4th Test at the Gabba, Brisbane, 15 - 19 Jan 2021

[Aritro]

Is having 14 men on the onside and bowling straight really all you have to do to get wickers?

Maybe not the worst idea.

 

[Son Of Coco]

He's trying to hit the crack Cummins hit earlier in the day.

So far no good; he's either not accurate enough or the crack isn't making the ball misbehave as he thought it would. Should go back over the wicket and just bowl normally IMO.

He's got it once or twice. You could see it was playing on Gill's mind when he first came on. Given there's nothing for him to aim at on the other side of the pitch, he's not losing anything by going around.

 

[Prince EWS]

Is having 14 men on the onside and bowling straight really all you have to do to get wickers?

Maybe not the worst idea.

 

[Son Of Coco]

Isa is magical

Mt Isa is a stunning place. One of the jewels in Australia's (very heavy) crown.

 

[Teja.]

Oh god Warne is on.

 

[Prince EWS]

Oh god Warne is on.

Is he salty about Pujara?

 

[Son Of Coco]

Gonna go out on a limb here. We won't win this today. Reckon India will be 6 down at worst.

 

[Spark]

Is he salty about Pujara?

Nah he's annoyed about Starc going off the field because of the footholes when bowling around the wicket.

Must admit, I don't understand why he did that either.

EDIT: Also he's going off about no bat-pad to Pujara. Which, again... I don't really understand why there isn't one either.

 

[Spark]

Gonna go out on a limb here. We won't win this today. Reckon India will be 6 down at worst.

Yeah if those cracks are going to do something, they're certainly taking their time.

 

[OverratedSanity]

Is he salty about Pujara?

Starc

 

[trundler]

Have you checked the rest of the list out?

Hooper, without question.

 

[Prince EWS]

Starc

I shouldn't be surprised, but I actually am.

 

[Starfighter]

I do seem to remember Clarke trying to push Lyon to get it outside off more by setting fields that would encourage him to do so. I think the straighter line Lyon used to take gave him the ****s. Paine may just have set the field poorly, but he may also not have wanted Lyon to be pushing it down leg.

On a fifth day wicket where there's a hint of turn, spending a bit of time tossing it up outside off isn't the worst idea. Lyon seems to take more encouragement to do so than most.

Paine either needs to get him to toss the ball up more or set the field for what he's bowling now. It's the half-arse strategy that frustrates.

 

[Prince EWS]

Hooper, without question.

The question was just about Aussies though.

Maybe Mark Waugh: the Aussie Cooper.

 

[Son Of Coco]

Yeah if those cracks are going to do something, they're certainly taking their time.

It could be time to get Smithy to do some shadow batting with a crowbar.

 

[Spark]

Paine either needs to get him to toss the ball up more or set the field for what he's bowling now. It's the half-arse strategy that frustrates.

It feels like a "default" field with no particular strategy or specific tactic to specific batsmen in mind. It's not an accident there have been so many balls at catchable height just wide or over fielders in this series, the field isn't being set with a great deal of precision IMO.

 

[Teja.]

Is he salty about Pujara?

He's absolutely raging about no bat pad for Pujara.

 

[ataraxia]

Just caught Lyon getting 100 caps. Excellent career obviously but is he the "worst" Aussie player to do it? Healy maybe only other choice.

Hooper, without question.

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[OverratedSanity]

None of warne's complaints about Starc's line of attack and the lack of a bat pad on the off side to Pujara are wrong. But warne being warne he says it 15 times in 5 minutes instead of making his point once.

 

[Teja.]

Warne commentary is the Trump tweets of test cricket.