5th Test Border Gavaskar Trophy January 3-7 1000hrs @ the SCG

[Gethelred]

None as rank as us

... you legitimately have no idea.

If you're playing your second test and just out of nappies, you should not be mouthing off.

A bowler introduced himself to WG Grace in his first game by bowling the ball through his beard and walking up to him and sledging him about it.

 

[Xtreme]

Boland said he feels like a teenager again.

That's good enough for me...

Bolands good because he knows the local grounds like nobody else. Yet to be convinced of his super powers elsewhere in the world

 

[Xtreme]

First time I ever saw Pat Cummins & Travis Head was in the Big Bash. Cummins was still in high school. Head was cutting a swathe in the Big Bash & I thought to myself at the time, we've found our next number 3. Didn't happen as fast I was expecting, but the guy now wins man of the match & man of the series more than any of our players.

Not quite as recent as I was insinuating
The local cupboard is pretty sparse if/when the oldies retire.

 

[Lebbo73]

You're a Hawthorn fwit and dutton flog

Nobody takes you seriously

That’s one quality melt

 

[Iceman!]

Crazy to me we have a guy who is at almost 400 test wickets @ 27 and yet so many Australians still want to do anything they can to drag him down and downplay him as a player. World class bowler who has given so much to Australia across all 3 formats.

 

[Spirit Level]

What a pathetic miserable bunch of campaigners the Indians are.

I'd probably be the same if I had to live in that sh*thole though

 

[Xtreme]

Hey champ, Have a read of all the countries that have been done for ball tampering in the last 20 years.

Australia is meant to be the land of the fair go.
What THAT trio did was piss away our good will sporting reputation that had been built up from over 30 years of good sportsmanship. They are cheats pure and simple.

 

[Mr Meow]

Confident brash young people usually do take up more of people’s attention, not always for the right reasons.

they’re happy with that and that’s ok, but they shouldn’t be upset when others aren’t happy.

Who says he's unhappy. He's probably chuckling about how his exuberance has rattled a group of world class, senior cricketers so easily.

 

[Bungeye]

Bolands good because he knows the local grounds like nobody else. Yet to be convinced of his super powers elsewhere in the world

He turned invisible in England...let's see what other super power he unleashes in the upcoming Ashes.

 

[BangyBangy]

It’ll come, don’t worry.
He’s young, and they are differently wired to the dinosaurs, but he’s human. Just gotta find the button.

I'm not worried. Why would I be?

Right now I'm enjoying watching a free spirited kid play cricket without a care in the world. Pretty much exactly how you would like a 19 year old to go about things.

Clearly he has been given a bit of free licence. Go have some fun see how it works out. No doubt there'll be parts of his game that get worked out & need improvement but that happens to every player that comes onto the scene.

I'll be surprised if he isn't a staple part of the test line up for the next 15 years.

 

[The 747]

Could say that about 40 posters on here, depending on the topic and current villain.

True but for that poster it is every topic.

 

[Jack Lord]

Long time since I've been this excited about day two of a test.

If Konstas goes big on the tonk he's a hero.

If he gets out cheap he's a deadset goose.

 

[Aristotle Pickett]

... what part of reverse ramping the best bowler in the world for multiple sixes on test debut suggested to you that Konstas was not a smartarse?

How you bat is frequently illustrative of who you are.

For example, I'd expect you, Aristotle, to be a stodgy no.8 who is able to hold up an end while others do all the work while after the match making much of playing your role.

What about when he was fielding at silly mid on?

 

[WalshistheGOAT]

Nothing would bring more joy to my summer than Konstas dancing Siraj first ball tomorrow morning and launching him into the 3rd tier.

Would be about as dumb as it gets as a batter but I'd still love to see it.

 

[WalshistheGOAT]

He turned invisible in England...let's see what other super power he unleashes in the upcoming Ashes.

The Poms targeted him just as Konstas is doing Bumrah. Letting bowlers like Boland and Bumrah sit on their length letting the ball jag is a death sentence.

 

[Gak Attack]

But I genuinely believe we are edging very close to physical reactionary violence/retaliation at some point soon, given how it continues to escalate.

A normal person would be pretty tempted to involve their bat when you have 11 people unexpectedly come running up screaming at you.
Kohli genuinely looked like his tiny frame was about to try and run through Konstas.

Imagine the professional victims if Sam had of fended off Kohli in that moment and made contact with him..

It's not far away..

The thing is though Kohli is obviously insecure and you can bet he's not going to do that to anyone who might actually go back at him. There have been plenty of people go back and forward with him, often fast bowlers and guess what it's the not them but the not fully physically developed kid he is choosing to get physical with.

 

[Xtreme]

He turned invisible in England...let's see what other super power he unleashes in the upcoming Ashes.

Can't hate Scotty he's a Victorian

 

[Gethelred]

What about when he was fielding at silly mid on?

What about it?

Put your money where your mouth is, AP: when was the last time you actually walked out on to a park in whites and played the game to pontificate so highly on what is and is not appropriate behaviour on a cricket pitch?

 

[Cataholic]

Long time since I've been this excited about day two of a test.

If Konstas goes big on the tonk he's a hero.

If he gets out cheap he's a deadset goose.

Yep, he's on a hiding to nothing.

 

[BangyBangy]

Australia is meant to be the land of the fair go.
What THAT trio did was piss away our good will sporting reputation that had been built up from over 30 years of good sportsmanship. They are cheats pure and simple.

Another quality A grade post.

You really know your cricket.

Our ball tampering incident is clearly worse than biting the ball, scuffing it with your pants zipper or rubbing it with mints to alter it's performance.

It was the correct decision to punish the Australian cheats harsher than the cheats from other countries doing the exact same thing.

 

[Mr Meow]

He turned invisible in England...let's see what other super power he unleashes in the upcoming Ashes.

Urn retention seems a pretty consistent super power for him and his team mates lately. If we go back to the last Ashes in Australia you could add Pom destroying.

 

[sdfc]

Getting into the Indians' heads is all well and good but Konstas played like he'd got into his own head a couple of times today.

 

[WalshistheGOAT]

What about it?

Put your money where your mouth is, AP: when was the last time you actually walked out on to a park in whites and played the game to pontificate so highly on what is and is not appropriate behaviour on a cricket pitch?

Sounds like he never has. Cop a mouthful from the slips cordon to mid-on every time you go out to bat whether you're playing 1st class cricket or G grade locals.

 

[BangyBangy]

Nothing would bring more joy to my summer than Konstas dancing Siraj first ball tomorrow morning and launching him into the 3rd tier.

Would be about as dumb as it gets as a batter but I'd still love to see it.

I guess we'll have to see what conditions are like tomorrow, but if they are similar to today a ball will come down with your name on it eventually. May as well see if you can have twenty, thirty or more runs to your name when it does by playing aggressively.

 

[Jack McKraken]

If he gets picked up in the IPL has there ever been a player in the IPL that gets booed by his own team’s fans?

There will be some Indian fans questioning everything they believe