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With few rounds left in the Super Rugby Season we are beginning to see the real Super Rugby Standings, with all teams having taken…
I think Australia’s biggest problem is Finch, and I’m not talking about his batting. How Zampa only managed 3 overs when going under 7 is criminal. Agar has earned the chance to bowl more than 2 overs, even if he gets tonked in 1. You’ve gotta back your spinners in this format. Pace off the ball is everything. We’ve really got to stop the Kane Richardson experiment also, but I understand there’s not many other options. Lastly, why are we wasting a chance to see Josh Phillipe bat down the order? We have literally no one except Maxwell that can strike above 200, and he absolutely must bat 4 at the lowest – if not open instead of Finch
Australia's Christchurch capitulation poses daunting World Cup questions
On the contrary, Neser is the closest to Philander Australia have, and he didn’t exactly struggle on South African green tops.
I find it so strange that we have this fascination with 138kms+ or useless. Jimmy Anderson isn’t exactly struggling at the moment. Accuracy tops speed unless it’s an Australian highway
Australia confirm their two squads for tours of New Zealand and South Africa
Devon Conway is 9 from 9 in NZ. He has been the leading run scorer in every single competition he’s played in since he moved to NZ. Plunkett, ODD, T20, he just keeps churning out the runs. His selection has been inevitable. Hyperbole yes, but he might just be AB reincarnated. The biggest problem is how he can fit into NZ’s extraordinarily strong middle order in test cricket. Tough decisions will need to be made, but the sooner they get him in the better.
On a lighter note, if more South Africans locked out by the quota system make the move to NZ we may just have to rename the Black Caps to South Africa A and append B to South Africa in a decade
Is Ross Taylor’s T20I career finished?
I wouldn’t pick Harris and Head in the same team. You’d have two players in the sheds after flashing at a wide one outside off stump. The selectors need to check their ego in at the door and judge on form, Usman and (god help us) Shaun Marsh are the two best fit openers in the country right now. They must be picked.
Australia must throw the selection manual out for Adelaide as Burns fails again
Here’s a novel idea: give it to the home ground of whichever finalist finishes highest on the ladder in the regular season. If it’s a Melbourne team then they finally lose the guaranteed home ground advantage that interstate teams have suffered with. If it’s the suns, play it at the Gabba. If it’s two Melbourne teams then give it to WA. I don’t see interstate travel being an issue as teams have strict bubble measures (Whether or not they follow them is another story)
An MCG grand final probably can't happen - but where else works?
I don’t understand the obsession with the “we wiz robbed” take from the Storm – Raiders game. If we want to talk about howlers, why aren’t we talking about Canberra losing 2 out of 8 substitutions in a finals match to a stray firework? That single, changeable, disgraceful and very much controllable decision from the match referee a far bigger impact on the game than a bad call with 90 seconds left. It sucked two fresh interchanges from the Raiders, and buggered their rotation for the match. Considering how hungry the raiders forwards were, two more freshies would have meant they’d have held the ascendancy for the 2nd half instead of a sea sawing battle. Analysis of the touchies howler without a mention of the interchange consequence that a stray firework had moved into hyperbolic click bait territory IMO (not having a dig at you, just the general tone of the media in the aftermath). Gotta be fair and balance and talk about both howlers that had a massive effect on the game.
Touch-ups or touch judge: Which had a bigger impact on the 2019 NRL premiership race?
I bow with pleasure to my Demi-Smith Overlord.
Have you heard the good news about Steve Smith?
Equal highest loss for the AIB’s ever. Most points they’ve ever conceded in a game.
True history witnessed, and we left over a dozen points on the park.
Nic White said it best, we’re half way there. I hope they don’t read their own press.
Wallabies beat All Blacks after dominant second half in Bledisloe 1
Wait a minute, have I got this right?
Burns’ technique around off-stump is too loose for you, and you’d prefer a Harris over him who loosely flails at anything wide of off stump?
Five Ashes spots up for grabs tomorrow
Firstly, he’s definitely playing the IPL. He’s only playing one county game between the World Cup and IPL.
Is Glenn Maxwell wasting his time in whites?
There’s a million extra people in Brisbane alone since the Bronco’s were created. The greater Brisbane area (S.E QLD) now has almost 4 million. There’s plenty of room for an extra 2 teams in Population terms. Ipswich can take the greater west, Redcliffe can take the greater north. Redcliffe alone have the infrastructure to support it as they’re currently upgrading their stadium to 15k to cater for their QCup team.
Your Titans remarks are so far off the money it’s laughable. The Titans last year at home averaged more than the Roosters, Canberra, Parramatta, Sharks and Manly – whilst also being less than 150 people per game behind Bulldogs and Penrith. All this despite being terrible for over a decade. They manage to get just as many, if not more supporters to games as 6 foundation clubs and the nation’s capital. Boardroom mismanagement, horrible recruitment and their refusal to generate Pokies revenue to prop them up is what’s set them back and required NRL support, not their lack of supporters. Take the Pokies away from the Dragons, Wests Tigers, Roosters, Bulldogs, Panthers and Eels and they’ll be asking for handouts too.
A second Brisbane team? Tell him he's dreaming
This article is so full of b.s. hyperbole it’s not funny. If the respective national teams of Rugby and Football never visit Sydney again, it’s not because a new 50k stadium wasn’t built from scratch… Its because the current NSW govt has ALREADY abandoned a rebuild for a refurb of Olympic Park. This is the real mistake in all this; but that doesn’t fit the narrative of Jones and his fellow rich east siders that it’s #AllLaboursFault.
Allianz wasn’t fit for purpose – maybe. Big maybe at that. The fact is, it doesnt deserve a 700 million dollar rebuild when a simple revamp is less than half the cost. It’ sells out less than 3 times a year, and barely reaches 30% capacity. Sydney FC are more than welcome to fund their own stadium, or partner with the Roosters and Tahs to cost-share for this. They won’t of course, it’s much better to spend other people’s money with Jones and the SCG trust in your corner.
Football is the biggest loser from Sydney's stadium debacle
The leadership stocks are bare without Finch? More like our batting stocks are bare with him. Any captain we chose will have Warner, Smith and Maxwell to lean on – not that I’d take any notice of what Smith says – horrible captain, excellent batsman.
Finch is a terrible opener and for you to describe him as explosive is baffling. He’s been an accumulator at best since the last World Cup. None of his big innings have been above a Strike Rate of 113, and only a couple have touched the 120 or 130 mark.
Leadership vacuum leaves Aussies in delicate spot
You could have stopped after entitled
NRL penalties will force Sharks to lose a player: reports
Pressure on neither.
Warner’s a walk up start, no matter what one’s personal grudges are. He averages 48 in test cricket; more than any other batsman competing for a position averages in First Class.
Khawaja on the other hand has shown he’s a moving ball specialist, regardless of what Kopa says. He’s scored centuries opening the batting under lights against the pink ball, and scored well in his last match against an attack that just beat South Africa at home
Cameron Bancroft has put the Aussie top order on notice
Recent international form tells us Short’s been worked out.
8 t20’s, 107 runs, 123 balls. SR: 86.
Disgraceful
Australia win the first T20 in India, despite dumb cricket
Respectfully, Cummins & Richardson were our 2nd best batsmen.
Short once again scored below the Required Run Rate. If he’d managed to strike at 120 or 130 the game wouldn’t have made it to the 18th over.
He put everyone else under pressure – including Maxwell – who was made to force the tempo as his partner couldn’t hit it out of square.
Consider this:
Short’s last 8 t20 internationals has yielded 107 runs from 123 balls. That’s a strike rate of 86. Last night was a continuation of an ongoing trend. He scored runs yes, but ended up putting his batting partners under an obscene amount of pressure.
Viewed through this prism and it’s a selfish knock attempting to salvage whatever WC hopes he had left.
Australia win the first T20 in India, despite dumb cricket
Funny you single our Maxwell for scoring almost half the teams runs.
Dot ball D’arcy was there for all to see last night. He’s a flat track bully
Australia win the first T20 in India, despite dumb cricket
I don’t think it’s fair to blame the lack of batting dynamism on the lower order. The top order has completely failed to move with the times. Everyone is happy to score at a strike rate of 80, and then leave it all on Maxwell & Stoinis to accelerate at the end of an innings. Finch hasn’t scored above a run a ball in any of his centuries since 2016. Marsh hasn’t scored above a strike rate of 112 when he’s reached triple figures. There’s a difference between a guy anchoring an innings and a guy that anchors the innings if you catch my drift.
Re: Starc, we need to promote him to opener and tell him to go wild. I’m a big believer in throwing your best bowler out there to pinch hit. There’s no point having a guy that can clear the pickets batting within himself because we’re afraid we might not make the 50 overs when we’re 8 down. There’s no freedom in that. If we’re 8 down we’re not winning anyway. We’ve been bloody miserable in the power play for almost 6 years now, we simply don’t attack the new ball. Tell him to go out the MacCullum style and throw caution into the wind. A quick fire 30 off 20 is better than 20 off 20.
Australia need a bowling all-rounder in ODIs
The persistence with carey is astounding. especially when we’ve got Handscomb and Wade there.
Handscomb: 30 @ 101 from 9 games
Carey: 27 @ 76 from 10 games
A small sample size but there’s no denying Carey has looked laborious and out of depth at ODI level. He comes in when batting’s easiest: the fields up and there’s two hard, white non swinging kookaburra’s
Australia face a nightmare tour of India
Abuse? Pull the other one.
I’m talking about the community that sponsors Iceland cricket, of course I’d be at home there. Good, generous cricket tragic’s capable of having a laugh. You may be one of those things Don; but you’ve just proven – again – that you are definitely not any other
D'arcy Short: The pigeon-holed dasher
Wrong once again Don. Branch out a little and venture to the biggest cricketing community & forum on the web and you’ll see it plenty.
D'arcy Short: The pigeon-holed dasher
Are we ignoring why he earned the nickname Dot Ball Darcy? Simple really – A first class cricketer he is not. Just bowl him some spin and his strike rate sits below 120. A rate any modern day bowler would take.
D'arcy Short: The pigeon-holed dasher
Fingers crossed they drop Carey & Finch. Both have been in absolutely atrocious form. Dot Ball Darcy shouldn’t get another look in; if we’re going speculative I’d be picking Lynn. Khawaja should open, it’s where all his success in T20 & ODD has occurred.
My WC team:
Khawaja
Warner
Marsh
Smith
Handscomb (wk)
Stoinis
Maxwell
Cummins
Starc
Zampa
Hazlewood
Lynn, Richardson, Wade, Agar round out the squad. We don’t need a reserve All Rounder. If Stoinis & Maxwell can’t squeeze 10 overs between them we don’t deserve to win.
Wade snubbed again as Australia reveal ODI squad for India tour
LIV is 54 in roman numerals, not 52.
Will LIV steal our next Aussie golfing champion, and would it matter?