Big Cricket Thread

[Carbine Chaos]

I think this is more reflective on the coaching stuff rather than Cummins directly. They'd be giving him the main directions.

What's the point in a bowling captain if they can't figure out the best bowling plans themselves?

 

[ioppolo]

What's the point in a bowling captain if they can't figure out the best bowling plans themselves?

Cummins seems like a bit of a dud upstairs I admit. He doesn't seem the type to question authority like a Punter might've.

 

[Dazzler9]

Forecasts of light rain for the next 3 days. Well done Australia on relying on the forecast and playing for a draw and picking no spinner

 

[Carbine Chaos]

Forecasts of light rain for the next 3 days. Well done Australia on relying on the forecast and playing for a draw and picking no spinner

Fearless cricket from one side, fearful from the other.

The anti-BB rhetoric from Aussie media after two matches we were lucky to win always had a high chance of backfiring. I'm still confident we can regroup and win the last Test with a more positive approach though.

 

[Dazzler9]

Fearless cricket from one side, fearful from the other.

The anti-BB rhetoric from Aussie media after two matches we were lucky to win always had a high chance of backfiring. I'm still confident we can regroup and win the last Test with a more positive approach though.

Absolutely. Australian cricket has always been known for its aggressive approach. Playing for draws has a tendency to backfire, chasing a win gives the best chance of not actually losing.

Anyway, see what happens from here. We might bat really well and jag a draw out of this. Somehow I see us folding though. Hope I'm wrong.

 

[FKASC]

Aus have tended to take wickets early so I can see Brook/Stokes falling early and Eng will then be under a fair bit of pressure after not putting the foot down late yesterday

Pitch apparently played up a bit late though according to the cricinfo commentary

 

[FKASC]

Shows how reliant aus has been on Lyon in test matches though.

 

[RookiePick]

Pat Cummins waking up at the end of the days play:

 

[Carbine Chaos]

Shows how reliant aus has been on Lyon in test matches though.

The annoying thing for me is a) Murphy is a more than competent fill in and b) how will he see this as anything less than a vote of little confidence in him? He's our next long termer and this selection call was an absolute stinker for me.

 

[RookiePick]

The annoying thing for me is a) Murphy is a more than competent fill in and b) how will he see this as anything less than a vote of little confidence in him? He's our next long termer and this selection call was an absolute stinker for me.

Cummins use of him in the third test was a vote of no confidence.

We need to get the captaincy off Cummins after this series. Has Head got any leadership credentials?

 

[Dazzler9]

The annoying thing for me is a) Murphy is a more than competent fill in and b) how will he see this as anything less than a vote of little confidence in him? He's our next long termer and this selection call was an absolute stinker for me.

Poor selections seem to be McDonald's and Cummins' thing.

 

[Tugga27]

Poor selections seem to be McDonald's and Cummins' thing.

I think a lot of people agreed with the Green for Murphy selection at the time.
I hindsight it looks average but in all likelihood he would've got hammered yesterday as well.

I don't think that selection has caused the problem.

Our batsman getting starts and not going on.
Our 3rd seamer, be it Boland of Hazlewood have been disappointing.
Lyon out has been huge.

Cummins captaincy has been poor as well.
How can you not bowl MM to Crawley until he's on 112 when he got him out twice last game?
Bowling way too straight to Crawely was inexcusable as well.

 

[Ochre]

Feels to me like the blame should be on the bats more than anyone. 6 scores above 30 and no one went over 51 on what looks like a great batting track. 317 with an extra bat on the side is pathetic, would've been very hard to lose if we'd put up 450.

 

[darksquare]

Cummins looks like he needs a rest for the next test regardless. Starc might struggle with his niggle too. And we should definitely pick only one seam-bowling all-rounder. Although I'm Cam Green's biggest fan, on form that's Marsh.

Warner
Khawaja
Labuschagne
Smith (c)
Head
Marsh
Carey
Neser
Murphy
Boland
Hazlewood

But you just know "unchanged side" is favourite, especially if it's 2-2.

 

[darksquare]

Forecasts of light rain for the next 3 days. Well done Australia on relying on the forecast and playing for a draw and picking no spinner

In Manchester, "light rain" has a history of being quite heavy. We're still a chance of a lucky escape.

 

[MrKK]

Feels to me like the blame should be on the bats more than anyone. 6 scores above 30 and no one went over 51 on what looks like a great batting track. 317 with an extra bat on the side is pathetic, would've been very hard to lose if we'd put up 450.

Absolutely this. Load up our batting in good conditions and end up at least 100 below par. If we'd scored 450 and batted until day 2 lunch we'd still have been 200 in front despite the way England have scored.

 

[Dazzler9]

Feels to me like the blame should be on the bats more than anyone. 6 scores above 30 and no one went over 51 on what looks like a great batting track. 317 with an extra bat on the side is pathetic, would've been very hard to lose if we'd put up 450.

True enough.

However...

you still need to pick a balanced side, because sometimes things don't go to plan.

 

[RookiePick]

Absolutely this. Load up our batting in good conditions and end up at least 100 below par. If we'd scored 450 and batted until day 2 lunch we'd still have been 200 in front despite the way England have scored.

Failure to bat time is just playing straight into Englands hands.

They want the game to career along at breakneck pace and we are incapable of getting things onto our terms it seems. Smith and Labuschagne have let us down this series.

 

[Cuzz09]

We will try and 'bazball' and fail miserably you watch.

Try and fight fire with fire and every edge will fly in the air to someone.



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[Ambrose Burnside]

Hope England win this for a thrilling Bazball vs Blockball 5th Test.

 

[Carbine Chaos]

Cummins looks like he needs a rest for the next test regardless.

Can't see the captain being rested for a deciding Test match.

 

[RookiePick]

Can't see the captain being rested for a deciding Test match.

Hmm...

Malthouse's toughest call of all, the omission of skipper John Worsfold for a 1998 final against the Bulldogs.

Team officials said Worsfold had been withdrawn because his knee injury would not allow him to play out a full game, but it is believed he was dropped.

The club legend never played again.

 

[matthew_s]

Feels to me like the blame should be on the bats more than anyone. 6 scores above 30 and no one went over 51 on what looks like a great batting track. 317 with an extra bat on the side is pathetic, would've been very hard to lose if we'd put up 450.

there's plenty of blame to go around.

england scored a 7 an over for big parts of yesterday, in a test match. that's on the bowlers.

 

[happy_eagle]

I can't see how much cricket will be played on Day 4 and 5.




Will be interesting to see how aggressive England are today. They could quite easily put on 150 in the first session for a lead of 200 and have two sessions to bowl at us.

 

[Monocle]

Cummins and Ronald McDonald as Captain and Coach looks like an absolute dud pairing.

Under these two this series, the Aussie Team look so defensive and risk adverse that they look like timid mice.

Completed metal reversal The Poms now backing themselves and showing a preparedness to lose a game to take the calculated risks on in-order to be able to win the game.

Conversely The Aussie look like that are shitting themselves and want to save boundaries and giving up multiple singles and twos, always easier to nudge and chip the ball around when then aren’t players in catching positions.

Players have gone total soft co(k under the Cummins / McDonald pairing.

Shame….. we now look so flaccid.