*Official* Australia vs West Indies - Frank Worrell Trophy 2022

[Starfighter]

Oh Marnus

 

[tony p]

Marnus appetite for runs is quite something, also when he gets out it's like dragging him to the dentist to get him off the field. LOL

 

[duffer]

I’m kind of amazed anyone would pay to watch this. The average club game is more interesting.

Afg or BD probably more interesting opponents at this point

 

[Beamer]

Holder doesn’t look 100% & the runup has definitely affected the bowlers

That's the only excuse I can think of tbh. Otherwise it's just so poor. The disparity between Joseph and the rest is huge.

 

[Prince EWS]

Surely Chase's last Test unless he remembers how to move his front foot when he's batting, right?

 

[Starfighter]

I'm kind of amazed I'm still watching it at home tbh.

Even the last Pakistan series seemed higher quality that this. There is something engrossing about the terribleness, it's like watching a club XI play test cricket.

 

[morgieb]

I'm kind of amazed I'm still watching it at home tbh.

I switched off after Marnus got his ton.

 

[morgieb]

Even the last Pakistan series seemed higher quality that this. There is something engrossing about the terribleness, it's like watching a club XI play test cricket.

Other than India and South Africa it seems like all sides go to **** when they come here. Makes for pretty depressing cricket at times, especially as I can't remember the last time we won a genuinely close series.

 

[Chubb]

I guarantee that if Zimbabwe were playing it would be more competitive and exciting.

 

[Shady Slim]

Other than India and South Africa it seems like all sides go to **** when they come here. Makes for pretty depressing cricket at times, especially as I can't remember the last time we won a genuinely close series.

would it have been india 2014-15? brisbane was a flogging, and adelaide was arguably only competitive on account of an inviting declaration
but that's it right?

 

[Prince EWS]

I guarantee that if Zimbabwe were playing it would be more competitive and exciting.

Burl would have 5/10 again.

 

[Beamer]

Afg or BD probably more interesting opponents at this point

In fairness we have been absolutely decimated with injuries and can't even afford to replace more than one of them.

Not picking a specialist spinner is looking worse and worse as the tour goes on.

 

[Chubb]

Other than India and South Africa it seems like all sides go to **** when they come here. Makes for pretty depressing cricket at times, especially as I can't remember the last time we won a genuinely close series.

I said this during the first test.

I know some Aussies get off on watching them massacre hapless visiting teams but something has to change.

 

[morgieb]

would it have been india 2014-15? brisbane was a flogging, and adelaide was arguably only competitive on account of an inviting declaration
but that's it right?

Ehhh India only looked like winning a Test because of declarations. Plus those wickets were even flatter than the usual Australia standard.

The answer is probably that 07/08 series against India. And before that.....I honestly can't remember.

 

[Starfighter]

Other than India and South Africa it seems like all sides go to **** when they come here. Makes for pretty depressing cricket at times, especially as I can't remember the last time we won a genuinely close series.

The thing is those are just regular paddlings and teams like England being hopeless. This is a different level, England haven't brought an attack this slow down here since 1950.

 

[Chubb]

Burl would have 5/10 again.

Blessing would steam in and scream in Marnus’ face. He’d shut him up pretty quickly I reckon.

 

[Beamer]

Surely Chase's last Test unless he remembers how to move his front foot when he's batting, right?

Haynes will find a way to include him. It's so depressing.

 

[Shady Slim]

Ehhh India only looked like winning a Test because of declarations. Plus those wickets were even flatter than the usual Australia standard.

The answer is probably that 07/08 series against India. And before that.....I honestly can't remember.

subversive take here but aside from sydney iirc every game in the johnson ashes was fairly close, and it was just that we happened to win all the key moments (well we didn't "just happen to", we clutched them), thus making it a blanking lol

 

[duffer]

Other than India and South Africa it seems like all sides go to **** when they come here. Makes for pretty depressing cricket at times, especially as I can't remember the last time we won a genuinely close series.

Yeah but they at least seem to give a semblance of a crap. Not seeing that with the Windies team here

 

[TheJediBrah]

would it have been india 2014-15? brisbane was a flogging, and adelaide was arguably only competitive on account of an inviting declaration
but that's it right?

That wasn't a close series. Would have been 4-0 comfortably if not for super flat wickets