2nd Test at the MCG, Melbourne, 26 Dec - 30 Dec 2020

[Shri]

Bloody Paine, only made 13, dropped a catch and now 12 byes...bring in Josh Inglis

do his people not know how to spell the word english

 

[Teja.]

This is a rare great day for the Rahane super fan. Cheering.

 

[Burgey]

I actually have less insight for having watched that Fox Cricket Insight with esteemed test skipper Tim Paine

 

[honestbharani]

@Spark I think you mentioned sometime earlier during this series that the Aussie commentary is so turgid and borderline bogan-ish due to the audience being like that on FTA channels. What is the excuse for Fox Sports?

 

[Teja.]

Tim Paine reminds me of George Micheal from Arrested Development, personality wise, for some reason.

 

[Gob]

Tim Paine reminds me of George Micheal from Arrested Development, personality wise, for some reason.

He is more of a Michael than a George Michael. Right man for the gob

 

[cnerd123]

Excellent from jinks so far

 

[Spark]

@Spark I think you mentioned sometime earlier during this series that the Aussie commentary is so turgid and borderline bogan-ish due to the audience being like that on FTA channels. What is the excuse for Fox Sports?

There isn't one, it's just awful. It's pretty clear they're trying to attract a similar audience, but also they've fallen into "good cricketer = good commentator" trap. Even then, C7's much higher standard is principally down to Ponting who is probably the best commentator going around atm. Brad Hodge last night shows that there's nothing inherently amazing about C7's coverage compared to Fox.

 

[Son Of Coco]

Wasn’t the footwork kinda bad from Paine?

The height it came through at and the fact he decided to go in front of first slip may have been a factor.

 

[Spark]

I really really hate that if the umpires feel two raindrops and they aren't playing then they won't restart and won't take the covers off, but they'd just ignore it and play on if they were already playing.

 

[quincywagstaff]

There isn't one, it's just awful. It's pretty clear they're trying to attract a similar audience, but also they've fallen into "good cricketer = good commentator" trap. Even then, C7's much higher standard is principally down to Ponting who is probably the best commentator going around atm. Brad Hodge last night shows that there's nothing inherently amazing about C7's coverage compared to Fox.

The standard of sports commentary in Oz in general is awful in general. Baffled how a nation so obsessed in sports has such a low standard on its coverage.

 

[Niall]

The standard of sports commentary in Oz in general is awful in general. Baffled how a nation so obsessed in sports has such a low standard on its coverage.

What is the standard of whoever commentates on rugby union internationals?

 

[OverratedSanity]

If that Starc ball isnt given wide, why do we even have the thing for tests? Wouldnt have hit a 10th set of stumps

 

[Spark]

What is the standard of whoever commentates on rugby union internationals?

not great tbh

 

[OverratedSanity]

Ugh that shitty backfoot waft from Rahane. Lucky

 

[Spark]

If that Starc ball isnt given wide, why do we even have the thing for tests? Wouldnt have hit a 10th set of stumps

i've long since given up trying to work out what actually counts as a wide in tests. in the ashes it felt like there were at least a dozen per innings that could have been called according to the actual written rule

 

[Gnske]

do his people not know how to spell the word english

Your worst comment of the thread.

I applaud it.

 

[Gnske]

There isn't one, it's just awful. It's pretty clear they're trying to attract a similar audience, but also they've fallen into "good cricketer = good commentator" trap. Even then, C7's much higher standard is principally down to Ponting who is probably the best commentator going around atm. Brad Hodge last night shows that there's nothing inherently amazing about C7's coverage compared to Fox.

Hodge's ideas last night were revolutionary and knife-edge, thank you very much.

 

[morgieb]

Australia's gotten overly funky recently. I think India taking a lot of wickets in less than conventional positions has influenced things a lot.

Hasn't been the best day from the Aussie bowlers bar Cummins either.

 

[aussie tragic]

What's the go with Jadeja? If you exclude his Test matches he averages 56.14 in FC cricket (averages 35 in Tests).

Very similar to Keith Miller who has FC average of 53.45 in non-tests, but 37 in Tests.