Cricket Season Thread

[Buttface]

The Poms are undisputed world champions at moaning quite possibly because they believe the rubbish that their media spin about their "star players" being good and then reality hits when they face quality opposition.

But they win so many games and are more entertaining, bcoz they play Bazball. 🙄
And the world’s moral compass.

Did I get enough sarcasm in that?

 

[Stevec]

Aussie girls really bad day lose last 5 wickets for 18 runs !
Perry batting at No 10 ? Last out for 2
In hindsight would have been better off declaring overnight
England need 101 runs more than they got in the first innings just to make us bat again
However weve sure lifted the tourists spirits 5-18 is poor batting
Congrats Mooney on her ton and now has a 100 in all 3 formats
That's a very short list mens or women's

 

[Stevec]

Now with our Mens why not start with Starc he's only bowled 8 overs and now had a days rest
Kuhnamen and Lyon leaking runs

 

[Charred]

Aussie girls really bad day lose last 5 wickets for 18 runs !
Perry batting at No 10 ? Last out for 2
In hindsight would have been better off declaring overnight
England need 101 runs more than they got in the first innings just to make us bat again
However weve sure lifted the tourists spirits 5-18 is poor batting
Congrats Mooney on her ton and now has a 100 in all 3 formats
That's a very short list mens or women's

Mooney was on 98 so I don’t think declaring was on their mind overnight. Given they were waiting for Moons to get a century (and the fact ample time remaining in Test) is why I think they went until bowled out today so that perhaps some of the batters would get a little more tired in the field. Assume the goal is to win by an innings.

Pez at 10 as she jammed her hip or something fielding on day 1.

As I type Mendis out in the men’s game.

 

[Charred]

Lyon gets Chandimal. Looks like a second innings for Sri Lanka potentially before Lunch last 4 batters average 8.40, N/A (no innings), 7 and 3.

 

[Stevec]

Note last 2 Sri Lanka recognised batters out to suicidal dumb shots
Now only 8,9 10 11 left
Their no 8 averages 8 that says very long tail
This time I'm sure we enforce follow on as bowlers have had not much workload

 

[happy_tiger]

LOL I was just going to post how I thought we'd struggle to get 15 wickets in two days .....maybe wrong

 

[Charred]

5 for Kuhnemann. Sri Lanka all out for 160 odd. Assume the follow on will occur given weather over the past 3 days.

 

[Stevec]

Sri Lanka lose last 5 wickets for 9 runs
They bowled poorly and batted even worse
This is like one of those early round FA CUP matches where an EPL side is playing a village club
If Smith doesn't enforce follow on this time
With weather issues he must

 

[happy_tiger]

Anyone know the last time we enforced the follow on .......seems like forever

 

[Stevec]

Starc gets the plummest LBW I've ever seen yet the Sri Lanka opener wastes a DRS review .Starc gets wicket in 2nd over first ball
He must have some sort of record for wickets in his first 2 overs

 

[Stevec]

Karunaratne offers no shot to a Murphy delivery that hits off stump
Now 2-6
Need to look up largest margin of victory by an innings and how many runs ?

 

[happy_tiger]

Race to see who wins 1st

England and Sri Lanka both 8 fa

 

[Tiger-ferret]

Kuhnemon and head banned from reviews

 

[Stevec]

In both games we are making a meal of getting the 10th wicket against last 2 bats
Why not give Starc an over ?
To girls put ball on stumps ,no 10 and no 11 2nd longest partnership
They miss ball many times but ball always misses stumps

 

[Stevec]

Leaving King and Gardener unchanged for 3 has 20 mins is dumb
And now our fielding is ordinary

 

[Charred]

Spent the last 20 minutes jumping between 70 and 74 almost every ball. Thankfully managed to watch both of the final wickets which happened within a minute of each other.

 

[Betterdays22]

Not sure if anyone listens to The Grade Cricketer podcast, but watching the women and mens teams the last few days was peak safety

 

[Halbrowne61]

Must have been a lot of fun for the Aussies playing against SL after the pressure of the Indian tour.
A few observations, in no particular order, Marcus almost at the end of the plank now, Indian cricketers made to go back to their club teams in light of their recent losses, our selectors kicking a few goals of late, albeit in somewhat easier conditions. Have to say for a guy who has a very peculiar stance (imo) Inglis has a good eye and a positive outlook. Can’t believe he’s 30.

 

[Stevec]

In both games we are making a meal of getting the 10th wicket against last 2 bats
Why not give Starc an over ?
To girls put ball on stumps ,no 10 and no 11 2nd longest partnership
They miss ball many times but ball always misses stumps

Apologies to both our mens and women's teams
I was getting frustrated at the long drawn out 10 th wicket partnerships in both games .Reason I had alarm set for 3am to watch the golf from Pebble Beach where both Davis and J Day doing well and was wanting to go to sleep
Anyway both teams got the job done
Really well done
Girls 16 points to 0 whitewash
Men's since our Perth drubbing 4 wins and a draw due to weather
Next Summer of cricket a 5-0 Ashes whitewash !!!!!