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[go_the_dockers]

This sums up what I said earlier.

 

[Piggy Smalls]

This sums up what I said earlier.

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Considering India just got swept at home that is a damning stat.

 

[DragoDelph]

Well that's dumb.

WA come back from the innings break in the Sheffield Shield, Face 2x balls and lose a wicket.

It's now dinner.

 

[DragoDelph]

Also, stolen from twitter.

Bumrah is the 4th highest run scorer for AUS in the second innings. 5 No Balls.

 

[BStaff17]

Well that's dumb.

WA come back from the innings break in the Sheffield Shield, Face 2x balls and lose a wicket.

It's now dinner.

I thought Bancroft may have gotten another duck when I saw 1/0

 

[DragoDelph]

I thought Bancroft may have gotten another duck when I saw 1/0

He must be going for some record, it's becoming almost an impossible feat

 

[Number29]

Is Goodwin son of Murray?

Yes

 

[Paracleet]

Currently 16 no.

A small relief for him, but does spoil the sort of car crash spectacle you get when watching someone have a string of failures..

 

[Paracleet]

23 not out. Now this qualifies as a start, in any form of the game, rather than strictly speaking a failure. But then do the previous scores render it another failure if he is dismissed? I'd argue yes unless he reaches 30/35. What a sport.

 

[Tony_Clifton]

I read about scams all the time but I've never really encountered them. Usually I just ignore numbers I don't know. But not today.




Reckon I should take it? Hourly rate seems good.

 

[armpit]

Fascinating.

 

[Tony_Clifton]

 

[Roy Chook]

Does anyone else think the Australian Cricket team are in denial about its current list of players? Much like the Eagles were a few years ago in the AFL. I am predicting a massive rebuild required in the next 12 to 18 months.

 

[Tony_Clifton]

Does anyone else think the Australian Cricket team are in denial about its current list of players? Much like the Eagles were a few years ago in the AFL. I am predicting a massive rebuild required in the next 12 to 18 months.

That's pretty spot on. The worst thing to happen would be to keep playing Smith/Labuschagne and have them make a big score. Like Dom Sheed having a good game and a new contract on the back of it.

 

[Docker82]

Does anyone else think the Australian Cricket team are in denial about its current list of players? Much like the Eagles were a few years ago in the AFL. I am predicting a massive rebuild required in the next 12 to 18 months.

The players simply aren’t there to replace them.

Outside of perhaps one or two players at most (and it’s marginal if at all) this is the best team we’ve got and anyone that thinks otherwise knows nothing about Australian cricket.

Don’t think they’re necessarily in denial but it is going to be as grim a rebuild of the team we’ve seen since the 1980s. If I were George Bailey I wouldn’t have done anything different. The other guys in ‘contention’ for the test squad aren’t any good or are injured (noting Inglis is in the squad). Beau Webster might be the one exception but Marsh is far from the problem anyway.

I genuinely fear this is a deeper problem tbh where we’ve failed to develop any more than a handful of decent international cricketers in a decade and that doesn’t look like changing. Looks grim for the future IMHO.