Banter The No Dazzlering Big Cricket Thread

[Ilkka Sinisalo]

Nice to see Jhye and Morris in. Very strong bowling attack which is good, because the batting is pretty shaky with a number of guys in poor form at the moment.

 

[Keys]

Mitchell Starc top scores and the 10th wicket partnership of 25 was the best of the innings

Stellar batting

 

[Wce17]

Bancroft gone first ball. His nightmare continues

 

[TY24]

At what point does Bangers go back to Premier Cricket?

 

[KBLT]

Banners needs a full reset

 

[Wce17]

I don’t know if he even hit it. Seems like his luck & form have gone at the same time

 

[FKASC]

Crazy turnaround for Bancroft after dominating last couple of years

 

[TY24]

Shout out to the guy in the Banana group who held up ‘Give Zane Trew a contract’ on his phone

 

[squashface]

Shout out to the guy in the Banana group who held up ‘Give Zane Trew a contract’ on his phone

Plot twist: It was Biggie

 

[Tugga27]

At what point does Bangers go back to Premier Cricket?

Should already be there.

 

[FKASC]

Called it a couple of years ago after watching the IPL that Jaiswal was going to tear it up for indias test side soon enough. Such a gun

 

[TY24]

We’re getting this so wrong, allowing all these cheap singles. Can’t afford to let them keep knocking it around and rotating the strike at will.

 

[TY24]

Miserable day of test cricket. After the first 5 over the bowlers looked relatively uninspired and unthreatening outside of the odd half chance.

Feel like we'll be chasing 400+ and get rolled pretty cheaply.

 

[Balls In]

Need to talk about Khawaja's dropped catch.An hour from stumps it's the sort of catch that gets you 2 or three quick ones and momentum. He dropped it because he was in freaking la la land with the rest of his mates and wasn't ready for it. Didn't get close to getting his fingers under it.

 

[Ochre]

Pitch looks like a road now, could've been such a different game had we managed to be only 3-4 down at stumps yesterday,

 

[FKASC]

Was it the first test between NZ and India where it also went from looking tricky on day 1 to being an absolute road for the rest of the match? Don’t often see if change so drastically like this

 

[TY24]

Was it the first test between NZ and India where it also went from looking tricky on day 1 to being an absolute road for the rest of the match? Don’t often see if change so drastically like this

Historically the Optus pitch is a batters dream for Day 2/3 and then becomes a minefield to bat on from day 4 onwards... there was one test a few years ago where batting on Day 5 was borderline dangerous. Can't remember who it was against, I feel like it was either the first test against India or the D/N test against the Kiwi's.

The team batting last has lost every test so far at Optus, and only once has a team passed 200 in the 4th innings (WI in 2022 made 333).

Granted, it is a small sample size of 4 tests.

 

[darksquare]

On the positive side, WA going nicely. Jayden Goodwin to replace Marnus.


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[FKASC]

Historically the Optus pitch is a batters dream for Day 2/3 and then becomes a minefield to bat on from day 4 onwards... there was one test a few years ago where batting on Day 5 was borderline dangerous. Can't remember who it was against, I feel like it was either the first test against India or the D/N test against the Kiwi's.

The team batting last has lost every test so far at Optus, and only once has a team passed 200 in the 4th innings (WI in 2022 made 333).

Granted, it is a small sample size of 4 tests.

I think it might’ve been India. Vaguely recall a few people getting smacked

 

[Wce17]

On the positive side, WA going nicely. Jayden Goodwin to replace Marnus.


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Been dropped twice. Bancroft would be wishing he had that type of luck

 

[FKASC]

On the positive side, WA going nicely. Jayden Goodwin to replace Marnus.


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Turner to replace Smith

 

[Ilkka Sinisalo]

Not a bad time to be facing South Australia with them missing their three best batsmen (McSweeney, Head, Carey) and probably their two best pace bowlers (McAndrew, Buckingham).

 

[Wce17]

Historically the Optus pitch is a batters dream for Day 2/3 and then becomes a minefield to bat on from day 4 onwards... there was one test a few years ago where batting on Day 5 was borderline dangerous. Can't remember who it was against, I feel like it was either the first test against India or the D/N test against the Kiwi's.

The team batting last has lost every test so far at Optus, and only once has a team passed 200 in the 4th innings (WI in 2022 made 333).

Granted, it is a small sample size of 4 tests.

A couple of balls in the last hour showed some signs of variable bounce.

 

[Carbine Chaos]

Whelp, what a dismal day of cricket. Worst I've seen live.

Thought Hazlewood was excellent with the ball, beat the bat repeatedly. Other than that, Cummins was below par, Starc pretty nondescript outside the Khawaja drop, and Marsh's bits were poor. The energy in the field was non-existent. Cummins' body language appeared pretty poor from the stands for much of the day.

Full credit to Jaiswal and KL though, batted us out of the game with discipline. Great first effort by a youngster on Oz soil.

 

[WA footy mad]

Australian cricket team is way to old, they need to drop Cummins, starc, Hazelwood, lyon, marsh, and a number of the other elderly statesman. Lets bring in youth we have a number of potential stars who are under 22years of age.