1st Test Australia v West Indies Jan 17-21 1000hrs @ the Adelaide Oval

[Gethelred]

You're allowed to let a tail ender get onto you for a little bit. If we let Joseph keep going after the break, that's a degree more inexcusable.

 

[Hawksboy72]

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Opening the batting isn't the hardest position in test cricket. Number 3 is the hardest position in cricket to bat, because not only do you have to face the bowlers when the ball is new - in the worst case scenario - but you have to face the bowlers when their tail is up.

Who puts together these fluff packages?

Be so God damn funny if he makes a duck.

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[TigerCraig]

Oooooooooh.

Ok Gorgonzola breath.
Just posted something because I've noticed not every Australian player wears them all the time.
Thought CA bought a rule in long ago that is was a must.

I only posed a question.
Fanks for filling in the facts and finding a picture of smiff with them.
Go to the top of the class

Rule came in this season and only applies when batting against fast or medium pace. So you don't need them for keeping, close in fielding or if 2 spinners are bowling. It only applies to Australian players.

 

[The 747]

You're allowed to let a tail ender get onto you for a little bit. If we let Joseph keep going after the break, that's a degree more inexcusable.

Justin Langer wouldn't have allowed this tomfoolery.

 

[BGman]

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Opening the batting isn't the hardest position in test cricket. Number 3 is the hardest position in cricket to bat, because not only do you have to face the bowlers when the ball is new - in the worst case scenario - but you have to face the bowlers when their tail is up.

Who puts together these fluff packages?

Makes you think in wonderment then how Steve Smith scored all those runs and virtually won us many Tests between 2014/2018 batting #3. His Bradmanesque period.

 

[icyflakes]

Justin Langer wouldn't have allowed this tomfoolery.

I'm sure he's been mentioning that on 7's commentary for quite a while

 

[The 747]

I'm sure he's been mentioning that on 7's commentary for quite a while

Fortunately I have Fox so I have missed out on both Langer and Haydos all summer. Shame.

 

[icyflakes]

Fortunately I have Fox so I have missed out on both Langer and Haydos all summer. Shame.

BIG DOS*

 

[The 747]

BIG DOS*

The man, the cricketer, the chef, the philosopher, the author of the Hayden Way*

*tm

Edt - also these runs are gold dust

 

[icyflakes]

The man, the cricketer, the chef, the philosopher, the author of the Hayden Way*

*tm

Matthew "cricket is an important part of world diplomacy" BIG DOS

 

[doggies ftw]

Are they giving people refunds for the missed overs? You pay for 90 not 85 or whatever a team feels like

Do you though? You pay for a days Cricket whether that’s 87 or 90 who gives a **** does it really bother you? Surely not sitting there counting how many overs you watched for the day, probably spent a handful of em in the pub or the loo too should you get a refund for those ones?

 

[JuniorWatch]

Racial determinism areas from Binger there.
Careful son

 

[Adelaide Hawk]

I'm wearing a black armband in memory of the yorker. Obviously, it's no longer part of a Test bowler's arsenal. The slower ball seems to be a thing of the past as well.

 

[The 747]

Do you though? You pay for a days Cricket whether that’s 87 or 90 who gives a * does it really bother you? Surely not sitting there counting how many overs you watched for the day, probably spent a handful of em in the pub or the loo too should you get a refund for those ones?

So if you pay for 90 overs but you get 60 are you OK with that?

 

[icyflakes]

The variable bounce today has been interesting - do you think it will turn into a Perth-esque pitch or just road up?

 

[Gethelred]

And that's the problem.

This over's been excellent, but for all good it's done Roach is still ****ing there. He's not been good enough to hit the wicket ball, while good enough to keep the others out.

 

[CakeEater]

The variable bounce today has been interesting - do you think it will turn into a Perth-esque pitch or just road up?

It will be as big of a road as the reversible highway in Adelaide.

 

[Maddo11]

Just missing leg imo..

Oh just got him

 

[Adelaide Hawk]

Plumb

 

[LukeParkerno1]

Thank flip

 

[Gethelred]

You do not need hotspot to declare no edge. There's inches of space to declare no bat there.

 

[icyflakes]

Great effort from these 2, love to see that kind of effort from your bowlers during the batting - will give them a lot of confidence into the next innings.

 

[doggies ftw]

So if you pay for 90 overs but you get 60 are you OK with that?

No clearly not, obviously there’s got to be rules & ‘punishments’ in place so it doesn’t get ridiculous or genuinely dragging the game out for a draw etc

But they just need to be there to keep it fair, so long as it’s over 80 (which it almost always is 85+) AND there’s a result, who cares?

 

[PhatBoy]

Plumb

Lolllll, no problem with the decision, but that was not what you said it was

 

[LukeParkerno1]

We bowled more at the pegs in 4 overs after tea lol