****Official Australia in England 2020 (Non-Ashes)*****

[Spark]

I'm still going full length and pace to a guy who's new at the crease. If he nicks a couple, so be it. But if I'm an international bowler who's paid to hit a length on cue, I'd like to think I could manage it. Or someone like Curran with a well disguised slower ball, that's something lower order batsmen struggle hugely with.

I'm not saying it's a bad idea. I'm just saying it's actually pretty hard to do without leaking at least one boundary, and when you're defending 10 runs, leaking even one boundary actually is pretty damaging for your chances. Certainly possible, but the baseline should be that the batting side ought to win most of the time in that scenario unless you're talking rabbits with no batting ability or hitting power.

 

[Burgey]

Also reckon they'd have been a much better chance of defending it if Cummins had been on strike.

 

[honestbharani]

You think he could not have dabbed 5 2s to 3rd man?

 

[SteveNZ]

I'm not saying it's a bad idea. I'm just saying it's actually pretty hard to do without leaking at least one boundary, and when you're defending 10 runs, leaking even one boundary actually is pretty damaging for your chances. Certainly possible, but the baseline should be that the batting side ought to win most of the time in that scenario unless you're talking rabbits with no batting ability or hitting power.

Wonder what the odds/stats would be on a number 9 needing 10 to win, having just come out to bat. My mind tells me a little bit less than evens.

But as I said before, captaincy decisions are not necessarily cut and dried as good ones or bad ones when they're made - execution largely makes them so (although clearly there's ones that seem less educated than others). Bowling wrong-uns out of Starc's arc might've made Morgan look a bit better than floaty pies.

 

[Spark]

Wonder what the odds/stats would be on a number 9 needing 10 to win, having just come out to bat. My mind tells me a little bit less than evens.

But as I said before, captaincy decisions are not necessarily cut and dried as good ones or bad ones when they're made - execution largely makes them so (although clearly there's ones that seem less educated than others). Bowling wrong-uns out of Starc's arc might've made Morgan look a bit better than floaty pies.

If it were an ordinary 9 then I'd agree. But Starc is a pretty efficient slogger and has good hand-eye coordination, which as good as being a "batsman" in such circumstances -- as he showed on the night. I'd honestly prefer him in that situation to, say, Marcus Stoinis.

 

[honestbharani]

unless it was Jordan, who was bowling

 

[Shady Slim]

If it were an ordinary 9 then I'd agree. But Starc is a pretty efficient slogger and has good hand-eye coordination, which as good as being a "batsman" in such circumstances -- as he showed on the night. I'd honestly prefer him in that situation to, say, Marcus Stoinis.

still remember that big bash semi where stoinis had the last over to himself against clint mckay who bowled six slower ball bouncers and stoinis swung at all of them and missed

 

[Starfighter]

still remember that big bash semi where stoinis had the last over to himself against clint mckay who bowled six slower ball bouncers and stoinis swung at all of them and missed

So that was Stoinis? I remember the over well, and the 'Gades managing to royally **** up the chase in their accustomed manner, but didn't remember who was facing.

Seems about right for him. IIRC they were pretty much identical deliveries too.

 

[Burgey]

still remember that big bash semi where stoinis had the last over to himself against clint mckay who bowled six slower ball bouncers and stoinis swung at all of them and missed

He did a similar thing in one of the games on this tour, where he was dished up some leg side length balls and missed about three or four in a row. Weird cricketer tstl