Cricket Season Thread

Jedi_Tiger said:
100% the legal Eagles were very good

or

Remember Eddie "The Fireman" Birchley always betting odds on, taking the tomatoe sauce odds all the time

as the saying goes,
Never bet odds on and never run up stairs
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And always with his trusty David Jones bag full of cash. Always a cash punter which probably says something about the source of his money ?
 
tiger_one said:
Ian Chappell has joined the long list of former greats to blast Australia's Boxing Day Test batting - and accused them of disrespecting Test cricket:


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He’s not wrong. When head was batting in the first innings I was talking with a mate and we were discussing the areas on the pitch where you would be bowling and as a batsman the balls you’re leaving. When the ball hit the pitch we both simultaneously said “Leave!!!” Obviously Trav couldn’t hear us over the TV, but we had only just pin pointed that delivery as Heads sucker ball. A bit to do with the pitch but mostly bcoz we knew Trav doesn’t have the patience and couldn’t help himself to such a delivery and the pitch would make it difficult to play early on if at all. Trav is not alone, just an easy target.
You can’t just blame the pitch, players must read the game their in, but you don’t suddenly get the shortest game in 130 years (uncovered pitches them days), for no reason. It was an error to leave the grass so long, but everyone knew it walking out there.
 
Buttface said:
It’s not rocket science, the punter on the street can see it.
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Well, I remember being coached to build an innings, focus on initially playing straight in the arc between mid on and mid off, increasing momentum when appropriate by playing cuts and pulls, and taking due toll of any bad deliveries. And no wafting the bat outside off stump, shoulder arms and make the bowler bowl to you.
All sounds like basic, common sense, borne out of solid coaching in the nets.
But as I say so frequently these days, common sense , in everything, is in real short supply.
There’s probably a compromise between the new and old techniques but it doesn’t show itself very often.
 
Halbrowne61 said:
Well, I remember being coached to build an innings, focus on initially playing straight in the arc between mid on and mid off, increasing momentum when appropriate by playing cuts and pulls, and taking due toll of any bad deliveries. And no wafting the bat outside off stump, shoulder arms and make the bowler bowl to you.
All sounds like basic, common sense, borne out of solid coaching in the nets.
But as I say so frequently these days, common sense , in everything, is in real short supply.
There’s probably a compromise between the new and old techniques but it doesn’t show itself very often.
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Great post champion @Halbrowne61.
All your coaching mirrors just as I was encouraged to play the game.
(And we carried the principles of (1) a straight bat and (2) sometimes letting it go through to the keeper into our life too.)
Seriously, the basics of batting never change; the theory is not hard. The discipline only comes through practice. The flair that follows depends on the individual's ability.
I get so annoyed watching our country's best fail at the simplest of basics - playing straight, watching the ball, footwork, knowing when to play and when to let it pass - oh strike a light, I "suffer" the same annoyance watching our Wests Tigers too, and YES, I've never dropped a pass in front of the TV. 😉
 
tiger_one said:
Great post champion @Halbrowne61.
All your coaching mirrors just as I was encouraged to play the game.
(And we carried the principles of (1) a straight bat and (2) sometimes letting it go through to the keeper into our life too.)
Seriously, the basics of batting never change; the theory is not hard. The discipline only comes through practice. The flair that follows depends on the individual's ability.
I get so annoyed watching our country's best fail at the simplest of basics - playing straight, watching the ball, footwork, knowing when to play and when to let it pass - oh strike a light, I "suffer" the same annoyance watching our Wests Tigers too, and YES, I've never dropped a pass in front of the TV. 😉
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Perhaps TO, we should put ourselves forward as batting coaches for the Aussies - we could term our techniques HalOneBall
( pronounced Halony !!!).
 
Halbrowne61 said:
Well, I remember being coached to build an innings, focus on initially playing straight in the arc between mid on and mid off, increasing momentum when appropriate by playing cuts and pulls, and taking due toll of any bad deliveries. And no wafting the bat outside off stump, shoulder arms and make the bowler bowl to you.
All sounds like basic, common sense, borne out of solid coaching in the nets.
But as I say so frequently these days, common sense , in everything, is in real short supply.
There’s probably a compromise between the new and old techniques but it doesn’t show itself very often.
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You sound like Greg Chappell
 
Halbrowne61 said:
Well, I remember being coached to build an innings, focus on initially playing straight in the arc between mid on and mid off, increasing momentum when appropriate by playing cuts and pulls, and taking due toll of any bad deliveries. And no wafting the bat outside off stump, shoulder arms and make the bowler bowl to you.
All sounds like basic, common sense, borne out of solid coaching in the nets.
But as I say so frequently these days, common sense , in everything, is in real short supply.
There’s probably a compromise between the new and old techniques but it doesn’t show itself very often.
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Yep, all of that.

Best advice I got was you don’t have to hit every ball deckhead, that’s what they want you to do.
 
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