ashley bach
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lol a Rishabh special
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**Official** 1st Test @ Perth, 22nd-26th November
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quincywagstaff
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Been watching Test cricket for 40 years... never seen a shot like the one Pant just played.
Bahnz
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You can tell he's loving every second of the opportunity to second-guess Cummins' captaincy though.
capt_Luffy
Cricketer Of The Year
Lol wtf was THAT!!!???
Daemon
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Yeah his voice sounds like it’s coming out from one of those kids toys with terrible speakers
OverratedSanity
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Pant lol
Spark
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I mean, good. It's his job
You don't think commentators broadcasting the national sport have an obligation to speak some level of sense, not this rah rah rah all our players are mega superstars stuff?
Jake Fraser-McGurk isn't getting picked by his Sheffield Shield side, yet a long-term Australian commentator just compared him to Rishabh Pant. It's pretty shithouse.
Daemon
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He’s done it before lol
Not sure 'balls spinning away from you bounce more than ones spinning into you' was a great insight, but yeah you'd expect that from a guy who's just played 15 years of international cricket. His voice does suck, though, and he's just really unlikeable
I think what I haven't seen is that it wasn't (or didn't seem) overly pre-meditated ...he just saw it on a length and decided to play it. Insane. The guy is a freak
ataraxia
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Absolutely but Cummins didn't help himself by spinning around in circles.
Burgey
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He doesn't usually do that tbh. He probably has as broad a knowledge of overseas cricketers as any commentator doing the rounds anywhere. He researches them pretty assiduously, I'm talking carries handwritten notebooks into the comm box with him which he's assembled in the off season while sitting up all night watching other countries play each other.
Particularly stands out cf compared with his colleagues on Fox, which isn't hard. I think, as Spark said, he genuinely believes JFM is a big talent. I don't think he's right, but I also don't think his views in this instance are caused by cheerleading.
Spark
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Well yeah because he was struggling to predict where the ball would land. Like I said, a lot easier said than done over your shoulder running backwards
Yeah exactly, that's why the comparison is so junk.
We had a guy in NZ called Peter Ingram who we thought was the next master blaster, absolutely dominated FC cricket. He averaged 27 in 8 ODIs - once backed away to Shaun Tait - and was never picked again, and branded a hacker forever more. He averages 10 more an innings than JFM.