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Bit early for this post, isn’t it? Usually they don’t surface until the mid-year bye.
Why can't the AFL have State of Origin?
Ya gots ta name names. Who are the BBL players who deserve a Test spot?
Baggy green chauvinism?
And yet again we bungle a Test result with appalling catching.
Seven drops: Australia's poor catching killed them in second Test
Simple. I counted them off the Cricinfo commentary. It’s for Australia India series in Australia.
Seven drops: Australia's poor catching killed them in second Test
Richie, I actually have heaps of posts on my blog about our poor catching. It has always driven me nuts when our so-called brillant catching is legendised by the commentators. And I also agree with you that our short form fielding has influenced the perception of our long form catching.
“It’s almost got to the point where we should dump our fielding drills and have round-the-clock catching practice. Or maybe there is a wider, yet seemingly absurd implication: India have it right for Test cricket. It could be that our fielding is now so heavily geared to the one-day format with the running and the diving and the sliding and the throwing, BUT with the expectation something is always about to happen, that we have neglected to work on our Test match waiting game where you need to take a chance out of the blue.”
Seven drops: Australia's poor catching killed them in second Test
“On the first two days of that Test, India did not drop a single catch, while Australia incredibly put down six chances.”
Accepted wisdom repeatedly instructs us that Australia routinely outcatches India. In fact, in all home series between 2003/04 and 2014/15 India barely dropped a catch, while Australia dropped over 50. And ironically, the only series we dropped less than India was in the series we lost in 2018/19.
The whole idea of catches win matches has been turned on its head.
Seven drops: Australia's poor catching killed them in second Test
Just admit your mistake, AFL, fold the Suns and Giants, and distribute the players through the league.
AFL Trades: Jeremy Cameron to Geelong will be a history-maker
I suppose with no State of Origin so far this year, you have to find some similarly pie in the sky topic to write about.
AFL mergers or relocations could resurface due to COVID-19
Beating the Suns is a new benchmark. Well, okay. Low bench.
Carlton win sets new benchmark for Blues
I refuse to watch Test matches when it looks like there will be a close finish, because I know we will lose.
Why are we so terrible in nail biters?
I sometimes daydream about Dennis commentating Test cricket with Ricky Ponting.
Dennis Cometti: Australia's greatest commentator
Random Rudy was hopeless, Bowden marginally less hopeless, Bird ended up hopeless (and knew it), suprised you left out Morgan Freeman who was really hopeless.
What makes a great cricket umpire?
I’d have May at one or two.
The ten players your team can least afford to lose: Melbourne Demons
“England were all out for 172, lucky enough to avoid a follow on.”
But Australia made 570.
The series that changed it all: The second Test
One, The Test is not as hard hitting as it likes to claim; and two, it feels like it has CA’s seal of approval. One and two are not necessarily unconnected.
'The Test' a rare insight into a reformed Australian side
I reckon you’ll find my vintage (I’m 58) was permanently scarred by Australia’s succession of failed fourth innings fron the late-70s onwards.
Fourth-innings chases: The '80s saga
You sure wasted a lot of pixels on the “injury-riddled and suspension-prone Steven May” and his “injury history”.
May played at least 17 games every year from 20 to 27, with most of those misses down to suspension. Then last year he was injured – no dispute from me – but he polled votes in the Demons B&F in five of the eight games he played. Two of those games can be scratched because he was injured during the game. So May therefore polled votes in five of the six full games he played in 2019.
May is quite clearly in Melbourne’s best five players, and possibly even the Dees most important player, given the crucial nature of key defenders.
How it all went downhill for Melbourne, and why they won’t return for a while
Why did you rank Matthews from 73 to 84? Was it because Dusty is in his 11th year?
In defence of Daisy Pearce
“May has never played more than 19 games in a season after nine years at the level.”
On the flip side, May has not played less than 17 games in a season since he was a teenager. And many of those misses were via a suspension not injury.
AFL preview series: Essendon Bombers vs Melbourne Demons
BTW. I tipped Melbourne to miss the finals last year, and I’m tipping them – us – to make the finals this year.
Five reasons to watch Melbourne in 2020
Naaa, they’re the next Zimbabwe.
Is South Africa the new West Indies of cricket?