***Official*** Sri Lanka in Australia 2012/2013

[flibbertyjibber]

He'll get it done. Could bowl underarm to India ATM.

Swann comfortably out bowled by Panesar when it mattered. He's a myth.

A myth with 212 test wickets under 30 and takes over 4 wickets a game. Impressive stats for an overrated bowler. Ajmal is better than him, only spinner who is clearly better though at present.

 

[flibbertyjibber]

We will be thrashed there without a 2nd spinner.

Depends what they do. They in a mess right now and might go worse before they get back on track so playing them now might be a good time. I thought we would get thrashed too.

Be handy if you could keep 11 players on the park for a full game though.

 

[Spikey]

i'm not really that fond of playing a 2nd spinner if we don't have a good option

 

[sphynx]

I reckon the selectors will be looking at maxwell for India. He's been pushed into chairman sides and Australia A sides ahead of beer etc, I think holland would of been a certainty, but he's injured.

Maxwell to bat 8 and his FC bowling figures are OK, obviously he'll get a bit of purchase in India.

Probably rotate Starc/Pattinson before the Ashes, Siddle, Lyon, Watson and Maxwell on the real turners.

 

[Burgey]

A myth with 212 test wickets under 30 and takes over 4 wickets a game. Impressive stats for an overrated bowler. Ajmal is better than him, only spinner who is clearly better though at present.

Lol. And Panesar. Herath is better than Swann.

My 91 year old grandmother is better than Swann. He's a ****. Wouldn't feed him.

 

[social]

I've got no problem with Lyon at all ftr. I reckon he's as good as an orthodox finger spinner can be. But it's the nature of the conditions Australia play their cricket in. Not that suited to finger spin bowling.

Would defs always be in my overseas squads.

Agree with this

Reckon even Brad Hogg would be a better bet on most Oz grounds

 

[Spikey]

well no

 

[andyc]

Yeah I thought he had some serious talent a few years back, loved the drop he sometimes got on the ball. But **** me he can't land two balls in one spot.

Loved the ball he bowled to get Pollard stumped in a T20 comp a few years back.

Edit: This one

 

[flibbertyjibber]

I see Clarke is in the squad for the next test, guess the plan is to get through the last 2 tests and give him a rest for the one dayers if he is still having any discomfort to ensure he is fully fit for India.

 

[benchmark00]

I wonder what K00kaburra think about the Prince using Wade's Puma k33ping gear #smallthings

 

[Top_Cat]

Thought he'd be the new Benaud a few years back. Only cricket thing I've ever been SERIOUSLY wrong about.

Not necessarily. I cbf looking again but I remember comparing their FC records and ages at similar stages of their careers and was eerily similar. Like, within 5 runs for both bat and ball kind of eery.

Benords was the archetypical late bloomer; was picked as a bat who could wheel a few overs of leg-spin when the conditions demanded it from all reports. Barely got any overs for the first 5 years of his Test career. His bowling gradually took over but he was very much a project player apparently.

Still, Smith's leaving his run a bit late if he intends to develop his bowling to Test standard....

 

[Spikey]

Smith takes a turn for better after leggie break

 

[flibbertyjibber]

Smith takes a turn for better after leggie break

Is it just me or is that as softcock as Mitchell Johnson saying the crowd upset me in England?

Surely when he returns to bowl legspin again the opposition will try and get in his head about how long you going to keep it up for this time or how long will the next break be. Better off saying nothing or saying he couldn't bowl legspin properly for a bit due to a wrist complaint or something.

 

[Spikey]

it isn't

 

[Cabinet96]

I agree Swann is overhyped by the English media, but Ajmal is really the only spinner clearly ahead of him.

 

[vic_orthdox]

Nah, I don't really have an issue with it. We're talking about the hardest pursuit in cricket, for which the guy has natural ability. The amount of guys who have been over coached in spin bowling... I think what he's done is really smart.

He's probably lucky in a way that he can hold his spot as a batsman in the Shield side. If he was a leggie just around the shield squad, he couldn't do that; take a break from bowling leggies and just let it come back with a natural flow. He'd have to keep on bowling, trying to establish the things that all these coaches are telling him to do, and end up trying to bowl with someone else's action. Or he'd take the break, be cast aside by the powers that be and have everyone talking rubbish about why he was no longer in the state squad.

 

[Spikey]

it's worth noting this break has been timed with nsw playing a new leg spinner (eg smith can take the break) and anyway for the past 12 months Smith has mostly only been bowled when the other bowlers have already been used and have failed and you know when the batsmen are on the rampage is not the time for the leg spinner to be used for the first time in the innings. been a bit disappointed with that

i assume smith has talked about it because he did bowl some offies in a shield game because there were two left handed batsmen at the crease, so smith was just clearing it all up

 

[Cabinet96]

Oh and Kieswetter's bowling > Wade's bowling.

 

[uvelocity]

man i hope they gobird over johnsons

 

[Jarquis]

Can't remember ever seeing Burgey providing a proper breakdown of why Swann's gash or why he doesn't rate his bowling. It's only ever about why he doesn't rate him as a person...