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+x+x+xBurns has never captained from my recollection, Hartley, then gave Khawaja a couple of games, now Peirson. True to form the selectors have protected the CA big money players, Siddle???? to old, never a great performer, can't catch like a good 12th man, what's the point. I prefer the CAIX bowling attack, with Cummins for Neser, Lyon for Holland. Doran selection will be because of the Big Bash, the other wicket keepers are performing there. Forgot to ask you Baggers about Sangha facing Richardson, I fell off my lounge chair in laughter when I saw him play the bouncer, then realised the poor kid could have been killed. A lot of glaring problems for Sangha, can't play swing and it appears he wants to headbutt the bouncer, and out the next ball. I can only imagine what SA bowlers would be thinking if they played him in the Australian side. I just hope NSW coaches realise this problem early and work with him, unlike what happened to Phil Hughes, he couldn't play short deliveries either, and the poor bloke lost his life because of it. In case you missed this from Paddles on another thread I've bought it across for you to enjoy the article from NSW media https://www.smh.com.au/sport/cricket/the-damning-numbers-that-reveal-australia-s-bowling-struggles-20190101-p50p1n.htmlBut it should all be familiar to you if you've read what Paddles and myself have been discussing, typical media only 2 weeks behind. Don't mention it whilst relevant, its only Sri Lanka without their best batsman, so should be easy numbers for the bowlers. I am noticing that a lot of our youngsters struggle against the short ball. Pucovski 7 concussions since his junior days, Sangha as you point out.. Jack Edwards has not looked all that comfortable on a couple of occasions. Marcus Harris .. a little older than the others.. him as well. Keeps getting pinged on the helmet. Ponting says it is a case of not watching the ball to the last second before evading. Another example of poor junior coaching? Have already read that SMH article. I am not denying it. Still maintain Starc is the weak link. Could he be bringing down the others? Also has sandpapergate" have our quicks running scared to bowl reverse. Hazlewood for one has been a fine exponent of it in the past. As you know I have maintained he should dump swing because frankly he is not good at it. The only time he has swung the ball conventionally to good affect is during the day/nite pink tests. He can do it then..why not during the day? For NZ Adam Milne can also get the pace up there. I've seen him bowl balls at 149 kph in ODIs. Does he play FC cricket? I've never seen him in the Kiwi Test team.
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+x+x+x+x+x+xBurns has never captained from my recollection, Hartley, then gave Khawaja a couple of games, now Peirson. True to form the selectors have protected the CA big money players, Siddle???? to old, never a great performer, can't catch like a good 12th man, what's the point. I prefer the CAIX bowling attack, with Cummins for Neser, Lyon for Holland. Doran selection will be because of the Big Bash, the other wicket keepers are performing there. Forgot to ask you Baggers about Sangha facing Richardson, I fell off my lounge chair in laughter when I saw him play the bouncer, then realised the poor kid could have been killed. A lot of glaring problems for Sangha, can't play swing and it appears he wants to headbutt the bouncer, and out the next ball. I can only imagine what SA bowlers would be thinking if they played him in the Australian side. I just hope NSW coaches realise this problem early and work with him, unlike what happened to Phil Hughes, he couldn't play short deliveries either, and the poor bloke lost his life because of it. In case you missed this from Paddles on another thread I've bought it across for you to enjoy the article from NSW media https://www.smh.com.au/sport/cricket/the-damning-numbers-that-reveal-australia-s-bowling-struggles-20190101-p50p1n.htmlBut it should all be familiar to you if you've read what Paddles and myself have been discussing, typical media only 2 weeks behind. Don't mention it whilst relevant, its only Sri Lanka without their best batsman, so should be easy numbers for the bowlers. I am noticing that a lot of our youngsters struggle against the short ball. Pucovski 7 concussions since his junior days, Sangha as you point out.. Jack Edwards has not looked all that comfortable on a couple of occasions. Marcus Harris .. a little older than the others.. him as well. Keeps getting pinged on the helmet. Ponting says it is a case of not watching the ball to the last second before evading. Another example of poor junior coaching? Have already read that SMH article. I am not denying it. Still maintain Starc is the weak link. Could he be bringing down the others? Also has sandpapergate" have our quicks running scared to bowl reverse. Hazlewood for one has been a fine exponent of it in the past. As you know I have maintained he should dump swing because frankly he is not good at it. The only time he has swung the ball conventionally to good affect is during the day/nite pink tests. He can do it then..why not during the day? Why would sandpapergate prevent someone from bowling reverse? The more obvious question is why since sandpapergate can our bowlers no longer bowl reverse? How much effect was the tape, that Warner "our designated ball shiner" was wearing, having. It which was questioned by SA, IMO the masters of ball tampering, they know all the tricks. I'll say it, if others are afraid to, if any team in the world has a designated ball shiner, something dodgy is going on. I don't care which team it is, all players know which side of the ball to shine is.........the shiny one! you don't need special talents to work that out. Funny since Warner was asked to remove the tape from his hand, how his "injury", the reason for wearing the tape, miraculously healed and coincidentally Starc and Hazlewood, our "masters of getting the ball to reverse" can't do it any more, that was evident in the 2nd test SA prior to Sandpapergate. I still don't believe in coincidence. Hmmm SA accuse him of tampering with those bandages on Mar 11... Warner denies it. Then sandpapergate two weeks later... Post sandpapergate no reverse swing for Starc and Josh... the irony is - Warner is the eldest and would typically be the first to retire and the write the bio - but I can see him joining t20 tours post Australia rep days... I thought about it Paddles and I do believe that the reason Starc and Hazlewood have been poorly performing, is that Australia is missing their designated ball shiner, they don't know which side to shine. Don't joke about this! A few off air, in the know, claim this is why they are struggling - not having illicit ball tamperers working on it. Not joking about it. Smith and Warner have been doing this for years. Daryl Harper picked up on it at a Sheffield Shield game and reported it, yet nothing was done by CA. This makes you wonder if Starc and Hazlewood have been getting an unfair advantage over others even at shield level? Did they get selected to the Australian side based on their ability to bowl with a tampered with ball? Another question is we have all played cricket, and if you were a batsman would you ever bring sandpaper out without telling your bowlers first to see if it was OK. As a batsman I doubt I would really know what a bowler would like the ball to look like to get reverse, and I definitely wouldn't do it without telling the bowlers first just in case I made the problem worse. And here is the article that shows that they have been prepared to tamper with the ball to get it to do something since 2016, and that's just when they were caught, how long prior? Starc and Hazlewood have led the attack since Nov 2015, forget the tears from Smith, he was unapologetic back in 2016. https://www.smh.com.au/sport/cricket/the-email-that-shows-umpires-had-raised-concerns-about-smith-and-warner-before-20180329-p4z6xh.htmlAlso note the whinge about "the quality of pitch" when you just got a public spanking by a shield team that obviously had no problem with the pitch, they got a result in 4 days. Another thing Australian players fall back on when they lose.
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bouncing off the pitch is a different galaxy to sandpaper....
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+x+x+x+x+x+xBurns has never captained from my recollection, Hartley, then gave Khawaja a couple of games, now Peirson. True to form the selectors have protected the CA big money players, Siddle???? to old, never a great performer, can't catch like a good 12th man, what's the point. I prefer the CAIX bowling attack, with Cummins for Neser, Lyon for Holland. Doran selection will be because of the Big Bash, the other wicket keepers are performing there. Forgot to ask you Baggers about Sangha facing Richardson, I fell off my lounge chair in laughter when I saw him play the bouncer, then realised the poor kid could have been killed. A lot of glaring problems for Sangha, can't play swing and it appears he wants to headbutt the bouncer, and out the next ball. I can only imagine what SA bowlers would be thinking if they played him in the Australian side. I just hope NSW coaches realise this problem early and work with him, unlike what happened to Phil Hughes, he couldn't play short deliveries either, and the poor bloke lost his life because of it. In case you missed this from Paddles on another thread I've bought it across for you to enjoy the article from NSW media https://www.smh.com.au/sport/cricket/the-damning-numbers-that-reveal-australia-s-bowling-struggles-20190101-p50p1n.htmlBut it should all be familiar to you if you've read what Paddles and myself have been discussing, typical media only 2 weeks behind. Don't mention it whilst relevant, its only Sri Lanka without their best batsman, so should be easy numbers for the bowlers. I am noticing that a lot of our youngsters struggle against the short ball. Pucovski 7 concussions since his junior days, Sangha as you point out.. Jack Edwards has not looked all that comfortable on a couple of occasions. Marcus Harris .. a little older than the others.. him as well. Keeps getting pinged on the helmet. Ponting says it is a case of not watching the ball to the last second before evading. Another example of poor junior coaching? Have already read that SMH article. I am not denying it. Still maintain Starc is the weak link. Could he be bringing down the others? Also has sandpapergate" have our quicks running scared to bowl reverse. Hazlewood for one has been a fine exponent of it in the past. As you know I have maintained he should dump swing because frankly he is not good at it. The only time he has swung the ball conventionally to good affect is during the day/nite pink tests. He can do it then..why not during the day? Why would sandpapergate prevent someone from bowling reverse? The more obvious question is why since sandpapergate can our bowlers no longer bowl reverse? How much effect was the tape, that Warner "our designated ball shiner" was wearing, having. It which was questioned by SA, IMO the masters of ball tampering, they know all the tricks. I'll say it, if others are afraid to, if any team in the world has a designated ball shiner, something dodgy is going on. I don't care which team it is, all players know which side of the ball to shine is.........the shiny one! you don't need special talents to work that out. Funny since Warner was asked to remove the tape from his hand, how his "injury", the reason for wearing the tape, miraculously healed and coincidentally Starc and Hazlewood, our "masters of getting the ball to reverse" can't do it any more, that was evident in the 2nd test SA prior to Sandpapergate. I still don't believe in coincidence. Hmmm SA accuse him of tampering with those bandages on Mar 11... Warner denies it. Then sandpapergate two weeks later... Post sandpapergate no reverse swing for Starc and Josh... the irony is - Warner is the eldest and would typically be the first to retire and the write the bio - but I can see him joining t20 tours post Australia rep days... I thought about it Paddles and I do believe that the reason Starc and Hazlewood have been poorly performing, is that Australia is missing their designated ball shiner, they don't know which side to shine. Don't joke about this! A few off air, in the know, claim this is why they are struggling - not having illicit ball tamperers working on it. Maxwell, Maxwell, Maxwell. Pick up a paper and that is all you read. Is becoming tiresome. Langer says Maxie has been notified where he stands in relation to a test spot. I expect that is to produce more consistent runs. The enigmatic Victorian is evidently taking things into his own hands by playing some cricket in England prior to the Ashes. One red ball game and five white ball games. Perhaps Maxie you should have tried reversing that by playing 5 red ball games. Or as many as time allowed. Other than Maxwell bleating about being left out of the Sri Lanka series , Ashton Agar has reportedly been questioning his continual omission from any national sides. Now this is a bloke that should be jumping up and down and tearing out what little of his hair remains. He, believe it or not has a central contract, yet what national cricket has he actually played over the past 12 months? Sweet fanny all. Thats what.
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Is everyone aware the three day tour match is a pinkie? Being played at Hobart. We a should all be now aware that the First test is also a pinkie..but at the Gabba. The Gabba..Australia's paciest track. Wth the red ball hooping all over the place at dusk added to the pace and bounce of the Brisbane track..the centre strip is going to be no place for the faint hearted. Should be a great spectacle.
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Four into three does not go. So on Jan I7 in beautiful downtown Hobart Joe Burns, Matt Renshaw, Marnus Labuschagne and Will Pucovski will go head to head for three batting spots in the First Test. Promises to be an intriguing tussle.
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+x+x+x+x+x+x+xBurns has never captained from my recollection, Hartley, then gave Khawaja a couple of games, now Peirson. True to form the selectors have protected the CA big money players, Siddle???? to old, never a great performer, can't catch like a good 12th man, what's the point. I prefer the CAIX bowling attack, with Cummins for Neser, Lyon for Holland. Doran selection will be because of the Big Bash, the other wicket keepers are performing there. Forgot to ask you Baggers about Sangha facing Richardson, I fell off my lounge chair in laughter when I saw him play the bouncer, then realised the poor kid could have been killed. A lot of glaring problems for Sangha, can't play swing and it appears he wants to headbutt the bouncer, and out the next ball. I can only imagine what SA bowlers would be thinking if they played him in the Australian side. I just hope NSW coaches realise this problem early and work with him, unlike what happened to Phil Hughes, he couldn't play short deliveries either, and the poor bloke lost his life because of it. In case you missed this from Paddles on another thread I've bought it across for you to enjoy the article from NSW media https://www.smh.com.au/sport/cricket/the-damning-numbers-that-reveal-australia-s-bowling-struggles-20190101-p50p1n.htmlBut it should all be familiar to you if you've read what Paddles and myself have been discussing, typical media only 2 weeks behind. Don't mention it whilst relevant, its only Sri Lanka without their best batsman, so should be easy numbers for the bowlers. I am noticing that a lot of our youngsters struggle against the short ball. Pucovski 7 concussions since his junior days, Sangha as you point out.. Jack Edwards has not looked all that comfortable on a couple of occasions. Marcus Harris .. a little older than the others.. him as well. Keeps getting pinged on the helmet. Ponting says it is a case of not watching the ball to the last second before evading. Another example of poor junior coaching? Have already read that SMH article. I am not denying it. Still maintain Starc is the weak link. Could he be bringing down the others? Also has sandpapergate" have our quicks running scared to bowl reverse. Hazlewood for one has been a fine exponent of it in the past. As you know I have maintained he should dump swing because frankly he is not good at it. The only time he has swung the ball conventionally to good affect is during the day/nite pink tests. He can do it then..why not during the day? Why would sandpapergate prevent someone from bowling reverse? The more obvious question is why since sandpapergate can our bowlers no longer bowl reverse? How much effect was the tape, that Warner "our designated ball shiner" was wearing, having. It which was questioned by SA, IMO the masters of ball tampering, they know all the tricks. I'll say it, if others are afraid to, if any team in the world has a designated ball shiner, something dodgy is going on. I don't care which team it is, all players know which side of the ball to shine is.........the shiny one! you don't need special talents to work that out. Funny since Warner was asked to remove the tape from his hand, how his "injury", the reason for wearing the tape, miraculously healed and coincidentally Starc and Hazlewood, our "masters of getting the ball to reverse" can't do it any more, that was evident in the 2nd test SA prior to Sandpapergate. I still don't believe in coincidence. Hmmm SA accuse him of tampering with those bandages on Mar 11... Warner denies it. Then sandpapergate two weeks later... Post sandpapergate no reverse swing for Starc and Josh... the irony is - Warner is the eldest and would typically be the first to retire and the write the bio - but I can see him joining t20 tours post Australia rep days... I thought about it Paddles and I do believe that the reason Starc and Hazlewood have been poorly performing, is that Australia is missing their designated ball shiner, they don't know which side to shine. Don't joke about this! A few off air, in the know, claim this is why they are struggling - not having illicit ball tamperers working on it. Maxwell, Maxwell, Maxwell. Pick up a paper and that is all you read. Is becoming tiresome. Langer says Maxie has been notified where he stands in relation to a test spot. I expect that is to produce more consistent runs. The enigmatic Victorian is evidently taking things into his own hands by playing some cricket in England prior to the Ashes. One red ball game and five white ball games. Perhaps Maxie you should have tried reversing that by playing 5 red ball games. Or as many as time allowed. Other than Maxwell bleating about being left out of the Sri Lanka series , Ashton Agar has reportedly been questioning his continual omission from any national sides. Now this is a bloke that should be jumping up and down and tearing out what little of his hair remains. He, believe it or not has a central contract, yet what national cricket has he actually played over the past 12 months? Sweet fanny all. Thats what. being number 2 redball batsmen in the country is surely consistent enough it doesn't matter that he's not as good as we used to have. He's better than most we currently have
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+xSo is Burns going to play in the middle order or is it between him and Renshaw to partner Harris with the tour match an opening shoot out between the two? Is up in the air until the toss. Four are playing for three spots. Weather looks ok for two of the three days. I like day/niters with the pink ball. We go well in these games as a rule. CA should live stream it. Looking forward to it.
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+x+x+x+x+x+x+xBurns has never captained from my recollection, Hartley, then gave Khawaja a couple of games, now Peirson. True to form the selectors have protected the CA big money players, Siddle???? to old, never a great performer, can't catch like a good 12th man, what's the point. I prefer the CAIX bowling attack, with Cummins for Neser, Lyon for Holland. Doran selection will be because of the Big Bash, the other wicket keepers are performing there. Forgot to ask you Baggers about Sangha facing Richardson, I fell off my lounge chair in laughter when I saw him play the bouncer, then realised the poor kid could have been killed. A lot of glaring problems for Sangha, can't play swing and it appears he wants to headbutt the bouncer, and out the next ball. I can only imagine what SA bowlers would be thinking if they played him in the Australian side. I just hope NSW coaches realise this problem early and work with him, unlike what happened to Phil Hughes, he couldn't play short deliveries either, and the poor bloke lost his life because of it. In case you missed this from Paddles on another thread I've bought it across for you to enjoy the article from NSW media https://www.smh.com.au/sport/cricket/the-damning-numbers-that-reveal-australia-s-bowling-struggles-20190101-p50p1n.htmlBut it should all be familiar to you if you've read what Paddles and myself have been discussing, typical media only 2 weeks behind. Don't mention it whilst relevant, its only Sri Lanka without their best batsman, so should be easy numbers for the bowlers. I am noticing that a lot of our youngsters struggle against the short ball. Pucovski 7 concussions since his junior days, Sangha as you point out.. Jack Edwards has not looked all that comfortable on a couple of occasions. Marcus Harris .. a little older than the others.. him as well. Keeps getting pinged on the helmet. Ponting says it is a case of not watching the ball to the last second before evading. Another example of poor junior coaching? Have already read that SMH article. I am not denying it. Still maintain Starc is the weak link. Could he be bringing down the others? Also has sandpapergate" have our quicks running scared to bowl reverse. Hazlewood for one has been a fine exponent of it in the past. As you know I have maintained he should dump swing because frankly he is not good at it. The only time he has swung the ball conventionally to good affect is during the day/nite pink tests. He can do it then..why not during the day? Why would sandpapergate prevent someone from bowling reverse? The more obvious question is why since sandpapergate can our bowlers no longer bowl reverse? How much effect was the tape, that Warner "our designated ball shiner" was wearing, having. It which was questioned by SA, IMO the masters of ball tampering, they know all the tricks. I'll say it, if others are afraid to, if any team in the world has a designated ball shiner, something dodgy is going on. I don't care which team it is, all players know which side of the ball to shine is.........the shiny one! you don't need special talents to work that out. Funny since Warner was asked to remove the tape from his hand, how his "injury", the reason for wearing the tape, miraculously healed and coincidentally Starc and Hazlewood, our "masters of getting the ball to reverse" can't do it any more, that was evident in the 2nd test SA prior to Sandpapergate. I still don't believe in coincidence. Hmmm SA accuse him of tampering with those bandages on Mar 11... Warner denies it. Then sandpapergate two weeks later... Post sandpapergate no reverse swing for Starc and Josh... the irony is - Warner is the eldest and would typically be the first to retire and the write the bio - but I can see him joining t20 tours post Australia rep days... I thought about it Paddles and I do believe that the reason Starc and Hazlewood have been poorly performing, is that Australia is missing their designated ball shiner, they don't know which side to shine. Don't joke about this! A few off air, in the know, claim this is why they are struggling - not having illicit ball tamperers working on it. Maxwell, Maxwell, Maxwell. Pick up a paper and that is all you read. Is becoming tiresome. Langer says Maxie has been notified where he stands in relation to a test spot. I expect that is to produce more consistent runs. The enigmatic Victorian is evidently taking things into his own hands by playing some cricket in England prior to the Ashes. One red ball game and five white ball games. Perhaps Maxie you should have tried reversing that by playing 5 red ball games. Or as many as time allowed. Other than Maxwell bleating about being left out of the Sri Lanka series , Ashton Agar has reportedly been questioning his continual omission from any national sides. Now this is a bloke that should be jumping up and down and tearing out what little of his hair remains. He, believe it or not has a central contract, yet what national cricket has he actually played over the past 12 months? Sweet fanny all. Thats what. Did you forget the time where we stopped Maxwell from playing red ball cricket because he was told he'd feature for Australia and we left him rotting on the reserves? Or whenever it is time for some red ball cricket he gets called up for ODI's and T20's for the country. Not his problem Cricket Australia keep screwing him around, its a disgrace.
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+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+xBurns has never captained from my recollection, Hartley, then gave Khawaja a couple of games, now Peirson. True to form the selectors have protected the CA big money players, Siddle???? to old, never a great performer, can't catch like a good 12th man, what's the point. I prefer the CAIX bowling attack, with Cummins for Neser, Lyon for Holland. Doran selection will be because of the Big Bash, the other wicket keepers are performing there. Forgot to ask you Baggers about Sangha facing Richardson, I fell off my lounge chair in laughter when I saw him play the bouncer, then realised the poor kid could have been killed. A lot of glaring problems for Sangha, can't play swing and it appears he wants to headbutt the bouncer, and out the next ball. I can only imagine what SA bowlers would be thinking if they played him in the Australian side. I just hope NSW coaches realise this problem early and work with him, unlike what happened to Phil Hughes, he couldn't play short deliveries either, and the poor bloke lost his life because of it. In case you missed this from Paddles on another thread I've bought it across for you to enjoy the article from NSW media https://www.smh.com.au/sport/cricket/the-damning-numbers-that-reveal-australia-s-bowling-struggles-20190101-p50p1n.htmlBut it should all be familiar to you if you've read what Paddles and myself have been discussing, typical media only 2 weeks behind. Don't mention it whilst relevant, its only Sri Lanka without their best batsman, so should be easy numbers for the bowlers. I am noticing that a lot of our youngsters struggle against the short ball. Pucovski 7 concussions since his junior days, Sangha as you point out.. Jack Edwards has not looked all that comfortable on a couple of occasions. Marcus Harris .. a little older than the others.. him as well. Keeps getting pinged on the helmet. Ponting says it is a case of not watching the ball to the last second before evading. Another example of poor junior coaching? Have already read that SMH article. I am not denying it. Still maintain Starc is the weak link. Could he be bringing down the others? Also has sandpapergate" have our quicks running scared to bowl reverse. Hazlewood for one has been a fine exponent of it in the past. As you know I have maintained he should dump swing because frankly he is not good at it. The only time he has swung the ball conventionally to good affect is during the day/nite pink tests. He can do it then..why not during the day? Why would sandpapergate prevent someone from bowling reverse? The more obvious question is why since sandpapergate can our bowlers no longer bowl reverse? How much effect was the tape, that Warner "our designated ball shiner" was wearing, having. It which was questioned by SA, IMO the masters of ball tampering, they know all the tricks. I'll say it, if others are afraid to, if any team in the world has a designated ball shiner, something dodgy is going on. I don't care which team it is, all players know which side of the ball to shine is.........the shiny one! you don't need special talents to work that out. Funny since Warner was asked to remove the tape from his hand, how his "injury", the reason for wearing the tape, miraculously healed and coincidentally Starc and Hazlewood, our "masters of getting the ball to reverse" can't do it any more, that was evident in the 2nd test SA prior to Sandpapergate. I still don't believe in coincidence. Hmmm SA accuse him of tampering with those bandages on Mar 11... Warner denies it. Then sandpapergate two weeks later... Post sandpapergate no reverse swing for Starc and Josh... the irony is - Warner is the eldest and would typically be the first to retire and the write the bio - but I can see him joining t20 tours post Australia rep days... I thought about it Paddles and I do believe that the reason Starc and Hazlewood have been poorly performing, is that Australia is missing their designated ball shiner, they don't know which side to shine. Don't joke about this! A few off air, in the know, claim this is why they are struggling - not having illicit ball tamperers working on it. Maxwell, Maxwell, Maxwell. Pick up a paper and that is all you read. Is becoming tiresome. Langer says Maxie has been notified where he stands in relation to a test spot. I expect that is to produce more consistent runs. The enigmatic Victorian is evidently taking things into his own hands by playing some cricket in England prior to the Ashes. One red ball game and five white ball games. Perhaps Maxie you should have tried reversing that by playing 5 red ball games. Or as many as time allowed. Other than Maxwell bleating about being left out of the Sri Lanka series , Ashton Agar has reportedly been questioning his continual omission from any national sides. Now this is a bloke that should be jumping up and down and tearing out what little of his hair remains. He, believe it or not has a central contract, yet what national cricket has he actually played over the past 12 months? Sweet fanny all. Thats what. Did you forget the time where we stopped Maxwell from playing red ball cricket because he was told he'd feature for Australia and we left him rotting on the reserves? Or whenever it is time for some red ball cricket he gets called up for ODI's and T20's for the country. Not his problem Cricket Australia keep screwing him around, its a disgrace. Agar has been screwed around just as much. At lease Maxie gets games for his country. Agar is now the one rotting on the reserves bench.
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+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+x+xBurns has never captained from my recollection, Hartley, then gave Khawaja a couple of games, now Peirson. True to form the selectors have protected the CA big money players, Siddle???? to old, never a great performer, can't catch like a good 12th man, what's the point. I prefer the CAIX bowling attack, with Cummins for Neser, Lyon for Holland. Doran selection will be because of the Big Bash, the other wicket keepers are performing there. Forgot to ask you Baggers about Sangha facing Richardson, I fell off my lounge chair in laughter when I saw him play the bouncer, then realised the poor kid could have been killed. A lot of glaring problems for Sangha, can't play swing and it appears he wants to headbutt the bouncer, and out the next ball. I can only imagine what SA bowlers would be thinking if they played him in the Australian side. I just hope NSW coaches realise this problem early and work with him, unlike what happened to Phil Hughes, he couldn't play short deliveries either, and the poor bloke lost his life because of it. In case you missed this from Paddles on another thread I've bought it across for you to enjoy the article from NSW media https://www.smh.com.au/sport/cricket/the-damning-numbers-that-reveal-australia-s-bowling-struggles-20190101-p50p1n.htmlBut it should all be familiar to you if you've read what Paddles and myself have been discussing, typical media only 2 weeks behind. Don't mention it whilst relevant, its only Sri Lanka without their best batsman, so should be easy numbers for the bowlers. I am noticing that a lot of our youngsters struggle against the short ball. Pucovski 7 concussions since his junior days, Sangha as you point out.. Jack Edwards has not looked all that comfortable on a couple of occasions. Marcus Harris .. a little older than the others.. him as well. Keeps getting pinged on the helmet. Ponting says it is a case of not watching the ball to the last second before evading. Another example of poor junior coaching? Have already read that SMH article. I am not denying it. Still maintain Starc is the weak link. Could he be bringing down the others? Also has sandpapergate" have our quicks running scared to bowl reverse. Hazlewood for one has been a fine exponent of it in the past. As you know I have maintained he should dump swing because frankly he is not good at it. The only time he has swung the ball conventionally to good affect is during the day/nite pink tests. He can do it then..why not during the day? Why would sandpapergate prevent someone from bowling reverse? The more obvious question is why since sandpapergate can our bowlers no longer bowl reverse? How much effect was the tape, that Warner "our designated ball shiner" was wearing, having. It which was questioned by SA, IMO the masters of ball tampering, they know all the tricks. I'll say it, if others are afraid to, if any team in the world has a designated ball shiner, something dodgy is going on. I don't care which team it is, all players know which side of the ball to shine is.........the shiny one! you don't need special talents to work that out. Funny since Warner was asked to remove the tape from his hand, how his "injury", the reason for wearing the tape, miraculously healed and coincidentally Starc and Hazlewood, our "masters of getting the ball to reverse" can't do it any more, that was evident in the 2nd test SA prior to Sandpapergate. I still don't believe in coincidence. Hmmm SA accuse him of tampering with those bandages on Mar 11... Warner denies it. Then sandpapergate two weeks later... Post sandpapergate no reverse swing for Starc and Josh... the irony is - Warner is the eldest and would typically be the first to retire and the write the bio - but I can see him joining t20 tours post Australia rep days... I thought about it Paddles and I do believe that the reason Starc and Hazlewood have been poorly performing, is that Australia is missing their designated ball shiner, they don't know which side to shine. Don't joke about this! A few off air, in the know, claim this is why they are struggling - not having illicit ball tamperers working on it. Maxwell, Maxwell, Maxwell. Pick up a paper and that is all you read. Is becoming tiresome. Langer says Maxie has been notified where he stands in relation to a test spot. I expect that is to produce more consistent runs. The enigmatic Victorian is evidently taking things into his own hands by playing some cricket in England prior to the Ashes. One red ball game and five white ball games. Perhaps Maxie you should have tried reversing that by playing 5 red ball games. Or as many as time allowed. Other than Maxwell bleating about being left out of the Sri Lanka series , Ashton Agar has reportedly been questioning his continual omission from any national sides. Now this is a bloke that should be jumping up and down and tearing out what little of his hair remains. He, believe it or not has a central contract, yet what national cricket has he actually played over the past 12 months? Sweet fanny all. Thats what. Did you forget the time where we stopped Maxwell from playing red ball cricket because he was told he'd feature for Australia and we left him rotting on the reserves? Or whenever it is time for some red ball cricket he gets called up for ODI's and T20's for the country. Not his problem Cricket Australia keep screwing him around, its a disgrace. Agar has been screwed around just as much. At lease Maxie gets games for his country. Agar is now the one rotting on the reserves bench. Now we hear Agar will miss further chances to don Aussie colors as he has surgery for a badly broken finger. In further news that should please Mike no end, Josh Hazlewood will be missing from our attack for the Lankan two tester. Josh is suffering from the early stages of a stress lumbar injury..the same injury that has floored Nathan Coulter-Nile, Jason Behrendorff and even Peter Siddle. The puzzling thing is why? This injury usually inflicts boys before their bodies have fully developed.. not mature bowlers. Can we blame our so called sports scientists at CA as name me a mature bowler in past decades that has suffered this injury. Comments.
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Jhye Richardson has been selected as Hazlewood's replacement, a good move although Tremain should be in the squad ahead of Siddle. Probably Siddle will play and he might do quite well against the weak Sri Lankan batting line up and then take his place in the Ashes squad.
Patterson must be added to the test squad after his performance in Hobart.
Then we could play
Harris, Burns, Khawaja, Head, Patterson, Labuschagne, Paine, Cummins, Starc, Richardson, Lyon
This would be a reasonable team although Labuschagne should be replaced by Maxwell or Wade.
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+xJhye Richardson has been selected as Hazlewood's replacement, a good move although Tremain should be in the squad ahead of Siddle. Probably Siddle will play and he might do quite well against the weak Sri Lankan batting line up and then take his place in the Ashes squad. Patterson must be added to the test squad after his performance in Hobart. Then we could play Harris, Burns, Khawaja, Head, Patterson, Labuschagne, Paine, Cummins, Starc, Richardson, Lyon This would be a reasonable team although Labuschagne should be replaced by Maxwell or Wade. Tremain definitely has to be the next cab off the rank. A like for like replacement. Richardson is a massive talent so have him in the squad so he can feed off the mentors.
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Tremains just another on the Maxwell, Patterson, Burns etc list who get hard done by. Richardson is a huge talent but only has 11 FC games. Tremain is 27 and in the peak really of his career with 52 first class games and a brilliant average but CA has obviously identified something lacking in him and prefer the new shiny thing (see Harris, Pucovski). That said Id rather they play Richardson than Siddle to replace Hazlewood. The odd thing is I dont think they have much of a pecking order or if they do the criteria changes frequently. They had Doggett and Nesser for the Pakistan series
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+x+xJhye Richardson has been selected as Hazlewood's replacement, a good move although Tremain should be in the squad ahead of Siddle. Probably Siddle will play and he might do quite well against the weak Sri Lankan batting line up and then take his place in the Ashes squad. Patterson must be added to the test squad after his performance in Hobart. Then we could play Harris, Burns, Khawaja, Head, Patterson, Labuschagne, Paine, Cummins, Starc, Richardson, Lyon This would be a reasonable team although Labuschagne should be replaced by Maxwell or Wade. If Tremain does not make the Ashes squad that will be a huge travesty of justice. Hazlewood's replacement should be a fellow seamer. Richardson is a massive talent so have him in the squad so he can feed off the experienced blokes... the team mentors. I have always pushed Joe Burns cart. Unless he makes an irresistible case in these two tests..he is not on the plane to England. His two dismissals in this game still spell of a loose technique and impatience. Labuchagne on the other hand has the makings of a good Test batsman. Has a more solid technique than Burns.
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+xTremains just another on the Maxwell, Patterson, Burns etc list who get hard done by. Richardson is a huge talent but only has 11 FC games. Tremain is 27 and in the peak really of his career with 52 first class games and a brilliant average but CA has obviously identified something lacking in him and prefer the new shiny thing (see Harris, Pucovski). That said Id rather they play Richardson than Siddle to replace Hazlewood. The odd thing is I dont think they have much of a pecking order or if they do the criteria changes frequently. They had Doggett and Nesser for the Pakistan series I can understand this "something lacking" in Tremain 12 months ago. Evidently Tremain was slacking it and was told by CA in no uncertain terms that international cricket needs 100% commitment. Tremain said in an interview that he had been training for a nine month season as he did not see a test bowling spot for him any time soon. So for him to have been selected in this match with a view towards the Ashes.. he has to have satisfied CA of that missing 30% commitment.
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Got a bad feeling of choosing Jhye over tremain
He is lethal when confident but if he goes for runs he loses his rhthym. Needs to mentally toughen
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+xGot a bad feeling of choosing Jhye over tremain He is lethal when confident but if he goes for runs he loses his rhthym. Needs to mentally toughen There is little between both in Shield this year. Take a squizz at Richardson's numbers five games 27.@19... most impressive. Superior to Tremain. the thing is the Dubbo,NSW -born Bushranger has had three solid years on the trot. That should stand for something.
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What will CAX1 be looking at before declaring? 300, 350. Should do it.
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+xWhat will CAX1 be looking at before declaring? 300, 350. Should do it. 200 runs for the match for Patterson.. the perfect warm up for a test match CA.
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+x+xWhat will CAX1 be looking at before declaring? 300, 350. Should do it. 200 runs for the match for Patterson.. the perfect warm up for a test match CA. Labu reaches a well compiled 50. Nicks one the very next over.
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+x+x+xWhat will CAX1 be looking at before declaring? 300, 350. Should do it. 200 runs for the match for Patterson.. the perfect warm up for a test match CA. Labu reaches a well compiled 50. Nicks one the very next over. Patterson another composed half ton. Lets hope Langer, Hohns and Chappell are feeling quite sick at the moment.
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+x+x+x+xWhat will CAX1 be looking at before declaring? 300, 350. Should do it. 200 runs for the match for Patterson.. the perfect warm up for a test match CA. Labu reaches a well compiled 50. Nicks one the very next over. Patterson another composed half ton. Lets hope Langer, Hohns and Chappell are feeling quite sick at the moment. These two are rotating the strike sensibly against the spinners.
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2 centuries and 2 not outs for patterson. Too late to draft him into the test team?
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+x+x+x+x+xWhat will CAX1 be looking at before declaring? 300, 350. Should do it. 200 runs for the match for Patterson.. the perfect warm up for a test match CA. Labu reaches a well compiled 50. Nicks one the very next over. Patterson another composed half ton. Lets hope Langer, Hohns and Chappell are feeling quite sick at the moment. These two are rotating the strike sensibly against the spinners. Talk about rubbing it into the faces of our three dumb selectors.. Patto with his second hundred for the match. Puck cops a snorter and edges behind. CAX1 has declared with a 364 run lead.
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+x2 centuries and 2 not outs for patterson. Too late to draft him into the test team?
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+x+x2 centuries and 2 not outs for patterson. Too late to draft him into the test team? If CA wants to avoid gross ridicule from the media it will draft him in. Pucovski has to play in the First Test.
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+x+x+x2 centuries and 2 not outs for patterson. Too late to draft him into the test team? If CA wants to avoid gross ridicule from the media it will draft him in. Pucovski has to play in the First Test. Confusion reins here. Puck clearly snaffled in the cordon yet the CA and Cricinfo scorecards saying he finished 33 *
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Patterson scores two centuries and will not play the first test.
Yet three of Labuschagne, Pucovski, Burns and Renshaw are going to play. Only Burns has any real claim to play, Labuschagne despite getting 50 doesn't belong there.
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