Cricket 2014/15

[Wardy101]

Who is this Paris character... I usually follow cricket closely but he is a new name to me.

Left arm fast medium bowler. Has taken few wickets in the Matador Cup.

Was part of the Australia Under-19s team couple of years ago.

[TheNuclearOne]

Doolan doing the right thing to prolong his Test career. Soooooo impressed by Smith as a cricketer nowadays. He has come so far in such a short time after looking like he'd bombed out. Hard not to picture him as our classiest cricketer in years to come.

[Buzz]

Anyone see Saqlian Ahider stand in for Haddin yesterday? Took a great catch off Lyon, he seemed totally stoked in the post match interview

[KristianJ]

Run fest today at the a North Sydney postage stamp.

QLD chasing 399 and looking as if they'll get home comfortably. Ben Dunk 224* in Tassie's innings.

[jimandr]

North Sydney Oval is a joke as a one-dayer venue.

It is just too easy for the bats.

I didn't see the Tas innings, but Khawaja looked like the best bat in the world.

I'm going to do the cricket world a favour, and declare Qld home at 1/341, needing 58 from 52.

I'll be back in half an hour to see if they collapsed and lost.

EDIT: As I press the save button, a runout! I have a talent to put the mock on that should be worth money to a bookie somewhere.

[Buzz]

Must be an absolute road of a pitch!

[AndyP]

Jim, surely this is what the cricket authorities want. Total domination by the bat. More runs equals better cricket for your regular punter, right?

Who cares about your traditionalist that likes to see a good battle between bat and ball?

[jimandr]

http://www.smh.com.au/sport/cricket/...19-118b90.html

I didn't think too much about this when I heard on the news this morning that the Windies players had pulled the plug on their tour.

But this article suggests that the situation has already gone past the point of no return.

The Windies management probably needs to discipline the players, but they may not be able to. The top players may not even care what the board does to them (hello IPL, any vacant spots?).

I hope a solution is found. We need the Windies in cricket.

[mrbluu]

Johnson, Siddle and the rest of the bowlers are going really well.

[jimandr]

Johnson, Siddle and the rest of the bowlers are going really well.

This could be one of the dullest tests in history if the play so far is any indication.

A dead pitch, no movement through the air, a slow outfield, no crowd atmosphere and not much reason for the bats to attack if Pakistan keep batting.

Yawn.

[TheNuclearOne]

This could be one of the dullest tests in history if the play so far is any indication.

A dead pitch, no movement through the air, a slow outfield, no crowd atmosphere and not much reason for the bats to attack if Pakistan keep batting.

Yawn.

Too early to make that call.

Are you forgetting our collapse a handful of days ago as soon as the ball started reversing? Nothing game or not it was pretty weak stuff.
You'd think spin could possibly play a fair part for the Paki's too. They have made it clear they believe we have a sizable weakness against spin.

On our side and potentially offsetting some of the above is the fact Pakistan have a couple of front line bowlers out and their attack is hugely inexperienced. We also have a couple of bats with no runs under their belt in lead up games as well.

We really don't want the Paki's getting away from us with the bat.

[jimandr]

You might be right, TNO.

The last hour wasn't bad. A bit of aggression from the Paki bats, then Lyon started spinning the harder, newish ball right at the end of the day.

We won't be able to complain about excessive appealing though. If Lyon was his own umpire he'd have a dozen wickets by now.

If they spin it the way he did, we might struggle to get a good score.

[3oneday]

Depends on whether the fix is on.

[TheNuclearOne]

Paki's well on top at this stage. Even a collapse would still have them sitting quite well.

[coalesce]

Cricket at that stadium is pretty attritional. Wickets will fall in clusters and run scoring will be mostly slow

[TheNuclearOne]

Cricket at that stadium is pretty attritional. Wickets will fall in clusters and run scoring will be mostly slow

Mostly is right, 80 ball ton to Safraz - bah!!! Pretty early stage for the game to be looking like only one team can win. They've all but batted us out already and at a fair enough clip too. We are going to have to turn up with the bat to stay in the game.

[Buzz]

Aus 0/113 in reply, as they say never judge a pitch until both sides have batted on it !!

[TheNuclearOne]

There's a lot of cricket to go. Great start by Australia with Rogers short on pre match runs and Warner missing a little cricket.

[3oneday]

The crowd is adding to the atmosphere nicely.

[markTHEblake]

Is Imran Khan bowling off a short run still?

[TheNuclearOne]

Warners longest ever Test innings for balls faced. Be a sorry sight so far without his efforts on a pitch not doing much still. We still need him to go right on with it.

[mrbluu]

Another shit shot from Haddin when Australia need him to knuckle down for a few more overs. First over of the new ball, with the team 5 down, he plays a massive airy drive. Man he shits me.

(I didn't see the other Australian dismissals before him)

[Wardy101]

Getting our arses handed to us now. Not sure why they are getting out lbw on pitch not doing much

[LarryLong]

Haddin surely has a couple of credits in the bank after he basically saved the ashes (so that Johnson could win them) nine months ago. He batted in the same manner too, but nobody complains when it works.

Here's hoping we can somehow cobble together another 50 or more - it's looking a little bit bleak.

[TheNuclearOne]

Haddin surely has a couple of credits in the bank after he basically saved the ashes (so that Johnson could win them) nine months ago. He batted in the same manner too, but nobody complains when it works.

Exactly. It came off heaps recently and oh i better evise my opinion blah blah and as soon as he gets out a couple of times blah blah why did he do this why did he do that. News flash - it's the way he bats. Nothing has changed since his Ashes heroics.