2nd Test: Australia v South Africa at Hobart on Nov 12-16, 2016

[Iafeta]

at least they've worked tirelessly on the CBA howzat ad.... lol

 

[undertaker]

10/86 in the first innings at Perth, and now another batting collapse of 8/32 in the second innings at Hobart.

Massive problems with Australia's batting. Don't know what the solution to this problem is, but these batting collapses have been happening for a while now. Administration (James Sutherland et al.) and coaching staff (e.g. Pat Howard) play a major role in this.

 

[JJ]

most of the team should be deported to NZ so they can hang with other shit cricketers

Send them over for our domestic comp - our bowlers need a boost in fresh conditions

 

[Tommy Smith]

Australia needs to replace Voges & Ferguson with Mitch Marsh & Maxwell to add some steel and grit to the middle order

 

[Iafeta]

Is Marcus North still hitting them well in the nets??

 

[chigurh]

Marsh Bros straight back in..

 

[hineyrulz]

Absolutely pathetic.

Massive changes are needed.

The first should be the f**kwit CEO who lives in fantasy land, secondly his Yawnion head of cricket who had absolutely no idea what he is doing.

Make Sheffield shield the priority and stick the 20/20 crap on the back burner.

They should try and build a team around Smith, Warner, Starc and Haze.

No more aging stop gap journeymen, pick some young blokes in form and give them a decent crack. And if they aren't up too find some they are. And build from there it's what we did in the 80's. Find some tough characters, some of the blokes being picked are soft as butter milk.

 

[Incorrect]

The Pakistan series should be interesting.... No matter how hard they try and lose the Test, the Paki's will still murder us. They would have to literally bowl 100 deliberate no-balls in order to help us get up to a half decent total....

 

[Pete Cash]

Smith looks f**king gutted.

 

[JJ]

Team for 3rd test, or are Australia conceding

Finch
Warner
Khawaja
Smith
Maxwell
Marsh, M
Wade
Starc
Hazelwood
Hastings
Lyon

 

[JJ]

Australia needs to replace Voges & Ferguson with Mitch Marsh & Maxwell to add some steel and grit to the middle order

yeah, solution remove even more discipline, add toys and levers

 

[Iafeta]

Lee CarselDon looked in excellent shape on Survivor. Got all the toys. Time for a call up?

 

[hineyrulz]

Australia needs to replace Voges & Ferguson with Mitch Marsh & Maxwell to add some steel and grit to the middle order

f**k off Tommy you Merkin ️

 

[TiggaPlease]

Team for 3rd test, or are Australia conceding

Finch
Warner
Khawaja
Smith
Maxwell
Marsh, M
Wade
Starc
Hazelwood
Hastings
Lyon

YUCK

 

[JJ]

What does Warnie say - make Davey captain and pick more Victorians?

 

[JJ]

YUCK

come on, the solution is in quick runs - Smith's problem was getting bogged down, he needed to free his arms

 

[Tommy Smith]

The Australian selectors are being too narrow minded. They need to pick the best 11 CRICKETERS in the country.

Next test:

Warner
Meg Lanning
Khawaja
Smith
Lehmann
Ellyse Perry
Nevill
Starc
O'Keefe
Bird
Hazelwood

I'm not even sure if I'm trolling.

 

[T-Boon]

It was mentioned earlier. The only thing I can think of is to move Warner down the order to 5 to see if his counter attacking style might be useful down there.
He's cavalier approach at the top is great if the middle has some sort of talent that can cover for his many early dismissals but it is terrible for when things are brittle. We need openers who can hang around for a while and take the shine off the ball (admittedly I am not sure if we have anyone).
I just think Warner could be useful at 5.

 

[undertaker]

at least they've worked tirelessly on the CBA howzat ad.... lol

reminds me of the 2010/11 Ashes series, where the Vodafone ads with Ponting, Doug Bollinger etc. yelling and appealing their heart out were getting shown ad nauseum.

nek minnit....3 losses by an innings in that series.

 

[JJ]

The Australian selectors are being too narrow minded. They need to pick the best 11 CRICKETERS in the country.

Next test:

Warner
Meg Lanning
Khawaja
Smith
Lehmann
Ellyse Perry
Nevill
Starc
O'Keefe
Bird
Hazelwood

I'm not even sure if I'm trolling.

Why drop Lanning and Perry from Australia's premier cricket team?