Cricket Discussion - Part 2

[Grave Danger]

NZ in the namure - 5/85, including Williamson's wicket, with an over or two left in the day's play.

 

[Ford Fairlane]

Big first session for Mitch Starc - 3/31, India 4/82

Boland among the wickets in his first Test back, unlucky not to have a couple, no-balled when it looked like he had Rahul caught behind (although Snicko didn't register), then Khawaja grassed a chance at first slip.

 

[Festerz]

Sorry I just can't stand Brayshaw as a commentator. He's that know-all preening try hard who thinks he's funny and ruins every party and pub crawl you go to with his repetitive loud mouth schtick.

He makes the commentary of the only 2 sports I follow on FTA TV totally unwatchable.

/rant. As you were.

 

[Greasyrhys]

Sorry I just can't stand Brayshaw as a commentator. He's that know-all preening try hard who thinks he's funny and ruins every party and pub crawl you go to with his repetitive loud mouth schtick.

He makes the commentary of the only 2 sports I follow on FTA TV totally unwatchable.

/rant. As you were.

100%, his overuse of certain words (like extraordinary and superstar) is nauseating.

 

[Ford Fairlane]

Mitch Starc just bowled a peach to dismiss Ashwin lbw. Missing off, missing leg hitting middle, in memory of Richie Benaud

 

[philreich]

100%, his overuse of certain words (like extraordinary and superstar) is nauseating.

I never listen to 7 - even Warner is good on Fox Cricket.

 

[Ford Fairlane]

5 for Starc, bowled Rana with another jaffa

 

[Festerz]

100%, his overuse of certain words (like extraordinary and superstar) is nauseating.

Yep. Without empty hyperbole he has nothing.

The title of this thread from over 10 years ago sums it up well...

 

[Ford Fairlane]

Double wicket maiden for Starc,

 

[Grave Danger]

Cunning plan by India to get the Aussies batting in the half light/under lights

 

[Grave Danger]

lol - Swamp reminding Ricky Pointyhead that he only hit one six at the Adelaide Oval - RP saying that the boundaries are a lot smaller now and "the square boundaries used to be humongous". Er, what?? They are smaller now with the toblerone set a couple metres inside the fence, but it's always been a skinny ground on the square boundaries. I'm surprised to see the rope set inside the fence on the square at Adelaide Oval of all places - is that a recent thing?

 

[Ford Fairlane]

6 Wickets for Starc. Nitish out for 42 caught by Head after some late order hitting.

India 180

 

[Ford Fairlane]

SA 3/326 at stumps v Tas.

Hunt 136*
Sangha 151

Thornton came out as a night watchman but didn't last

 

[philreich]

6 Wickets for Starc. Nitish out for 42 caught by Head after some late order hitting.

India 180

At least we've avoided the follow on .

 

[1954]

Lead by a 6 for from Starc the Aussie bowlers did a good job restricting India to 180.

Difficult session tonight for the batsmen against Bumrah, and we probably can't afford to lose any more than a couple of wickets to be a chance of building a decent score and hopefully a 100 plus lead tomorrow.

 

[Powerade 08]

lol these bums are 0/21. Amazing

 

[Greasyrhys]

Twice in the last 5 minutes the lights have gone out, no surprise given we sold off the power…

 

[Powerade 08]

This has been some really poor bowling apart from Bumrah earlier. Not attacking us at all

 

[philreich]

Expecting a late burst from Bumrah. If we get through that (easier said than done I know), we'll be looking good.

 

[Powerade 08]

They've really let us off here and McSweeneys found good form. Bumrah can still undo everything

 

[Ford Fairlane]

Finish the night on 1/86. Good hard dig so far.

Good to see McSweeney get some runs 38*

 

[Ford Fairlane]

Bit of drama with lights going out briefly, an extra over added after 10pm, but the Aussie bats saw it through.

 

[Sunshine81]

SA have got more interstate players than an AFL team.

We should have a few, given our tiny population. The Australian population with 26.6 divided by the 6 states gives us 4.4 million per state. With at population of 1.8mil SA should have 4.5 players in the eleven. We currently have 3.

 

[1954]

I have never seen an oppo cricket team come to Australia and be as self entitled as this current Indian mob are!

Siraj's carry on by throwing the ball in the vicinity of the batsman after Loosebuschange legitimately pulled away and put his hand up to let the bowler know it was due to movement behind the sight screen was school boy crap, and as has been said before there is way too much lovey dovey stuff from the Aussies for their IPL mates, with all the in your face stuff coming the other way including Kohli and his non stop yapping in an attempt to get under the skin of McSweeney.

If an oppo player reacted like Siraj did in India and the umpires didn't call a `no ball' and censure the offender there would be a riot, but what we have now is a situation where the Indians due to weight of numbers absolutely dominate the politics of the game and the umps won't call them out on anything.

 

[philreich]

I have never seen an oppo cricket team come to Australia and be as self entitled as this current Indian mob are!

Siraj's carry on by throwing the ball in the vicinity of the batsman after Loosebuschange legitimately pulled away and put his hand up to let the bowler know it was due to movement behind the sight screen was school boy crap, and as has been said before there is way too much lovey dovey stuff from the Aussies for their IPL mates, with all the in your face stuff coming the other way including Kohli and his non stop yapping in an attempt to get under the skin of McSweeney.

If an oppo player reacted like Siraj did in India and the umpires didn't call a `no ball' and censure the offender there would be a riot, but what we have now is a situation where the Indians due to weight of numbers absolutely dominate the politics of the game and the umps won't call them out on anything.

Which is why winning this series would mean so much. These clowns reckon they own world cricket - it'd be lovely to win back a trophy that has eluded us for the last decade.