*Official* Australia in Sri Lanka 2016

[mr_mister]

omg how much do SL love appealing like mad men only for the replay to show it was safely in

that stumping celebration was woeful, as a keeper you usually know the batsman is safe there

 

[Compton]

Maxwell's turned up for these T20s to remind people that he may be a brainless ****, but he's a hella talented brainless ****.

 

[mr_mister]

it's funny people call him brainless coz in interviews he seems like a smart dude. I would use other words like arrogant, impatient and impulsive if I was to criticise his batting

 

[mr_mister]

average of exactly 200 for the series with the bat lol

 

[mr_mister]

4 wickets in no time flat and now Usman is looking hopeless against spin as per

 

[mr_mister]

dropped 2 balls in a row lol Usman

 

[mr_mister]

eugh so embarrassing SL stop doing this you look like fools and lose fans

 

[91Jmay]

Khawaja just had a horror across all 3 formats. Needs big runs domestically you'd think to force his way back in, although he is superb in Aus.

 

[mr_mister]

Usman lolll what's his total average for the tour

 

[TheJediBrah]

it's funny people call him brainless coz in interviews he seems like a smart dude. I would use other words like arrogant, impatient and impulsive if I was to criticise his batting

They're not even remotely related most of the time, which I know is quite ironic. I can tell you from experience that some of the most sensible cricketers, ie "intelligent" batsman in club cricket at least are often the least "intelligent" blokes, and there's often very little correlation between how book-smart or sensible you are as a person and how you bat. I'm easily the most intelligent person in any team I've played in but if you saw me bat you'd think I had absolutely no sense whatsoever.

Having said that though I don't really agree that Maxwell seems like a smart dude at all from what I've seen

 

[DriveClub]

They're not even remotely related most of the time, which I know is quite ironic. I can tell you from experience that some of the most sensible cricketers, ie "intelligent" batsman in club cricket at least are often the least "intelligent" blokes, and there's often very little correlation between how book-smart or sensible you are as a person and how you bat. I'm easily the most intelligent person in any team I've played in but if you saw me bat you'd think I had absolutely no sense whatsoever.

Having said that though I don't really agree that Maxwell seems like a smart dude at all from what I've seen

Does your smartness correlation coefficient extend to your forum posting as well?

 

[Furball]

Buttler & Billings?

I'm not sure if this was real or if I've imagined it (good possibility it's the latter tbf) but I'm sure I've seen Maxwell step down the track and overhead smash a bouncer over cover for 6.

Scoops and paddles and all that jazz are all well and good but I just love it when a batsman pulls off an outrageous shot that just shouldn't work like that.

 

[Loose Cannon]

Nev ups his career s/r to 227.

Unleashing his power for a ball per series is a bit of a tease, though.

 

[TheJediBrah]

Does your smartness correlation coefficient extend to your forum posting as well?

obviously not

 

[Dan]

I'm not sure if this was real or if I've imagined it (good possibility it's the latter tbf) but I'm sure I've seen Maxwell step down the track and overhead smash a bouncer over cover for 6.

Scoops and paddles and all that jazz are all well and good but I just love it when a batsman pulls off an outrageous shot that just shouldn't work like that.

Yeah, fair call. I was thinking along the lines of those Maxwell and Buttler hockey shots where they dig out near-yorkers for dead flat sixes over cover. Insane.

 

[Spikey]

I didn't watch a single ball of the T20, but dead set has a man ever been more right about something than I was about picking a specialist keeper for T20

 

[Furball]

Churchill when he opposed appeasement in the 1930s

 

[Shady Slim]

nasser hussain at brisbane

 

[Spikey]

Churchill when he opposed appeasement in the 1930s

disagree tbh

 

[Burgey]

disagree tbh

Agree Nev's selection up there with opposing appeasement. In fact it's greater.