*Official* Match #10 — Australia Vs South Africa Oct 12th, Lucknow

[Jarquis]

Then Jansen pumps Starc and we all look silly for different reasons

 

[Spark]

I get that, but Australians are generally quite lucky with the success of their National Teams. It's not like you've ever had England Cricket in the 90's. Even when cricket was rubbish in the 80's, Aus still managed to win a World Cup. It's interesting that as success has waned in rugby, the Aussie interest has fallen off a cliff. What happens if the cricket team turns to ****?

None of this has anything to do with luck and to suggest so reveals a fundamental misunderstanding of what makes national sporting teams successful. Hint: it's to do with governance, investment, and priorities. Cricket Australia is by no means a perfect or praiseworthy organisation but it is orders of magnitude better than the radioactive disaster zone that is Rugby Australia.

 

[Molehill]

Yeah it’s on 9 but you only get Australia games. Foxtel use to have all the European tours and comps, South American tours, super rugby etc and they lost that this year to Stan which is even a bigger blow. Channel 9s coverage of the World Cup currently is terrible

In England, apart from the 6 Nations, everything is on PPV too. And I'm not talking about Sky either.

 

[social]

5 drops

 

[Son Of Coco]

Australian catching has been atrocious this tournament.

 

[loterry1994]

In England, apart from the 6 Nations, everything is on PPV too. And I'm not talking about Sky either.

Yeah I mean we do have some good coverage of sports here that’s free for a lot of sports. We don’t have many channels either. Rugby just dying here from coverage to people that can play the game.

 

[Spark]

Starc has really become such a dreadful fielder in the last year. Drops so many catches in the deep.

 

[Molehill]

None of this has anything to do with luck and to suggest so reveals a fundamental misunderstanding of what makes national sporting teams successful. Hint: it's to do with governance, investment, and priorities. Cricket Australia is by no means a perfect or praiseworthy organisation but it is orders of magnitude better than the radioactive disaster zone that is Rugby Australia.

I never mentioned luck. But instead of supporting a sport which is going through its struggles, Aussies have deserted it. Wanting your own team to lose is just weird.

And back to cricket, how many drops is that now?

 

[Shri]

 

[OverratedSanity]

Wtf was starc going. He should've just palmed the ball onto the ground to prevent it from popping out and cried that it should count as a catch.

 

[slowfinger]

pathetic from Australia

 

[Viscount Tom]

Cummins must not have got a round in or something given the fielding this over.

 

[mackembhoy]

Aussies losing the plot here

 

[OverratedSanity]

Lmao wtf

 

[Molehill]

****ing hell, this is hilarious!! Watch out lads, they'll be sticking you in the rugby bin if you carry on like this!!

 

[Son Of Coco]

Just let it hit the ground. Don't embarrass yourself by actually trying to catch it.

 

[Spark]

Just **** off Stoinis you absolute waste of space.

 

[King Kane]

Another couple of drops for the Aussies.

They must have hired Phil Tufnell as their fielding coach.

 

[loterry1994]

What are we doing lol

 

[trundler]

Yeah Australia don't deserve to qualify