Cricket Season Thread

[Tiger_Steve]

Does anyone know officially how the extra time works?
I’ve heard 30 minutes extra at end of day, 1 hour extra a day and starting an hour early tonight (no toss yet so this is incorrect)

 

[jadtiger]

I heard it is supposed to be an extra 8 overs each day

 

[GNR4LIFE]

Does anyone know officially how the extra time works?
I’ve heard 30 minutes extra at end of day, 1 hour extra a day and starting an hour early tonight (no toss yet so this is incorrect)

They aren’t starting early. God knows why. I think the extra hour gets made up at the end of the day.

 

[Tiger_Steve]

Does anyone know officially how the extra time works?
I’ve heard 30 minutes extra at end of day, 1 hour extra a day and starting an hour early tonight (no toss yet so this is incorrect)

They aren’t starting early. God knows why. I think the extra hour gets made up at the end of the day.

Cheers. Agree - should be playing now

 

[GNR4LIFE]

Does anyone know officially how the extra time works?
I’ve heard 30 minutes extra at end of day, 1 hour extra a day and starting an hour early tonight (no toss yet so this is incorrect)

They aren’t starting early. God knows why. I think the extra hour gets made up at the end of the day.


Cheers. Agree - should be playing now

Not starting till 11am London time. Ridiculous.

 

[WT2K]

Toss in 30mins

 

[happy_tiger]

Does anyone know officially how the extra time works?
I’ve heard 30 minutes extra at end of day, 1 hour extra a day and starting an hour early tonight (no toss yet so this is incorrect)

They aren’t starting early. God knows why. I think the extra hour gets made up at the end of the day.


Cheers. Agree - should be playing now

Not starting till 11am London time. Ridiculous.

Channel 9

Optus of the FTA world , should get fined millions of $$$$$'s

 

[TheDaBoss]

Toss in 30mins

We always lose the toss... its a unspoken rule that heads always wins....... lol

 

[Jock Koss]

Batting, I’m guessing ?

 

[happy_tiger]

Coverage on now on Gem

 

[happy_tiger]

Coverage on now on Gem

Sent them in

 

[happy_tiger]

After we beat Manly I'm expecting about 5-70

 

[WT2K]

After we beat Manly I'm expecting about 5-70

At minimum 😏

 

[TheDaBoss]

After we beat Manly I'm expecting about 5-70

in both games

 

[happy_tiger]

Almost a complete reversal from Day 1 of the 1st Test ...we looked likely to roll England for under 170 and they struggle to 254

Can't see a draw unless weather intervenes again

 

[GNR4LIFE]

Almost a complete reversal from Day 1 of the 1st Test ...we looked likely to roll England for under 170 and they struggle to 254

Can't see a draw unless weather intervenes again

I still think the draw is favourite. Rain is supposed to hit sometime after lunch tonight. Interesting first session coming up, because it’s most likely going to be overcast, with the ball zipping all over the place

 

[happy_tiger]

Almost a complete reversal from Day 1 of the 1st Test ...we looked likely to roll England for under 170 and they struggle to 254

Can't see a draw unless weather intervenes again

I still think the draw is favourite. Rain is supposed to hit sometime after lunch tonight. Interesting first session coming up, because it’s most likely going to be overcast, with the ball zipping all over the place

Batting last could be very handy .....the pitch will probably at it's best come the last day with the extra moisture ....not that Lords beaks apart like Australian pitches do

The low bounce is a bit concerning

 

[Fitzy05]

One thing I did notice watching last night was the discernible change in tactics before and after lunch. In the first session they were bowling a lot scrambled seam stuff, trying to let the surface do the work for them. Letting slope work for them and then using cutters to bring the ball back up the slope as the change up. Hazle’s dismissal of Root was just text book. Dragged him across his crease with a few that went away down the slope then the off cutter back into him to catch him dead in front. Really was brilliant bowling, all the while the seam never really presented upright to swing the ball.

Come back out after lunch when the movement off the deck had settled down and there was a demonstrable shift in tactics to then start standing the seam up and give the ball and chance to swing.

Again we can refer to Hazle’s setting up of Denly but this time in reverse. He was using his off cutter to bring the ball back into Denly and twice both he and Cummins found Denly’s back pad in front only for the ball to be going over. It represents a clear weakness in Denly’s technique.
But it wasn’t the off cutter that took the wicket. It was the outswinger that drew Denly into his favorite shot, the squarish drive through extra cover. The seam presented perfectly the ball duly tailed away just enough to take Denly’s edge and that was all she wrote.
The short stuff in between times helped to dry the scoring and also helped by forcing Denly back in his crease so his weight wasn’t quite to the pitch of the ball when he played the fatal shot. He was “on the walk” at the ball as they say.

They spoke on sky about the lack of movement in the 1st session, how it was the least amount of movement on the first session at Lords since 2005. What they failed to recognize was this clearly a deliberate tactic that they then shifted after the lunch break. The key is to get the ball moving just enough to catch the edge or beat it onto a pad. Plays and misses to balls hooping around corners may look good but means nothing in the scorebook

 

[Fitzy05]

[link text](https://youtu.be/TC0A9dOBQQY)

 

[TheDaBoss]

One is not Amused at the score........