2014/15 Cricket Season

[Twizzle]

terrible effort too

 

[hineyrulz]

MMarsh looks done.

 

[Twizzle]

Haze is the new Pidge, amazing debut in these conditions

 

[Gronk]

a good morning at the Gabba. 9/407.

Hazelwood gets 5 fa.

 

[Gronk]

All out 408. India lost 6/97 today.

 

[hineyrulz]

Haze what a beast!!! Massive upgrade on Siddle.

 

[Twizzle]

408, Phillip Hughes watching over the boys

Haze = the next big thing

 

[Twizzle]

Smithy still hasn't been dismissed by the Indians so far this series.

 

[strider]

the indians are imploding


since when do we check EVERY SINGLE dismissal to see if it was a front foot no ball? ... ffs - we won't do DRS but we'll go to the video to check every millimetre of a bowlers front foot

 

[Gordy]

the indians are imploding


since when do we check EVERY SINGLE dismissal to see if it was a front foot no ball? ... ffs - we won't do DRS but we'll go to the video to check every millimetre of a bowlers front foot

That's a great point Strides. If they don't want the DRS they shouldn't review no balls either.

 

[Twizzle]

They have been whinging like hell about the practise wickets as well.

Sooks

 

[Delboy]

How the friggin hell does Watson play Test cricket, I don't watch anywhere near as much as previously, but. He sucks

He spends more time combing his hair than he does at the crease, what a complete waste of space

The Luke Kelly of Australiam cricket

 

[Twizzle]

He rates himslef pretty highly

 

[I'm a loser baby...]

Happy for Smitty. Freakish fielder at times, and now getting the runs as well.

 

[hineyrulz]

Watson is the most overrated Aussie cricketer of the last 20 years.

 

[guruminga]

He was great a couple of years back before he got injured and they said he'd probably never bowl again. Around that time I seem to remember games where he was the only form bastman and bowler.

But yes, he's not up to it these days really.

G

 

[Twizzle]

He thinks he is.

 

[Barry O'Speedwagon]

How the friggin hell does Watson play Test cricket, I don't watch anywhere near as much as previously, but. He sucks

He spends more time combing his hair than he does at the crease, what a complete waste of space

The Luke Kelly of Australiam cricket

What has saved Watson is the fact that, when able to, he is a Test-class bowler (probably more so at his forceed slower speed). He's far more than a change bowler, and gets top order Test batsmen out (and can also be very hard to get away when he bowls stump to stump). He gives options at different stages of the game (e.g. when the ball starts to reverse swing). He's no Jacques Kallis, but averaging 35 with the bat and 32 with the ball are fair stats for a Test allrounder....but not for one who is batting at #3. And of course, we don't have a young batsman scoring 1000 runs a season in Shield cricket at the moment.

 

[Barry O'Speedwagon]

Joe Burns in Boxing Day squad. Good call IMHO. Technically competent and seems to have patience.

 

[I'm a loser baby...]

I like Watson. But not at three. As you suggest, that's the reason he cops a lot of stick. And we don't seem to have batsmen knocking out 1000 runs per year in Sheffield Shield like we did 10 or 15 years ago. He should've been placed at six years ago but he looks so promising and batting has been very thin in recent years.