Cricket Season Thread

Stevec said:
Last WTC final in 2023 at the Oval
Boland 5 wickets
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Did you check his last ashes game?
During the 2023 Ashes tour to England, Boland returned best figures of 1 for 60 and only played in 2 tests.
Anyway I like Bolo too, so don’t wanna be bashing him either, Hazo had a rough game and sure this time maybe Bolo would have been handy. But I don’t reckon Hazo is top of the problem list. I reckon you’re correct with our numbers 1,2, 3, and Lyon. These positions should have been used to blood newbies a year ago.
The way they have transitioned Konstas into this team is nothing short of bewildering. They pick him when we’re under pressure he does well, then ok, and they drop him to the pine, which I sorta get to have him playing in every game possible but then not to bring him back into the side to have him ready for the WTC was poor planning and they obviously didn’t wanna throw him into the final underdone and inexperienced so they use Marnus as an opener. Who hasn’t looked like a batsman in 2 years. But this all goes back to letting Smith open. The selectors should have said no and picked a couple of openers to blood.
Marnus should have been drop back then as well to blood a number 3.
Number 3 should be your best and most technically sound bat. How we go into a GF with a bloke coming back from injury, who sure has some current form in England, but is still obviously not fully fit if he can’t bowl. Before the game I was going with the selectors thinking he must be fit as he’s scoring plenty of runs over there, selectors must know he’s good to go. That was my mistake assuming the same selectors that have botch the last few years would make the right call.
Lyon is done. Should have been tapped. We have blooded two spinners who have both taken some wickets while he was injured, but the biggest problem with bringing on a new spinner, is Pat doesn’t know how to use them. At the moment I think he feels comfortable with Lyon as he has experience and knows how to set his field. But I don’t see Pat knowing how to use his different spin options like AB, Tubby or Waugh did, and it shows. He needed to bowl spin in that last game to win it, but was not confident in Murphy and wait to long and then we did have enough runs to use him. The next couple of years we will have to make these changes it gunna be tough times, I reckon Pat needs Tubby in his pocket to help him with his captaincy of spin bowling.
I would be replacing the selectors before I made any other changes. Actually I think we can sack Marnus first.
 
Buttface said:
Did you check his last ashes game?
During the 2023 Ashes tour to England, Boland returned best figures of 1 for 60 and only played in 2 tests.
Anyway I like Bolo too, so don’t wanna be bashing him either, Hazo had a rough game and sure this time maybe Bolo would have been handy. But I don’t reckon Hazo is top of the problem list. I reckon you’re correct with our numbers 1,2, 3, and Lyon. These positions should have been used to blood newbies a year ago.
The way they have transitioned Konstas into this team is nothing short of bewildering. They pick him when we’re under pressure he does well, then ok, and they drop him to the pine, which I sorta get to have him playing in every game possible but then not to bring him back into the side to have him ready for the WTC was poor planning and they obviously didn’t wanna throw him into the final underdone and inexperienced so they use Marnus as an opener. Who hasn’t looked like a batsman in 2 years. But this all goes back to letting Smith open. The selectors should have said no and picked a couple of openers to blood.
Marnus should have been drop back then as well to blood a number 3.
Number 3 should be your best and most technically sound bat. How we go into a GF with a bloke coming back from injury, who sure has some current form in England, but is still obviously not fully fit if he can’t bowl. Before the game I was going with the selectors thinking he must be fit as he’s scoring plenty of runs over there, selectors must know he’s good to go. That was my mistake assuming the same selectors that have botch the last few years would make the right call.
Lyon is done. Should have been tapped. We have blooded two spinners who have both taken some wickets while he was injured, but the biggest problem with bringing on a new spinner, is Pat doesn’t know how to use them. At the moment I think he feels comfortable with Lyon as he has experience and knows how to set his field. But I don’t see Pat knowing how to use his different spin options like AB, Tubby or Waugh did, and it shows. He needed to bowl spin in that last game to win it, but was not confident in Murphy and wait to long and then we did have enough runs to use him. The next couple of years we will have to make these changes it gunna be tough times, I reckon Pat needs Tubby in his pocket to help him with his captaincy of spin bowling.
I would be replacing the selectors before I made any other changes. Actually I think we can sack Marnus first.
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Fair comment but I also can't see what Green is doing
He was to be our No 6 allrounder ,well he's producing zip !
I know he might be rusty but he's a terrible starter and he's not a No 3 a position usually held by our best batsman
In general the selectors have to do a serious rethink !
At the moment the " no brainer " selections are
Konstas , Smith ,Head , Carey, Cummins , Starc
That's only 6 !
Who are the other 5 ?
Candidates .Kwajaja , Inglis , Lyon , Kunneman , Murphy , Boland ,
+ some new blood with great 1st class form .
Don't care if they experiment in the Carribean but come the 1st Ashes test we must have a team of 11 where everyone is in great form .
 
Stevec said:
Fair comment but I also can't see what Green is doing
He was to be our No 6 allrounder ,well he's producing zip !
I know he might be rusty but he's a terrible starter and he's not a No 3 a position usually held by our best batsman
In general the selectors have to do a serious rethink !
At the moment the " no brainer " selections are
Konstas , Smith ,Head , Carey, Cummins , Starc
That's only 6 !
Who are the other 5 ?
Candidates .Kwajaja , Inglis , Lyon , Kunneman , Murphy , Boland ,
+ some new blood with great 1st class form .
Don't care if they experiment in the Carribean but come the 1st Ashes test we must have a team of 11 where everyone is in great form .
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I’m going to the Ashes with a Pom, so I can’t afford to lose. They need to sort it out asap.
 
Stevec said:
Yes please Mr Bailey & Co
They need to pick the best
Imagine the horror , if we lose ,it would be like your locked in a room with Stuard Broad LOL
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I shuddered at the thought.

He hasn’t had much to brag about my mate, he’ll be sitting with a bunch of Ozzie’s and will take great delight with a few digs if we lose.

I don’t have confidence in Bailey and Ronald, or Pat’s ability to captain an inexperienced spinner. I would have thought Smith could have helped there but 🤷‍♂️.
I see a lot of ageing and/or out of form players, and no clear progression plan. Even when a bloke is bashing the door down, it’s like the door has to hit them in the face before they pick him, and then give mixed signals.
Poor old Nathan McSweeny last year, instead of picking the in form opener they pick a bloke out of position. Sure he had some recent form but he couldn’t open a can of pineapple, (you know the ones with a ring-pull). There are certain positions in a cricket team that are specialists, wicket keeper, opening bowler and opening batsman. It was like trying to turn Benji into a 7.
Had they at the start of last season, dropped Marnus, Marsh, and replaced them with McS and Webster, and Konstas in for Warner, all three would’ve had two test series with the team. Maybe McS would still be there scoring, maybe not, but the way he was used and discarded was amateurish with no thought into the future.
Will be interesting to see where they go from here, bcoz you could look at it like this - “we made the WTC two seasons in a row, and only just came second, so we’re doing great, let’s pat our back”.
 
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