Cricket- the sport not the insect

[darwin553]

Bresnan's not exciting, but he bowls rubbish a little less often, and he made a century in the warm up game.

I wouldn't have picked him, but I expected them to.

Well then, drop Bairstow, pick Bresnan, keep Finn and play 6 batsmen.

 

[Waterloo Sunrise]

Well then, drop Bairstow, pick Bresnan, keep Finn and play 6 batsmen.

No way of saying this without being rude, but I don't think they're that worried about having to bowl long innings very often in this series.

 

[Waterloo Sunrise]

Anyhow whilst we're on changes, drop Bairstow and get Gary Ballance in the team. 2nd coming of KP.

Yorkshire have a 20 year old getting his first run in the team this year making a double ton today, worth keeping an eye on.

 

[Alphabet]

Steady on, Prior would walk in to your team as a batsman alone.

He would fit right in with the current batting crop, too. Nice and inconsistent, just like the rest of them.

 

[Waterloo Sunrise]

Most of your side would kill for his kind of inconsistency.

His test record is basically Watson with the ability to make a century.

EDIT - just checked and actually much much better than Watson. He'd be your 2nd best player by a mile.

 

[Alphabet]

Rogers has 20k first class runs. He would surely be better than Prior.

And in fairness, this is a far weaker team than what we could have had. Katich is missing, he is still very good; David Hussey has been creaking for the past few months but I refuse to believe that he's worse than Smith and Hughes; Bailey and Voges would also be better than Warner/Cowan/Khawaja/Smith/Hughes.

 

[Waterloo Sunrise]

Rogers will never score half the runs Prior has at this level - no amount of flat track bullying division 2 bowlers will change that.


Siddle should probably learn how to bowl legal deliveries.

Bairstow is ****ing dog****. Useless tosser should be nowhere near this team.

 

[Waterloo Sunrise]

Match odds back to where they were at 11am now.

 

[Waterloo Sunrise]

Problems for Clarke here.

Only 2 wicket takers are the only 2 economical bowlers and they're the 2 which can't be asked to bowl lots of overs.

 

[Cyivel]

Problem solved, bring on Smith!

 

[Waterloo Sunrise]

The only upsetting thing about that dismissal is they still won't drop the useless numpty.

They think loyalty is all important (for batsmen only, obviously) so they make us play with 10 men and that tool.

(n.b. post edited as I discovered the filter allowed me a naughty word).

 

[Waterloo Sunrise]

Commentators seem to think it is inspired captaincy to wait 77 overs before bringing on your best bowler.

 

[Alphabet]

Smith is our worst bowler. Clarke should have bowled himself, bad back be damned, he's the best spinner in Australia. England have had a problem with part-time spin for some time now. Dilshan and Hafeez gave you a few problems last year, didn't they? And Williamson did pretty well for N.Z., as well. I can't remember how Jadeja went, but I remember a particularly amusing (angering, actually) dismissal he got against Trott, I think. The batsman assumed it would spin and left it. It didn't move an inch and went on to take off stump.

When will people learn, always play a part timer on the assumption that he can't turn the ball .

 

[Waterloo Sunrise]

Bowled better than all bar Rolf today.

 

[Alphabet]

He's still only a part timer. Michael Clarke once took 6/9 and outbowled Glenn McGrath, Anil Kumble and Harbhajan Singh. Every dog has it's day.

 

[Cyivel]

Personally I think we are witnessing the birth of another legendary Aussie leg spinner 20 years after the last.

 

[movingtarget]

He's still only a part timer. Michael Clarke once took 6/9 and outbowled Glenn McGrath, Anil Kumble and Harbhajan Singh. Every dog has it's day.

I still think it was a mistake not bowling Smith in the first test but you are right he is only a part timer. Maybe it's time they threw him the ball more often. Clarke is also good on the right wicket and the way he has been moving in slips, I don't think the back can be too bad at the moment. But's it's a chronic condition for Clarke and he probably thinks that bowling could just worsen what is okay at the moment. Siddle's no ball could be a turning point for the match.

 

[darwin553]

What was I saying about Smith being more a specialist batsman who can bowl a bit??

Give him a bowl now and end this!

At least this innings has shown Siddle up for the bowler he really is compared to Harris, hopefully Starc will be back in the team for the next test

Easy pickings is Siddle for the lower end left handers

 

[Alphabet]

Swann and Broad piling on the runs here. They'll probably get to 500 .

As is, 360 is already looking distant for Australia. The openers need to set up a good platform, and then Clarke needs to score a century if we are to have any chance of taking the lead.

 

[darwin553]

What a ****er Broad is, still wouldn't walk even when he has just been given out by the umpire.

 

[movingtarget]

Thank god that's over. We did not need the last partnership. Good performance by Harris and Smith. Pattinson and Siddle not so good. Agar has a hip injury. Warner only got 6 runs in South Africa. Khawaja gets his chance.

 

[Alphabet]

If Agar has injury problems, leave him out and bring Lyon in.

Pattinson has seemed out of sorts lately. He's conceding a lot of runs, which wasn't the case earlier. In India for example, when most of the rest of the attack was conceding virtually 6 an over, he kept things tight. Maybe he ought to be dropped for Bird.

 

[darwin553]

Thank god that's over. We did not need the last partnership. Good performance by Harris and Smith. Pattinson and Siddle not so good. Agar has a hip injury. Warner only got 6 runs in South Africa. Khawaja gets his chance.

To lose Agar wouldn't be that great a loss, Lyon would be ample cover as a spinner but perhaps not his replacement as a batsman.

The problem with Warner and the need for him to score some first class runs is he doesn't seem the kind of batsman that cricket officials and selectors can rely on to score runs in these games but rather is a big stage player and can only really score in the international games.

 

[darwin553]

Pattinson has seemed out of sorts lately. He's conceding a lot of runs, which wasn't the case earlier. In India for example, when most of the rest of the attack was conceding virtually 6 an over, he kept things tight. Maybe he ought to be dropped for Bird.

Pattinson needs to stay - the line up needs an out and out right arm quick. IMO Siddle, Harris and Bird are all competing for the same spot in the bowling line-up given the squad.

 

[movingtarget]

What a ****er Broad is, still wouldn't walk even when he has just been given out by the umpire.

He's not hard to dislike. He obviously expects a no ball every time he gets out. Have to admit though he can be handy with bat sometimes as can Swann.