**Official** Australia in Sri Lanka Jan - Feb 2025

[SteveNZ]

Lol who was Fraser-McGurk in this analogy (please say Doncic)?

Didn't catch the end perfectly as I recoiled in horror, but I think Short had Maxwell as AD and JFM as Luka.

 

[RossTaylorsBox]

Lmao

 

[RossTaylorsBox]

If the game finishes before lunch do the players still get to eat the lunch?

 

[Nintendo]

Why is Jayasuriya not opening the bowling here? It's turning square and this is a pitch where it's been hardest to bat vs spin when the ball is still hard. ISTG if this is just a "lol two left handers so I'm gonna spam off spin" thing.

 

[Spikey]

Didn't catch the end perfectly as I recoiled in horror, but I think Short had Maxwell as AD and JFM as Luka.

i don't even follow basketball and i know that the doofus answering this doesn't understand the trade

 

[Shady Slim]

If the game finishes before lunch do the players still get to eat the lunch?

i’ve heard of juries holding off on delivering verdict so they can get another free jury lunch

 

[RossTaylorsBox]

Would be rude not to tbh

 

[halba]

If the game finishes before lunch do the players still get to eat the lunch?

I think no- they will go to the Hotel /outside to eat which is close by. Lunch is for matches that are in progress.

Theyre getting annihilated here SL. this is the most convincing subcontinent test series victory ever for Australia and for any touring nation to the subcontinent -surely ever.

 

[honestbharani]

If the game finishes before lunch do the players still get to eat the lunch?

Question is, do they still want to?

 

[Burgey]

God what a horrible over

 

[SteveNZ]

This is a great line of questioning. Surely the lunch has been made and catered for, therefore they eat it?

 

[SteveNZ]

i don't even follow basketball and i know that the doofus answering this doesn't understand the trade

Yeah I don't either but I know McGurk ain't him.

 

[Starfighter]

We didn't need to waste the time to see that was missing

 

[Qlder]

If the game finishes before lunch do the players still get to eat the lunch?

Of course, they'll need a few sanga's before getting on the victory beers

 

[halba]

This is a great line of questioning. Surely the lunch has been made and catered for, therefore they eat it?

Given they will be celebrating the victory in the change rooms, practically i reckon it will be served in the rooms not in the main table.

 

[The_CricketUmpire]

Yeah, there's a few without even thinking - Siddons, Law, Elliott, di Venuto, Hodge, Bichel, even MacGill and I'm sure there's more who suffered from the era they played in being incredibly strong.

There wasn't a lot of rotation in those days, playing less formats, Tests were the pinnacle and so on, so you didn't get the opportunities like you do now. And you had to cop it if you weren't getting picked, unless you wanted to change sports.

I almost puked the other day, Matt Short was asked to provide a cricketing comparison to the Doncic/AD mega trade and he used Fraser-McGurk's name. It shouldn't be like this. Cooper Connelly should be about 20th in line for a Test XI berth, but here we are and we have to like it, I guess. Welcome to 2025. England did it with Bethell in the recent NZ series - picking him at 3 having never scored an FC hundred batting 5 and below - and to be fair, it didn't go poorly.

Below is a list of players who played in the period - late 1980s through to the early to mid 2000s who played little to no Test cricket for Australia due to Australian cricket being very very strong in terms of batting depth and not being able to get into the Australian Test team regularly or at all.

*stats in bold = First-Class cricket in Australian domestic cricket*

Jamie Siddons (0 Tests)
First Class - 11,587 @ 44.91
VIC/SA - 11,519 @ 44.99

Jamie Cox (0 Tests)
First Class - 18,614 @ 42.69
TAS - @ 11,812 @ 40.45

Stuart Law (1 Test)
First Class - 27,080 @ 50.52
QLD - 9,920 @ 43.13

Micheal Bevan (18 Tests)
First Class - 19,147 @ 57.32
NSW/TAS/SA - 11,756 @ 61.87

Martin Love (5 Tests)
First Class - 16,952 @ 49.85
QLD - 11,224 @ 46.00

Darren Lehmann (27 Tests)
First Class - 25,795 @ 57.83
VIC/SA - 14,392 @ 54.30

Matthew Elliot (21 Tests)
First Class - 17,251 @ 47.00
SA/VIC - 10,543 @ 46.65

David Hussey (0 Tests)
First Class - 14,280 @ 52.50
VIC - 7,668 @ 46.19

Phil Jacques (11 Tests)
First Class - 16,035 @ 48.29
NSW - 5,659 @ 41.30

Jimmy Maher (0 Tests)
First Class - 13,149 @ 38.78
QLD - 9,933 @ 39.57

Andrew Symonds (26 Tests)
First Class - 14,477 @ 42.20
QLD - 5,725 @ 36.46

Tom Moody (8 Tests)
First Class - 21,001 @ 46.25
WA - 9,520 @ 42.31

Brad Hodge (6 Tests)
First Class - 17,084 @ 48.81
VIC - 11,350 @ 47.29

Michael Di Venuto (0 Tests)
First Class - 25,200 @ 45.90
TAS - 10,117 @ 40.95

James Brayshaw (0 Tests)
First Class - 4,934 @ 42.53
SA/WA - 4,934 @ 42.53

Shane Lee (0 Tests)
First Class - 5,071 @ 39.31
NSW - 3,690 @ 35.14

 

[RossTaylorsBox]

Can someone post the lunch menu thanks

 

[Spikey]

We should ban talking about 90s cricketers who probably would have failed if they were given a shot anyway

 

[RossTaylorsBox]

This is a great line of questioning. Surely the lunch has been made and catered for, therefore they eat it?

Yeah like how far beforehand will they make the lunch? Let's say you win the match an hour before lunch, probably they're just starting to prepare the meal so I guess you'd have to wait around so you can eat it?

 

[Anthony Clayden]

We should ban talking about 90s cricketers who probably would have failed if they were given a shot anyway

Does that exclude Brad Hodge Av 55 with a double from 6 tests