2nd Test Australia v West Indies Jan 25-29 1430hrs @ the Gabba

[Gough]

Australia from, Pat Cummins (c), Scott Boland, Alex Carey, Cameron Green, Josh Hazlewood, Travis Head, Usman Khawaja, Marnus Labuschagne, Nathan Lyon, Mitchell Marsh, Matthew Renshaw, Steve Smith, Mitchell Starc.
West Indies from, Kraigg Brathwaite (c), Alzarri Joseph (vc), Tagenarine Chanderpaul, Kirk McKenzie, Alick Athanaze, Kavem Hodge, Justin Greaves, Joshua DaSilva, Akeem Jordan, Gudakesh Motie, Kemar Roach, Kevin Sinclair, Tevin Imlach, Shamar Joseph, Zachary McCaskie

 

[PhatBoy]

With our proper warm up out of the way I can’t see any other result than a Windies win

 

[cricketnut14]

it'll be interesting to see how many changes to the west indies XI.

this seems a warm up to the nz test series , just as nz will be warming up with a SA 2nd XI.

 

[Cmarsh]

With our proper warm up out of the way I can’t see any other result than a Windies win

What's your opinion of Athanaze? Seemed a bit of a liability with the bat.

 

[PhatBoy]

it'll be interesting to see how many changes to the west indies XI.

this seems a warm up to the nz test series , just as nz will be warming up with a SA 2nd XI.

Probably Sinclair for Motie, stiffens the batting, he took wickets in the warm up up game with his spin.

If you openly pick an inexperienced team you’ve got to be prepared for them to fail, in the very very limited chances they’ve had, kids like McKenzie and Athanaze (not that he showed it in Adelaide but he did against India and in ODIs against England) have shown genuine ability. Hodge isn’t so young but he made runs in both innings of the warm up. Greaves bowled well and can bat a bit.

The coaching staff just need to reinforce to these kids that they are probably never going to get a tougher examination than this barring a trip to SA on damp flyers or a trip to India on crumbling wickets and if they can get their mental approach to a point where they are disciplined enough to go back to the old adage of ‘keep out the good ones, ignore the ones I don’t need to spar at, and hit the bad ones’ then they will take good lessons from the series.

 

[Around the Wicket]

CA turning its back on Australia Day....

 

[Drunkcat]

No saying Australian Day what a joke

 

[Around the Wicket]

No saying Australian Day what a joke

Sports trying to please the woke minority

 

[JimmyBC]

Australia Day has only been a unified public holiday across the country since 1994, in short it has no tradition it's a load of bollocks who cares.

 

[The 747]

Take it to the politics board this board is bad enough already.

 

[JimmyBC]

Head out with Covid.

 

[JackFlash]

Travis Head has Covid and Usman Khawaja is seeing more stars than Cricket Australia. There was a time when the Australia Day Test was one of the better matches on the Test Calendar, i hope the Windies do well for the sake of Cricket and i always hope Australia win, but i'm not sure Australians have enough pride in themselves or team to care? Interesting to note that they are playing cricket which was brought here by the British, perhaps we need a new name altogether representing this country? How disconnected from reality are are Cricket Australia? This madness has to stop.

 

[big_e]

Head out with Covid.

Not out, though. Renshaw played the Sydney test last year with COVID - if he's fit enough he'll play.

 

[Gough]

Travis Head has Covid and Usman Khawaja is seeing more stars than Cricket Australia. There was a time when the Australia Day Test was one of the better matches on the Test Calendar, i hope the Windies do well for the sake of Cricket and i always hope Australia win, but i'm not sure Australians have enough pride in themselves or team to care? Interesting to note that they are playing cricket which was brought here by the British, perhaps we need a new name altogether representing this country? How disconnected from reality are are Cricket Australia? This madness has to stop.

Leave it please mate, plenty of other threads for this as well you know.

 

[JimmyBC]

Not out, though. Renshaw played the Sydney test last year with COVID - if he's fit enough he'll play.

He'll have to test negative and isolate from the team is what they are saying here, I'll side with you though.

 

[The 747]

He'll have to test negative and isolate from the team is what they are saying here, I'll side with you though.

Wonder if they considered getting COVID on purpose during the Langer era.

 

[Soggy2112]

Not out, though. Renshaw played the Sydney test last year with COVID - if he's fit enough he'll play.

They may just say that he might as well have a rest, been a hectic period of cricket so a freshen up heading to the NZ series may help, plus we get another look at Renshaw.

 

[010203]

Travis Head is in covid isolation.

 

[danielnajdek]

CA turning its back on Australia Day....

Ash Gardner would be happy at least......

 

[Voice of the G]

With our proper warm up out of the way I can’t see any other result than a Windies win

I can see a draw looking at that weather forcast,perhaps should have started test on Wednesday.

 

[Westend]

I can see a draw looking at that weather forcast,perhaps should have started test on Wednesday.

yeah lots of rain on the forecast for sat/sun

 

[PhatBoy]

I can see a draw looking at that weather forcast,perhaps should have started test on Wednesday.

True, maybe need to bat first, bat once, enforce follow on.

 

[apollo_creed]

No saying Australian Day what a joke

who ****ing cares.

 

[LukeParkerno1]

I can see a draw looking at that weather forcast,perhaps should have started test on Wednesday.

We only need 3 days to win lol

 

[Voice of the G]

We only need 3 days to win lol

Day 3 and 4 looks like the bad days for the weather,might need day 5 the Monday.