Cricket Discussion - Part 2

[RussellEbertHandball]

Blewett threw another one away with his 99 issues I reckon.

Jeez it's not a big list is it. Trav our best batsman since the Chappells.

As I wrote at the a couple days into the Perth Test;

Travis Head ..... this is Head's 50th test and becomes only the 3rd born and bred South Aussie to play 50 tests behind the Chappell brothers. Gillespie was born in Sydney and moved to Adelaide when he was 10, so he learnt his real cricket development in the SA system.

Clem Hill played 49 and Greg Blewett 46. Carey is playing his 33rd test and should be the next one to 50, if selectors don't panic and play Inglis because he is perceived as a better batsmen. Carey is the better keeper.

A few SA born and bred and some adopted players have got to the 30's - Ashley Mallet and Rodney Hogg 38, Clarrie Grimmett 37, Joe Darling 34 and George Giffen 31.

 

[Ford Fairlane]

Australian women 4/327 in the 45th over v India in 1 dayer at Allan Border Field

 

[Ford Fairlane]

Astonished Greg Chappell only made 1 Test century at Adelaide Oval

 

[JimmyBC]

Despite scoring Shield hundreds for fun, David Hookes only made the one test ton, and that was in Sri Lanka - not even a fifty at AO.

Is the Hooksey thing more myth than reality? Blewett has a better first class record & Lehmann blows them both out the water on that front.

 

[Grave Danger]

The Aussie women are doing a number on India too in an ODI at Brisbane, although they've slumped from 2/320 to 8/350 with an over or so left. Ellyse Perry 105 off 75 with 7 fours and 6 sixes.

 

[Ford Fairlane]

Is the Hooksey thing more myth than reality? Blewett has a better first class record & Lehmann blows them both out the water on that front.

It's complicated. Hookes made 5 Shield centuries in 6 innings to debut in the Centenary Test where he made a 50 blasting Tony Greig for 5 consecutive 4s.

He toured England where Australia was distracted by negotiations for World Series Cricket, made a couple of 50s but not a memorable tour.

He had his jaw broken in WSC by Andy Roberts but made runs in his return in the second season.

After WSC he had injury problems and missed out on his return to the Test team. His Shield form fell away and he was dropped. He came back as captain of SA and won the Shield. I remember that season well, he played himself as an all-rounder, bowled a lot of overs of medium pace trundlers but always seemed to sneak a wicket so he could keep himself on

He recaptured batting form in the Shield, made a couple of returns to test cricket butnever really established himself in the Australian team again.

He still had some sensational innings at Shield level. But he was inconsistent as he was an 'eye' player whose technique could be less than sound.

Wikipedia says he finished his career as the highest run scorer in Shield history.

 

[Ford Fairlane]

Australia finished on 371 in the ODI v India

Voll in her international series debut (second match) made 101 and Perry 105

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

Astonished Greg Chappell only made 1 Test century at Adelaide Oval

I thought he had made a couple here.

Part of the reason he moved to Brisbane - main reason was job and money - was because the Gabba was a lot smaller those days, as it had the dog track around it and the straight boundaries were very short ie oval runs north-south for cricket and east-west for footy.

Greg used to play very straight in the V so his shots at AO didn't get value for money as there were a lot of run 3's 4's and 5's were as at the Gabba those shots between cover and mid off and mid on and mid wicket would be 4 at the Gabba and other grounds as well. He didn't get a lot of value out of the short square boundaries at AO.

 

[Papa G]

5 of those all went to the same school.

 

[philreich]

I thought he had made a couple here.

Part of the reason he moved to Brisbane - main reason was job and money - was because the Gabba was a lot smaller those days, as it had the dog track around it and the straight boundaries were very short ie oval runs north-south for cricket and east-west for footy.

Greg used to play very straight in the V so his shots at AO didn't get value for money as there were a lot of run 3's 4's and 5's were as at the Gabba those shots between cover and mid off and mid on and mid wicket would be 4 at the Gabba and other grounds as well. He didn't get a lot of value out of the short square boundaries at AO.

In the middle of Greg's 7 straight ducks, I went to the SCG to watch the Aussies v the Windies (I think). Chappell again failed to score, and some clown near me in the crowd yelled, "GREG CHAPPELL'S GOT WEBBED FEET."

 

[Ford Fairlane]

Fair bit of booing as Siraj comes out to bat.

Doubled down and called Head a liar. He's going to have an interesting reception around the country from now on.

 

[Ford Fairlane]

Bwahaha Head takes the catch to dismiss Siraj

 

[Greasyrhys]

Great work with the ball. With the tiny run chase, I would’ve had Head open instead of the out of form usman.

 

[Ford Fairlane]

Australia level the series, 10 wicket win

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

Well that ended up being easier than I expected after we were 3/103 early on in the first session of day 2.

Les Burdett would hate these day/night tests. He prepared a pitch to get a result late in day 5 of a test. Probably under instructions from Bradman to maximize attendance and gate receipts.

This series is starting to remind me of the 2010-11 Ashes series
1st test a draw but Poms were 200 runs behind on first innings but dominate their 2nd innings and were 1/500 odd

2nd test Poms won by an Innings
3rd test Aussies bounce back hard and won by about 250 runs

But then Poms won the next 2 tests by an Innings.

History suggests Australia will win at the Gabba and India have drawn and won their last 2 games at MCG and Sydney will be a rain affected draw.

 

[1954]

It's complicated. Hookes made 5 Shield centuries in 6 innings to debut in the Centenary Test where he made a 50 blasting Tony Greig for 5 consecutive 4s.

He toured England where Australia was distracted by negotiations for World Series Cricket, made a couple of 50s but not a memorable tour.

He had his jaw broken in WSC by Andy Roberts but made runs in his return in the second season.

After WSC he had injury problems and missed out on his return to the Test team. His Shield form fell away and he was dropped. He came back as captain of SA and won the Shield. I remember that season well, he played himself as an all-rounder, bowled a lot of overs of medium pace trundlers but always seemed to sneak a wicket so he could keep himself on

He recaptured batting form in the Shield, made a couple of returns to test cricket butnever really established himself in the Australian team again.

He still had some sensational innings at Shield level. But he was inconsistent as he was an 'eye' player whose technique could be less than sound.

Wikipedia says he finished his career as the highest run scorer in Shield history.

Hookes was right up there as one of the most entertaining batsmen in the game and when he had is eye in he could hit any bowler out of the park, but as you say his career for Australia `was distracted by negotiations for World Series Cricket.'

In the 2nd season of that comp and in his first game back after his broken jaw he hit the first ball he received, a bouncer from the same bowler (Andy Roberts) out of the ground.
There were no helmets back then and he tonked that ball from just in front of his face.

Re Roberts, I can remember Ashley Mallett saying that in his opinion he was the most lethal of the numerous West Indian fast bowlers of the era, and I can recall seeing on the news at about the same time he made that comment when the Windies played an exhibition game in PNG on their way to Aust, Roberts first ball to one of their openers was a vicious head high bouncer which would have been difficult enough for a first class batsman to handle, let alone a bloke who probably wouldn't have been B grade district standard in Australia.

 

[Ford Fairlane]

Well that ended up being easier than I expected after we were 3/103 early on in the first session of day 2.

Les Burdett would hate these day/night tests. He prepared a pitch to get a result late in day 5 of a test. Probably under instructions from Bradman to maximize attendance and gate receipts.

This series is starting to remind me of the 2010-11 Ashes series
1st test a draw but Poms were 200 runs behind on first innings but dominate their 2nd innings and were 1/500 odd

2nd test Poms won by an Innings
3rd test Aussies bounce back hard and won by about 250 runs

But then Poms won the next 2 tests by an Innings.

History suggests Australia will win at the Gabba and India have drawn and won their last 2 games at MCG and Sydney will be a rain affected draw.

The match was almost identical to the West Indies Test match last year, right down to a Head 100 in the second innings.

 

[EskimoPAFC]

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.

My issue with his footy commentary is while I agree with you completely... he's still better than most of the others. Give me JB over BT, Dwayne, Dermie, Roo, Underwood or Darcy any day of the week for a start.

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

 

[Duckimus Prime]

Good thing Cricket Australia decided to keep the D/N Test at Adelaide Oval for the Ashes and not move it to the Gabba? Right?

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

Good thing Cricket Australia decided to keep the D/N Test at Adelaide Oval for the Ashes and not move it to the Gabba? Right?

The poms have to agree to day/night tests.

They may have said yes, but only to 2nd test in series, which next year is the Gabba, as SACA and SA government have signed a 7 year deal with Cricket Oz that Adelaide hosts the pre Christmas test which will start sometime between 14th and 17th of December each year.

So the Adelaide test over that 7 years will probably only be a day/night test if it is the first or second test of a 5 test series or the first test of a 3 test series as Melbourne then Sydney follows all in quick succession.

 

[Grave Danger]

Tasmania giving the 429 target set by SA a fair shake - 5/398 with 4 and a bit overs remaining.

WA hanging on for grim death to avoid an innings defeat to NSW - 9/184, still 68 behind NSW's first innings score, with 2.3 overs remaining.

Luckily Qld beat the Vics outright yesterday to stop them getting a clear break on the rest.

EDIT: WA all out for 184 and Tas lost their 6th wicket - 28 required off 4 overs

EDIT #2: 7 to win off 8 balls - Tas 7/422

 

[Grave Danger]

Tas choking severely - 9/425 - 4 required off the last ball

Run out off the last ball - SA win by 2 runs. Idiots must've thought it was a one dayer and should've settled for a draw:




SA now on top of the Shield table.

 

[Ford Fairlane]

SA win by 2 runs with a wicket off the last ball - run out

 

[Ford Fairlane]

Lol 7 news reporting Travis Head to face punishment for the clash with Siraj. Looks like the ICC strikes again.