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*Official* Australia vs West Indies - Frank Worrell Trophy 2022

quincywagstaff

quincywagstaff

International Debutant
Looks like Oz will enforce the follow-on if the short pacemen spells and Lyon bowling from one end are to go by.

Fair chance it will end tonight if that occurs.
 
Beamer

Beamer

International Vice-Captain
Shady Slim said:
i think the bolded is true but the rest is not necessarily.

the windies are really formidable with the duke at home and they're formidable with the duke at home not due to mickey mouse pitches but rather because of their excellent (full strength) attack, even if their batting lineup has been lacking. discovering tage, as nintendo, silfer, and beamer all have pointed out, really starches that batting lineup if he can kick on. in saying that, their batting is generally brittle, their attack can't bowl with the kooka on our pitches (seemingly afflicting every country other than modern india and seth effrika), and they are injury beset at the moment.
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Tbf if you are an Aussie and don't watch cricket outside your own country, you'd think this lot were grade cricket level at best.

There's a real shambolic feel to this tour with all the injuries, 2 run outs, emergency fielders from club cricket etc
 
quincywagstaff

quincywagstaff

International Debutant
Beamer said:
Tbf if you are an Aussie and don't watch cricket outside your own country, you'd think this lot were grade cricket level at best.

There's a real shambolic feel to this tour with all the injuries, 2 run outs, emergency fielders from club cricket etc
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The West Indies have barely won a Test tour away from home for the past 25 years and on the majority of them have been non-conpetitive. Is this any real surprise?
 
Nintendo

Nintendo

Cricketer Of The Year
Green has looked seriously undercooked this game. Get he hasn't played red ball for a bit, but it's not like he hasn't played any cricket at all.
 
morgieb

morgieb

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This has the feel of that Yasir Shah ton game where Australian go to sleep and basically waste time for no reason.
 
Spark

Spark

Global Moderator
quincywagstaff said:
Hard to fathom the reasoning for not enforcing the follow-on, especially when you have a genuine 5th bowler. Probably a tacit commercial decision as much as anything.
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Is it really that much of a shock? They virtually never enforce it unless absolutely forced to for sports conditioning reasons.
 
quincywagstaff

quincywagstaff

International Debutant
Spark said:
Is it really that much of a shock? They virtually never enforce it unless absolutely forced to for sports conditioning reasons.
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Not a shock at all but still hard to fathom against such a weak batting lineup.

The Yasir Shah century match was mentioned above and that was one match where they did enforce the follow-on; they probably had less justification for enforcing it on that occasion.
 
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