***Official*** 1st Test at Brisbane

[Spark]

inb4 cabi who seems to have forgotten he's a mod

 

[Gob]

I'm in paine

 

[Compton]

Here comes the Paine.

 

[Adders]

So is Paine less favoured than Wade for you blokes? Surely hes got to be the better keeper?

 

[flibbertyjibber]

Surprised at the Aussie selection (if it true) seems almost as bad as the one from 2010 but we are nowhere near as good to exploit that.

 

[Burgey]

Paine is a good keeper, but he’s kept in three games in two years. Flies in the face of every stated aim of the selectors over the past 12 months. His batting record is worse than Nev’s over their careers.

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

Just pick a decent keeper

 

[burr]

Is the Gabba now the best pitch in Australia? I feel like it may be.

Ahhhhh. It's been far too long without the game. Nothing better than the start of an Australian summer of cricket.

 

[burr]

Paine is a good keeper, but he’s kept in three games in two years. Flies in the face of every stated aim of the selectors over the past 12 months. His batting record is worse than Nev’s over their careers.

That's a race to the bottom.

Jonny Bairstow might be the difference between the two sides. That would be quite amusing.

 

[howardj]

Renshaw and Wade out

Bancroft and Paine in

I don't think the SMarsh mooted selection is as sure though...unconfirmed at the moment

 

[howardj]

In fact, I'm turning the lights out if they've gone back to both SMarsh and Paine.

 

[howardj]

Paine is a good keeper, but he’s kept in three games in two years. Flies in the face of every stated aim of the selectors over the past 12 months. His batting record is worse than Nev’s over their careers.

I think the selectors are so flaky and reactionary, that they've gone with Paine on the back of his two half centuries in the past week.

Jumping at shadows really.

 

[Burgey]

In fact, I'm turning the lights out if they've gone back to both SMarsh and Paine.

It's confirmed. They have.

 

[stephen]

Renshaw, Cartwright, Maxwell, Wade, O'Keefe and Agar out, Bancroft, Khawaja, Marsh, Paine, Starc and Hazlewood in.

We're replacing over half the team since the last test.

 

[Nate]

For the first time in my life, I feel sorry for Glenn Maxwell.

 

[Starfighter]

Is the Gabba now the boringest pitch in Australia? I feel like it may be.

ftfy

 

[howardj]

They'll still write it up as the "Gabba Greentop" though

 

[Starfighter]

I expect it to be a pasty whitish brown, as usual.

 

[morgieb]

ftfy

Lot of competition, though. Would say Melbourne was the most boring as it has less pace than Brisbane/Sydney.

Think the Adelaide pitch we saw last summer was the best of the bunch.

 

[howardj]

Sure to be very flat around the country this Summer as the groundsmen will fee an (unspoken but very real) pressure to make this cash cow last at least four days