1st Test at Brisbane, 8th-12th of December 2021

[morgieb]

Very Smith in Australia ahead by miles mode. Not sure we were ahead by enough for that to work, though.

 

[Spark]

What a strange innings by Smith

 

[Anil]

that opens up the aussie tail, doesn't it?

 

[Son Of Coco]

Yeah. Look, the right decision was made. There is no question about it. But how it came to that, leaves a lot to be desired. That is all. At best, even if it is just incompetence, it is a level of incompetence that should see them fired IMO.

Apparently the system has gone down and they're only checking wickets again...it's ****ing dumb, and there were 14 no balls in Stokes' first 5 overs. He had no opportunity to sort it out when none are called.

 

[_Ed_]

What a godawful innings from Warner. Hasn’t even really had a good patch.

Will still celebrate his century like a maniac, though.

 

[Starfighter]

****

His good period is done.

 

[OverratedSanity]

****

His good period is done.

Oh, no dont you try to gambhir his decline away

 

[Burgey]

A very 2/180 innings form TPC. Disappointing but expected

 

[morgieb]

****

His good period is done.

One innings when he was batting in a situation where he always plays weird proves that?

 

[nightprowler10]

Labu would've left that.

 

[Starfighter]

One innings when he was batting in a situation where he always plays weird proves that?

We're not that far ahead and I've also seen all his innings for the past two years.

 

[cnerd123]

that opens up the aussie tail, doesn't it?

don't rate Head or Carey that much, but I think Green and Cummins could both have big summers with the bat. Especially Cummins, he'll need to cut down bowling workload to stay fit to captain the whole series, so I can see him really focusing on scoring runs to compensate for that.

 

[mr_mister]

Very Smith in Australia ahead by miles mode. Not sure we were ahead by enough for that to work, though.

Leading by 40 with 8 wickets in hand is ahead by miles

 

[Nintendo]

Would have sent in green over head at this point tbh, he's got the ruthless streak the batters don't have bar Warner. Let him and Warner grind England into the ground and send head in at 350/4

 

[Burgey]

We're not that far ahead

We really are though. I mean, unless it rains or we lose 7/50 odd from here, this is done.

 

[mr_mister]

We're not that far ahead and I've also seen all his innings for the past two years.

Please. Unless we lose 7-50 we're gonna end up very far ahead here. Can't see England improving much during the second dig anyway

 

[Spark]

We're not that far ahead and I've also seen all his innings for the past two years.

This wasn't really like those tbh. He just didn't seem switched on mentally today

 

[OverratedSanity]

don't rate Head or Carey that much, but I think Green and Cummins could both have big summers with the bat. Especially Cummins, he'll need to cut down bowling workload to stay fit to captain the whole series, so I can see him really focusing on scoring runs to compensate for that.

I can see him overbowling himself tbh.

England probably not good enough for that to actually be required tho

 

[mr_mister]

We really are though. I mean, unless it rains or we lose 7/50 odd from here, this is done.

We both used 7-50 in our examples lol

 

[Starfighter]

don't rate Head or Carey that much, but I think Green and Cummins could both have big summers with the bat. Especially Cummins, he'll need to cut down bowling workload to stay fit to captain the whole series, so I can see him really focusing on scoring runs to compensate for that.

Nah, Cummins' batting is overrated. He had one or two good series when he came back but has been consistently worse than Starc since then.