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  1. Smudge49

    4th Test at the Gabba, Brisbane, 15 - 19 Jan 2021

    Agree with the part that India deserved to win for the way they performed with a depleted side, but surely this has to be the worst flogging any Australian side has received on home turf in recent memory. If Cricket Australia could go for Argus review for a 2011 home Ashes defeat in a series...
  2. Smudge49

    4th Test at the Gabba, Brisbane, 15 - 19 Jan 2021

    Hasn't that always been the case? You haven't arrived either as a player or a team unless you trounce the English. Steve Smith was a hack for them till he started scoring massive runs against them, from then on he was next only to Bradman.
  3. Smudge49

    Sack Langer

    Smith scored his first test century during the 2013 Ashes, which was Lehmann's first assignment as coach.
  4. Smudge49

    4th Test at the Gabba, Brisbane, 15 - 19 Jan 2021

    Just to be clear, I am not pointing at Australia wilting as a side, when the opposition raises the bar of their game. The problem is when members of this Australian bowling squad self-proclaim to be the best attack in the world, then they should back that claim. In this series, first two tests...
  5. Smudge49

    Sack Langer

    Obviously the players Lehmann nurtured were already in the Australian system, but they were on the fringes either discarded or being badly used when he took over. Guys like Ryan Harris, Mitchell Johnson, Chris Rogers were brought in with specific roles and they delivered brilliantly. Smith's...
  6. Smudge49

    4th Test at the Gabba, Brisbane, 15 - 19 Jan 2021

    Batting woes aside, Aus flunked both at Sydney and Brisbane due to inability to take wickets on day 5. Put Headingley test into the mix and there is a bit of a pattern starting to develop there. In a weird sort of a way, last summer Yasir Shah scoring a hundred against this attack, that alone...
  7. Smudge49

    4th Test at the Gabba, Brisbane, 15 - 19 Jan 2021

    Instead should have wished for Timmy Paine walking away into the sunset along with his good mate JL. Only way to break this circle and pain of disappointment.
  8. Smudge49

    Mediocre cricketers who you support

    Mitchell Marsh on days he actually makes it to the cricket field, half the mediocrity is conquered then and there.
  9. Smudge49

    4th Test at the Gabba, Brisbane, 15 - 19 Jan 2021

    Just some random idiotic Pom whose salty, that Jimmy Anderson won't get no signed t-shirt ever from the Indians. :ph34r:
  10. Smudge49

    Australian test selection 2020/21

    You can drive a mini truck through Finch's front foot defense on the best of days, so to ask such a guy to open in test cricket was clueless of him. The fact that after Finch, Langer made another non-opener like Wade open against the same team basically means very little was learnt from the...
  11. Smudge49

    Sack Langer

    Carey literally gets opened up whenever he is defending a length ball, so he will have tough time against the red ball. Much rather punt with Phillipe at his age, he has good range of shots which can help keep the game moving if he is batting with the tail. Khawaja isn't going to be picked with...
  12. Smudge49

    4th Test at the Gabba, Brisbane, 15 - 19 Jan 2021

    If Paine capitalized on the chances that Pant gave him at both Sydney and Brisbane, Aus could have won both those tests.
  13. Smudge49

    4th Test at the Gabba, Brisbane, 15 - 19 Jan 2021

    I thought this was pretty much common knowledge
  14. Smudge49

    4th Test at the Gabba, Brisbane, 15 - 19 Jan 2021

    He had the desire to play on though, but Cricket Australia drove him to play when he was neither fit physically or mentally which had further ramifications on him as a player and leader. In most other working environments that will be seen as workplace harassment but in professional sports such...
  15. Smudge49

    4th Test at the Gabba, Brisbane, 15 - 19 Jan 2021

    Clarke has said it on 60 minutes that he was literally pushed back into the team when he was recovering from his back ailment around the same time he was coping with passing of his best mate Phil Hughes, he was told he either leads the team or gets replaced. It was all downhill from there for...
  16. Smudge49

    Sack Langer

    Given the kind of players who have got a longish gig in the middle order, it amazes me why Maxwell isn't being talked up as an option for #6 Has the ability to change a game in a session and would give you more steady overs than either Cam Green or Mitch Marsh can at this point.
  17. Smudge49

    Australian test selection 2020/21

    Langer is a good talker tbh, he says words like country, pride, honour, courage enough times and people think he knows his stuff. His bias towards West Australian players is so bad that it has ensured, literally anyone who plays for West Australia has got a crack in the national side at the...
  18. Smudge49

    Sack Langer

    Langer plays this big brother in the current Australian side where he says there is some holistic environment for every player to evolve and grow, however apart from Marnus Labuschagne not a single new player has been nurtured during his tenure. He has an ancient blueprint for white ball...
  19. Smudge49

    4th Test at the Gabba, Brisbane, 15 - 19 Jan 2021

    Some of the English fans might correct me on this, but hasn't England completely shifted their focus from red ball cricket to white ball cricket since Strauss took over the management scheme of things? Everyone from Pakistan, West Indies heck even Ireland are giving them a run for their money...
  20. Smudge49

    4th Test at the Gabba, Brisbane, 15 - 19 Jan 2021

    The point Clarke made is that, that Australian cricket has gone beyond the captain and now the coach and high performance manager have more sway on things then even the skipper, Paine is the perfect captain in that regard because he isn't rigid like most natural leaders can be. Let's not forget...
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