**Official** 4th Test at Melbourne, 26-30 Dec 2024

[ashley bach]

The drinks break with the all important breakthrough

 

[Starfighter]

Can one of these nongs go on and get three figures?

 

[stephen]

Oh Labu

 

[halba]

labu gone. only the head, carey and the tail to come.

 

[TheJediBrah]

Marnus has declined. A few years ago the fielder would have dropped that and he'd make 150

 

[Johan]

Oh Labu, you ****ing wanker

 

[Burgey]

Good job Marnus. You just keep doing you and pissing starts away mate.

 

[Starfighter]

This is just limp dick batting. You get good conditions and you don't grind them into the dust. If your not making runs you gotta take these opportunities.

There seems be a 'that's enough' mentality in our batting at the moment, the way they select their shots, and grind before giving it away. No-one except Head wants to really stamp on the opposition's chest.

 

[honestbharani]

So Kohli should be facing a level 2 breach of code of conduct. Can get 50-100% match fee and a ban for 1 Test
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Is there any difference there written between Level 1 and Level 2?

 

[Burgey]

England are looking pretty good imo. Brooding new talent in which Australia should've done a year ago. English bowlers would love bowling on Australian pitches.

England are looking awful. Because they are. Their bowlers won’t take 20 wickets all series. 5-0 Australia

 

[morgieb]

TBH I honestly think that one was there to be hit. The problem was that while he hit it quite well, it still went down Kohli's throat.

 

[vicleggie]

2 more wickets before the end of the day, and it's pretty even.

 

[Johan]

England are looking awful. Because they are. Their bowlers won’t take 20 wickets all series. 5-0 Australia

I pray you step on a lego

 

[stephen]

Speaking of this, I find it awfully suspicious stephen has never provided an alibi for his activities on 9/11/2001

I laughed it off when my friend told me about it. I'd watched the Lone Gunmen the week before where terrorists hijacked a plane to fly into the twin towers. Thought he'd been watching a replay.

 

[honestbharani]

I am not sure Head came into bat ever before the 30th over this series except Perth?

 

[Kirkut]

But just the fact that he missed an entire home test series for the birth of his second kid, his moving base to UK seems to suggest some kind of health issue for his second kid which maybe the reason he is moving to the UK. Its not the same guy who spoke so glowingly about Pakistan after they beat us in the 2017 CT, and who acted so respectfully when NZ beat us in the WTC finals etc and who defended Mohammed Shami so passionately after that 2020 T20 WC game against Pak. And as I said, even during his youth, outside of carrying on screaming after wickets or whatever, he usually only reacted when something was said or done to him. Just dont think he is in the best space mentally and that means he is gonna suck and we are gonna lose badly this game as well.

Source? Him moving to UK has more to do with privacy and relatively better quality of life for his kids imo

 

[King Kane]

Denzel with the breakthrough, more bad batting from Marnus than good bowling though.

 

[Nintendo]

There seems be a 'that's enough' mentality in our batting at the moment, the way they select their shots, and grind before giving it away. No-one except Head wants to really stamp on the opposition's chest.

Think TJB also has a decent point around the drops aswell, TBH. Marnus tended to get dropped on a shot like that 2 years ago, and people don't talk about this as much but usman's peak opening was on the back of lots of drops. Could just be regression to mean with there luck rather than a mentality change.

 

[Gnske]

I laughed it off when my friend told me about it. I'd watched the Lone Gunmen the week before where terrorists hijacked a plane to fly into the twin towers. Thought he'd been watching a replay.

What just one plane? Pretty bad writing

 

[SkyBlue]

2 more wickets before the end of the day, and it's pretty even.

Nah. That Konstas knock has demolished this team mentally. There's no coming back from this.