***Official*** 3rd Test at the WACA

[morgieb]

I'll shower you with likes if you do

I love as soon as I asked the question a wicket fell

 

[Spark]

Just kinda crap tbh.

 

[Starfighter]

England well on track for a score of 267 here.


lol at the choice of song over that replay. For England certainly.

 

[OverratedSanity]

Not very surprising

 

[Starfighter]

Haze getting some things to happen. That came in a long way.

 

[Spark]

Haze getting some things to happen. That came in a long way.

From the hand, tbf.

 

[morgieb]

Very nice game of cricket so far. Hopefully it continues and (more importantly) the rain doesn't **** over the game.

 

[Starfighter]

From the hand, tbf.

I'll be glad when the cricket world realises that swing is parabolic.

 

[OverratedSanity]

Stoneman's looked pretty impressive all series. Good thing too, considering how bad Cook has been.

 

[morgieb]

Most importantly I'm glad it doesn't seem to be an uber road....or at least not as much as what it was a couple of years ago.

 

[stephen]

Very nice game of cricket so far. Hopefully it continues and (more importantly) the rain doesn't **** over the game.

Has the WACA ever been a washout?

 

[stephen]

I'll be glad when the cricket world realises that swing is parabolic.

Depends how much the ball slows down in the air and the physics of the ball. If the ball slows down significantly and changes the aerodynamics, it could conceivably swing more in the second half of its flight.

 

[Starfighter]

Depends how much the ball slows down in the air and the physics of the ball. If the ball slows down significantly and changes the aerodynamics, it could conceivably swing more in the second half of its flight.

From Mehta et al 2014:

In some photographic
studies of a swing bowler (Gary Gilmour, who played forAustralia in the 1970s), it was confirmed that the trajectorieswere indeed parabolic [8]. Those studies also confirmed that thefinal deflections of over 0.8 m predicted here are notunreasonable. One of the photographed sequences was analysedand the actual flight path is also plotted in figure 5. Theagreement is rather remarkable considering the simplicity of theimage processing and analytical techniques. The data in figure 5also have a bearing on the phenomenon of the so-called “lateswing.” There are many theories for late swing, but it turns outthat since the flight paths are parabolic, late swing is in fact“built-in,” whereby 75% of the lateral deflection occurs over thesecond half of the flight.

I think the perception of 'early swing' is simply more swing, which makes the curve more apparent earlier.

Anecdotally, I'd say that the bowler's end viewpoint makes the ball appear to move later than a back on one, because you're looking down the trajectory more.

 

[Starfighter]

Slightly out of date, but this image is pretty good

Yes. Top centre.

 

[Cabinet96]

Has the WACA ever been a washout?

I don't think I've ever seen rain stop play in Perth. It might have happened in the last ten years but I don't remember it.

 

[Starfighter]

Nice from Stoneman.

 

[Starfighter]

I can see Warner really going for it on this surface. England are going to have to be super disciplined.

 

[quincywagstaff]

I don't think I've ever seen rain stop play in Perth. It might have happened in the last ten years but I don't remember it.

Curiously, the only times I can recall rain impacting Tests have been against New Zealand (1993/94, 1997/98, 2001/02).

Don't think there's ever been a ODI that's been washed out.

 

[vcs]

When is Cow back?

 

[morgieb]

Has the WACA ever been a washout?

Haha yeah it is very rare as Perth has a climate where it rarely rains in summer, but rain is forecast for Sunday and Monday. And quite a bit of it.