***Official*** Pakistan in Australia 2016/17

[ImpatientLime]

They obviously have no problem appreciating Smith now..had he been an overseas player, it would have been a different conversation though.

this is clearly not true.

when trott and cook scored a gorillian runs in the 10/11 ashes the aussie commentators waxed lyrical.

 

[mr_mister]

Wonder if Smith can end up with the second best average of all time

 

[harsh.ag]

The douchebag in me wants to scream "karma" when this happens but I can't. It's really really ****** seeing sportsmen he get injured on the field... Deflates the atmosphere and takes much of the enjoyment out of proceedings. Hope he makes a full and speedy recovery.

And then gets a few dozen catches dropped off him on comeback and quits cricket.

80.4
Mohammad Amir to Smith, no run, good length and viciously curves away outside off. Smith was searching for the inswinger. Beaten past the outside edge. Or not. Hotspot picks up a little white blotch. Snicko detects a spike. Sarfraz dives across to his right and takes it. Faint edge, no appeal from Pakistan, they did not pick up the tickle.... They take a catch off Amir, but it all amounts to nothing.


84.5
Mohammad Amir to Handscomb, 1 run, edged and falls short of third slip. Length and slanted across off, the batsman hangs his bat out and gets away.
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OS is RANDI's daemon. Which is different from Daemon, who is RANDI's voice of sanity.

 

[uvelocity]

Well he's back on the field. Hopefully it was just a bash.

*slash

 

[uvelocity]

tricky with knees. i've seen afl players roll around and look like they've been shot, and then get back out there, and meanwhile the nastiest knee injury (the ACL, a clean rupture of it, tbf) is usually accompanied with nothing more than clutching the knee. people often get up and jog off after they've done one, lenny hayes finished a game with one, and then they're out for 12 months

Is there a quitting cw equivalent of this

 

[smash84]

Aus 295/4 at the end of day 1, you heard it here first

hmmm, close

 

[uvelocity]

Fascinating analysis. I look forward to your next nuanced take such as "if you look out at the landscape, the earth looks flat"

Kick him pls

 

[uvelocity]

The good thing is he has made them pay for the keeper's butter fingers. He is averaging @77 in day/niters so loves the pinkie.

Who doesn't love a bit of pink. It's Christmas

 

[Bijed]

The good thing is he has made them pay for the keeper's butter fingers. He is averaging @77 in day/niters so loves the pinkie.

I would argue that he hasn't played enough day/night tests to draw conclusions just yet (tbf he couldn't have played any more), but, yeah, full credit to him for making the most of his opportunities and just generally scoring loads of runs.

 

[dontcloseyoureyes]

Lowest point in recent Australian fandom was the Gabba crowd laughing and telling Simon Jones to get up because he was too soft after he'd done his knee in 02/03. Was ****ed.

Can't expect too much from QLDers. Barely human up there.

lenny hayes finished a game with one

Bit unfair comparing Cyborgs made exclusively for AFL midfield work to normal everyday athletes.

 

[dontcloseyoureyes]

You really have to wonder about the ability of people to comprehend what others are saying.

TJB wasn't saying Smith hadn't had luck today, which he definitely did at times, he was going against the inference from Blocky that the Australian team have an endless supply of luck that flows from their pores and never ends, including winning all tosses and getting to pick the weather settings before the match like in FIFA.

 

[Spikey]

Can't expect too much from QLDers. Barely human up there.



Bit unfair comparing Cyborgs made exclusively for AFL midfield work to normal everyday athletes.

Bit unfair to compare anyone to Lenny really. Wag

 

[Daemon]

Got the Handscomb pic ready for when he tons up. Can't wait.

 

[burr]

Just watched the presser with Matt Renshaw. What a lovely young man he seems.

Warner has had a strange 2016, absolutely killing it the one day arena and decidedly average in tests.

 

[honestbharani]

Funnily enough, it used to be the other way with him not being as dominant in ODIs as he was in tests.

 

[KungFu_Kallis]

So you're saying he's caught Martin Guptill syndrome

 

[Burgey]

Funnily enough, it used to be the other way with him not being as dominant in ODIs as he was in tests.

Yeah he went off the boil in Odis for quite a while but now it feels like he's not very secure when he bats in tests at all. Or maybe we've got too used to our batsmen getting out cheaply and stupidly so we now expect it

 

[Burgey]

In other news, I hope Wahab plays every test. He's box office. Love his work.

 

[smash84]

So after Australia declare at 570/6, how much will Pakistan score in their 2 innings combined?

291?

 

[Furball]

interesting thing about renshaw the comms highlighted is that he didn't follow the swinging ball

ie once a line to defend was picked he stayed on it which meant he looked like a **** playing and missing but meant he didn't really go fishin' outside off

Renshaw just so obviously has 'it' in my opinion.

Might not bear fruit right away, but I'll be pretty surprised if he's not opening for Australia in 5-6 years time.