***Official*** Pakistan in Australia 2016/17

[TheJediBrah]

Blocky will be pleased

Nah this innings doesn't count.

- Smith was a bit lucky
- Runs scored on Australian pitches are too easy and don't count, unless you're the touring side

 

[Burgey]

unbelievable that south african television producers hadn't already invented having a pool at the ground

Should be mandatory given the quality of their crowds. Their cameramen have a good collective eye as well.

 

[Spikey]

Which includes the start when he was playing as a bowler.

breaking down his ODI career this way would be fun

 

[Zinzan]

Nah this innings doesn't count.

- Smith was a bit lucky
- Runs scored on Australian pitches are too easy and don't count, unless you're the touring side

You're cute.

 

[Spikey]

Should be mandatory given the quality of their crowds. Their cameramen have a good collective eye as well.

yeah they already have no shame. you'd think they would have put the pool in 20 years ago

 

[Starfighter]

Yeah, don't worry about it guys, he's downhill skied this innings.

 

[Burgey]

hey anyone got any tips in regards to bowling to smith

Fourth stump, good length, bit of moevement away. Same thing which has worked against everyone for 150 odd years.

 

[Zinzan]

Fourth stump, gold length, bit of moevement away. Same thing which has worked against everyone for 150 odd years.

Or what I describe as the 'Hadlee' line.

 

[Burgey]

Fmd that list of Aussie tons in the last three years is an indictment. Finch third with six and he doesn't even play tests. ****ing embarrassing.

 

[Starfighter]

Another one not quite there. Australia just too lucky this innings...

 

[Blocky]

Has Blocky ever credited any player he doesn't like/rate (covers pretty much every international cricketer currently playing TBH) for proving him wrong?

Smith hasn't proven me wrong, look at his results against South Africa against a high powered pace attack. I mean seriously, have you ever sat back and thought "Australia just came off five test losses in a row before winning a dead rubber" ?

Nah this innings doesn't count.

- Smith was a bit lucky
- Runs scored on Australian pitches are too easy and don't count, unless you're the touring side

"A bit lucky"

This is the country that Adam Voges was Bradmanesque within, and near every single debutant magically finds a way of scoring runs immediately on debut here, yet goes overseas and suddenly looks as if they're a candidate for the NZ Top Order.

This just ends in people getting sensitive at obvious observations because they put players on pedestals and feel personally slighted when you point out their flaws.

 

[Blocky]

Fourth stump, good length, bit of moevement away. Same thing which has worked against everyone for 150 odd years.

I disagree; because he's so good at getting across to it and hitting it onto of its head.

South Africa worked him out by giving him nothing in the usual "good length" area - it was either fuller or shorter.

Amir has been all over him here too.

 

[Blocky]

Oh, Clarke talking about the luck... I guess he's wrong too.

 

[Spark]

And here I was thinking that Smith was fine against SA.

God, imagine being this sour at a cricketer playing well.

 

[Blocky]

And here I was thinking that Smith was fine against SA.

0 centuries in a series that Australia didn't even look competitive in until the dead rubber.

 

[Starfighter]

The second new ball hasn't moved that much more than the first.

 

[Spark]

0 centuries in a series that Australia didn't even look competitive in until the dead rubber.

Fascinating analysis. I look forward to your next nuanced take such as "if you look out at the landscape, the earth looks flat"

 

[Coronis]

0 centuries in a series that Australia didn't even look competitive in until the dead rubber.

Guess that had nothing to do with the bowling.

 

[Starfighter]

Suffice to say, Shah has shouldered the bowling load here.

 

[Gob]

Blocky reminds me a fair bit of Brick from Anchorman. Very similar personalities