also shows how bloody impossible it is to predict success at Test level. Who would have picked that a dirty leggie would go on to be the finest Aussie batsman of the generation? Just bizarre, even with a body of work at Test level when he started.
Mark Richardson did that albeit on a "kiwi" scale.
Plenty of guys switch disciplines and become pretty useful at the other but yeah, I can't think of anyone doing it anywhere near as well as Smith has.
As an aside I remember having a yarn on here about a mythical Oz all time XI. Someone said Ricky Ponting walks in. Does he ? I don't think so.
Given there's two openers and Bradman bats at three that means Greg Chappell, Alan Border, Steve Waugh, Ricky Ponting and Steve Smith battle it out for three spots ( or even two if you consider Keith Miller bats six as their all rounder ). Surely Smith gets in so that still leaves two out of four of those legends missing out.
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@MN5 said in Ashes 2019:
@nzzp said in Ashes 2019:
@antipodean said in Ashes 2019:
It has to be said that it's simply not possible to heap enough superlatives on Steve Smith.
and also shows how bloody impossible it is to predict success at Test level. Who would have picked that a dirty leggie would go on to be the finest Aussie batsman of the generation? Just bizarre, even with a body of work at Test level when he started.
Mark Richardson did that albeit on a "kiwi" scale.
Plenty of guys switch disciplines and become pretty useful at the other but yeah, I can't think of anyone doing it anywhere near as well as Smith has.
And the way he does it. None of it should work, but it does. He is a total natural, you can't teach what he does, and the interview I saw with him and Nasser in the nets would suggest he is some kind of batting savant
