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Post by coverpoint on Aug 4, 2015 16:02:54 GMT
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Post by leedsgull on Aug 4, 2015 18:32:00 GMT
The best Australian batsman playing in this country is also nowhere near selection. Michael Klinger is scoring century after century for Gloucester this season. He has a proven record playing in this country and should replace Rogers when he retires soon.
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Post by fraudster on Aug 5, 2015 19:51:06 GMT
Mags! A late call up for him would be pretty apt regarding Sussex's season so far, the icing on the cake to go with all the other s**t sandwiches we've scoffed down so far.
I wonder what Trent Bridge will be like for this one, seem to remember it being a bore-fest featherbed in a Test last season. That might please Borderman, but for all the people that like exciting cricket let's hope it's more Edgbaston than Lords or Cardiff.
Wood for Jimmy, job done.
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Post by hhsussex on Aug 6, 2015 10:14:59 GMT
10/3, good position for Broad's bunny to come in.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 6, 2015 10:24:27 GMT
Four wickets in three overs and another grassy pitch not worthy of Test cricket.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 6, 2015 10:33:04 GMT
Make that 5 wkts in 25 balls. Pitches like this might be good for English pride but no good for Test cricket.
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Post by hhsussex on Aug 6, 2015 10:41:23 GMT
Make that 5 wkts in 25 balls. Pitches like this might be good for English pride but no good for Test cricket. It should certainly ensure another round of high-bouncing rock-hard pitches next time England tour, which tends to make the Ashes rubbers a bit like a tennis match between two power servers. Agreed it is grassy - more so than Edgbaston, but don't you think that the Australian batsmen and their lack of judgment have a bit to do with it? Let's see how England play on it. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 6, 2015 10:59:16 GMT
If Anderson was playing (or if Finn had opened rather than Wood), Australia would be all out by now. Decent bowling by Broad. But pitches on which world class batsmen are made to look like novices have no place in five day Test cricket.
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Post by Wicked Cricket on Aug 6, 2015 11:40:08 GMT
I don't remember ever seeing anything quite like this in my cricketing life AND in an Ashes Test.
Unbelievable.
This could end up being a two day Test. Amidst the euphoria one feels desperately sorry for the TMGs. Financially,
this series has been a disaster for them and their council creditors, yet the media have not touched on this subject -
this discussion will come later. Am waiting for a GD spectacular.
"All over - Australia 60 all out - Broad takes 8 wickets for 15 runs from 9 overs and 3 balls. Extraordinary!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
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Post by coverpoint on Aug 6, 2015 11:44:07 GMT
Australia 60 all out! It's the end of the road for Rogers, Marsh, Clarke and Voges!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 6, 2015 11:46:10 GMT
I don't remember ever seeing anything quite like this in my cricketing life AND in an Ashes Test. Unbelievable. This could end up being a two day Test. Amidst the euphoria one feels desperately sorry for the TMGs. Financially,
this series has been a disaster for them, yet the media have not touched on this subject - this discussion will come
later. Am waiting for a GD spectacular.This. Bad for Test cricket and bad for the perilous financial condition of English cricket. Michael Holding: “Stephen Finn is bowling well within himself, he knows that with the ball moving like this he doesn’t need to run in hard.” That cannot be right. Holding also has a solution that he says would go some way towards stopping the home side preparing such advantageous pitches (whether hard and fast in Australia or soft and grassy in England) : he wants to abolish the toss and hand the choice to the captain of the visiting side. |
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Post by hhsussex on Aug 6, 2015 11:47:36 GMT
I don't remember ever seeing anything quite like this in my cricketing life AND in an Ashes Test. Unbelievable. This could end up being a two day Test. Amidst the euphoria one feels desperately sorry for the TMGs. Financially, this series has been a disaster for them, yet the media have not touched on this subject - this discussion will come later. Am waiting for a GD spectacular. All over - 60 all out - Broad takes 8 wickets for 15 from 9 overs and 3 balls. Extraordinary!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! A short-term loss, but a massive long term gain for the marketing men. The argument that has been put forward here and in other media that Ashes could be staged more frequently will have had a terrific boost from this series, although the cricket hasn't been much to write home about. I don't quite agree with borderman that the pitches are not worthy of a Test match, but I do think that in going all out to emphasise the "national" quality of pitches (seamers in England, bouncy and hard in Australia, slow turners in India) we are serving up a dish that suits "patriotic" fans but is indigestible to the palates of batsmen who no longer have any lengthy exposure to anything other than their native pitches. When overseas players spent whole seasons in England they learnt a different kind of cricket and their play improved, as did those of English players touring, playing more first class games and finding out the flaws in their techniques with time to remedy them before the Tests themselves. Good bowling, very good from Broad and shell-shocked batting from a demoralised and generally clueless Australian team. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 6, 2015 12:12:25 GMT
I don't remember ever seeing anything quite like this in my cricketing life AND in an Ashes Test. Unbelievable. This could end up being a two day Test. Amidst the euphoria one feels desperately sorry for the TMGs. Financially, this series has been a disaster for them, yet the media have not touched on this subject - this discussion will come later. Am waiting for a GD spectacular. All over - 60 all out - Broad takes 8 wickets for 15 from 9 overs and 3 balls. Extraordinary!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! A short-term loss, but a massive long term gain for the marketing men. The argument that has been put forward here and in other media that Ashes could be staged more frequently will have had a terrific boost from this series, although the cricket hasn't been much to write home about. I don't quite agree with borderman that the pitches are not worthy of a Test match, but I do think that in going all out to emphasise the "national" quality of pitches (seamers in England, bouncy and hard in Australia, slow turners in India) we are serving up a dish that suits "patriotic" fans but is indigestible to the palates of batsmen who no longer have any lengthy exposure to anything other than their native pitches. When overseas players spent whole seasons in England they learnt a different kind of cricket and their play improved, as did those of English players touring, playing more first class games and finding out the flaws in their techniques with time to remedy them before the Tests themselves. Good bowling, very good from Broad and shell-shocked batting from a demoralised and generally clueless Australian team. hh - how can it be good for Test cricket when Holding this morning observed: “Stephen Finn is bowling well within himself, he knows that with the ball moving like this he doesn’t need to run in hard.” First morning of an Ashes Test match, surely the bowlers ruddy well should be required to run in hard rather than just putting it there and watching it swing? Home advantage has made pitches in Test cricket a farce. Pakistan prepare turning wickets in the UAE that make them almost impossible to beat, Australia do the same down under and now England have joined in the fix. Arguably you can't blame them for that. But Holding has a couple of answers worth considering. Take responsibility for pitch preparation away from the home boards and hand it to the ICC. Or abolish the toss and give the visiting captain the choice. Would England have ordered that pitch if they knew instead of a 50-50 chance on the toss of a coin it was 100 per cent certain Australia would ask them to bad first on it? Personally, I like the chance element of the toss, so I'd favour the first solution: take pitch oversight away from the home board and hand it to an independent ICC pitches authority. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 6, 2015 12:26:09 GMT
Taking nothing away from Broad and Australia should not have lost ten wickets in a session, but Hussain has just releaved that 8 mm of grass were left on the pitch and pointed out the dark pitches which, he says, "shows that there is moisture underneath."
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Post by Wicked Cricket on Aug 6, 2015 12:29:17 GMT
Australian 1st Innings in a tweet.
Ramesh Srivats
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(11:58 a.m. - 6 August 2015)
Special mention of Blowers whose commentary on TMS during the morning was superb. The excitable Blowers is
Blowers at the top of his game.
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