10th Match - Australia v West Indies

[TheJediBrah]

Michael Slater lecturing the players on the mental side of things

wow

 

[King Pietersen]

Tymal Mills is not a good commentator.

 

[Groundking]

We didn't just loose to Pakistan.

Which was a respectable effort.

 

[Zinzan]

Doesn't bounce above waist height there.

At least Stoinis is in - he'll steady the ship. lol

Tough conditions for Australia to be fair. Fast Bouncy 'real man' tracks in England, unlike those slow low flat decks in Aust like the MCG.

 

[Burner]

This is good watching. Smith steely eyed here.

 

[Starfighter]

I do see that the ramp has gone missing from the Australian batting vocabulary.

 

[TheJediBrah]

Extras stop scorer still

 

[trundler]

Real, test quality batsman thriving once more.

Maxwell still a brainless hack. Come on Smith.

 

[Starfighter]

Which was a respectable effort.

Not really, when you consider the decision making behind that lead to it.

 

[social]

lol

4 wides in a row and 1 given

 

[Flem274*]

as much as im a knob in match threads it is genuinely nice to see smith waving his wand around in a big game again. in a world that's convinced itself power batsmen like all those indian and english odi specialist losers being everything, it's good to still see the best proper test batsmen at the world cup.

 

[trundler]

This is the fabled Australian ability to play short pitched bowling?

 

[Spikey]

No argument, bloke's soft as butter. But would you disagree that ****ing with the one thing that was working was a bad move?

Things worked with Warner/Finch for a lot longer, despite Finch's well known inconsistency. So I would argue overlooking the longer working thing for the shorter working thing would have been the bad move

 

[TheJediBrah]

Brathwaite bowls slower than me, and I don't bowl because I have shoulder issues

 

[stephen]

That was effortless. Beautiful drive.

 

[Starfighter]

lol

4 wides in a row and 1 given

The umpiring has been extremely favourable to them (both this match and the Pakistan one). I wonder if it will be reciprocated...


The entry of Brathwaite into the attack signals an immediate decline in quality.

 

[Flem274*]

i swear brathwaite used to have more venom to his bowling. i need to keep up with jamodis more.

 

[Moss]

It's only the tenth over, wonder why you'd have Brathwaite bowling to the new batsman.

 

[Groundking]

Not really, when you consider the decision making behind that lead to it.

It was a mistake chosing to bowl sure, but it's still the 2nd highest total scored at the world cup in a world cup with lots of low scores. A respectable effort.

 

[Zinzan]

Ah, let off giving Stoinis a start against Brathwaite.