3rd Test Border Gavaskar Trophy December 14-18 1050hrs @ The Gabba

[Plugger35]

Marnus lucky that was a bit too high or he was gone leaving one again.

 

[Around the Wicket]

Pre DRS umpires gave them all the time

 

[Voice of the G]

Works out the same if one is dropping catches left right and centre. Harris isn’t test quality anyway

Who is this Harris bloke you keep talking about Luke.

 

[PhatBoy]

Bumrah is a chucker.

Bowl with a straight elbow or dont bowl at all. It isnt baseball.

No, hes not. You dont have to bowl with a straight elbow and you never have.

The rule of a throw was always based around having your arm bent as your delivery started, and then getting to a point of straightness when the ball left your hand.

Whether it hyper-extends or not is immaterial.

You have no idea what you are talking about, clearly.

You could bowl the ball with your arm bent if you liked provided it wasn’t straightening while you were doing it.

 

[Westend]

reddy on come on lads put some pressure on the bowler opportunity to score

 

[LukeParkerno1]

Bumrah is a chucker.

Bowl with a straight elbow or dont bowl at all. It isnt baseball.

There’s plenty of sling type bowlers over the years. Bumrah’s action is fine it just looks worse with the run up really. He’s just a gun and a great bowler. Much better to watch than our bowlers anyway

 

[Whiskers]

I'm done with this guy already. Not a test opener. He might re-appear one day as a number 4, but he ain't an opener.

And now we're in this shitty situation of needing to find not one, but 2 openers over the next few months.

I have been saying constantly to open with Head or another established player up top to save us the trouble of looking for openers we don’t have.
We know McSweeney isn’t an opener and Khawaja was going to retire so instead of looking for 2 openers we don’t have, it would be much easier looking for 1.

Head wasn’t doing that well at 5 prior to this series and could’ve moved. Yes now he is saving our butts and people won’t want him moved but imo he can still do the damage up top anyway.
There are mid order players around the country to bring in but not openers.

 

[Xtreme]

Siraj getting a nice reception from the crowd, maybe not all of it that nice.

Siraj is a hero and could be an honorary Victorian as he has so much fire in the belly. Starc could learn a lot from him!

 

[sabso]

No, hes not. You dont have to bowl with a straight elbow and you never have.

The rule of a throw was always based around having your arm bent as your delivery started, and then getting to a point of straightness when the ball left your hand.

Whether it hyper-extends or not is immaterial.

You have no idea what you are talking about, clearly.

You could bowl the ball with your arm bent if you liked provided it wasn’t straightening while you were doing it.

You can even bend your elbow while you bowl if you like.

 

[PhatBoy]

Lol!

Why so angry??

Take a chill pill and go kick your fence or something. No need for personal attacks.

I’m not the one demanding a player get suspended because his elbow hyper-extends and due to a basic inability to understand the concept of a throw

 

[LukeParkerno1]

Who is this Harris bloke you keep talking about Luke.

Well I was nice I didn’t use Crab lol

 

[PhatBoy]

You can even bend your elbow while you bowl if you like.

Well you can now anyway, but the fact is that even before any rule changes your elbow could be bent, the idea of a throw was about how much that bend straightened.

Bumrah is irrelevant as his arm is straight throughout his action and the only thing that happens is that it goes backwards

 

[Plugger35]

Pre DRS umpires gave them all the time

Yeah ff a batsman didn't offer a shot and got hit on the pads the umpires were quick to pull the trigger and rightly so.

 

[Chism]

I’m not the one demanding a player get suspended because his elbow hyper-extends and due to a basic inability to understand the concept of a throw

Who asked for a suspension?

The ICC changed the rules to allow these suspect actions and bent elbows.

As of right now it is legal. Wether that passes the pub test is another issue depending who you support!

 

[grumbleguts]

There’s plenty of sling type bowlers over the years. Bumrah’s action is fine it just looks worse with the run up really. He’s just a gun and a great bowler. Much better to watch than our bowlers anyway

Yeah completely fine. Nowhere in the rules does it mention "It's OK if he slings it he can bend it as much as he wants. Hyperextension is legal." The man is a f**king cheat, and deserves to be banned and give his wickets back. Worse than Murali.

 

[grumbleguts]

Who asked for a suspension?

The ICC changed the rules to allow these suspect actions and bent elbows.

As of right now it is legal. Wether that passes the pub test is another issue depending who you support!

It's greater than 40 degrees. The tolerance is 15 degrees.

 

[Some Idiot]

Not in todays game as the ICC wont dare upset the sub continent.

Back in the day it was rightfully outlawed.

Shakib Al Hasan got reported for a suspect action a few days ago

 

[Around the Wicket]

Yeah ff a batsman didn't offer a shot and got hit on the pads the umpires were quick to pull the trigger and rightly so.

McGrath and Gillespie got Tendulkar a couple times leaving when the ball would have clearly went over and all shit hit the fan

 

[k31th]

lol Siraj

 

[sabso]

Yeah completely fine. Nowhere in the rules does it mention "It's OK if he slings it he can bend it as much as he wants. Hyperextension is legal." The man is a f**king cheat, and deserves to be banned and give his wickets back. Worse than Murali.
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Where's the protractor when his arm goes past shoulder level in the delivery swing? why is there a blue line drawn on his leg?

 

[Chism]

Yeah completely fine. Nowhere in the rules does it mention "It's OK if he slings it he can bend it as much as he wants. Hyperextension is legal." The man is a f**king cheat, and deserves to be banned and give his wickets back. Worse than Murali.
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Hammer / Nail / Head.

If that is a legal action i am the pope.

Nothing to see here though.

 

[Whiskers]

McSweeney has done well in shield but bringing him in to open in a test match when he has not opened before is a big ask.

The stats were done on McSweeney when he has had to come in early for SA. He fails, his form is good but not when he has had to come in really early.

 

[PhatBoy]

It's greater than 40 degrees. The tolerance is 15 degrees.

Lollllll here we go.

The Inspector Clouseau of biomechanical investigation chimes in with his annual deep dive to tell us about a figure that doesn’t exist, for a rule that doesn’t apply.

Can you point me to the rule where it says someone’s arm can’t bend BACKWARDS to a particular degree please?

 

[PhatBoy]

Hammer / Nail / Head.

If that is a legal action i am the pope.

Nothing to see here though.

It’s like watching N*Sync and the Backstreet Boys join for a double-headline tour.

This should be entertaining.

 

[big_e]

Marnus should have opened and Inglis should be playing. Again we ignored the form player and now we have missed out as him sitting around is now probably out of form.
Never ignore form players unless you are unbeatable.

The form player was McSweeney. The problem wasn't picking him, it was making him open.