***Official*** Australia in Bangladesh 2017

[flibbertyjibber]

Yup, Cummins can be similar to Johnson (although a more proper bat in style than a bludgeoner). There's a big difference between that and a Woakes. The one who could be more like Woakes is Pattinson, but even he won't be as consistent as Woakes.

Woakes pretty similar to Bresnan - if his bowling fell off a cliff, he could end up playing as a pure bat in County Cricket. Maybe Pattinson later in his career could do that, don't think Cummins could.

Cummins to me looks a bit like early years Broad with the bat which while good is still below the ability of a Woakes or Bresnan.

 

[Jezroy]

Interestingly for NZ, if Australia win the Ashes 3-2 and they win their two games against the WI, they leap into 3rd place (assuming that Eng and Aus win the rest of the tests in their current series). Have they ever been ranked 3rd before?

Around 2003, when we drew 1-1 with SA at home we were ranked 2nd on the back of some reasonable results home and away. Fell away horribly from there...

 

[smash84]

looking forward to the second test. Would be fun if Aus got bangwashed

 

[Spikey]

What if Peter uses his Hands to Keep next test. I want some crazy selections damnit. Bird, Sok and Cartwright all in

https://twitter.com/DanielCherny/status/903902969279660032

i've changed my mind darren lehmann is extremely good at his job and a very old school cool bloke. thank you boof i'd love to be in the trenches with you.

 

[TheJediBrah]

If they drop Wade I guess Cartwright has to play then? Unless they pick an extra bowler (O'Keefe + Bird) which doesn't make much sense since batting was the problem.

Anyway IMO Bird has about as much chance of making runs on dustbowls than Cartwright

 

[AndyZaltzHair]

how good is handscomb as keeper?

 

[Prince EWS]

how good is handscomb as keeper?

He's not as good as Wade.

 

[AndyZaltzHair]

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[Dan]

https://twitter.com/DanielCherny/status/903902969279660032

i've changed my mind darren lehmann is extremely good at his job and a very old school cool bloke. thank you boof i'd love to be in the trenches with you.

Pretty sure Handscomb trained exclusively at short leg, hence the pads.

 

[Spark]

who schedules test matches to start on a monday ffs.

 

[Daemon]

I doubt the Bangladeshi players have been training much in the last few days (Eid)

They'll be full of biryani and ripe for the taking imo.

 

[Spark]

I doubt the Bangladeshi players have been training much in the last few days (Eid)

They'll be full of biryani and ripe for the taking imo.

no one has been training much in the last few days given the rain reports

 

[weldone]

how good is handscomb as keeper?

Terrible. The worst I've seen keeping in an International match

 

[TheJediBrah]

Terrible. The worst I've seen keeping in an International match

I've seen worse. 2003 World Cup had Jimmy Maher (in at least 1 game) and Rahul Dravid as keepers and they were awful. Making poor Dravid keep may have helped team balance but was painful to watch.

edit: Although I'm guessing that the time Handscomb kept in a international match was in an ODI in NZ where he would have gone in not expecting to keep, with virtually no practice, having not really done much keeping for years. I'd assume that keeping at that level isn't the kind of thing you can just become perfect at without maintaining training.

Wouldn't surprise if he was terrible in that game going into it having not kept, even at training with any regularity, for a long time. Whereas Wade presumably practices all the time and should be a lot, lot better. Though I highly doubt Handscomb has done much practice lately either so it'd definitely be a risk going with him.

 

[Tangles]

Wades batting is worse since his return and his keeping allegedly better. So the extra keeping practice isn't helping his batting. Makes total sense to ask your young no 5 to keep and expect no drop off in his batting.

 

[harsh.ag]

The Australian daftness wrt Nevill has been stupendously fun, in a painful way.

 

[mr_mister]

Wades batting is worse since his return and his keeping allegedly better. So the extra keeping practice isn't helping his batting. Makes total sense to ask your young no 5 to keep and expect no drop off in his batting.

if we manage to win the toss and bat itl be a good gamble. he can bat to the best of his ability you'd think. Risky otherwise.

 

[honestbharani]

Welcome to the broken system of cricket coverage. Guess who blocked the Pooling of all international test cricket coverage

Lol.. guess who is bitter about non issues and falsehoods.

 

[91Jmay]

To be fair to the Aus selectors, Nevil is averaging what a decent number 9 does.

 

[weldone]

who schedules test matches to start on a monday ffs.

Muslims