Cricket Thread: Indian Summer

[Cromulant]

The pitch really is that easy. It's just that the batsmen no longer remember how to bat properly, having spent too much of their careers playing hit & giggle rubbish.

I've never known someone to be as off the mark in as often in 1 day as you have been today

 

[adelaidecrows]

Im not going to reign on the konstas parade, the kids a gun. Like a young Ricky Ponting with the attitude of a young Mark Waugh and the skills to match.

Is his mentality though going to see him succeed as a long term option for us as an opener or is he better suited to say a future 3rd or 4th.

 

[Mostyn]

We might have scored 480, but that was still at least 150 below par on this deck.

Honestly ...

I have no idea why you post bollocks like this

 

[Mostyn]

I think given we didn’t make 624 this could be the WOAT Australian team.

I think it's the WOAT Boxing Day pitch

 

[FR0GGY]

I think it's the WOAT Boxing Day pitch

We had some bad ones a few years ago

 

[GreyCrow]

Im not going to reign on the konstas parade, the kids a gun. Like a young Ricky Ponting with the attitude of a young Mark Waugh and the skills to match.

Is his mentality though going to see him succeed as a long term option for us as an opener or is he better suited to say a future 3rd or 4th.

Interesting question and I do think 4 will be his spot

 

[GreyCrow]

We had some bad ones a few years ago

One in around 84 or 89 that got named worst pitch ever and thats ahead of the 2 pitches affected by fuserium and car oil in the UK

 

[Vader]

I think it's the WOAT Boxing Day pitch

It's much better than the one they had in 2018, which was officially rated as "poor" by the ICC. It was one of the first drop-in pitches at the MCG, and it was diabolical. It was almost impossible for the bowlers to get the batsmen out, but it was also virtually impossible for the batsmen to score. 24 wickets fell in 5 full days of cricket.

The 2024 pitch is a dream compared to that pitch, which was a viewer's (and bowlers') nightmare.

 

[Cromulant]

The follow on coming into play pretty quickly here.

 

[Kane McGoodwin]

The follow on coming into play pretty quickly here.

We will bat again first regardless.

Still plenty of time in this test & the pitch isn't a complete road despite what Vader thinks.

 

[Kane McGoodwin]

Im not going to reign on the konstas parade, the kids a gun. Like a young Ricky Ponting with the attitude of a young Mark Waugh and the skills to match.

Is his mentality though going to see him succeed as a long term option for us as an opener or is he better suited to say a future 3rd or 4th.

Interesting question.

Given his talent, he will get to choose where he wants to bat.

Been a while since someone so young & talented has come into the test team... & much needed given the average age of our test team batters.

Australian selectors will need to be braver managing the transition, so we don't habe too many leave at once... including the bowlers too.

 

[Cromulant]

We will bat again first regardless.

Still plenty of time in this test & the pitch isn't a complete road despite what Vader thinks.

Yeah I'd think so.

If we can get them in the next 30 runs or so, get a lead of 480-500

 

[Kane McGoodwin]

We had some bad ones a few years ago

MCG was close to losing their Test status & had to fly over Les Burdett to sort out their pitches.

MCG on notice after ICC rates pitch 'poor' | cricket.com.au

MCG pitch in spotlight after governing body hands famous venue a formal warning

www.cricket.com.au

 

[Kane McGoodwin]

Interesting question and I do think 4 will be his spot

Imo, Konstas likely to be a long term #3 like Ponting.

 

[Mr_Moogle]

Yes. Smash them physically. Rattle them.

 

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

Reddy looks like a pretty handy player. Has chipped in a few times in this series. Will end up batting higher you'd think.

Strange pitch. Seems to have OK pace and carry through to the keeper but no edges have carried

 

[Firewalker]

India batting down to 8 have really set their team up to save these games & trying to get an ugly draw this series, played lots of defensive cricket since pretty much day 2 in Adelaide, playing much like their coach just trying to dig in and grind away ugly results now.

 

[Mr_Moogle]

Some sloppy fielding efforts in this game.

 

[Vader]

Do Cummins and Starc realise that they're not only allowed to pitch the ball in the batsman's half of the pitch, but that it is actively encouraged, and that their chances of taking a wicket go up dramatically every time they do so?

Enough of the dumb and stupid short pitch rubbish!

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[Scorpus]

Mitch Marsh has been completely useless and we clearly don't want to bowl him because he's regressed to only being capable of hittable military mediums

 

[Firewalker]

Do Cummins and Starc realise that they're not only allowed to pitch the ball in the batsman's half of the pitch, but that it is actively encouraged, and that their chances of taking a wicket go up dramatically every time they do so?

Enough of the dumb and stupid short pitch rubbish!

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Not only has the continual trend of lower orders coasting against Australia poor bowling continued but this innings really showed those aging bowlers in the lineup (Starc & Cummins) really struggle to back up spell to spell on tracks that aren’t skewed to be totally bowler friendly. It’s not a new trend just a repeat of what happened at the backend of last year’s Ashes on those flat tracks after Lyon went down… the bowler Lyon currently is he’s basically still out since that Lords test.