Australia v West Indies
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Pink ball test in RAdelaide.
Australia win toss and bat. Warner misses out chasing hard. Khawaja gets past 1000 runs for the year. Deck looks good to bat on, and the weather is choice so tonight's session will be interesting.
The big news tho: Cummins and Hazlewood out. Boland and Neser in. Bit more pressure on Starc to perform as the leader.
Smith is captain.
Windies hand out another debut.
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Pink ball test in RAdelaide.
Australia win toss and bat. Warner misses out chasing hard. Khawaja gets past 1000 runs for the year. Deck looks good to bat on, and the weather is choice so tonight's session will be interesting.
The big news tho: Cummins and Hazlewood out. Boland and Neser in. Bit more pressure on Starc to perform as the leader.
Smith is captain.
Windies hand out another debut.
@NTA said in Australia v West Indies:
Pink ball test in RAdelaide.
Australia win toss and bat. Warner misses out chasing hard. Khawaja gets past 1000 runs for the year. Deck looks good to bat on, and the weather is choice so tonight's session will be interesting.
The big news tho: Cummins and Hazlewood out. Boland and Neser in. Bit more pressure on Starc to perform as the leader.
Smith is captain.
Windies hand out another debut.
That Australian top order is nothing short of fucken incredible. Best ever all at one time maybe ?
Actually Hayden, Langer, Ponting, Clarke, Hussey > Warner, Khawaja, Smith, Labuschagne, Head………
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How embarrassing.
The Windies have produced gods of the great sport in the past, some of my absolute favourite players, but shit they must be flabbergasted at how bad this current lot are.
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@MN5 said in Australia v West Indies:
How embarrassing.
The Windies have produced gods of the great sport in the past, some of my absolute favourite players, but shit they must be flabbergasted at how bad this current lot are.
I blame America
@NTA said in Australia v West Indies:
@MN5 said in Australia v West Indies:
How embarrassing.
The Windies have produced gods of the great sport in the past, some of my absolute favourite players, but shit they must be flabbergasted at how bad this current lot are.
I blame America
Possibly accurate.
A team of journeymen with the odd star isn’t going to come close to a team of stars.
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Money talks and they have fuck all.
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Trash
Everyone but Warner filled their boots.
You can sort of see why England, Aus and India only want to play themselves.
@mariner4life said in Australia v West Indies:
Trash
Everyone but Warner filled their boots.
You can sort of see why England, Aus and India only want to play themselves.
Their improvement is remarkable although you still get the feeling they’d get hammered in an Ashes series in Australia.
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Australia's seam bowling depth is frankly ridiculous.
Their top 3 is pretty much without peer
Boland has played 4 tests, has 21 wickets at 10
The next 3 guys in line average less than 26 in first class cricket
And then they have a genuinely quick guy they are trying to develop (not that any of the above are slow. or short.) -
Australia's seam bowling depth is frankly ridiculous.
Their top 3 is pretty much without peer
Boland has played 4 tests, has 21 wickets at 10
The next 3 guys in line average less than 26 in first class cricket
And then they have a genuinely quick guy they are trying to develop (not that any of the above are slow. or short.)@mariner4life said in Australia v West Indies:
Australia's seam bowling depth is frankly ridiculous.
Their top 3 is pretty much without peer
Boland has played 4 tests, has 21 wickets at 10
The next 3 guys in line average less than 26 in first class cricket
And then they have a genuinely quick guy they are trying to develop (not that any of the above are slow. or short.)By contrast, go back to 2005 when McGrath rolled his ankle during warmup, and we fell to bits.
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Australia's seam bowling depth is frankly ridiculous.
Their top 3 is pretty much without peer
Boland has played 4 tests, has 21 wickets at 10
The next 3 guys in line average less than 26 in first class cricket
And then they have a genuinely quick guy they are trying to develop (not that any of the above are slow. or short.)@mariner4life said in Australia v West Indies:
Australia's seam bowling depth is frankly ridiculous.
Their top 3 is pretty much without peer
Boland has played 4 tests, has 21 wickets at 10
The next 3 guys in line average less than 26 in first class cricket
And then they have a genuinely quick guy they are trying to develop (not that any of the above are slow. or short.)…..and thats not even mentioning their batting.
They might all be various stages of unlikable but by golly they can play.
The Waj entering the form of his life……two awkward looking weirdos averaging over 60, Head fashioning a very impressive career and with 44 having the lowest average of the top five.
I suppose Warner is declining a bit but you get the feeling he’s one massive bludgeoning innings away from finding form.
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they also hugely improved their side by having sack the desperately average Tim Paine
