Banter The No Dazzlering Big Cricket Thread

[Biggie]

Lovely last 10 minutes this

 

[Ilkka Sinisalo]

More fun to blame Virat though.

If Kohli was a true leader he would have sacrificed himself and allowed the superior cricketer to continue to bat.

 

[Ochre]

Statue plz

 

[THE A5]

Is it me or has our summer sorta shorned over the years? Growing up it felt like Australia still played at home in feb and this year they’re off to Sri Lanka in Jan.

Another aspect of having a longer summer would be helping improve the standard of BBL having the Aussie test stars play the back end. Then have an ODi/T20 series after I guess

 

[Keys]

Is it me or has our summer sorta shorned over the years? Growing up it felt like Australia still played at home in feb and this year they’re off to Sri Lanka in Jan.

Another aspect of having a longer summer would be helping improve the standard of BBL having the Aussie test stars play the back end. Then have an ODi/T20 series after I guess

T20 cricket, especially the IPL and the BBL when focusing on our cricket summer, has reduced the window for international cricket

It’s virtually killed ODIs as part of our summer

And it’s only going to get worse

 

[Keys]

Missed the late carnage this afternoon and just watched the last few overs on replay

Aside from the tumbling wickets, how good was Sam Konstas having a fat time out in the field winding up the crowd. So good to see a young guy enjoying himself

 

[Tugga27]

Missed the late carnage this afternoon and just watched the last few overs on replay

Aside from the tumbling wickets, how good was Sam Konstas having a fat time out in the field winding up the crowd. So good to see a young guy enjoying himself

And in typical Aussie style, we get the "He's getting ahead of himself".

 

[Ljp86]

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Not the first time that Carbine Chaos has been ESPNCricinfo famous either.

 

[ConcreteWaters]

No kids for Pant, good at pulling out late

 

[Keys]

Need Lyon to start having an impact with the ball. Hasn’t been required to do much on pace friendly wickets but when he has bowled he’s not been threatening

 

[Keys]

Need Lyon to start having an impact with the ball. Hasn’t been required to do much on pace friendly wickets but when he has bowled he’s not been threatening

Perth
1st: 5/1/23/0
2nd: 39/5/96/2

Adelaide
1st: 1/0/6/0
2nd: DNB

Brisbane
1st: 23/1/55/1
2nd: DNB

Melbourne
1st: 7/1/28/0*

Overall
75/8/208/3

Average- 69.33
Strike Rate- 150.0

 

[ioppolo]

On cue

 

[THE A5]

Indian and even subcontinent teams usually have a really long tail but this Indian side bats real deep

 

[ConcreteWaters]

Don't understand the short stuff to washington. Doesn't have to play it at all

 

[ioppolo]

103 for the eight wicket. I know these two are genuine all rounders but this happens far, far too often. Especially to a bowling group that is collectively almost GOAT level.

 

[Get_The_Gaff]

Very slow pitch .

Lyon getting good spin but very easy to negate without pace in the wicket .

Even the seamers not getting any carry with edges dropping short .

 

[Get_The_Gaff]

103 for the eight wicket. I know these two are genuine all rounders but this happens far, far too often. Especially to a bowling group that is collectively almost GOAT level.

Pitch is a road.

We got lucky with a run out and kohli and pant threw their wickets away

 

[Keys]

This will be another draw

Wickets falling due to batsman error rather than bowlers getting much out of a pitch that’s showing no signs of deteriorating to any great extent

 

[Rowan18]

This will be another draw

Wickets falling due to batsman error rather than bowlers getting much out of a pitch that’s showing no signs of deteriorating to any great extent

Yep, another boxing day snooze on the MCG road. Groundskeeper has to do better.

Let's hope the rain stays away from SCG so we can actually get a result. Three draws in row would be a pretty boring ending to a series that was looking pretty unpredictable.

 

[Ilkka Sinisalo]

Perth
1st: 5/1/23/0
2nd: 39/5/96/2

Adelaide
1st: 1/0/6/0
2nd: DNB

Brisbane
1st: 23/1/55/1
2nd: DNB

Melbourne
1st: 7/1/28/0*

Overall
75/8/208/3

Average- 69.33
Strike Rate- 150.0

To be fair, this hasn’t been a good series for spinners. India’s spinners have bowled 96 overs and taken 7/324, so a better average but also more expensive. Pretty hard to judge whether Lyon has been bad or if the wickets are just not offering anything to the spinners.

 

[DanWCE]

But I suggested the MCG Test would be a road that ended in a draw and got shut down