4th Test at Sydney (?) - Jan 5-9 2022

[OverratedSanity]

Australia definitely need Green to be better with the bat. They can make do with an all rounder who's OK but not that great with the ball.

 

[social]

I think he gets the whole year unless he looked genuinely, totally lost against spin in the subcontinent (which, I have to say, is definitely a possibility...) and he basically gets yanked for his own good.

But like as Burgey said he's six foot a million. He really should just run down the pitch and basically tonk anything on a good length. That or practice his sweep shot, a lot.

The shot he got out to was just dumb as he plonked Leach straight 15 rows back a couple of balls earlier off a mishit

 

[Shady Slim]

The shot he got out to was just dumb as he plonked Leach straight 15 rows back a couple of balls earlier off a mi****

aye it sort of feels like at times he gets in to a mindset where instead of playing each ball on its merits based on the match situation and his game, he sort of instead goes "i am in a Test Match so have to block three balls in a row, then attempt a scoring shot off the next ball, then block again three times before attempting to score again"

obviously i am oversimplifying the phenomena but you get what i mean

 

[Spark]

The shot he got out to was just dumb as he plonked Leach straight 15 rows back a couple of balls earlier off a mi****

Yeah I don't get why he didn't just try to hit pretty much every single ball over long on's head, not like it would have been a particularly difficult task for him to clear it.

What concerned me more were some of the shots he played off the back foot though. Very strong "b Axar Patel straight break" vibes on those.

aye it sort of feels like at times he gets in to a mindset where instead of playing each ball on its merits based on the match situation and his game, he sort of instead goes "i am in a Test Match so have to block three balls in a row, then attempt a scoring shot off the next ball, then block again three times before attempting to score again"

obviously i am oversimplifying the phenomena but you get what i mean

Right but that really is mostly because he's just a kid in cricketing terms. He doesn't really know his own game yet.

For one, there's no way he should be as circumspect as he is to short pitched bowling. He should be absolutely murdering anything that isn't pitched in his half.

 

[social]

aye it sort of feels like at times he gets in to a mindset where instead of playing each ball on its merits based on the match situation and his game, he sort of instead goes "i am in a Test Match so have to block three balls in a row, then attempt a scoring shot off the next ball, then block again three times before attempting to score again"

obviously i am oversimplifying the phenomena but you get what i mean

Seems to me that he’s got lots of things going through his head

He’ll be fine if/when he gets to “see ball, hit ball”

 

[social]

I can only assume that Fox commentators are under instructions to pump Harris

Watching the BBL and Howie is acting like it’s some tough decision to omit Harris for Khawaja in Hobart

Hussey only committing to having the conversation

At least Vaughan is talking sense

 

[Spikey]

I can only assume that Fox commentators are under instructions to pump Harris

Watching the BBL and Howie is acting like it’s some tough decision to omit Harris for Khawaja in Hobart

Hussey only committing to having the conversation

At least Vaughan is talking sense

damage control imo

 

[quincywagstaff]

I can only assume that Fox commentators are under instructions to pump Harris

Watching the BBL and Howie is acting like it’s some tough decision to omit Harris for Khawaja in Hobart

Hussey only committing to having the conversation

At least Vaughan is talking sense

Howard just falls into same line of thinking of the prominent names around him. Total and utter sycophant.

 

[Spark]

I can only assume that Fox commentators are under instructions to pump Harris

Watching the BBL and Howie is acting like it’s some tough decision to omit Harris for Khawaja in Hobart

Hussey only committing to having the conversation

At least Vaughan is talking sense

"Having the conversation" is definitely as close as you'll ever hear Hussey come to saying someone should be dropped tbh

 

[Nintendo]

again i don't disagree with anything that you've said it's just right now his batting has not been good enough to be a longterm six - which does not mean i'm saying drop him, i'm just saying that before we can anoint him the number six for the next fifteen years we need to see more stuff like today. it's not as if he's not holding his place in the xi ~~somewhere~~ with the other stuff because he totally is doing so, just purely talking about his place with the batting lineup

Except he's not averaging 15, he's averaging 33 in tests, which is fine for a kid his age. Carey and Harris are far bigger concerns.

 

[Gob]

Carey is fine imo. Just be patient

 

[Gob]

 

[Heboric]

Love it when a fan favourite in Usman Khawaja does so well, I remember some of you had such glowing remarks regarding him...

 

[Prince EWS]

Love it when a fan favourite in Usman Khawaja does so well, I remember some of you had such glowing remarks regarding him...

#pillow

 

[social]

Tontine tbf

 

[Spikey]

#pillow

burgey tasting it pretty hard right now and his many enemies here haven't said a word.

 

[Prince EWS]

burgey tasting it pretty hard right now and his many enemies here haven't said a word.

To be fair I think most of his enemies (see: best mates who like to take the piss out of him) actually mostly agreed with him on Khawaja's character. I always thought he should be playing anyway (as opener), but more just because a pillow averaging 40 is always gonna be better than Rory Burns fighting it out for an average of 28.

I kind of find this "determined cricketer, great teammate, unfairly shafted" narrative kind of gross, especially in the context of the fact that we always get narratives like that when Australians score runs at home. Pitches a bit different this year, but all the same.

 

[ashley bach]

lol, these Aussie posters Gambhiring. That's my role, **** off ****s.

More seriously, Day 5 does seem very interesting. All 3 results possible though I bet if England lose early wickets they just shut up shop instead.

if they have any common sense left after an already demoralising long summer they'll shut up shop before a ball is bowled.
to score 360 from here is a thing in itself, and to do it in a limited time frame is quite another story.
England should go ALL OUT to SAVE the match and at least head home with something.

 

[Nintendo]

I think he gets the whole year unless he looked genuinely, totally lost against spin in the subcontinent (which, I have to say, is definitely a possibility...) and he basically gets yanked for his own good.

But like as Burgey said he's six foot a million. He really should just run down the pitch and basically tonk anything on a good length. That or practice his sweep shot, a lot.

Green vs spin in the SC doesn't fill me with alot of confidence tbh. He can dominate spin when he wants to but he doesn't use his feet until he's set and he's never been very confident on the sweep, he only really pulls it out while declaration battling and IMO looks so much better when he does.

 

[Gob]