***Official*** West Indies in Australia 2015/16

[Pratters]

This is still not as bad as Gillespie getting 200.

 

[morgieb]

Why declare? At least let Voges get 300.

 

[Prince EWS]

I reckon Smith will incorrectly declare before he has a chance.

Bingo.

 

[Burgey]

Declaration over lunch apparently. TPC obviously accosted by the Nine commentary team at the start of the break.

That or he wants to have a hit at Barnbougle on Sunday.

 

[Spikey]

laughing so hard i've got tears

 

[Cabinet96]

This makes me a lot angrier than it probably should.

 

[RossTaylorsBox]

Marlon Samuels to bat for three days and score 472.

 

[Nate]

Disappoint.

 

[morgieb]

Declaration over lunch apparently. TPC obviously accosted by the Nine commentary team at the start of the break.

That or he wants to have a hit at Barnbougle on Sunday.

Yeah, the only way this declaration makes sense is if he's got a tee-time booked for 4pm Saturday at the Royal Hobart and wants to make good use of it.

 

[Pratters]

Indian highest FC score is 499* as the opposition refused to bowl after that.

 

[Gnske]

This whole 'dude we play selflessly and aggressive as bro lmao' attitude needs to die with Channel 9 and Lehmann.

Let a batsman be selfish ffs and slaughter a completely obscene amount of runs.

 

[Bahnz]

As incorrect as the declaration may be, I'm glad he's done it. The last 3 sessions have been ****ing tedious.

 

[Dan]

If Voges makes 278 runs in his next three innings this series without being dismissed and promptly retires at the end of the summer, he'd average 100 from the minimum 20 innings required to be considered #BetterThanBradman.

 

[Pratters]

Channel 9 always says it. No one ever declares though.

 

[Cabinet96]

If Voges makes 278 runs in his next three innings this series without being dismissed and promptly retires at the end of the summer, he'd average 100 from the minimum 20 innings required to be considered #BetterThanBradman.

I was actually thinking that he should retire at the end of this series to be 2nd.

 

[Dan]

Only sticking point is playing 3 more innings in this series. Not sure Australia will have to bat twice in any of these matches, tbh.

Imagine if Bangladesh wasn't cancelled though...

 

[OverratedSanity]

Well that's stupid.

 

[Athlai]

God it's going to be so painful in 30 years when statsguru 3.0 kids born in the year 2022 are telling us Voges was one of the all time greats in drafts.

 

[Niall]

Imagine if Bangladesh wasn't cancelled though...

Not sure what you are suggesting?

That would have been a fascinating little series especially if you had mustafizur rahman gunning it, especially coming after the ashes.

Definitely would have been interesting than this series which needs to get into the sea.

 

[thierry henry]

Do people really actually care about **** like "you can't break so and so's record because you're not good enough/don't have the standing in the game" etc?

The history of cricket is littered with unexpected people making big scores or taking a bag of wickets or setting records. If you have to fudge declarations at weird times etc to preserve the "sacred" nature of a triple-century, or whatever, then that sacredness is manufactured BS anyway.