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Almost as though cricket's a team sport...

... which is why you're not a keeper. Some keepers are born to it where others are made. You need that bit of mongrel in you to be a good one, a bit of bloodymindedness that makes you square your jaw and take that ball when your fingers are broken or your knees and back are ****ed from bending...

But then, I've been quoted before saying, "You can take the gloves off the keeper, but you can't stop them being a campaigner." Treating the keeper as though they're not a campaigner leads to going out. It's your own fault for opening the door.

Paying attention is not a skill? Isn't the ability to focus intensely for hours on end an ability prized by bats around the world? It's so easy to go out, Phat. Just one blemish at the wrong time, and you're done. The moment was completely within Bairstow's control, and it's his own bloody...

It's a decision made easier by the fact that they - the ECB - would lose money on it, but good on them for taking a moral stance.

To call the reaction from the entire ******* English establishment - crowds, players, the ******* Lords members - 'slightly uncomfortable' is such an understatement as to render the rest of it rather... meaningless. Only in a game of cricket can a player be cast as a villain for following the...

And - even if he wasn't, even if he was the fairest player in the entirety of cricket, even if he was every bit the moral human Brendan McCullum thought he was - it's still out. Ball's not dead just 'cause you think it is, Jonny.

Depends entirely on where you adjudicate the shot to end. I'd give it out purely because the muppet is batting a foot or more inside his crease and chose to continue to swing his bat after he played the shot. If a player missed the ball on his first attempt but managed to collect it in their...

Aussie rules has a tremendous impact on Australian cricket, which is why - when you get cricketers from the southern and western states, born and raised on the stuff - Australians have a reputation worldwide as a strong fielding side. Footy skills teach fielding better than fielding drills do.

Honestly, Bazball guarantees for them in non-Subcontinent conditions a score of upwards of 300 in the first/second innings, which is more than enough to defend. Even in the series they got roundly beaten, they achieved scores of +250 5 times and +300 three times; there's plenty of runs there...

Poor shot selection is a manifestation of a form slump - a symptom - not the cause of one.

History suggest that fast bowling becomes steadily harder to do once you reach the other side of 30, and Australian cricket has collapsed not once but twice due to players choosing to retire at the same time. ... which is lovely, but ODI's/T20's do not equal test matches, 4 day Shield cricket...

I agree with this point. I really agree with this point. I do not agree at all with this point. We need to change the age demographics of our pace bowling, badly. Otherwise, we need to stagger each player's retirement very, very carefully - with consultation from the players - to prevent the...

Inglis would've said heck you louder.

Well batted, Alex, Pat and Mitch. Nerves of bloody steel.

No mention of that vicious leg cutter from Sears, comms? Both cut and kicked at a bloke on 97. He's a find.

Lovely shot, Pat.

Nah, don't think we'll do this particular dance. You said this: ... and followed up with this: How about you justify your own statements - absurd as they are - and I'll answer the questions you posed me, hmm?

https://m.cricbuzz.com/cricket-series/5917/icc-world-test-championship-final-2023/matches Quite literally, last year.

... I mean, we only just won the WTC, against the current Indian side. We also maybe sorta won the ODI World Cup, in India. D'you think you could give me a list of teams who regularly win tests away? heck me running. This is some monstrously dopey s**t.

... Surely, this is a pisstake.

Move your feet, Travis. Stop playing him from the crease. This is how you go out with the drift doing that much.

It's not something a modern coach would adjust. Some players - Travis Head is another one, so was AB De Villiers - just stay leg side of the ball. You gain the ability to score square of the wicket to straight bowling at the cost of not defending your stumps as well as you could. It'd work if...

Cameron Green's issue is that when he goes back and across he does not cover his stumps. Inside edges and indecision goes through him as often as they take the outside edge. He gets bowled entirely too often by sixth and seventh stump lines.

Kuggelejin goes through phases, getting beaten then digging himself out of the hole. The bowlers need to bowl knowing that he'll lash out the ball after you beat him to restore the status quo; use a slower ball, use your bouncer, use your brain. It's happened more or less like clockwork; if...

Don't know if I agree. Carey's was dumb, but this was a combination of dumb and ******* terrible execution. It gets worse every time I see the replay; just what in utter heck did he think he was doing??? He's not hitting the ball for 4 that way, he pulled out of the shot and it was too wide...

From someone who's usually quite a good slipper, that's ordinary. Went low and quick but ostensibly to him.

That was one of the most park dismissals I've ever seen at test level.

... commentators, that's not a cut. He played that shot with a vertical bat, and the only reason it went behind point is because he opened the face. It's a square drive off the back foot. heck me, there's some cricket illiteracy out there.