*Official* Fifth Test at the SCG

[Spark]

Can't help but feel there's an Aussie director somewhere trying to ping England for ball tampering.

Amazing isn't it? 20 overs in and one side had looked like it'd been through a shredder.

And yes I know this post can be interpreted in multiple ways.

 

[Burgey]

Lol my tongue was planted firmly in my cheek with my last post.

Absence of got me sorry

 

[hazsa19]

Amazing isn't it? 20 overs in and one side had looked like it'd been through a shredder.

The Sky boys think they do it by getting the quicks to bowl a few banged in 'cross seam'.

 

[Redbacks]

Not happy about it tbh.

We're gonna lose a freakish number of tests in the next little while I feel but then the more tests we play the sooner we can stop losing.

Do you think more domestic cricket would be a better standard than Bangladesh?

 

[Spark]

Do you think more domestic cricket would be a better standard than Bangladesh?

Didn't think we'd be playing domestic stuff in April? Agree absolutely that we have to reintegrate the Test squad into Sheffield Shield though, especially with the spicier pitches running around nowadays. No one, and I mean no one, in this country has the technique to handle a spell like Anderson's. Batsmen will try, keep out the straight ones, leave the wide ones, but eventually one will pitch on/just outside off stump on a good length and move away and...

Encouraging everyone to go have a spell in county cricket could help too.

 

[Bun]

Didn't think we'd be playing domestic stuff in April? Agree absolutely that we have to reintegrate the Test squad into Sheffield Shield though, especially with the spicier pitches running around nowadays. No one, and I mean no one, in this country has the technique to handle a spell like Anderson's. Batsmen will try, keep out the straight ones, leave the wide ones, but eventually one will pitch on/just outside off stump on a good length and move away and...

Encouraging everyone to go have a spell in county cricket could help too.

Mark Cosgrove

 

[JBH001]

Swann bowling too quick here, that was a couple of balls in the 100kmh. He really needs to slow it down a little.

Haddin looking good here after a couple of near chances.

 

[Spark]

Haddin's looking much better.

Bresnan's not moving that much which is a surprise.

 

[Spark]

Oh for ****'s sake

That's just terrible. Absolutely terrible.

 

[JBH001]

Gone!

 

[hazsa19]

**** me KP has had a good day in the field

 

[Craig]

Well goodbye Hussey. Sharp catch there though.

 

[Spark]

Make them bowl you a GOOD BALL to get you out ffs! Run-outs and whacking long-hops to gully...

Still, can forgive Hussey for keeping us afloat for half the series.

 

[Burgey]

Bloody hell. Even their long hops are producing catches!! Well taken.

Great series Hussey. Kept us in it for longer than we deserved tbh.

 

[JBH001]

Good catch by KP it has to be said. Bresnan was due a wicket from an ordinary delivery.

Has Australia ever lost a series by 3 innings defeats? Don't think they've ever suffered that.

 

[Ruckus]

Why do I get the feeling we are going to have to endure another year or so of bad Hussey form...

 

[Craig]

Good catch by KP it has to be said. Bresnan was due a wicket from an ordinary delivery.

Has Australia ever lost a series by 3 innings defeats? Don't think they've ever suffered that.

Bangladesh and Zimbabwe aside, I think you'd be hard pressed to find if that has ever happened at all, in every Test that has been played.

 

[Mister Wright]

All over for Australia now. Into the tail. Might need the extra 1/2 hour tonight.

 

[Spark]

Someone slap them please. That's just...

 

[JBH001]

Lol at going for that run!