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Even before that. "Carlton Respects" round will be interesting.

A replay of the 1970 GF.

Here's Matt with his jumper presentation with former guardian of jumper 41, Peter Brown.

Well, Konstas isn't ready. But he's there. So Head opens (assumedly with Konstas). What then? Do we leave Head as opener for the TC and the Ashes? If not, then who? Are we going to persist with Ussie for another year? Take a 39-year-old opening bat into an Ashes series? After he was...

Maybe, but not a long-term position for either you'd think. And Head is our best-performed batsman of the last couple of years, so you'd be robbing Peter to pay Paul by shifting him. Saw this tour as the perfect opportunity to bring in someone new for the future.

Reckon give them 24 hours or whatever, then choose the next one in Brownlow order if no response. i.e. Cripps N Daicos Butters <---- https://afltables.com/afl/brownlow/brownlow2024.html

Squad of 16 broken into roles. Top order (1-3): Khawaja Konstas Labuschagne Middle order (4-6): Smith Head Webster McSweeney Connolly Keeper: Carey Inglis Quicks: Starc Boland Abbott Spin: Lyon Murphy Kuhnemann Now... what's our current biggest weakness? Pretty clearly it's our top...

International cricket needs an overhaul. This isn't it.

If he was genuinely hacked - i.e. someone had access to his twitter account password - there would likely be a lot more than just a single dick pick sent. And it would likely have stayed on the account longer than it did. The term 'hacked' gets overused. And often is used as a convenient...

"hack", right... Someone picking up his phone left on a table might have been believable. Should have run with that.

Really bad take. It was very poor from Kohli. Do that in park cricket, and it has the potential to spark a brawl. Rightly, associations will take a very dim view of such unnecessary contact, and will hand out heavy sentences. Should have been at least a one match penalty.

it's better to swim

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And on the other hand, the inimitable George Best: "If I had been born ugly, you'd never had heard of Pele."

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Had a bit in it, but wouldn't agree on 'way too much'. It's test cricket. And let's face it - both teams have a pretty ordinary top 6 (on recent form). Can't remember too many 'unplayable' deliveries. Smith copped a beauty in the 2nd dig, but more than contributed to his own downfall with...

Sort of... that average very much boosted by his 334* Tubby was an excellent opening bat, and a better captain, but his time was up. Quick look at his last 5 years: Can see with this that he was underperforming for quite some time, though had that happy knack of pulling out a ton at the...

Average now 17.66. Same result if qualification of 2000+ balls is changed to 50+ wickets. Stats don't lie, clearly Scotty Boland is the best bowler of all time.

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Series Bowling https://www.espncricinfo.com/records/series/bowling-most-wickets-career/border-gavaskar-trophy-2024-25-16216 Series Batting https://www.espncricinfo.com/records/series/batting-most-runs-career/border-gavaskar-trophy-2024-25-16216 Only 3 batters averaging over 40. And 3 bowlers...

Washington better lock his hotel room door tonight. Tomorrow is Jan-6... ;)

He's there - 3rd on list.

Top 25 test bowlers by bowling average since WW2, qualification 2000+ balls bowled. :)

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36 years old. Shield average 35. Hasn't played red ball cricket for 2 years. Be surprised if he's played more than a handful of 1st class games in the last 5 years. Maybe in England, dunno. Love watching him play the short game, but he's a very long way down the pecking order for a test...

Harder to put together a top commentators XI (current).

Also consider that the draft is going to be compromised for a few years with the Tassie team coming in. Meaning the available talent in the draft for us will be very limited. So it makes sense to invest in non-traditional pathways to the game for at least the next 3-5 years.

Went back and had a look at this again. Not sure what I was looking at in the OP, must have fouled up my stats query. But yes, Smith has had a significantly better year with the bat than Carey. Agree it would come down to Rizwan v Smith, though Carey clearly had the better year from a...

A few of these floating around in the media. And whilst it's relatively meaningless, and it's not an even playing field with teams playing vastly different numbers of tests in vastly different conditions, it's still an interesting exercise...

How good is this test - over half-way through day 5, and any result still in play.