Certified Legendary Thread 4th Test Border Gavaskar Trophy December 26-30 1000hrs @ the MCG

[BillyElliott]

 

[Spirit Level]

Joel Wilson should never be able to umpire one of our games again.

****ed us over in England years ago and tried to do the same yesterday.

Corrupt piece of sh*t

 

[Kennedy Parker]

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Solid reasons

It's Joel Wilson, I mean, there's a solid reason right there.
Cummins was immediately reviewing, no questioning, no dithering, straight to the review, that was compelling, they all knew it was an edge. If Snicko showed even the slightest movement, none of us are talking about this.

Next test in Sydney

Pant slogs Lyon and is caught on the long on boundary.

BCCI: “Rishabh Pant is clearly not out. The ball was nowhere near the edge of his bat, it was out of the middle and had the third umpire properly taken note of the technology, the ball tracker would have suggested the ball was on track to clear the long on boundary instead of being caught. Pant should be awarded 6 runs instead of being wrongly given out.”

 

[Mick F]

I tried to add a throwing action to the end of my bowling action to check how much I could enhance it and it felt like I would tear my shoulder and elbow apart if I tried to do it anywhere near full speed.
Is it even possible to bend the arm as a fast bowler without being naturally disjointed in some way?

Correct. For most blokes moreso when bowling finger spin.

 

[Neese]

Bang on. I could sit and watch Lara, Tendulkar, Kallis, even pre flog Virat etc for hours when they were on. Lara was something else when he was going. Now relate that to footy. If i had to sit down for hours and watch Matt Owies or Orazio Fantasia highlights id probably upend my TV 2 minutes in

Well there aren't many Orazio highlights.
Did you know Owies was a a basketballer?

 

[Scott Tracy]

Nope.

Announced in October that he was looking at 6 months at least and the first test is end of January

I wonder what Australia will do then for our third pace option assuming they will play at least two frontline spinners. Marsh looks done but at least he has some subcontinent experience compared to Webster. I can't imagine Australia debuting anyone that isn't a spinner over there.

If they were smart they would debut Webster next week but can't see them dropping Marsh.

And is Maxwell a chance of getting recalled for Sri Lanka? I read it somewhere a few months back but was unsure whether it was actually true.

 

[ABAB]

Joel Wilson should never be able to umpire one of our games again.

****ed us over in England years ago and tried to do the same yesterday.

Corrupt piece of sh*t

There was a post which shows he has 100 overturn decisions??? Clearly he is just a shit umpire.

 

[Achy Blakey Heart]

I wonder what Australia will do then for our third pace option assuming they will play at least two frontline spinners. Marsh looks done but at least he has some subcontinent experience compared to Webster. I can't imagine Australia debuting anyone that isn't a spinner over there.

If they were smart they would debut Webster next week but can't see them dropping Marsh.

And is Maxwell a chance of getting recalled for Sri Lanka? I read it somewhere a few months back but was unsure whether it was actually true.

Glenn would always like to think he is a chance but has played very limited and ordinary red ball cricket, and TBH shouldn't be considered....unless of course you are a parochial Victorian.

 

[kickazz]

yep. great team, but a pack of whingers. they actually got the better of the contentious decisions.

One wonders if culturally, The Enlightenment (aka the Age of Reason) has skipped Indian cricket.

Before then, in Europe we deferred to 'our betters' (read clergy, landed gentry, etc) on matters of contention, rather than logic and reason.

I feel Indian cricket is still stuck in those dark ages - there are people who's opinions should not be questioned. How else would Sunny G feel comfortable spouting his 'optical illusion' nonsense with a straight face?

 

[Dubai Quacker]

Sean Abbott is underrated here.

He’s a very good cricketer & if his name was Marsh, he’d have played 50 tests.

 

[TheMcManusNose]

where's neser at?

String went bang at the start of the season.

 

[Ohitsthatguy]

Sean Abbott is underrated here.

He’s a very good cricketer & if his name was Marsh, he’d have played 50 tests.

Hi Junior

 

[TheMcManusNose]

Sean Abbott is underrated here.

He’s a very good cricketer & if his name was Marsh, he’d have played 50 tests.

Like Marsh, a very good white ball cricketer with an ok FC record but nothing you'd pick him on.

If he had been the anointed one no doubt we'd be having the same conversation about him.

 

[cats_09]

In regards to Joel Wilson & DRS

 

[Dubai Quacker]

Hi Junior

Just at the trots, will response more fully when I get back to the beach pad.

 

[DaRick]

Sean Abbott is underrated here.

He’s a very good cricketer & if his name was Marsh, he’d have played 50 tests.

He's like Clint McKay, if McKay could bat.

Pick him in ODI sides, but picking him in Tests is pointless.

 

[It Just Is]

Rest Starc in Sydney and bring in Richardson. Has a poor record there anyway. Webster for Marsh.

Easy selections.

Has Webster’s play of spin improved? I would have picked Inglis if his calf had held up but agree on needing a 5th bowling option.

 

[PhatBoy]

I mean to exploit it you would need to have an operation on your elbow to allow the extra flex but we already have men turning themselves into women to win sporting events so its likely not far away.

Are they doing it to win sporting events, or are they just taking advantage of the fact that they’re in that situation to begin with?

At any rate it’s legal. I doubt anyone is going to be rushing out saying ‘make me double jointed so I can attempt to completely change this thing I’ve been doing the same way since I first picked up a cricket ball’.

I’ve played and watched a lot of cricket in my 41 years and I’m yet to see someone completely change their action from how it first started when they began playing. I’ve seen a lot of blokes tinker with it, a lot of blokes make minor adjustments. I haven’t seen anyone just rock up and go ‘today I’m going to do the Dale Steyn’ after years of doing their own action because what invariably happens when people are mucking around trying to do that stuff in training?

They go through all the work with their run ups and release points and gather and delivery stride….. and they get to the crease and it just becomes the same action they’ve had since they started.

 

[western royboy]

where's neser at?

bcci vice-president swinging his dick around is wild. doubt we'd hear a peep if it was an australian bat in this situation. mr vice-president would then be telling us to accept the umpire decision... which we probably would have anyway.
also, needs to pipe down to avoid further inflaming the situation.

as for the cheating aussies call - also wild. all the cricketers did was want the decision reviewed. they had no say.
same old story. spirit of the game, unless the rules are to my advantage. if the rules work against me, invoke the spirit of cricket.

A wise man once told me this

“Don’t complain…Don’t explain”

Pretty appropriate here i’d say

 

[Greenstar5]

McDonald.... difficult decisions need to be made about Marsh or you only drop players with a couple games experience.

Marsh out. ANYONE else in.

 

[Westend]

Is Green expected to be fit for the Sri Lanka series?

No looking at the West Indies tour chance for the test final if we make it I think in June

 

[Westend]

I think Starc will push on. I think when the back ups are Richardson, who is made of glass, and Abbott, who has no business being near a test squad, I'd prefer we stick with him.

Marsh has to be done, and it's not cos I've been on Webster for a season and a half now - you can't continue to pick a guy for one good catch a game + "vibes". You could get away with a good bloke rule when we were awesome, we can't with this current side.

I thought it was pretty ominous for his role in the side yesterday that his 125km/hr cream puffs were deemed so unthreatening that he didn't get another bowl after lunch - it writ so large that he's not an allrounder, or at least he's not considered by Cummins to be an all-round option. He's just another part time like Head or Labuschagne.

We spent years looking for an allrounder, we gave Marsh time after time... and he turned out to be a fraud who isn't really an allrounder at all.

Richardson has been declared fit

 

[Greenstar5]

Marsh is a top 6 bat. So runs are the most important thing.

Marsh this series
73 runs at 10.4.

Marsh in 2024
15 inns 283 runs at 18.8

No one expects him to take heaps of wickets.

But you can't keep being selected if you aren't even contributing with overs to give the others a break.

It's known he can't back up bowling. Clearly managing his work loads. Fitness and injury issues. Speed is now dropping and that limits his chance to be a threat.

Anyone else would be an improvement.

 

[Gough]

A wise man once told me this

“Don’t complain…Don’t explain”

Pretty appropriate here i’d say

Wasn't it Disraeli who said that originally?

 

[Mick F]

A wise man once told me this

“Don’t complain…Don’t explain”

Pretty appropriate here i’d say

Never seen sooking and blubbering, about how unfairly one was treated, to ever serve any worthwhile purpose. Unless appellable to the High Court - not often the case with a missed promotion, umpire’s decision or girl knocking you back.

I certainly never felt the need to explain rambunctious vigour on a football field.