*Official* Sri Lanka Tour of Australia 2019

[morgieb]

Was out during the last session. What’s caused all the frustration?

 

[Starfighter]

Was out during the last session. What’s caused all the frustration?

Patterson and Starc were scoring slowly, then decided to start going for it, then Pucovski was sent out with a message and they started stonewalling, then Patterson got out, and basically we should have got in a couple more overs.

 

[Top_Cat]

Cummins you jet. Fmd that’s a seed of doom to a leftie from around the poles

Would need to the patience and judgement of Tibetan Bradman to lay off that ball. Sensational bowling last ball of the day.

 

[OverratedSanity]

I genuinely think it's better for the team's Ashes chances if starc has another crap test and gets dropped. He's been pretty bad for a while now.

 

[sphynx]

The worst result for England this summer is Hazlewood’s Injury.

Richardson looks legit.

Puts the ball on a perfect line and length 11 out of 12 balls and can hoop it both ways and bowls at mid-high 130’s.

Pretty much perfect for wreaking havoc on seaming decks.

Funnily enough, he bowls a bit like a young Jimmy Anderson.

Also, Cummins has steadily built over the last 18 months, took 42 @ 19 in 2018, he’s probably the best quick in the world not named Rabada at the moment. That last over is a good indication of what a handful he will be in England.

 

[vcs]

Yeah, Trundlewood has been poor for a while now. He should get dropped before Starc TBH. At least Starc can wipe out lower orders, and since you're playing England, that's kind of important.

 

[stephen]

GOT HIM! The last ball can you believe that?

I still hear this in Bill's voice. Hearing Brayshaw say it feels like he's tainting the memory.

 

[Second Spitter]

Richardson will swing it like Austin Powers in England.

 

[Second Spitter]

Back to you Richie, in the central missionary position.

fixed

 

[TT Boy]

The worst result for England this summer is Hazlewood’s Injury.

Richardson looks legit.

Puts the ball on a perfect line and length 11 out of 12 balls and can hoop it both ways and bowls at mid-high 130’s.

Pretty much perfect for wreaking havoc on seaming decks.

Funnily enough, he bowls a bit like a young Jimmy Anderson.

Also, Cummins has steadily built over the last 18 months, took 42 @ 19 in 2018, he’s probably the best quick in the world not named Rabada at the moment. That last over is a good indication of what a handful he will be in England.

Rabada is the more prolific but I can't remember Cummins getting much if any tap recently like Rabada can. Always appears to be a struggle to get any runs from him and doesn’t seem to have many off-color days. Top bowler.

 

[morgieb]

I still hear this in Bill's voice. Hearing Brayshaw say it feels like he's tainting the memory.

Wait Brayshaw said that? FFS.

 

[Spark]

I still hear this in Bill's voice. Hearing Brayshaw say it feels like he's tainting the memory.

I only hear it in bill's voice because it was played several times a day via c9's title sequence tbf

 

[Spark]

people with better technical knowledge of bowling will be able to answer way better than me: how likely is Richardson to be able to swing the duke ball late in England? i'm aware it's not quite as simple as "oh upright seam", because I've seen enough Australian bowlers who bowl with an upright seam yet because they bowl in a more "Australian", over-the-top and hit the deck style, struggle to swing the duke ball consistently and in a controlled manner. hazlewood is actually a decent example of it.

 

[morgieb]

Yeah, Trundlewood has been poor for a while now. He should get dropped before Starc TBH. At least Starc can wipe out lower orders, and since you're playing England, that's kind of important.

Ehhh I don't think Starc is that good at knocking off bowling all-rounders, he's more of a rabbit basher. So even Starc probably won't do all that well.

 

[Spark]

The worst result for England this summer is Hazlewood’s Injury.

Richardson looks legit.

Puts the ball on a perfect line and length 11 out of 12 balls and can hoop it both ways and bowls at mid-high 130’s.

Pretty much perfect for wreaking havoc on seaming decks.

Funnily enough, he bowls a bit like a young Jimmy Anderson.

Also, Cummins has steadily built over the last 18 months, took 42 @ 19 in 2018, he’s probably the best quick in the world not named Rabada at the moment. That last over is a good indication of what a handful he will be in England.

I was wondering if that was just me - the similarities really are there

 

[vcs]

Ehhh I don't think Starc is that good at knocking off bowling all-rounders, he's more of a rabbit basher. So even Starc probably won't do all that well.

I think he can give Moeen a lot of trouble with a few short balls followed by slipping in a really full one. Bairstow doesn't look convincing against the ball coming in, either (granted he's not a lower order batsman).

 

[Spark]

I think he can give Moeen a lot of trouble with a few short balls followed by slipping in a really full one. Bairstow doesn't look convincing against the ball coming in, either (granted he's not a lower order batsman).

I kind of suspect he might be good at knocking over curran too. curran to me seems really tuned to hitting normal line-and-length bowlers off their line, and starc is most definitely not one of those

 

[stephen]

Yeah, Trundlewood has been poor for a while now. He should get dropped before Starc TBH. At least Starc can wipe out lower orders, and since you're playing England, that's kind of important.

Hazlewood was looking very good in the build up to the summer. The fact that he was ordinary towards the end under sells how well he started the summer. Melbourne and Sydney killed him I think.

 

[Starfighter]

people with better technical knowledge of bowling will be able to answer way better than me: how likely is Richardson to be able to swing the duke ball late in England? i'm aware it's not quite as simple as "oh upright seam", because I've seen enough Australian bowlers who bowl with an upright seam yet because they bowl in a more "Australian", over-the-top and hit the deck style, struggle to swing the duke ball consistently and in a controlled manner. hazlewood is actually a decent example of it.

Firstly, conventional swing's parabolic so you won't have to worry about lateness. I suspect that how he bowls with the Dukes ball at the end of the Shield season will tell us a decent amount if it swings as it has other seasons. How he goes depends pretty much on how well he can recognise and control the extra movement, if he can adjust his lines and keep the ball on the target he'll be fine whereas Haze was overpitching a lot and finding the extra movement was carrying it onto the left hander's pads. He might also find his inswinger goes a lot more, I've even seen guys like Siddle who mostly bowls straight or away swing with the Kookaburra start moving the Dukes ball the other direction, sometimes with little control. Controlling the seam angle is very important, if you're bowling with a little bit that you don't realise you'll find yourself swinging the ball uncontrollably.

Part of me is not expecting him to bowl big hooping outswingers because his arm straight vertical or slightly past vertical (sort of 11:58 position) and his body is somewhat tilted out, with his head quite a bit outside his front leg, whereas, say, Steyn's head is a bit closer in line and his arm is often around 12:02. It's just a bit more difficult to bowl a big outswinger from Richardson's position. OTOH I would not be surprised if his inswinger goes a lot more.

 

[stephen]

people with better technical knowledge of bowling will be able to answer way better than me: how likely is Richardson to be able to swing the duke ball late in England? i'm aware it's not quite as simple as "oh upright seam", because I've seen enough Australian bowlers who bowl with an upright seam yet because they bowl in a more "Australian", over-the-top and hit the deck style, struggle to swing the duke ball consistently and in a controlled manner. hazlewood is actually a decent example of it.

I think he genuinely looks the goods. He's doing it well here with the pink ball which I feel is the best indication of how he'll go with the duke balls.

Don't forget that the bank half of the last few seasons has been played with dukes so he'll at least be familiar with it.