Labs is the next test captain IMO, there i said it.
Imagine if these blokes had to face Walsh and Ambrose every week instead of boland and sutherland.Hope he gets himself sorted, health first especially if its mental
https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/...withdraws-victoria-game-mental-health-reasons
South Australia opener Jake Weatherald has withdrawn from Friday's Sheffield Shield clash with Victoria for mental health reasons.
Weatherald opened the season with a century against Western Australia, but SACA Sports Science and Sports Medicine Manager John Porter revealed that Weatherald spoke with the SACA medical team about his mental health following the draw with Tasmania last week.
It was decided that he should time out of the game and leave the Shield hub to focus on his well-being.
"We are supportive of Jake, who has made the tough but right decision to leave the hub and focus on life outside of cricket for a short period," Porter said.
"We are fully supportive of his decision and we'll be keeping in touch with him and providing every support to ensure he is available for selection as soon as possible."
Imagine facing Marshall,Garner,Holding and Walsh on a Green top???? AB did and scored 98 and 100no, what a legend.Imagine if these blokes had to face Walsh and Ambrose every week instead of boland and sutherland.
Players used to play all year round back in the day as well,, heaps of players when they weren't touring or playing for their country played county cricket.There certainly seems to be a lot more mental fragility especially among batsmen. Is it that they're playing too much cricket?
Look at the last 2 Ashes series out here and the number of English careers ended.
Makes me wonder whose careers will end in tears next ashes here.
I can see old men Anderson and Broad chucking it in during the next ashes after using the kookaburra much like Johnson did when Ross Taylor nearly scored 300 and NZ nearly 800.No doubt Kookaburra management were pressurising Cricket Australia after the COVID-19 outbreak to scrap the Dukes ball experiment for the 2020/21 Sheffield Shield season, appealing to emotion in the name of "protecting Australian jobs". They are well aware the quality of their product is inferior to Dukes, and with the ICC ban on saliva, Kookaburra balls would've been made to look even more crap if they were to go head-to-head with Dukes this Shield season under the new playing conditions.
If flat tracks such as what's already been dished up in the early stages of the Shield season are going to continue right over the next few months to the extent where batsmen at #9 can nearly score a century, the Dukes ball would've at least offered something for the bowlers and a more even contest between bat and ball.
Unfortunately, many batsmen this summer are going to inflate their averages quite comfortably once the shine goes off the red Kookaburra ball after 15-20 overs, high-scoring 1st innings drawn matches will increase, and most bowlers will be on a hiding to nothing. You might as well replace them with bowling machines.