Aussie Summer of Cricket

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@mariner4life said in Aussie Summer of Cricket:

the problem was the soft as butter australian who found a tiny object on the massive screen and stopped play. not SCG's problem, twitchy Smith's problem.

Happened Day 1 with one of the Pakistan bats as well.

So not just Smith

Soft as ghee?

[mariner4life]

@NTA said in Aussie Summer of Cricket:

@mariner4life said in Aussie Summer of Cricket:

the problem was the soft as butter australian who found a tiny object on the massive screen and stopped play. not SCG's problem, twitchy Smith's problem.

Happened Day 1 with one of the Pakistan bats as well.

So not just Smith

Soft as ghee?

[Cyclops]

Should maybe focus on the three short covers rather than the tiny speck on the sightscreen

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Some great bowling here. Jamal having a whale of a game - another 6 wicket haul

Pakistan have a 14 run lead

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Starc doing Starc things

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HOFF DOING HOFF THINGS

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Though TBF that was rubbish that didn't need playing at

[mariner4life]

lol 6 wickets in like 18 balls

[Chris B.]

Jamal's having a great game but, fuck me, that's some ball to bowl Shafique (once he found his line)!

...and now Hazelwood has Masood.

[Chris B.]

The commentators often go on about unplayable balls and you think - Sachin or Brian or Viv or Don would have played that comfortably.

But that Starc one reminds me of Fred Trueman cleaning up some kid.

On one occasion, a Cambridge University batsman, having just been dismissed, acknowledged him with the condescending compliment: "That was a very good ball, Mr Trueman". Trueman replied: "Aye, wasted on thee".

It was going to get most!

[KiwiMurph]

That is another soft soft dismissal

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@KiwiMurph said in Aussie Summer of Cricket:

That is another soft soft dismissal

Repeat

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W 0 W 0 W 0

Hazlewood stranded on 249 wickets

[Chris B.]

Boom! and thanks for coming!

[Chris B.]

Oz need 130 to win.

Khawaja lbw for 0 - pretty rough decision, really - ball just brushing the off stump for an umpires call - but, I seem to have seen quite a few of those in the past few weeks.

Davy's last test innings.

[Chris B.]

Dave and Marnus making no race of it.

50 for Davy.

Luckily Marnus has been going so well that 100 is beyond DW!

[Damo]

Davey has retired with a test average lower than Mark Richardson. (44.59 vs 44.77).

That makes me happy.

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@Damo said in Aussie Summer of Cricket:

Davey has retired with a test average lower than Mark Richardson. (44.59 vs 44.77).

That makes me happy.

If ever I need convincing that statistics don’t alway tell the full story I think this is it.

Disclaimer: I actually really like Rigor as a broadcaster and admired him hugely as a test batsman.

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@Damo said in Aussie Summer of Cricket:

Davey has retired with a test average lower than Mark Richardson. (44.59 vs 44.77).

That makes me happy.

I'm sure Mark would trade 0.18 per innings for a lousy 6000 or so runs extra ...

[MN5]

@NTA said in Aussie Summer of Cricket:

@Damo said in Aussie Summer of Cricket:

Davey has retired with a test average lower than Mark Richardson. (44.59 vs 44.77).

That makes me happy.

I'm sure Mark would trade 0.18 per innings for a lousy 6000 or so runs extra ...

Warner would be a shit host of the Block NZ though