3rd Test at Melbourne - December 26 - 30

[Shady Slim]

runs at 8 =/= runs at 6 (and doubly so for runs at 4)

hey i don’t disagree!! but neser you would think is the next all rounder off the ranks unless you’re bringing mmarsh back, and you can’t carry green forever on flashes of his true potential, especially in this top order which you can hardly say outside of marnus has any super dependable scorers at any given time

 

[Spark]

82/0 at close of play

you think these two are going to score at 8 an over?

 

[Hurricane2]

Hameed has his eye out for a leg glance opportunity.

 

[Shady Slim]

you think these two are going to score at 8 an over?

73 of those are starc noeys

 

[Spark]

hey i don’t disagree!! but neser you would think is the next all rounder off the ranks unless you’re bringing mmarsh back, and you can’t carry green forever on flashes of his true potential, especially in this top order which you can hardly say outside of marnus has any super dependable scorers at any given time

Nah I definitely think they'd bring MMarsh back instead. For that reason I'd basically give Green the whole year. I think there's a lot mentally there that's holding him back, there's no way he'd be batting this timidly in the Shield.

 

[morgieb]

Holy crap that ball

 

[Spark]

how the **** has that not gone to hand

 

[TimAngas]

That is sooo brutal

 

[Burgey]

****. Nice first ball Pat

 

[Hurricane2]

Crawley has ice water in his veins. Very calm guy. He makes technical errors but he is very calm.

 

[morgieb]

how the **** has that not gone to hand

Didn't glove it anyway.

But still.

 

[Aritro]

Hameed survives the Sabina Park in 98 bounce without putting a hair out of place

 

[Spark]

yeah I'm happy with 260 on this

 

[Shady Slim]

Nah I definitely think they'd bring MMarsh back instead. For that reason I'd basically give Green the whole year. I think there's a lot mentally there that's holding him back, there's no way he'd be batting this timidly in the Shield.

yeah that is fair

has mmarsh done anything at shield level to get to be the next man up? i obvs get that form is form but picking guys based on LOI form in the long game is a clown move (i know you’re saying what you think *they’d* do so that’s not a slight on u ftr)

 

[Hurricane2]

This boxing day test is cool. Great match.

 

[Burgey]

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

Gill is Green-level myth material

 

[Spark]

yeah that is fair

has mmarsh done anything at shield level to get to be the next man up? i obvs get that form is form but picking guys based on LOI form in the long game is a clown move (i know you’re saying what you think *they’d* do so that’s not a slight on u ftr)

MMarsh has basically never really done anything consistently with the bat in the Shield afaik

 

[ashley bach]

OMG Hameed looks vulnerable, Crawley not much better.

 

[Shady Slim]

again make no mistake i’m not calling for green’s head or anything i’m just wondering how much rope you’d want to give him before you start thinking of other choices

 

[Gnske]

Amazing, he's not even bowling particularly fast yet looks entirely more threatening than all the plodders including Wood in England's side combined.