By Decentric - 29 Jul 2015 8:20 AM
I am going to start an Ashes thread.
I like cricket nearly as much as football. My role in the game has been a Tas Cricket Assoc member, with no playing/coaching insights into the game. I eagerly soak up info from the many members who have played grade cricket and higher.
I'm not interested in limited over cricket. I cannot really find a cricket forum as good as 442 is a football forum. There is The Roar, but it takes ages to have a comment posted and one cannot enjoy the immediacy of responses of this forum.
If I find I'm the only one posting, I'll ask one of mods to wind this thread up.
As I get older, I enjoy cricket more and more as I've watched a lot of cricket live in the last few years. I live only a few hundred metres from Blundstone arena where I'm a member. Long form cricket is such a tactical and technical game where stats are very important.
The great thing about long form cricket, is that over four days or five days, the best team nearly always wins. Over this period of time, deficiencies are exposed. There are aberrations, like Haddin dropping the impressive Joe Root for 0. The English batter proceeded to score 130 plus runs. It was decisive in the outcome at Cardiff.
In football 40% of the game is due to chance. Often the best team doesn't win.
One of the great things in Ashes cricket, is that compared to the English football media, where it ranges from some excellent scribes and analysts to mediocrity, the English cricket media is simply the best in the world.=d>
Most Aussie cricket fans, prefer nearly all overseas media to our own insipid commentators, apart from the hilarious Kerry O'Keefe who has retired too early.:cry:
This Ashes series at 1-1 is nicely poised.
Thoughts?
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By Decentric - 7 Nov 2015 11:23 AM
Shame Southee has been injured.
Initially seeing Johnson and Starc bowl some erratic balls the question arises about the value of having two types of similar bowler in the same team?
Then they both got wickets on an Oz pitch. One issue is that given Johnson's age, it is unlikely that he will play too much more Test cricket. This partnership may only be short term.
I'm thrilled for Kawaja and Oz cricket. I've thought he is one player who has underachieved but has the talent and skill set. At least he has has a few more years left as opposed to the likes of Rogers and Voges who were selected very late in their careers.
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