3rd Test at Melbourne - December 26 - 30

[Hurricane2]

Good advice there from the commentators for how Cam Green should construct an inning.

 

[Hurricane2]

Bring both Leach and Root on and rip through to the new ball. Might pick up one of these batsman with spin and if they don't they will with the new pill.

 

[Gnske]

Look, Hameed finally hit them. Well done, very well done. Superb effort Haseeb. Great fielding.

 

[Croadymeister]

What the hell was Root thinking bowling Leach after lunch when we had them 131-4, absolutely gift wrapped them 40 runs

 

[Aritro]

He thought Leach would bowl better than he did

 

[Gnske]

Stokes: *Bowls on the hips*
Stokes: GRRR im angry at leaking runs, where's a homophobe for me to attempt to kill with my FISTS?

 

[Hurricane2]

Good advice there from the commentators for how Cam Green should construct an inning.

The only problem with Shane Warne's advice "work the singles at the start of your inning" it takes a lot of skill to get a single. Often waiting for bad balls and hitting boundaries is easier as the boundary ball you attack is rank, working a single requires good batsmanship and it requires "attacking" a good delivery (which needs skill). So my point is, it is easier said than done to just say "go and work singles against Jimmy Anderson to get off strike against him".

 

[Nintendo]

Langer's contract is coming to an end soon, should it be renewed or not? I know he's not particularly liked but he's made some very good calls inbetween (backing marnus, promoting marsh to 3 in t20's.) Marsh decision in particular basically won us a T20 WC.

 

[Burgey]

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Did you put this together yourself?

 

[tony p]

England have been good today, I think that is a typo.

 

[Gnske]

Langer's contract is coming to an end soon, should it be renewed or not? I know he's not particularly liked but he's made some very good calls inbetween (backing marnus, promoting marsh to 3 in t20's.) Marsh decision in particular basically won us a T20 WC.

Imagine what backing Harris will do for Australian cricket

 

[jcas0167]

yeah but their fielding never cooperated before, now for the first time, they are in a position to keep any aussie lead trivial at worst...

Let's not get ahead of ourselves :-)

 

[Xix2565]

Gill, pope and green all dominate FC but look shell-shocked at test level. Nissanka is the only one I can think of who has been consistently solid.

Gill was hardly shell-shocked ffs. Pretty sure he shell-shocked Starc instead.

 

[Spark]

Gill was hardly shell-shocked ffs. Pretty sure he shell-shocked Starc instead.

Is that why his top score since is 52?

 

[Croadymeister]

He thought Leach would bowl better than he did

Where's the evidence he was capable of doing that

 

[OverratedSanity]

Gill was hardly shell-shocked ffs. Pretty sure he shell-shocked Starc instead.

He looked terrible against anderson. Was pretty lucky to miss the series in England.

 

[GotSpin]

Langer's contract is coming to an end soon, should it be renewed or not? I know he's not particularly liked but he's made some very good calls inbetween (backing marnus, promoting marsh to 3 in t20's.) Marsh decision in particular basically won us a T20 WC.

The marnus call is surely one of the best lately in Australian cricket

 

[Xix2565]

Is that why his top score since is 52?

He looked terrible against anderson. Was pretty lucky to miss the series in England.

Having issues with swing in good swinging conditions is not "shell-shock". It's not like he's barely making runs and starts.

 

[morgieb]

What's with all these gun young FC bats struggling at test level recently. Gill, pope and green all dominate FC but look shell-shocked at test level. Nissanka is the only one I can think of who has been consistently solid.

Gill's had some genuinely gun moments at Tests tbf, a little bit different to Pope or Green IMO.

 

[Gnske]

Remember when Pope scored a hundred. Do you remember. God that was a time.