Aussie Summer of Cricket

KiwiMurph

It's very lightly drizzled in Melb over night/this morning and yet we have a 45 minute delay to the start time

Cricket hates itself

NTA

Overhead conditions could make it interesting.

KiwiMurph

A timely ball change for Australia.

NTA

Two early wickets. Only 60 runs ahead. Pakistan will fancy themselves here

KiwiMurph

Now play is delayed because the 3rd umpire is stuck in a lift.....

NTA

Lol what's your excuse Dave?

NTA

Bullshit from head.

Pakistan tails up

sparky

Australia 17/4. 71 runs ahead. So under a bit of pressure. It will be interesting to see if they can dig themselves out of trouble here.

NTA

Shaheen and Hamza bowling to their potential

sparky

Australian counter-attack under way. 4s on consecutive balls.

NTA

If Pakistan's catching was better, we'd be in deep shit

MN5

I’m possibly jinxing him but I’ll point out that Steve Smith is currently second on the list of test averages for all batsmen who’ve scored over 7000 runs at test level. Smith 9467 at 58.43 while Walter Hammond got 7249 at 58.45.

Smith is so damn good, the chances of him failing in Melbourne were ridiculously low.

NTA

Marsh gets a sitter dropped early

And falls to a brilliant catch on 96

NTA

NTA

Joel Wilson has had a few overturned now

Rapido

@NTA said in Aussie Summer of Cricket:

Same demographics as our blackcaps. We had an all over 30s side about a year ago. Probably a few matches now with that makeup.

Edit. Actually I'm not surprised these 2 teams have aged together. I remember back in the 2011 test series between these 2 teams and being very excited at the upcoming decade for the blackcaps. Then looking at the Aussie team (who were debuting Warner, Starc, Hazelwood, Pattinson) and going, "ah goddammit!".

MN5

@Rapido said in Aussie Summer of Cricket:

@NTA said in Aussie Summer of Cricket:

Same demographics as our blackcaps. We had an all over 30s side about a year ago. Probably a few matches now with that makeup.

Edit. Actually I'm not surprised these 2 teams have aged together. I remember back in the 2011 test series between these 2 teams and being very excited at the upcoming decade for the blackcaps. Then looking at the Aussie team (who were debuting Warner, Starc, Hazelwood, Pattinson) and going, "ah goddammit!".

I think our pace lineup is just that crucial bit order and more beaten up than theirs.

KiwiMurph

Pakistan poor catching and Cummins are going to be the two reasons Aus win

NTA

They're not dead yet

KiwiMurph

What an anticlimactic end to Rizwan's innings.

Looked clearly out though

The Silver Fern

Aussie Summer of Cricket