Re: Australia v New Zealand, 3rd Test, Adelaide, 27 Nov - 1 Dec, 2015

by JGK Sun 29 Nov 2015, 10:13

Watling's taken 2 blinders in this match.

by skully Sun 29 Nov 2015, 10:14

Oh noooo, Cot smashes a straight drive back into the non-striker stumps. Fark!!!

by skully Sun 29 Nov 2015, 10:14

Test cricket roooolz.

by Red Sun 29 Nov 2015, 10:15

NZ would be spewing that they didn't put a few more on the board. And with Llong's call. Smile

by skully Sun 29 Nov 2015, 10:15

Sweet Baby Jezus, this is tense!!

by skully Sun 29 Nov 2015, 10:16

What odds the Tie???

by horace Sun 29 Nov 2015, 10:16

skully wrote:Damn, that LLong decision is now looking to be the difference.

A Nigel wins a test for Oz. Whodathunkit!

by skully Sun 29 Nov 2015, 10:16

Yesssssss!!!! Go the boys!!!!

What a cracking Test match. The 1st Test day/nighter has been a rousing success.

Nifty MoM? Or Hazy? Shirley in a low-scorer it's Nifty ?

by skully Sun 29 Nov 2015, 10:17

horace wrote:
skully wrote:Damn, that LLong decision is now looking to be the difference.

A Nigel wins a test for Oz. Whodathunkit!

by Red Sun 29 Nov 2015, 10:18

So a moral victory for NZ but in truth they have been a bit disappointing.

by Ethics? The Gall! Sun 29 Nov 2015, 10:30

JGK wrote:
skully wrote:5 needed.

I'm calling it.

Well done Aust.

remember. we know where you live

by skully Sun 29 Nov 2015, 10:31

Big Hazy gets MoM. Well done him.

by skully Sun 29 Nov 2015, 10:32

GCS gets MoS. Well done him.

by Brass Monkey Sun 29 Nov 2015, 10:34

Why send Starc out? It doesn't make sense in any world that I've visited. No sense.

Shame that the curator doctored the pitch, IMO.

NZ will decry the poor decision by Llong, but they've been typically flimsy. We thought they'd stopped all that but they went missing, collectively. A tremendous disappointment. Probably too nice or something. Not enough vicious sledging. Winners are grinners and all that.

by horace Sun 29 Nov 2015, 10:34

Should have been the Vix keeper.

by Fred Nerk Sun 29 Nov 2015, 11:04

horace wrote:
skully wrote:Damn, that LLong decision is now looking to be the difference.

A Nigel wins a test for Oz. Whodathunkit!

A Nigel stuffs up royally. Who woodnathunkit?

by taipan Sun 29 Nov 2015, 11:37

Fred Nerk wrote:
horace wrote:
skully wrote:Damn, that LLong decision is now looking to be the difference.

A Nigel wins a test for Oz. Whodathunkit!

A Nigel stuffs up royally. Who woodnathunkit?

Fark, are you guys still whining about the rugby WC?

by Henry Sun 29 Nov 2015, 12:38

Brass Monkey wrote:Why send Starc out? It doesn't make sense in any world that I've visited. No sense.

Shame that the curator doctored the pitch, IMO.

NZ will decry the poor decision by Llong, but they've been typically flimsy. We thought they'd stopped all that but they went missing, collectively. A tremendous disappointment. Probably too nice or something. Not enough vicious sledging. Winners are grinners and all that.

It's one of the most talented Kiwi teams ever put on the park, but they don't have a killer instinct. McCullum's captaincy has been poor in this series as well. They also need a half-decent spinner.

by lardbucket Sun 29 Nov 2015, 12:44

They've got the core of a great side, for sure ... Boult and Southee are at the top of their game; Williamson is just a gun, McCullum and Taylor are top class (though Mukka was not good value for them with the bat this series), Watling is a fine keeper-bastman, Santner and Latham look very promising, and Bracewell actually looked the part.

What they're missing is a spinner, as you say, and a decent second opener (Guptill looks gone; maybe it's time to try Rutherford again). Perhaps Santner stays as a spinning all-rounder and they get to pick another middle order batsman as well as an opener to replace Guptill? Or play Guptill in the middle order?

by Henry Sun 29 Nov 2015, 12:53

lardbucket wrote:They've got the core of a great side, for sure ... Boult and Southee are at the top of their game; Williamson is just a gun, McCullum and Taylor are top class (though Mukka was not good value for them with the bat this series), Watling is a fine keeper-bastman, Santner and Latham look very promising, and Bracewell actually looked the part.

What they're missing is a spinner, as you say, and a decent second opener (Guptill looks gone; maybe it's time to try Rutherford again). Perhaps Santner stays as a spinning all-rounder and they get to pick another middle order batsman as well as an opener to replace Guptill? Or play Guptill in the middle order?

I suspect they'll give Santner a run as the lone spinner, and Jeet Raval, a 27 year old Indian-born opening batsman who plays for Auckland, will be partnering Latham at the top of the order in NZ's next test against Sri Lanka.

I thought Boult was mostly disappointing on this tour. Only really bowled to his potential in this test. Perhaps it was shown that he's mostly ineffective if he doesn't have conditions that suit him.

I thought they dearly missed an out and out speedster like Adam Milne. He could have hurried up the Aussies on some flat surfaces at Brisbane and Perth.

Bracewell seems to have improved a lot in the last year or so. Should be locked in as the third seamer for the foreseeable future. He was a bit of a wild-child with a history of off-field indiscipline, but he seems to have become much more focussed now, and ready to fulfil his potential.

by Henry Sun 29 Nov 2015, 18:42

I notice both captains had a whinge about the amount of grass on the Adelaide pitch. Can you believe it? After complaining that Perth was too flat, they now complain this pitch had too much life in it. I thought it was an excellent pitch. The best test pitch I've seen in Australia for several years, and both captains should STFU and rather than whinge about the pitch, whinge about their teams' flimsy, T20-spoilt batting techniques (the captains included).

Cricketers these days really are a bunch of over-pampered, whinging bores. Especially Steve Smith. I'll probably be accused of anti-Aussie bias here, but so far in his short captaincy career, I've noticed he always seems to find something to whinge about, and it's often got to do with conditions on the field not ideally suiting his FTB batting technique.

I'd love to know how much he averages when Aus score less than 300 in an innings, i.e. when the pitch they're playing on isn't the roadiest of roads. Even Aussie forummers on here must acknowledge that there seems to be a pattern developing of Smith consistently cashing-in on flat pitches, and consistently not standing up and fighting when the pitch has a bit of life in it. Still, he's obviously not the only batsman in the world who can have this accusation levelled at him.

by skully Sun 29 Nov 2015, 20:09

Excellent points about the Sheep side. On paper they look stronger than Aus. This XI (perhaps less Mark Craig) could have a good 2016.

by horace Sun 29 Nov 2015, 20:27

Sheep shd have had the primo part of the oz season,not the Windies

by horace Sun 29 Nov 2015, 20:29

Expect the sheep will towel uss up in Feb.

by skully Sun 29 Nov 2015, 21:03

Aye x 2.

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