***Official*** 3rd Test at the WACA

[Gnske]

Was that KP off mike who said "oh stop it" when Smith hit that 4?

Could that high pitched voice belong to anyone else?

 

[Spark]

Yeah I'm not sure this half volley tactic is working

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

Wow, Mitch is an awesome driver of the cricket ball

 

[vcs]

You can understand why people were calling Ponting the 2nd best ever when he averaged about that after 100 Tests

Ponting never actually got to that 60 mark, did he? I think he was at 59 point something at some stage in 2006 or 2007.

 

[Spark]

Wow, Mitch is an awesome driver of the cricket ball

He hits the ball about as hard as any cricketer I've seen. It's his forward defence which is the issue.

 

[Spark]

Ponting never actually got to that 60 mark, did he? I think he was at 59 point something at some stage in 2006 or 2007.

a few runs here and there makes no difference to me

 

[stephen]

Yeah I'm not sure this half volley tactic is working

It's doing it for me.

 

[Burgey]

Ponting never actually got to that 60 mark, did he? I think he was at 59 point something at some stage in 2006 or 2007.

Nah mate he averaged 60 after a hundred tests. His best 52 test streak averaged 70

 

[Starfighter]

I feel that Broad's inability to move the ball away from right handers is getting to be a serious issue.

Ponting never actually got to that 60 mark, did he? I think he was at 59 point something at some stage in 2006 or 2007.

According to howstat he got to 60.07 after his 142 at Adelaide. Other than that no. Certainly not a sustained period like Smith has.

 

[vcs]

Not disputing the general point, just being pedantic about the numbers. He reached 59.99 after Adelaide 2006, that was his career high.

 

[stephen]

The main difference in my mind between Smith and Ponting is Smith doesn't have the India weakness in his record that Ponting has. He also doesn't have the same balance issues in the early part of his innings that Ponting did.

 

[Burgey]

Missing

 

[stephen]

Desperation review?

 

[Spark]

This is... a bit desperate, surely?

 

[Starfighter]

A wild gamble.

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

Nah mate he averaged 60 after a hundred tests. His best 52 test streak averaged 70

At the end of 2006, he crossed 60... but only for 1 tests...after that he hovered around the late 50s

 

[Spark]

That's a shocker really. It went down to fine leg for four!

 

[stephen]

Tbf I would waste all my reviews on Smith as well.

 

[vcs]

Missing leg, umpire's call at worst.

 

[anil1405]

Was it just me or the ball was much closer to the leg stump than what the ball tracker was showing?