None of these teams have the mentality when the ball is doing a bit. People talk about Smith's hand/eye co-ordination etc but part of the reality is he's really patient in a way few players in this test match are.
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None of these teams have the mentality when the ball is doing a bit. People talk about Smith's hand/eye co-ordination etc but part of the reality is he's really patient in a way few players in this test match are.
Just caught up with the score. Fuck me. It's actually putting me off a little, this batting. I can take a loss but this is just abysmal.
Nice ball, but what the fuck was Harris doing there? Maybe have a wee reccie to see what the ball was doing?
Australia essentially 148/2, they'll need another 150 from here. But that middle order is piss poor.
Sssh now, it's all about "natural game" these days, and of course since everyone only really plays pyjama cricket everyones natural game is waft ball.
why are they rushing, there are 3 days left !!
England will bat again today
Speaking of batsmen who took their time, Haseeb Hameed's struggles continue :(
https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/...U2GXmxKZ-lW3fgqPTxa4NXIwgredkUuMIz9S21SHgw14g
https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/...U2GXmxKZ-lW3fgqPTxa4NXIwgredkUuMIz9S21SHgw14g
Because they're morons. This was always going to happen. Head and Wade are the same so won't last long. Not one of them have a brain. If they're still batting at close of play they've basically won the test.
Who? Bancroft plays like a nightwatchman. Harris doesn't inspire any confidence. Warner is out of nick. Wade has made exactly one score, Head has made two. Paine is an absolutely abysmal batsmen who probably should be behind the bowlers. I'd get Carey on a flight.
But really they're going to do something like
Warner
Khawaja
Labuschagne
Smith
Head
Wade
Paine
Cummins
Pattinson
Lyon
Hazlewood
This has been quite an interesting day.
Conditions look all blue and sunny, the bowling is good but not that good. Yet batting is extremely hazardous for both sides. Obviously England utterly failed but also Australia hasn't been convincing by any standards either. I've been out of cricket watching for years--is this simply the pitch being so difficult for batting?
Conditions look all blue and sunny, the bowling is good but not that good. Yet batting is extremely hazardous for both sides. Obviously England utterly failed but also Australia hasn't been convincing by any standards either. I've been out of cricket watching for years--is this simply the pitch being so difficult for batting?
It's dry and this Dukes ball was brought in specifically to move about, it's got an exaggerated pronounced seam which tend to grip in dry pitches or pitches with a bit of grass on them. So it's nipping about, yesterday it swung and seamed, today it's really just seamed.
For all I rag on Australia's batting line up, yesterday you'd expect to get skittled for a low score. 250 ish would have been a good score, what they got was well beneath that but it was terribly tricky. Today it's really been a bit of seam of movement combined with some absolutely moronic batting. I mean as well as Australia bowled, only really Root got a great ball to get him out, pretty much everyone else just didn't account for the movement and played ridiculous shots. Australia have continued that with both Harris and Khawaja giving their wickets away.
That makes a lot of sense. I didn't think about the ball. Thanks, kmag!
And wowser at that slip catch being dropped. That's heartbreaking for England.
They way comms keep re-iterating the importance of umpire's call is a bit misleading. It's not that the rules are incorrectly deeming a batsmen out/not out based on the umpire's call despite the ball tracking saying otherwise. It's instead that the ball tracking result has enough uncertainty to not overturn the original decision/hypothesis. Comms should re-iterate the error and uncertainty in the system, not the umpire's decision.
Labushagne just nodding that he hit it. Wonder if the australian crowds will go crazy over that...
We've bowled really well here.
We've bowled really well here.
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They initially debated changing the size of the ball on the graphical track to about the size of a soft ball when the umpire gives it out and to about the size of a billard ball when they don't because essentially that's what umpire calls are but they rightly thought it'd be too confusing. They also considered representing it with a cone but they want to give the false certainty.
Christ Paine can't bat. I don't care if he's Captain he's a man down in the batting. I mean really he's just shit at batting. He's not a great onfield captain and while he's a great wicketkeeper that's not enough
Australia aren't safe yet.
Australia aren't safe yet.
Yeah, very disappointing from Paine. Australia only needs a little bit more to seal this match, and the Ashes, but he gets a duck.
More positively, Labuschagne has been fantastic and a real boost to Australia. He's been extremely lucky being dropped twice and getting a no ball a third time, but he's played well too. Selectors should be able to happily keep him and drop one of the other batsmen when Smith comes back.
That's a great idea: drop Paine and let Wade keep wicket.
More positively, Labuschagne has been fantastic and a real boost to Australia. He's been extremely lucky being dropped twice and getting a no ball a third time, but he's played well too. Selectors should be able to happily keep him and drop one of the other batsmen when Smith comes back.
That's a great idea: drop Paine and let Wade keep wicket.
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That might be one of the stupidest review decisions ever in any sport?
Shane Watson would be proud.
Shane Watson would be proud.
I'm not sure Australia are getting 300+. It's hard for a new batsman to start on this, they're well in the tail and Labuschagne is stuck (he's not been able to score for a while now)
Australia just need 21 more runs to get to 300. They'll get there. I think that will be enough to win the match.
lol, I just realised it is only the end of Day 2.
Nice to see a contest between two competent captains.
Nice to see a contest between two competent captains.
Unfortunately not, can't stream at work. Just been watching Willow's 1hr highlights in the evening.