Cricket Season Thread

Its just an echo beach. The cricket doesn't help our family. Just theirs. Through your pay check. Thank you for your contribution over your children. On the brink of pink. So far away in real time. When was the last time you watched the sun go down.
 
Superb performance by the Joseph boys.
Windies needed 8 wickets today and they took them all.
Shamar was excellent. With continued test appearances, he will be a monster of a fast bowler.

Smith will be spoken about as having done his best to get us home. That’s not what I saw. He should have hogged the strike when Lyon came in and scored in multiples of two. That rampshot 6 was crazy under the circumstances. Letting Hazelwood face Joseph when he was clean bowling top order batsmen was incompetent game management. He bottled that run chase, remaining a spectator at the non strikers end whilst teammates kept falling, never once taking command and leading. He looked upset walking off and should have been. He failed.
 
Stevec said:
Windies win by 8 runs !
Some really dumb cricket by Australia
Smith got what he wanted He CARRIED THE BAT !
However I take my hat off to SHAMAR JOSEPH with possibly the greatest bowling performance in recent memory .
We were cruising at 2-113 chasing 216 to win and he comes on with a severely damaged toe and bowls 12 overs straight and gets 7 wickets at speeds near 150k
Whatever the medical team did ? Amazing - Last night couldn't walk and today wins game on his own .
What's good is that this will boost Test cricket and shows that this is real cricket better than all this Bash Crash and Smash game .
Australia need to think about our batting which looks fragile without Warner
Green very nervous starter ,Marnus a lot of low scores ,Head a golden pair
Marsh very iffy .
Summer wrap 4-1 and the loss by only 8 runs so I hope the headlines don't say
" Windies thrash Australia " or some crap like that from the Journos who prefer sensation over fact
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The batting was fragile with Warner there as well. He barely averaged 28 the last 3 years he was playing.

This is on the selectors. Bailey being so close to the players is making him biased to decisions.
 
Tucker said:
Superb performance by the Joseph boys.
Windies needed 8 wickets today and they took them all.
Shamar was excellent. With continued test appearances, he will be a monster of a fast bowler.

Smith will be spoken about as having done his best to get us home. That’s not what I saw. He should have hogged the strike when Lyon came in and scored in multiples of two. That rampshot 6 was crazy under the circumstances. Letting Hazelwood face Joseph when he was clean bowling top order batsmen was incompetent game management. He bottled that run chase, remaining a spectator at the non strikers end whilst teammates kept falling, never once taking command and leading. He looked upset walking off and should have been. He failed.
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Exactly I thought Smith was really self centred exposing Josh to 2 balls every over and Lyon to 5 balls every over and Cummings looked really out of sorts .Just not intelligent !
 
Stevec said:
Exactly I thought Smith was really self centred exposing Josh to 2 balls every over and Lyon to 5 balls every over and Cummings looked really out of sorts .Just not intelligent !
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Even when Joseph started tearing through them, he should have taken control as he was in and settled. For some reason he didn’t.
Anyway, good on the West Indies. They deserved this win and the positive press they will receive.
 
Tucker said:
Superb performance by the Joseph boys.
Windies needed 8 wickets today and they took them all.
Shamar was excellent. With continued test appearances, he will be a monster of a fast bowler.

Smith will be spoken about as having done his best to get us home. That’s not what I saw. He should have hogged the strike when Lyon came in and scored in multiples of two. That rampshot 6 was crazy under the circumstances. Letting Hazelwood face Joseph when he was clean bowling top order batsmen was incompetent game management. He bottled that run chase, remaining a spectator at the non strikers end whilst teammates kept falling, never once taking command and leading. He looked upset walking off and should have been. He failed.
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Yep agreed I thought Smith was happy to take first ball signals when batting with the lower order. Where he should have been taking most of the strike and shielding the tail. Okay it’s good to have confidence in the tail but you also have to have a plan
 
This was the perfect opportunity to blood some younger talent this series would have been perfect for,
But we got to watch tired and under performing players who get picked on past merits.
 
Tucker said:
When the Aussies bowled, our fast men worked in shifts of 3 overs then had a spell due to fatigue from the heat.
This kid, in his second test ever has just completed 11 straight with a busted toe and taken 6 wickets.
It is an excellent sporting moment.
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Our quicks will get rested after their "lengthy" spells. We also have two allrounders that rarely do much with bat or ball. But our worst for the summer was the spinner that can't get a 10 or 11 out and struggles to get wickets in the fourth innings. Time for some others to follow Warner.
 
Great game.
Hopefully the WI team grows from this and gets back to what they use to be.
I think the Smith criticism is a bit rough considering how some of them threw their wicket away, Marsh, Starc, and Lyon who kept hooking with two blokes out there? And the not protecting Lyon enough talk, well he is the go to night watchman, who can defend well and maybe had he been doing that instead of swinging for the fences then the result might be different.
Anyway great win by the WI and I’m looking forward to the ODIs now.
 
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