*Official* Third Test at the WACA

[benchmark00]

Wouldn't be against three cheapies before lunch itbt.

 

[Bahnz]

There's probably things Cook could have done better but a nut like that first ball is just too good. You're nervous and you haven't had a single sighter to adjust. Harris is so good when he is on song. So much more dangerous to top order bats than MJ.

Yeah, ideally he probably should've gotten onto the front foot, but even if he had he probably would've only succeeded in getting a thin edge behind the wicket. And honestly, how was he supposed to know that the ball was going to turn into an outswinger after it pitched? Probably the best single delivery I've ever seen from a fast bowler.

 

[benchmark00]

It was great, but it wasn't even the best one Cook has got out to this series.

 

[Top_Cat]

Maintain Mitch's in Adelaide wasn't 100% deliberate. Mind you, that's the point; put the ball in good areas and good things can happen, natural variation and all that. Conversely, no amount of movement saves **** bowling.

 

[benchmark00]

Yeah obv Johnson's wasn't deliberate. No way can you mean to swing it both ways that perfectly.

 

[wiff]

Check out this bloke fisting the crack:

https://twitter.com/cricketaus/status/412749811470069760

FFS He's trying to pull out Brad Haddin

 

[Top_Cat]

SOMEONE PHOTOSHOP HADDIN DIVING INTO THE CRACKz.

 

[benchmark00]

https://twitter.com/michaelvaughan/status/412768285516513280

 

[Tangles]

Yeah, ideally he probably should've gotten onto the front foot, but even if he had he probably would've only succeeded in getting a thin edge behind the wicket. And honestly, how was he supposed to know that the ball was going to turn into an outswinger after it pitched? Probably the best single delivery I've ever seen from a fast bowler.

He could of been on the front foot playing down the line better. That might have just seen him feather to the keeper but you'd always rather nick off than hear the death rattle. The one thing an opener is hoping is that he gets a few balls or even a few overs in before 1 of those comes along. When that happens you just nod at the bowler and walk of.

 

[Tangles]

Holy crap. The pitch moving under the roller.

 

[hendrix]

I just can't give enough superlatives to Ryan Harris, to be honest. Is probably the current bowler I would most entrust with getting wickets on any pitch in the world.

 

[The Battlers Prince]

What an over do far

 

[BeeGee]

Nice seam movement.

 

[flibbertyjibber]

Please can someone fix it for me for Piers Morgan to go out there and bat on this pitch against these bowlers - preferably with no protective gear.

The bloke you used to write to for that sort of thing is thankfully dead now.

 

[uvelocity]

SOMEONE PHOTOSHOP HADDIN DIVING INTO THE CRACKz.

 

[ajdude]

if Ben Stokes gets a test hundred here he'll be pretty happy. I guess you could say he'd be chuffed

 

[Spikey]

Warne almost said bookies there

 

[ajdude]

Can someone please win one of those VB scoreboards? Need it to keep score of Jono's Ashes

 

[GotSpin]

I thought edges always carried at the WACA

 

[Shri]

Stokes played one of the best straight drives of the game. Really warming up to him. Deserves the 100 here.