1st Test: Australia v India @ Optus Stadium, PERTH Nov 22-26, 2024

[TheParraboy]

Made a ton. His opening partner, 3 & 4 all made golden ducks. Don’t see why you wouldn’t open with him in the second test, if Khawaja, Labuschagne & Smith aren’t going anywhere.

Drop McSweeney after one test?

Who has been in good form this summer

 

[Bazal]

Drop McSweeney after one test?

Who has been in good form this summer

He can have Mad Marnus spot

 

[Chins get the wins]

At least most of us in this thread have delivered as usual

 

[TheParraboy]

Hazlewood got about 2.2M in the IPL auction


Dont think he is too worried with the indian chirp

 

[Bazal]

Haze loves a cover drive almost as much as he loves having a shot at his gutless bats in the press

 

[Marshall_magic]

Drop McSweeney after one test?

Who has been in good form this summer

I wouldn’t drop him it was more a shot at the so called superstars in our top 4 who are currently batting so poorly Chris Martin would consider it bad form.

 

[Chins get the wins]

Wish I could be in the room when Labs gets dropped. I'm certain he'll cry and have a tanty.

 

[TheParraboy]

And we break India once more, phycological win for the next test...

They cant win by 300 or more

 

[TheParraboy]

Wish I could be in the room when Labs gets dropped. I'm certain he'll cry and have a tanty.

Id face time the news, for my own safety and amusement..

 

[mozza91]

Drop McSweeney after one test?

Who has been in good form this summer

Move him to 4. Smudger to 3 and fire Marnus out of cannon into the sun.

 

[TheParraboy]

Move him to 4. Smudger to 3 and fire Marnus out of cannon into the sun.

x 2

 

[jargan83]

Do you reckon Italy would give Joe Burns back to us?

 

[BunniesMan]

Not much to replace the incumbent failures with.

You look at some of the shield line ups and there isn't much depth to any of these top orders. Blokes making careers as first class batsmen despite averaging 30 odd. It is rare to find anyone at 40 let alone 50. I remember a time we could have fielded not one but two top 6 lineups with blokes averaging 50.

What has happened to batting in this country?

 

[Chins get the wins]

Not much to replace the incumbent failures with.

You look at some of the shield line ups and there isn't much depth to any of these top orders. Blokes making careers as first class batsmen despite averaging 30 odd. It is rare to find anyone at 40 let alone 50. I remember a time we could have fielded not one but two top 6 lineups with blokes averaging 50.

What has happened to batting in this country?

20/20 happened.


Unfortunately 50 over cricket needs to die to give space for real cricket (tests) and that crap Indians like.

 

[AlwaysGreen]

20/20 happened.


Unfortunately 50 over cricket needs to die to give space for real cricket (tests) and that crap Indians like.

True. However India are hooked on t20 yet have improved in test cricket.

Australia are actually in a worse boat than the likes of the West Indies, New Zealand, South Africa. We haven't had a test regular give up test cricket to join the t20 circuit like they have Which makes our bare cupboard even worse.

 

[undertaker]

Hazlewood got about 2.2M in the IPL auction


Dont think he is too worried with the indian chirp

Cummins was retained on $1 million more

 

[undertaker]

Wish I could be in the room when Labs gets dropped. I'm certain he'll cry and have a tanty.

NO RUN!!!

 

[This Year?]

Congrats to India. Hard to split Bumrah or Jaiswal for MOM. Until we find a way to see off Bumrah/Siraj's 1st spells and limit our wickets in the 1st 20 overs we are going to struggle. With the ball we must not be giving up so many extras and be more aggressive with our field placement.
Looking forward to seeing if we are up for the challenge in Adelaide.

 

[Bazal]

True. However India are hooked on t20 yet have improved in test cricket.

Australia are actually in a worse boat than the likes of the West Indies, New Zealand, South Africa. We haven't had a test regular give up test cricket to join the t20 circuit like they have Which makes our bare cupboard even worse.

T20 has driven a huge rise in professionalism in Indian cricket. It's a much different equation.

That said blaming T20 for where we are is a cop out. Its one of a lot of issues, but the worst is that CA ae a bunch of ARU level fart sniffers driving the game down the toilet for their own gain

 

[Raiders_Premiers]

Rise of T20 definitely can't be held to blame for all of it. Add in the amount of useless white ball series' we play at the expenses of Test matches.

Whittling down test series' against NZ and Sri Lanka away down to two tests, seemingly because they're less commercially attractive.

The complete lack of tour matches we play these days. We played six tour matches on the Ashes tour in 2001. How many last year? None.

The reduced match experience the top guys and the ones in the wings get all adds up. It's an absolute myth that they play more cricket than ever. Go see how many FC and List A matches players back in the 70s/80s/90s would rack up and compare it to now, yet we've got batsmen now being rested when they're available for Shield matches.