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"Early inspection of the wicket reveals an area sedated in the middle where the seamers pitch, but a crack house being constructed on a length for the spinners."
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Let's not psyche ourselves out with this BS again...."Early inspection of the wicket reveals an area sedated in the middle where the seamers pitch, but a crack house being constructed on a length for the spinners."
shocked to be sitting here
Let's not psyche ourselves out with this BS again....
We flogged a few minnows at home, we never deserved to be number 1.Just saw that India are #1 ranked in the world again, not sure how this happened I thought we were like 10 rating points ahead of them. Our body of work over the last few years has been more impressive than there's as well
Thats interesting . All of my interactions with him have been the opposite of that .Few years back attended a local cricket day with Stars....all the team spent the day with kids doing drills, photos, autographs it was great....kids were so excited but mostly to meet their hero Maxy.
He rolled out onto the ground about 3 hours after the event started for about 15 minutes dragging his feet looking like he'd rather be in the pits of hell. Sunglasses on acting like he was king s**t wouldn't sign an autograph for any of the kids. Posed briefly for a team photo with a few kids involved also, was asked by photographer to remove sunnies, everyone took them off except him, was asked again....he refused and said very rudely 'take the photo get on with it'...immediately walked off the ground and didn't show his face for the remainder of the 3 hours the players were there. Ive heard other similar stories over the years he is all about himself.
We flogged a few minnows at home, we never deserved to be number 1.
Just saw that India are #1 ranked in the world again, not sure how this happened I thought we were like 10 rating points ahead of them. Our body of work over the last few years has been more impressive than there's as well
450+ test wickets
But he cant bowl.
I've heard it all now.
It is what it is.Thats interesting . All of my interactions with him have been the opposite of that .
The rankings are now decided by "umpires call"Just saw that India are #1 ranked in the world again, not sure how this happened I thought we were like 10 rating points ahead of them. Our body of work over the last few years has been more impressive than there's as well
How many non-minnows are there? 2?We flogged a few minnows at home, we never deserved to be number 1.
Um...Lyon is not effective in India. You've cherry picked one innings from three tours. That's insane.
media drumming it up again, in that case
He's cooked. And the only ones suggesting his return are largely parochial viccos. How you could even conceive the selectors picking a bloke on the sole basis he scored a rogue ton in india 6 years ago, and has since showed nothing in the long form of the game. Not just that....he is coming off a serious injury and a long break from cricket, and taking away his 104 in Ranchi, only averages 13 across 8 innings vs India both home and abroad.
Its unspeakably dumb to suggest he would even make a remote jot of difference to this side and disrespectful to a number of other players who are rightly well ahead of this player who is and should be in full end of career mode.
None of that even begins to then also touch on his corrosive selfish personality that he brings to cricket sides that is the last thing this team needs currently.... same with Zampa. Ive witnessed the manner that Maxwell interacted with students first hand at a local schools cricket day and i was absolutely disgusted.
This is NewsCorp at its finest.
One of the pictures I saw was of the whole square and imagine my surprise when every wicket on it, had more wear and tear where the batsmen and bowlers do all their work, and less wear and tear in the middle of the pitch.
Bowling tight is all you need over there chip in with the odd wicket, our number 1 test bowler only took 1
"Early inspection of the wicket reveals an area sedated in the middle where the seamers pitch, but a crack house being constructed on a length for the spinners."
shocked to be sitting here
Why are they going to such crazy lengths, is there a threat of death if they don’t win this series?
Or is it just to get in our heads?
How many non-minnows are there? 2?
Do you really actually think in the case of this pitch they are going to any lengths at all?
Look at the Fox sports article.
It shows the entire centre square, all the wickets that have been used this season.
All of them including the one they’re using for the test, look, with varying degrees of decay, the same: Ie. they are dry and grass less where the batsmen stand and the bowlers follow through on both sides of the wicket. They are slightly more grassy in the middle.
Doesn’t that just tell you ‘these wickets are normal frequently used Asian wickets’?
Whitewashed England 4-0, hammered South Africa who India lost to 12 months agoWe flogged a few minnows at home, we never deserved to be number 1.
I'd back us to beat them in England in a WTC final if it came to itYep, I think most cricket judges would appreciate India is a better team than us. That's not to say we can't beat them, but on their home grounds, it's a tough task.
I think it’s more trying to get into our heads. Last test we looked beaten before we even got out there.
Biggest issue with our tour is we didn’t prepare properly.
One thing not being talked about enough was how s**t our bowling was on day 1, Cummins completely misjudged the conditions and leaked runs and got us way behind in the game. Now if we had them at like 1/40 at stumps instead of 80, we could
of had them 5/130 or so on day 2.
2004 side learnt the lesson from 2001 of having to be defensive and dry up the boundaries to Indian batsmen, swallow pride/ego as once they get a couple of boundaries the crowd get into it and they get carried along with that energy/momentum.