3rd Test at Melbourne - December 26 - 30

[Prince EWS]

Green looked like an emerging #6 who should consider devoting less time to his bowling against India.

In this series he looks like a proper bowler who is at best a #8.

His Shield history is an interesting mix of specialist bowler and specialist batsman too. Would be great if he could combine the two, but being an international allrounder requires something a bit beyond being supremely talented in both skills.

 

[Spikey]

lol getting out to stokes

 

[Gnske]

You know what, **** this innings.

The real question is, how many will England be down by stumps?

 

[Prince EWS]

You know what, **** this innings.

The real question is, how many will England be down by stumps?

At least 9 imo.

 

[morgieb]

Green was fine

Simply got out

It’s only Harris who looks completely clueless

Feels like a weird Test to say this, as if Harris failed England might have a first innings lead. Yeah he did play and miss a bit but when the pitch is doing quite a bit and they're moving it you kind of expect to.

 

[Prince EWS]

Looking forward to Boland's 57 ball duck on James Faulkner.

 

[Spark]

Green looked like an emerging #6 who should consider devoting less time to his bowling against India.

In this series he looks like a proper bowler who is at best a #8.

His Shield history is an interesting mix of specialist bowler and specialist batsman too. Would be great if he could combine the two, but being an international allrounder requires something a bit beyond being supremely talented in both skills.

Yeah having spent the winter learning how to bowl again, looks like he's due to do the same with the bat. Today was crying out for a counterattack but barely a sign of it

 

[Aritro]

The Poms need to decide if they're going to be competitive or not tbh

This in-between **** makes my skin crawl

 

[Burgey]

Green looked like an emerging #6 who should consider devoting less time to his bowling against India.

In this series he looks like a proper bowler who is at best a #8.

His Shield history is an interesting mix of specialist bowler and specialist batsman too. Would be great if he could combine the two, but being an international allrounder requires something a bit beyond being supremely talented in both skills.

Luckily he’s not supremely talented as a batsman then

 

[social]

Green looked worse than Harris imo, especially given the dismissal he looked like getting out to. Playing and missing outside off is sustainable if you don't follow the ball - looking like you're just about to get bowled every ball isn't.

Green played & missed twice from what I saw

His game is still evolving including technical adjustments since the last test

He’s also 22

It took blind luck for Harris to score runs and he hasn’t improved one iota since debut

He’s also 29

 

[Prince EWS]

Green played & missed twice from what I saw

His game is still evolving including technical adjustments since the last test

He’s also 22

It took blind luck for Harris to score runs and he hasn’t improved one iota since debut

He’s also 29

Yeah no doubt Green has a higher ceiling than Harris. Not what I said though.

 

[morgieb]

Green looked like an emerging #6 who should consider devoting less time to his bowling against India.

In this series he looks like a proper bowler who is at best a #8.

His Shield history is an interesting mix of specialist bowler and specialist batsman too. Would be great if he could combine the two, but being an international allrounder requires something a bit beyond being supremely talented in both skills.

Yeah it's very interesting. I think he has more upside as a bowling all-rounder akin to Jamieson but Australia arguably need the batting all-rounder more.

 

[social]

Feels like a weird Test to say this, as if Harris failed England might have a first innings lead. Yeah he did play and miss a bit but when the pitch is doing quite a bit and they're moving it you kind of expect to.

He plays & misses a lot because he’s got a bad technique

 

[Spark]

Luckily he’s not supremely talented as a batsman then

tbf this is the sort of logic that got phil hughes jerked around. shield runs are shield runs

 

[Calm_profit]

Time for some counterattack from Starc.

 

[OverratedSanity]

Green played & missed twice from what I saw

His game is still evolving including technical adjustments since the last test

He overbalanced and skewed a couple to the offside to full straight balls from anderson, swished at a ball from wood which was 3 feet outside off at head height and then missed a slow straight break. And showed basically no intent to score except for one goo drive at the end. His game looks all over the place.

 

[Prince EWS]

tbf this is the sort of logic that got phil hughes jerked around. shield runs are shield runs

They were especially roady Shield runs when compared to Hughes tbf. I think I have more time for Burgey's assessment than most, having watched a lot of these games.

I think there's definitely a really gun Test cricketer in there either way but I'm not sure we really know what it's going to look like yet.

 

[Spark]

He overbalanced and skewed a couple to the offside to full straight balls from anderson, swished at a ball from wood which was 3 feet outside off at head height and then missed a slow straight break. And showed basically no intent to score except for one goo drive at the end. His game looks all over the place.

yeah like he visibly changed his entire technique between tests. short of being literally Steve Smith, that's always going to be a struggle to adjust to

 

[Gnske]

They were especially roady Shield runs when compared to Hughes tbf. I think I have more time for Burgey's assessment than most, having watched a lot of these games.

I think there's definitely a really gun Test cricketer in there either way but I'm not sure we really know what it's going to look like yet.

Exactly. He's got nothing but time to develop atm. And we've seen enough glimpses of both sides of his skills, plus fielding to invest heavily.

 

[Spark]

They were especially roady Shield runs when compared to Hughes tbf. I think I have more time for Burgey's assessment than most, having watched a lot of these games.

I think there's definitely a really gun Test cricketer in there either way but I'm not sure we really know what it's going to look like yet.

to be clear i definitely don't see a test batsman averaging high 40s there. but simply scoring that many runs has significance in itself. he probably needs to bat with a lot less fear than he is, that might help his technique too