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

[Prince EWS]

And yet still manage to out-attend Perth with only a fraction of the deranged mouth-frothing that accompanies that particular discussion.

Perth obviously boycotting the anti-WA selections of Marsh over Green and Green over Bancroft.

 

[Burgey]

would've much rather seen australia play the bangas or zim instead tbf

Nah, just because this lot are terrible doesn’t mean we have to tolerate more of it from those spuds. Bangladesh never playing here should be a point of pride. They’d be SL on ‘roids level bad

 

[Gnske]

Some commenter on Cricinfo suggesting Lyon's been done for since Perth and should be replaced by Murphy immediately.

Anyone seen TJB lately?

 

[ataraxia]

Looks like Josh haz le wood over the West Indies.

 

[Prince EWS]

Looks like Josh haz le wood over the West Indies.

Delete your account.

 

[Bahnz]

Australia should forfeit an innings to try and make this a bit more competitive.

 

[ataraxia]

Australia inviting WI over again rather than Bangladesh or SL is really bad for world cricket, serious.

Gosh Motie.

 

[Spark]

I'm actually astounded they scheduled this to start on a Wednesday.

 

[Prince EWS]

I'm actually astounded they scheduled this

Fixed.

 

[ataraxia]

WI's second-highest scorer departs.

 

[Spark]

Fixed.

Well yes but beyond that

 

[HeathDavisSpeed]

Wtf is this West Indian batting line-up? It looks unforgivably weak. Tail starts at #5.

 

[Spark]

Like I really don't want to be disrespectful, I hated some of the talk up to and during the Pakistan series and that actually turned out to be really entertaining but unless this pitch is secretly a minefield and/or the Joseph brothers revive the spirit of the 1980s then the prospects for watchable cricket this series are.. yeah...

 

[TheJediBrah]

Captain Pat bringing himself on to clean up the tail, of course

@Qlder

 

[Daemon]

Australia inviting WI over again rather than Bangladesh or SL is really bad for world cricket, serious.

Gosh Motie.

Lets not pretend that would be much different from a watchability POV

 

[social]

You have to question why Windies get tests in Australia regularly when Bangladesh and Zim have not played there since 2004.

I know why, I just don't think it's fair. You can't tell me CA make more off this series than they would against Bangladesh given how many Banglas live here.

CA budget to lose money on all test series bar India and Ashes

 

[ataraxia]

Lets not pretend that would be much different from a watchability POV

Bangladesh are low-key decent. This is a prime chance to prove they're not.

 

[OverratedSanity]

Bangladesh are low-key decent. This is a prime chance to prove they're not.

They are decent in some very specific kinds of conditions. The chances of s series in Australia being competitive are close to zero.

Still pathetic they never tour australia or England though. Even a one off test would be interesting enough.

 

[Silver Silva]

Nah, just because this lot are terrible doesn’t mean we have to tolerate more of it from those spuds. Bangladesh never playing here should be a point of pride. They’d be SL on ‘roids level bad

We have beaten you in Tests recently at home ,and we the only Asian team to win in South Africa, I don't think any of the teams you mentioned can say that so on that basis we should get a tour to Australia

 

[Spark]

We have beaten you in Tests recently at home , I don't think any of the teams you mentioned can say that so on that basis we should get a tour to Australia

It shouldn't really need to be explained that SL being able to beat Australia at home in those conditions has historically had absolutely no bearing on their record in Australia itself, which even when SL were a legitimately strong team was uniformly awful.

Still would have been better than this, mind. Two years in a row ffs.