Match 2: Aust v Eng t20 tri-series at Hobart Feb 7, 2018

[ANTiLAG]

If mr sabermetrics knew anything about cricket he'd know that the number 8 spot faces very few balls in the shortened versions of the game. If your 8 is scoring runs you're more likely to be losing games rather than winning them.

Yeah, well if your bowlers are getting out for not making runs and not scoring them, you then have less runs to try and win with. If you bat deep, losing early wickets and 6 wickets all up does not put an end to the contest reasonably. Batting deep enables the top order to strike faster and chance their arm and risk losing their wicket for a bigger team total.

There's a whole host of counter arguments here.

But I stated it in an odi context, not T20. Twiz wants to bring it into t20, so be it. I think the value is higher in 50 over odi than in t20 but it is the same concept. But lets not pretend that the last World T20 final was not a major selling point for an all rounder at 8 nor that Straya had Faulkner smashing runs at 8 in limited overs formats previously as the 'Finisher'. Heck Braithwaite was at 8 with the keeper at 9, that is how stacked the WI were with allrounders.

 

[TheParraboy]

Will be interesting I think Straya has picked a very good side, really don't need or want Finch or Smith, and not really a great need for the three quicks

Poms are good though

they are good

But I think we have improved the side a lot from ODI to t20 (if you could do such a thing)

Short, Carey for Paine, Stanlake, Lynn in Smith - all guys who I expect to be in our ODI WC squad of 2019. Maxwell and Stoinis have the world at their feet IF they want it

Im expecting us to win 1 of the next 2 games we play against the poms.
If we lose both with this side, especially if our batting fails badly, then we may as well go for broke and hire Justin Langer as coach and sole selector.

 

[ANTiLAG]

Nah. It's three thousand words too short and far too well written.

As for the game, I think their quellers are too [*] qualified and will be too good for us in the end.

Unless you were deliberately trying to be ironic, you may want to try some of these adjectives next time;

instead of 'too short" try concise or succinct; and

instead of "far too well written" try articulate, eloquent, or intelligible.

But regardless, you ought to have quotation marks around "quellers".

* Perhaps you mean "more qualified"? However, as there are no actual qualifications to bowling that I am aware of (unlike say coaching) and given someone playing in the match either qualifies to bowl or not by virtue of ICC clearance which isn't indicative of the level of playing ability but mere bowling action legitimacy; if you mean (some of) their bowlers are better overall than Australia's to quell high or fast run scoring rates, just say so: e.g. "I think their 'quellers' are better (than Straya's) and will be too good for us in the end".

 

[AlwaysGreen]

Someone's been reading a thesaurus again.

 

[hineyrulz]

We've sent the Poms in.

 

[hineyrulz]

Awesome, opening up with KP again.

Oh joy!!

 

[hineyrulz]

Big Bad Billy tonight is just bad so far.

 

[hineyrulz]

The Show puts one down.

 

[hineyrulz]

Lol shocking shot.

 

[blaza88z]

Unless you were deliberately trying to be ironic, you may want to try some of these adjectives next time;

instead of 'too short" try concise or succinct; and

instead of "far too well written" try articulate, eloquent, or intelligible.

But regardless, you ought to have quotation marks around "quellers".

* Perhaps you mean "more qualified"? However, as there are no actual qualifications to bowling that I am aware of (unlike say coaching) and given someone playing in the match either qualifies to bowl or not by virtue of ICC clearance which isn't indicative of the level of playing ability but mere bowling action legitimacy; if you mean (some of) their bowlers are better overall than Australia's to quell high or fast run scoring rates, just say so: e.g. "I think their 'quellers' are better (than Straya's) and will be too good for us in the end".

Can you just f**k off?

f**k off; leave

 

[hineyrulz]

This looks an absolute belter.

 

[TheParraboy]

175 par score for mine

anything less than that we chase down fairly ok

 

[hineyrulz]

This merkin is channeling Gilly.

 

[blaza88z]

175 par score for mine

anything less than that we chase down fairly ok

They'll get 275 the way Malan is seeing it

 

[TheParraboy]

billy getting carted

the bloke we saved for this game instead of letting the poor bloke play in the bbl final

 

[hineyrulz]

They'll get 275 the way Malan is seeing it

Yeah but what about their number 8 spot??

Not sure it’s good enough.

 

[TheParraboy]

They'll get 275 the way Malan is seeing it

 

[TheParraboy]

runs will dry up once the 6 overs is over

 

[hineyrulz]

MaxDerp again.

 

[TheParraboy]

KP hanging around like a bad smell