3rd Test at Melbourne - December 26 - 30

[GoodAreasShane]

Get a climate Mebbourne

 

[TheJediBrah]

Seriously? That's an uncanny wee fact if true.
Was there no good Victorian player in the team the whole time Warne played?

Matthew Elliott and Warne together won 12 Tests, lost 5
Brad Hodge and Warne together won 4, lost 0
Colin Miller and Warne won 5, lost 2

 

[GoodAreasShane]

Both Reiffel and Fleming had some reasonable success with the ball in games where Warne was also playing

 

[jcas0167]

Paul Reiffel and Warne, plus Dean Jones (RIP) and Merv Hughes.

 

[Line and Length]

The last 3 posts are examples of taking Burgey's bait.

 

[morgieb]

Two Victorians in the team is a recipe for a disaster. The last time a team with two Victorians in it excelled was when Ponsford and Woodfull played.

Technically Harris a WAussie, not a Vic.

 

[Burgey]

Seriously? That's an uncanny wee fact if true.
Was there no good Victorian player in the team the whole time Warne played?

Merv and/or Dean Jones til 93 or 94. Then occasionally one of Fleming or Reiffel. The side was much much better by applying the “no more than one” rule towards them. Remember, the only time from 95 onwards the team was really on the brink of falling from its perch was when Elliott became a regular - we had that awful Ashes in England we only won 2-1 ffs, and then that hapless 2-2 series in the Windies in 99 when the human chin couldn’t make a run and Steve Waugh - a proud NSWelshman had to bail us out by dropping Warne, returning to the “no more than one” rule and winning the fourth test

 

[Burgey]

Technically Harris a WAussie, not a Vic.

He plays for Victoria. He’s infected.

 

[Burgey]

Matthew Elliott and Warne together won 12 Tests, lost 5
Brad Hodge and Warne together won 4, lost 0
Colin Miller and Warne won 5, lost 2

Remember when Elliott failed in that Windies series, came home and went public saying “Curtly and Courtney are still great bowlers, you guys are being hard on me” and Steve Waugh rightly never picked him again?

 

[halba]

lol woakes out and leach in. test lost potentially just on that selection change.
also woakes is like your 3rd best batter in the lineup

 

[GoodAreasShane]

lol woakes out and leach in. test lost potentially just on that selection change.
also woakes is like your 3rd best batter in the lineup

Yeah, because Woakes has always been so effective here in the past


Seriously I could get better cricketing opinions from a literal potato

 

[ashley bach]

lol woakes out and leach in. test lost potentially just on that selection change.
also woakes is like your 3rd best batter in the lineup

England's biggest mistake was on the opening day of the series.
Batting on that green top put them on the back foot, and set the whole series up negatively for them.
If they'd bowled first it didn't guarantee any success, but at least they wouldn't have been blown away from the word go.

 

[Alex0paul]

3-0 then

 

[Fuller Pilch]

Seriously? That's an uncanny wee fact if true.
Was there no good Victorian player in the team the whole time Warne played?

Reiffel??

 

[Starfighter]

Not sure I'd have elected to bowl on that pitch, but I don't see Leach bowling England to victory.

 

[Fuller Pilch]

Matthew Elliott and Warne together won 12 Tests, lost 5
Brad Hodge and Warne together won 4, lost 0
Colin Miller and Warne won 5, lost 2

Reiffel was Victorian wasn't he? The bloke was a gun. (Christmas cracker joke standard there)

 

[Burgey]

Yeah, because Woakes has always been so effective here in the past


Seriously I could get better cricketing opinions from a literal potato

Didn’t know Peter Dutton liked cricket tbh

hopefully not a repeat of 82/83 when GC sent England in only to lose by 3 runs as the unheralded Norman Cowans wreaked a bit of havoc

 

[Gob]

Weak from Cummins

 

[morgieb]

Wait Michael Vaughan is back? FFS. Guess I'll have to watch more of 7 this Test.

 

[Fuller Pilch]

Looking forward to a pretty 8 from Crawley.