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I know I'm in the minority, but I'd be stoked if T20 was canned completely and we went back to the good old days.
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100%! The drama and mind-games for 5 test series, or the anticipation of seeing how the game unfolds over 4-5 days is something T20 can never give you.
Test cricket is clearly the best when it’s like yesterday or even most of the game in Perth (despite us getting smashed). A real contest between bat and ball.
I think I could make both arguments in terms of what’s better out of ODIs and T20s though. Tbh I think I’d miss T20s more as they’re easily to attend at the ground unless it’s a weekend. But when you get an ODI which is a genuine contest between bat and ball it’s a bloody good watch.
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Test cricket needs to be reduced to 4 days like it was originally and Sheffield shield still is from memory.
20/20 has its own merrits.
The kids love it & its enabled more new cricket fans to engage than 5 days of the slower game ever could.
20/20 has its own merrits.
The kids love it & its enabled more new cricket fans to engage than 5 days of the slower game ever could.
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Fitting the 3 formats in, plus the ipl and big bash is the current issue.
I'm not sure how you do that.
Do you mandate how many tests a country plays a year ?
Crazy how much cricket gets played, it makes some of the games & tournaments a little irrelevant imo.
I'm not sure how you do that.
Do you mandate how many tests a country plays a year ?
Crazy how much cricket gets played, it makes some of the games & tournaments a little irrelevant imo.
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T20 should be for things like big bash. Not internationals.
I'd take ODIs over T20s if for no other reason that when they introduced ODIs it didn't take much, if anything away from tests.
T20s have been systematically destroying tests since they were introduced.
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I'm astounded we got through a night session 1 down.
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If McSweeney can get through that (though they weren't at their best), he can get through anything. He's a test player. Konstas continues to just pile them on and Green is our permanent number 4. Suddenly there is a possibly a very good top order for 10 years.
Just need to cycle through the 2nd opener (Sweeny needs to be at 3 long term) and we've got ourselves a stew goin.
Australian pitches are very different to the glory years (any average close to 50 over two years is elite), and the rest of the world has gotten worse comparatively ad well. Australia will turn it around for a new generation over a few years. They always do.
Just need to cycle through the 2nd opener (Sweeny needs to be at 3 long term) and we've got ourselves a stew goin.
Australian pitches are very different to the glory years (any average close to 50 over two years is elite), and the rest of the world has gotten worse comparatively ad well. Australia will turn it around for a new generation over a few years. They always do.
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Smith doesn't have his elite eye anymore. Which is sad because he can't even go to relying on his technique... with it being so bizarre. I can't see him lasting much longer unfortunately 
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Both Smith and Khawaja have to be transitioned by the end of this series.
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Yeah it lends itself well to a league format but I struggle to get enthused about random T20Is.
It's a good format for world cups though.
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Unpopular opinion, but I don't mind the current state of batsmen becoming T-twentified and struggling to bat for time in Test matches.
I've always enjoyed Tests more when the ball dominates, it feels much more action-packed when wickets are falling regularly. It keeps the game moving and I'm quite happy for most Tests to be over in 4 days.
And it makes big scores from batsmen all the more meritorious. Hundreds are probably worth more in the current era than they ever have been.
Plus, with ODI's and especially T20's weighted so heavily in favour of batsmen, it's nice having a format where the bowlers get to dominate.
Each to their own. Tests should have variety. Back in the day you got this from conditions alone and the quality of the opponents varying.
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That wouldn't have been in your lifetime would it? I expect I'm older than you and I can remember Test cricket having a rest day. If there was a series that was even before the last test they would make provisions to play a 6th day in the final test.
At least a "Bazball" gamestyle might help cleanout the faffing dawdling dead men walking in our top order a bit sooner.
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I'd be dropping Marsh after that, window into his psychology right now. That's disgraceful basically giving yourself out like that.
Who cares , they’re not the future and atm aren’t even close to being the present .
It’s time to rip the bandaid off move them on .
I mean we’re taking about 36/37 yr olds here , they ll be gone very much sooner or later , prolonging them on serves absolutely no purpose and even less so when you take into account we need to get test experience into our next tier of batsmen
Ingles can come)should already be) for kwahaja and give Webster a stint in smiths position- remembering green Will eventually be back in .
Or move ingles to no 4 and bring in konstas.
We can whinge all we like about how many runs the next tier are making but as has been stated plenty times before runs are ,by and large hard come by in the current itinerant of test cricket across the globe.
Playing guys that bat 6 or 7 in the shield as openers is extremely unlikely to work. We’re already playing McSweeney as an opener because all openers over 20 in Australia aren’t good enough.
I’ve been quick to criticise the selectors in 2010/11, 2016/17 but the talent in the shield was way better then and the selectors were making terrible decisions.
This time around they’re choosing to back in guys that were good over more guys they’d be playing of position and/or they know aren’t good enough. Most people complaining about the selectors haven’t watched a ball of shield cricket in 20+ years if at all let alone seen these guys play at that level. They’re clueless tbh.
The selectors aren’t doing a bad job IMO. We have a talent gap between 23 and 30 - simple as that. Hopefully the likes of Konstas can step up when the selectors have the balls to select them - For Konstas I think that’s as soon as Khawaja retires.
If anyone should be replaced it’s Marsh because Webster at 6 might be a decent chance of being a better option. That’s not even mentioning Green returning after this series.
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