***Official*** West Indies tour of Australia, Jan–Feb 2024

[Burgey]

I find the whole concept of Murray the Mormon hilarious given his reputation but we have discussed this before and someone found an article where he notes he isn’t observant but the rest of the family are.

The Book of Goodwin would be a great stage musical

 

[TheJediBrah]

Good signs for the WI this game. Say what you want about the opposition but you can only play the team against you and they have thoroughly outplayed them

Last season a NSW 3rd XI made 4/400 against them so this is a massive improvement on that

 

[Beamer]

Good signs for the WI this game. Say what you want about the opposition but you can only play the team against you and they have thoroughly outplayed them

Last season a NSW 3rd XI made 4/400 against them so this is a massive improvement on that

I'd say it has been a decent workout but with some reservations.

Positives

• The bowling from around the 20th over onwards was excellent.
• Fielding was excellent
• Shamar Joseph gave batsmen the hurry up on a fairly slow surface by Aussie standards.
• Kraigg, Hodge, Greaves and now Da Silva looked solid with the bat.
• No injuries so far! We'd had 2 already by this time on the last tour.

Negatives

• Tage looks completely out of sorts
• McKenzie and Athanaze have both been really loose.
• The new ball bowling was very average. Roach in particular wasted the new ball.
• We bowled too many no balls on day 1

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

And also Motie being top shelf. He’s a spinner in Aussie conditions and he managed to test those batsmen.

 

[Qlder]

Smith warming up as an opener in BBL, out first ball

 

[Gob]

Smith warming up as an opener in BBL, out first ball

Well it can only improve from here

 

[Chin Music]

Smith warming up as an opener in BBL, out first ball

Still extra $ for his retirement funds, run or no run..........

 

[honestbharani]

Well it can only improve from here

What if it stays the same?

 

[Gob]

What if it stays the same?

We'll get to see more posts from Molehead in the tour threads

 

[Shady Slim]

yanno it is pretty funny that we spent ages discussing renshaw or bancroft or harris or marsh or marnus or head or green or ward or street or whoever and it's smith

 

[Nintendo]

yanno it is pretty funny that we spent ages discussing renshaw or bancroft or harris or marsh or marnus or head or green or ward or street or whoever and it's smith

Its funny cause the media genuinly asked everyone in the top 6 and green, but didn't ask him a few weeks before aswell.

 

[Prince EWS]

Smith warming up as an opener in BBL, out first ball

 

[Prince EWS]

yanno it is pretty funny that we spent ages discussing renshaw or bancroft or harris or marsh or marnus or head or green or ward or street or whoever and it's smith

A day before it happened @TheJediBrah suggested it.

And he hasn't even gloated yet.

That might be because he floats so many dumb ideas that he forgot about that one, but still.

 

[Qlder]

Jhye Richardson can't win a trick. Finally healthy enough to get a recall for ODI series vs WI he's now injured again with a left side strain

 

[social]

I like Ellis (sort of in an okayish, limited ceiling T20 bowler)

I wouldn’t have picked him for Odis in front of the likes of Bartlett or Johnson at this stage of the cycle

 

[TheJediBrah]

A day before it happened @TheJediBrah suggested it.

And he hasn't even gloated yet.

That might be because he floats so many dumb ideas that he forgot about that one, but still.

I was also adamantly proposing before the start of the summer the idea that we should be picking a gun middle-order bat to open rather than go back to the proven failure specialist openers, and met with quite a bit of resistance. Basically the "pick your 6 best bats regardless of position and pick the order later" philosphy.

I don't know if it's a good thing or not but seems I think like an Australian selector

 

[social]

I was also adamantly proposing before the start of the summer the idea that we should be picking a gun middle-order bat to open rather than go back to the proven failure specialist openers, and met with quite a bit of resistance. Basically the "pick your 6 best bats regardless of position and pick the order later" philosphy.

I don't know if it's a good thing or not but seems I think like an Australian selector

Yeah, I would have picked Marnus as opener

 

[Shady Slim]

just seen the advert on channel seven, "how will our aussie stars go against the rockstars of world cricket"
you know they're trying to hard to say "calypso cricket" without actually saying it

 

[Qlder]

So Smith has been moved up to opener to fit both allrounders Marsh and Green into the side. Funny thing is when Cummins, Starc, Hazlewood and Lyon all play, Green and Marsh have limited bowling success

Green has 6 wkts @ 69.16 (8 Tests) and Marsh has 6 wkts @ 54.16 (9 Tests)

Better off just bowling Head more who has 6 wkts @ 31.50 (17 Tests)

 

[Prince EWS]

So Smith has been moved up to opener to fit both allrounders Marsh and Green into the side. Funny thing is when Cummins, Starc, Hazewood and Lyon all play, Green and Marsh have limited bowling success

Green has 6 wkts @ 69.16 (8 Tests) and Marsh has 6 wkts @ 54.16 (9 Tests)

Better off just bowling Head more who has 6 wkts @ 31.50 (17 Tests)

I think both would be playing even if they couldn't bowl at this point.