3rd Test at Melbourne - December 26 - 30

[Daemon]

Aus crumbling

 

[Spark]

could be a decent contest on offer here if they get one more quickly

 

[morgieb]

Smith really has to score runs here. Not optimistic seeing Smith against Wood.

 

[jcas0167]

Huge

 

[stephen]

This is the kind of situation that 2017 Smith would come in and grind out 180 to bring Australia's total to 300.

 

[hazsa19]

I was just waiting for that catch to go down.

 

[TimAngas]

Only first innings score for Labuschagne below 47 since he came in as concussion sub.

 

[Aritro]

Does his best work in the morning, Wood.

 

[Burgey]

Only first innings score for Labuschagne below 47 since he came in as concussion sub.

Seriously? That’s astounding

 

[Shady Slim]

This is the kind of situation that 2017 Smith would come in and grind out 180 to bring Australia's total to 300.

to get from 3/84 to 300 with a 180 for one of the batsmen means that you've got the seven other wickets scoring only 56 runs while the other guy gets 180

while it's not impossible that would seem... unlikely!

 

[Fuller Pilch]

And with that Marnus has dropped below Voges, Smith, Pollock, Headley, and Sutcliffe

 

[SteveNZ]

Wood is a gun, the sort of whole-hearted effort guy England should base their attack around. Need more guys in their set-up with his mindset

 

[hazsa19]

Only first innings score for Labuschagne below 47 since he came in as concussion sub.

thats mental if true

 

[SteveNZ]

Only first innings score for Labuschagne below 47 since he came in as concussion sub.

Wow, that is a stat. Some kind of consistency.

 

[Gnske]

They're getting the wrong guys out ffs

 

[Spikey]

What's the deal with the visas?

in around 2007 or 2008 the ECB and the British Government set it up so that overseas players would only be approved for visas if they had recent international experience, 1 test in the last 2 years or 5 tests in the last 5 years, plus some ODI/T20I rules, like 20 games or something I think. They also changed from 2 overseas players to 1 at some point too. So this obviously meant that for a lot of Australians it became impossible to play a county cricket, although players who could get in via the EU (ie mosies henriques) could still get a deal. They've recently changed the rules to make it easier to get players for the Hundred, I think playing 20 T20 games over a certain period in a professional league is good enough. Sean Abbott and others immediately signed a deal after this change.

Now for the last 10 years it feels like commentators always mention the lack of Australians in county cricket compared to the 1990s/2000s, but never the reason for it. Lisa today is the first one I recall. The other night Brad Hodge even said CA discourged it for awhile, which doesn't make sense, although CA telling players not to go to England to play club cricket because it's illegal would make sense

 

[Gnske]

If Harris scores a match defining ton here then test cricket's death is closer than we think

 

[Spikey]

If Harris scores a match defining ton here then test cricket's death is closer than we think

#letitrip

 

[hazsa19]

Wood is a gun, the sort of whole-hearted effort guy England should base their attack around. Need more guys in their set-up with his mindset

im starting to feel for the first time that Jimmy and Broad should be encouraged to depart soon. Without anything to back this up I just feel like they’re not having a good effect on the team.

 

[Spikey]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1475265908851367937

ahahahahahha