2016/17 Summer of Cricket

[hineyrulz]

It will be interesting that see if they make many changes for Adelaide.

 

[emjaycee]

After 5 test match losses in a row, one would think they need to make changes but the main issue is our middle order and apart from Voges who has probably played his last test, does Ferguson deserve to be dropped after 1 match when everyone else failed with him?

Smith, Warner and Usman to stay and despite his failures in Hobart, we know Burns can bat so assume the top 4 are settled and leave Ferguson in there for the nothing to win 3rd test. Our quick bowlers haven't done a bad job (SA Second innings in Perth was on a batsmen's wicket) so lock-in Starc, Hazlewood and give Mennie another crack.

That leaves Voges, Lyon and Nevill. Nevill is doing some good work with the gloves but cannot be relied on with the bat. Voges seems to have lost all form and Lyon hasn't helped his cause with 12 runs and only 2 wickets for the series.

What guarantee any replacements will do better though is the problem.

 

[84 Baby]

After 5 test match losses in a row, one would think they need to make changes but the main issue is our middle order and apart from Voges who has probably played his last test, does Ferguson deserve to be dropped after 1 match when everyone else failed with him?

Smith, Warner and Usman to stay and despite his failures in Hobart, we know Burns can bat so assume the top 4 are settled and leave Ferguson in there for the nothing to win 3rd test. Our quick bowlers haven't done a bad job (SA Second innings in Perth was on a batsmen's wicket) so lock-in Starc, Hazlewood and give Mennie another crack.

That leaves Voges, Lyon and Nevill. Nevill is doing some good work with the gloves but cannot be relied on with the bat. Voges seems to have lost all form and Lyon hasn't helped his cause with 12 runs and only 2 wickets for the series.

What guarantee any replacements will do better though is the problem.

I assume pay packets are probably driving factor, but this is the problem with keeping players with obvious batting problems in the side, against the same attack and when you do drop them apparently not having the coaching there to fix those problems.
That and all of our batters seem to have the exact same f**king batting problems!

 

[84 Baby]

#lookingforwardtohowHobartwicketholdsup5thday

 

[strider]

Mr Bananas needs a bit more protein me thinks

 

[strider]

http://www.smh.com.au/sport/cricket...treatment-in-hobart-test-20161116-gsqd6d.html

Dirty f**king cheats ... no wonder we lost, they had half a strepsil stuck on the ball

 

[I'm a loser baby...]

Rotters!!

 

[Gronk]

Chairman of Selectors Rod Marsh has dropped himself.

 

[Gronk]

From humble beginnings ...

In 2014 the Blue Mountains Refugee Support Group helped a bunch of of new migrants into the community by encouraging them to compete in a T20 comp. They called themselves the Oceans12, because of the year and method they arrived. Predominately Sri Lankans, they spent their early years in Villawood detention centre before being housed in the Blue Mountains/Penrith area.

• FEBRUARY 12 2014

Refugees form a successful cricket team, on and off the field

Support from the general public has helped a group of asylum seekers pave their way in Australian society.

http://www.smh.com.au/sport/cricket...team-on-and-off-the-field-20140212-32i43.html

On Tuesday 23 February Julia Finn MP, member for Granville welcomed the Oceans 12 cricket team to the NSW Parliament.
The team is comprised of Sri Lankan Tamil asylum seekers. They entered and won the Last Man Stands Sydney Sports League competition and went on to win the statewide competition. They are the current Sydney champions and have won the Western Sydney World Cup three times.

http://www.bmrsg.org.au/ocean-12/


A few years later and they have won the Australia division of the Last Man Standing 2016 T20 Competition and are off to South Africa to play in the international finals.

http://www.lastmanstands.com/australia

 

[Bazal]

More like a world club challenge than a finals series, per se. Not all the best LMS sides always go because it costs a fortune of you don't win through but are still qualified. You get a discount based on points, but most of the top 100 sides in the world (for scale there are about half that many in Canberra....) only get $50-$150 discount

Anyway that's beside the point, great effort

 

[84 Baby]

Last Man Stands is a f**king awesome competition too.
Competition points for wearing matching uniforms!

 

[Bazal]

Last Man Stands is a f**king awesome competition too.
Competition points for wearing matching uniforms!

It's great fun too, and not a slogathon necessarily. I love it. Although that could be because my average is 25 runs higher in T20 cricket than 50 over cricket lol

 

[Gronk]

Cancel the series. Faf du Plessis polished the ball using spit from a mint lolly.

I'm outraged

 

[strider]

This lolly mumbo jumbo might be all the rage where thise merkins come from ... but not in our f**kin backyard

#clutchingAtStraws

 

[I'm a loser baby...]

Bounders!!

 

[Bazal]

My god, Quinton de Kock definitely looks upset! Has he got tears in his eyes?

Actually scratch that, on further reflection that's just his face all the time...

 

[Basil Brush]

My god, Quinton de Kock definitely looks upset! Has he got tears in his eyes?

Actually scratch that, on further reflection that's just his face all the time...

He definitely always looks like he is crying. Very much improved cricketer though from when he first came into the team. Starting to look like a bit of a gun actually.

In Aussie news, its appears the first player in the new look team appears to be Peter Handscomb and i like it. I hope Kurtis Patterson is brought in with him.

 

[Twizzle]

They really didn't need to cheat to beat us

 

[hineyrulz]

By the looks of the Paki's this test series against them could be a quick one. They bat as well as we do. i have tickets for day 2 of the Gabba day night test i will be lucky to get to watch any cricket the way both teams bat.

 

[strider]

...
Beaten with the ball. And half a Mintie.
...

Fixed it for him