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

[honestbharani]

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

Regular occurrences deserve no special commentary though

 

[Gob]

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.

There are couple of ways to go by

Green at six plus Swepson/Lyon and 2 pacers
Maxwell at six plus Lyon and three pacers

Either way I hope they'd utilise Marnus a lot more. He is very decent in right conditions

 

[Spark]

Would be extremely surprised if Maxwell even made the squad tbh. I think that ship has well and truly sailed, esp bc there are enough part-time spin options in the team already

 

[Anil]

Not even single wicket taken.

It's over for us

This…Cummins must be praying hard for rain now…

 

[Burgey]

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

Call me back when he’s asked to step up as a senior batsman a la the second to last Indian tour and doesn’t crumble like a Sao in blender.

Obviously he’s better than Harris and should be opening, but so is my grandmother and she died in 2014.

 

[Gnske]

Has a journo asked the gnome about his 'mediocre with flashes of brilliance' call on Harris yet and how he thinks he's really evolved since that.

They should.

 

[Burgey]

Get Gnske into the next presser, stat!

 

[Burgey]

I will be able to definitively tell you this is the case if my RAT is negative tomorrow.

Apparently you can.

 

[Burgey]

Ussie getting a shoulder massage during the warm up is alpha af

 

[Lillian Thomson]

Bizarre interview with Malan believing England have improved with being in a position to save the game going into Day 5. Without the lost time leading to declarations this has been as big a slaughter as the previous matches - and might yet still be.

 

[Burgey]

Regular occurrences deserve no special commentary though

This is why no one says anything about the bills hit you constantly spout tbf

 

[Burgey]

Just gonna lay here today and watch the death of Australian cricket

 

[Shady Slim]

cmon HAMMER

 

[Burgey]

Boland’s strike rate well down today

 

[morgieb]

As I felt throughout large parts of Day 4, pitch seems to have flattened out a lot.

 

[Gob]

Australian cricket is dying slowly

 

[Lillian Thomson]

According to the BBC this is the third highest opening stand in the last four Ashes series.

 

[Gob]

Time for spin

 

[Spikey]

Ricky Ponting "they need to have an intent to score while team is clearly batting for a draw" count: 1

plenty to come

 

[Shady Slim]

lol hammer was cooked there with a good throw