1st Test, Aus vs India, Adelaide oval 17th-21st December

[dontcloseyoureyes]

Best keeper in the country I've been told.

 

[Stapel]

FMD Warne. Low scoring test and he recommends sending in two of the four man bowling attack to open under lights against a new ball. Imagine if he’d been asked to do that.

the man’s brain is held up in quarantine

Nah. He's always been like that.
It's one of those things. I used to think of him (as did many, many others) as a thinking cricketer. I'm afraid he never was. Just a big bluf, with gazillions of talent to drift and spin the ball at will.
Since I heard him commentating, I slowly but surely came to this conclusion. I sometimes wonder if he ever played cricket.... I really do think that about the world's 2nd wicket taker.
In hindsight, when watching old footage of Warne taking all those brilliant wickets, I see things different. Warne appealing for LBW, and standing in honest disbelief when being denied, whereas the ball pitched over a foot outside leg.....

 

[trundler]

That was Burns's all day


Aaaaaaa

 

[Shri]

you want to have a shot at a bloke for pretending to be a top player when he’s done nothing and you use Rohit Sharma as the counterpoint? Fmd

rohit is an odi atg

 

[Burgey]

This is a good over from Starc

 

[weldone]

you want to have a shot at a bloke for pretending to be a top player when he’s done nothing and you use Rohit Sharma as the counterpoint? Fmd

Shri is just doing some weird kind of Gambhiring for Shaw's 2nd innings.

 

[Burgey]

rohit is an odi atg

this is a test match...

 

[Gnske]

Shri is just doing some weird kind of Gambhiring for Shaw's 2nd innings.

This. It's so transparent its alarming.

 

[Prince EWS]

FMD Warne. Low scoring test and he recommends sending in two of the four man bowling attack to open under lights against a new ball. Imagine if he’d been asked to do that.

the man’s brain is held up in quarantine

I kind of didn't hate the Ashwin idea.

Sending Nostils out there with him would have been a worse decision than any made by Bruce Oxenford this Test though.

 

[Shri]

this is a test match...

rohit and shaw are from the same city

shaw carries on like he's the second coming without earning it

**** him

 

[stephen]

Back to prodigy school Shaw.

 

[NotMcKenzie]

That rectifies things a little

 

[Gnske]

A front foot defence is a difficult thing.

 

[Burgey]

Here we go. Good nut that

 

[morgieb]

Man that sounded great. Surely Shaw can't play the MCG Test though?

 

[OverratedSanity]

Hes so terrible. What a dreadful selection.

 

[trundler]

I kind of didn't hate the Ashwin idea.

Sending Nostils out there with him would have been a worse decision than any made by Bruce Oxenford this Test though.

He just wanted to do it because Waugh hates nightwatchmen.

 

[Arachnodouche]

Nah. He's always been like that.
It's one of those things. I used to think of him (as did many, many others) as a thinking cricketer. I'm afraid he never was. Just a big bluf, with gazillions of talent to drift and spin the ball at will.
Since I heard him commentating, I slowly but surely came to this conclusion. I sometimes wonder if he ever played cricket.... I really do think that about the world's 2nd wicket taker.
In hindsight, when watching old footage of Warne taking all those brilliant wickets, I see things different. Warne appealing for LBW, and standing in honest disbelief when being denied, whereas the ball pitched over a foot outside leg.....

I think he has an overactive imagination and he visualizes and thinks out aloud a lot but that's all just subterfuge, not actual execution. You don't get as good as him without knowing what you're on about.

 

[Burgey]

Fmd poor Bumrah bowls his slot out then gets to do this

 

[stephen]

Surely he will play in Melbourne. Kohli is gone by then.