Sheesh guys, I'm not saying I think Warner should be captain, I'm asking whether Australia will actually make that call, rightly or wrongly. Get some reading comprehension lessons ffs.
This is all spot on. It's what happens when you inhabit a vapid cultural wasteland like Australia. When barbecues and surfing are essential parts of your cultural ethos it has to be expected.
Yeah dont understand why people questioning TPC's captaincy and also defending it. He was spot on in Zimbos.
Ha so good.
Nah, that's cool. I wasn't saying you did say that. I'm genuinely asking if Australia are considering it, why they would be. Is he vice? I mean, Tim Southee has been NZ's vice at times and a toilet brush would be a better on-field skipper (least it would point in the right direction occasionally).
Or **** batting
Aka Aussies batting against a moving ball.
You know how when you have 10 teams in a comp, some of them have to be weaker than the others? It's Australia's turn. It happens. Considering we've pretty much been the dominant team forever, apart from a couple of radar blips along the way, I'd consider we've done ok overall, and we'll return strong soon enough.
You'd kill to have the weather warm enough for a BBQ or a surf. The British heatwave- over 20c for two consecutive days!
Australia needed responsible and disciplined batting to combat a good attack in ideal bowling conditions - Warner chose the easy route and it is not acceptable to fob it off by saying "But that's the way he plays"
How is it that Smith, who if one were to believe CW, is a massive flat-track bully, could score more than 50% of our runs without being unduly troubled?
Of course that's how it is, that's what would appeal to the majority of the Australian cricket fan base (particularly casual fans). It's not an accident. Whether it's the absolute best thing for winning matches and series is obviously debatable but one of the primary goals of Cricket Australia and channel 9 in particularly is to appeal to patriotic bogans.
Mate any time anyone edges a ball to the keeper they're somewhat "unfortunate". Compare how many play and misses you see in the game to how many edges to the keeper and you'll see it takes a bit of bad luck to swing your bat through the exact line where you don't hit the ball with enough of the bat and don't miss it but the perfect line to edge it to the catchers.
To be clear, that's not necessarily a swinging or seaming ball. Simply any ball that happens to be moving at any pace in any direction.
There's 40,000 plus years worth of continuous reasons why you're wrong, but do go on.
As I said earlier, when does the pressure start to mount and the finger get pointed at the coach? Hick will almost certainly get the blame and boot instead but Lehmann has been in charge of numerous poor Aussie batting sides now and yet he seems bullet proof.
