SCG 4th Test: Australia v India on Jan 6-10, 2015

[JJ]

Burns is not the only one to be fair, Smith's yesterday were also as bad as you'll see, and Marsh apparently can't catch...

But the new guy in close is a bit lame, really - does he field there for Qld? The likes of Boon and Logie made fielding in there an art, surely someone regular should specialise and get good at it?

 

[Red Bear]

Oh lord. Why is this rookie qlderp fielding there?? Can't catch a cold ffs

Poor from burns no doubt.

Although short leg/bat pad must be the least professional position in the team. Its almost always just the most recent addition to the team, whilst in the rest of the field they put the most suitable person. Its poor in modern day cricket, given the lengths theyve gone to to professionalise the game.
Hazlewood bowling better today.

 

[JJ]

Is Bob Simpson still around, bring him back!

 

[Hutty1986]

Poor from burns no doubt.

Although short leg/bat pad must be the least professional position in the team. Its almost always just the most recent addition to the team, whilst in the rest of the field they put the most suitable person. Its poor in modern day cricket, given the lengths theyve gone to to professionalise the game.
Hazlewood bowling better today.

Unbelievable really, tradition needs to go out the window here because it is a speciallised position. It's just hurting Burns' confidence having him there and we're missing regulation chances at a time we need to roll these last few quickly and set up a game for us.

 

[Twizzle]

Saha got Hazed and Confused.

Into the tail now, should be over shortly.

nice

 

[Twizzle]

On that subject, why is Pat Cummins not considered?
Thought he had lots of potential

not match fit yet for a 5 day game

 

[Twizzle]

Is Bob Simpson still around, bring him back!

I remember when he made a bat pad fielder our of Boonie

Simmo did everything himself, not like these million hangers on that we have now days

Simmo used to have some one throw throw downs at Boonie and he would belt the f**k out of them till Boonie leaned to catch the ball or get damaged but in the end it worked

Why Blewitt is a fielding coach is beyond me, its a case of jobs for the boys and its showing, this fielding is f**king amateurish

bring back the yank, thats the best we have ever fielded

 

[Meth]

Drinking game idea- every time Warne says 'cherry', take a shot

 

[WaznTheGreat]

This fielding is what happens when you give a job to your butt buddy that you played with at South Australia for a million years.

 

[Canard]

Drinking game idea- every time Warne says 'cherry', take a shot

You would be brain dead within a session of play!!

 

[Pete Cash]

Oh noes pizza chat.

 

[TheParraboy]

yes warne you can smash that pizza you bogan deadbeat

and then there is brayshaw, his nose so far up warnes ass

 

[JJ]

I remember when he made a bat pad fielder our of Boonie

Simmo did everything himself, not like these million hangers on that we have now days

Simmo used to have some one throw throw downs at Boonie and he would belt the f**k out of them till Boonie leaned to catch the ball or get damaged but in the end it worked

Why Blewitt is a fielding coach is beyond me, its a case of jobs for the boys and its showing, this fielding is f**king amateurish

bring back the yank, thats the best we have ever fielded

Baseballers make sense, they take fielding seriously - I don't recall Blewett as anything other than a decent fielder, so not sure why he's there... in his defence though, there's no Ponting, Symonds, Clarke, Martyn, Hayden etc there... pretty minimal talent to work with

Simpson was brilliant though...

 

[Canard]

yes warne you can smash that pizza you bogan deadbeat

and then there is brayshaw, his nose so far up warnes ass

Liz Hurley's autobiography will have a chapter in it called "Slumming It", it will be about her brief romance with the one and only Warney.

 

[Canard]

Baseballers make sense, they take fielding seriously - I don't recall Blewett as anything other than a decent fielder, so not sure why he's there... in his defence though, there's no Ponting, Symonds, Clarke, Martyn, Hayden etc there... pretty minimal talent to work with

Simpson was brilliant though...

Is it a pre-requisite for coaches to be experts as players though?

That aside, clearly something is amiss with Australia's fielding in this series.

 

[Meth]

India going through the motions now, sucking all the competitiveness from this Test match.

 

[Meth]

Starc getting stuck in. It's so hard to take aggressive Starc seriously, but he seems to get under people's skin enough

 

[JJ]

Is it a pre-requisite for coaches to be experts as players though?

That aside, clearly something is amiss with Australia's fielding in this series.

No, but give he's a recent former player, I was wondering. Recent former players seems to be the go with you guys at the moment (Lehmann, Langer, Blewett), which is a bit strange...

Many of these are schoolboy mistakes though, which is pretty bad

 

[Tommy Smith]

Starc has hardcore "ugly man" syndrome.

 

[JJ]

Starc getting stuck in. It's so hard to take aggressive Starc seriously, but he seems to get under people's skin enough

Maybe he can head up to the commentary box in a break and have a chat with the plastic gimp