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

[Heboric]

Love the energy of Malan

 

[OverratedSanity]

for shame t_c taking os seriously

I'm dead serious tho

 

[Top_Cat]

Okay now I know you’re taking the piss. Ya got me. Cheers.

 

[OverratedSanity]

You're welcome to say I'm wrong, but no, I'm not trolling.

 

[Burgey]

We never hear OS saying it’s lucky when some chump like Jadeja who can’t turn one on a decent surface rags one out of a nine inch deep foot mark on day one at Mumbai though. That’s just good bowling, aiming at that part of the surface.

Anyway, good to see Malan looking to set Australia a target on day five.

 

[OverratedSanity]

We never hear OS saying it’s lucky when some chump like Jadeja who can’t turn one on a decent surface rags one out of a nine inch deep foot mark on day one at Mumbai though. That’s just good bowling, aiming at that part of the surface.

Anyway, good to see Malan looking to set Australia a target on day five.

I've always said jadeja's lucky when he does that. He relies on natural variation more than any bowler in cricket.

 

[Spark]

The difference is, Johnson's ball to Cook would still have been a good ball if it hadn't deviated ridiculously off the pitch. Starc's was a bad ball heading down leg.

I'm sorry if I'm being anal but it was pretty much the definition of a lucky break. Doesn't mean Starc hasn't bowled well obviously.

Starc was most definitely trying to do that though. It was the point of that whole around the wicket line.

 

[TheJediBrah]

Anderson true to form picking up useless wickets.

He's doing a mitchell starc

 

[Starfighter]

I've always said jadeja's lucky when he does that. He relies on natural variation more than any bowler in cricket.

No, Herath does.

 

[Burgey]

Ashwin too.

 

[OverratedSanity]

No, Herath does.

Eh, he has a great arm ball. Jaddu has one too but most of the time he just fires it in with crazy revs on the stumps and crosses his fingers hoping that some just go straight on.

That's kind of what I'm getting at. The element of luck is massive in those wickets, but it's also intelligent bowling. The two are not mutually exclusive. Same with the Starc dismissal.

 

[TheJediBrah]

No, Herath does.

Most asian spinners do tbh. Its how you become a successful spinner in asia.

 

[TNT]

brathwaite
starc
hetmyer
hope
etc

looks good af

Really

 

[TNT]

He's doing a mitchell starc

Just a lot slower.

 

[GotSpin]

Root has been so bad

 

[Starfighter]

Eh, he has a great arm ball. Jaddu has one too but most of the time he just fires it in with crazy revs on the stumps and crosses his fingers hoping that some just go straight on.

Never seen Herath bowl a proper arm ball. Always one with sidespin that skids rather than gripping.


It just occurred to me that when the ball does something unusual and Smith gets out, like today, it looks horribly awkward.

 

[TheJediBrah]

Starc's wicket wasn't any more lucky then Anderson's this morning. Vince just the victim of bad luck, like steve smith

 

[TheJediBrah]

Eh, he has a great arm ball.

No he doesn't. Herath's arm ball is just a normal off break that doesn't turn, like most finger spinners.

 

[Second Spitter]

Flashback for the rain break....

What about that leave?????

Holding makes a salient point about Smith: When you have good eye/hand coordination you can more or less play any stroke.

 

[Top_Cat]

Worth the repost to see North walking off.