Australia v England, 2nd Test (D/N), Adelaide, 16-20 December, 2021

lardbucket wrote:

skully wrote:

Fred Nerk wrote:Alex C couldn't go about his work any less like the dreaded Mariah, so it would be a good follow of the Slasher McKay precedent - in the same way Dave Warner would have the choice of 'Lofty' or 'Mumbles'

I humbly agree with this sentiment. The way she destroys songs with her up and down and all around screeching vocal variations annoys the shit out of me. Just sing the song, bitch!!!!

‘There’s a horrible noise coming from the front end of my car’

‘Have you tried removing the Mariah Carey cassette from the player?”


Hence Mariah for Alex, Rowdy (RIP), should have been ‘whispers’ for Matthew Wade

Hehehe

England’s brutal Ashes campaign so far has only been made worse by harsh penalties for a slow over-rate in the first Test, which has seen the side docked eight ICC World Test Championship points - three more than previously stated.

Last week, England was docked five WTC points - one for each over they were found to have fallen short by, however upon further investigation the side was found to be eight overs short, meaning the penalty has increased to eight.

It leaves England languishing in second-last on the ICC WTC table, while players were also fined 100 per cent of their first Test fee for the breach.

“England were eight overs short (not five overs short as previously announced) but were only fined 100 per cent of their match fee due to the limit,” the ICC said.

“However, the points deduction for penalty overs is not capped and must reflect the actual number of penalty overs a team is short of the minimum requirement as per Clause 16.1.2 of the ICC Playing Conditions, hence they have been penalised one point for each over they were short.”
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ICC are run by donkeys. how hard is it to get this right the first time?!

Shrapnel is Australia's Mr Invincible. Since he was subbed in for the brain-rattled Smudge at Lords in Aug 2019 (he made a 2nd innings 59), the following have been his 1st innings scores...

74
67
48
185
162
143
63
215
47
48
91
108
74
103

That's 1,428 runs at 102.00 with a lowest score of 47. Overall, in the same period, he has only been dismissed once for a sub-double-figure score. Other than his 47 above, the only lower scores that he has made are 6, 11, 14, 19, 25 and 28.

Now THAT'S reliable.

beamer wrote:If Mo hadn’t retired he’d have been parachuted back in.

Swann with his wonky arm could still probably bowl better than any of our current options.

he pulled the pin saying he could not carry drinks to Monty.

With all the stuff that has come out about Rashid, I do wonder what sort of crap Monty copped from descendants of the Colonial masters.

OK... do we hope some resistance or a complete and utter boot on their throat.

Must say I really appreciated Jimmeh's great efforts as much as I laughed at Broad

Neph & AC have looked very comfortable with only a handful of play & misses.

Conversely the Aus attack has looked pretty tame.

horace wrote:

beamer wrote:If Mo hadn’t retired he’d have been parachuted back in.

Swann with his wonky arm could still probably bowl better than any of our current options.

he pulled the pin saying he could not carry drinks to Monty.

With all the stuff that has come out about Rashid, I do wonder what sort of crap Monty copped from descendants of the Colonial masters.

Well yeah, must have been a factor in him turning to booze among other issues he had.

skully wrote:Neph & AC have looked very comfortable with only a handful of play & misses.

Conversely the Aus attack has looked pretty tame.

Get those two and the rest will follow.

Without Root and favourable atmospheric conditions for our bowlers, I’m pretty sure we’d be the weakest of the nine major Test nations right now.

Woakes showing the “specialists” how it’s done.

Root now 182 short of MoYo’s calendar year record, with a possible three innings remaining. If he matches today’s 62 in each one, he’s there.

Surprised his average for the year is as “modest” as 64. Malan and number eight Woakes are the only others averaging over 30 this year!

(Edit: Woakes fell below that mark again with that wicket…)

England batsmen not called Root in 2021: 240 innings, one century.

beamer wrote:

skully wrote:Neph & AC have looked very comfortable with only a handful of play & misses.

Conversely the Aus attack has looked pretty tame.

Get those two and the rest will follow.

Without Root and favourable atmospheric conditions for our bowlers, I’m pretty sure we’d be the weakest of the nine major Test nations right now.

Yeah, pretty much how it's panned out. Lyon just removed Woakes for the 7th pole.

Excellent middle session by Aus (4-57) after England's two mainstay bats took session 1 (0-127 in an extended session).

beamer wrote:England batsmen not called Root in 2021: 240 innings, one century.

Broad has 1 century in 150, career-wise. Which means England’s non-Rooted batting in 2021 is 60% worse than Sturat

Richardson scones Broad then bowls the rest of the over with his dick, may have played him in....eat your heart out Peter Siddle

Hey Mitch, the young bloke's allowed some leeway to bowl like a halfwit while he grows up - you've been at the caper 10 years!

Australia batting again… really?

I think I’d like to see the follow-on become mandatory, piling on the runs batting third in such situations does little for the game. VVS Laxman has a lot to answer for…

Broad skies one to give Starc his 4th, all out 236, Oz to bat again

Decent effort by the under-strength Aus bowling line.

Koo wavered between unplayable and rubbish but did enough to get 4. Elmer was excellent, getting heaps of spin and bounce, for 3 wickets. Snot continues to impress with the ball for 2 wickets including Joe Root again (now if he can just get some runs at no. 6). Ebba and JRich tried hard but you can see the difference in class between them and Haze/2nd.

Commentators screaming for the follow-on has exactly the same credibility as commentators screaming for the early declaration - ie diddly-squat

Fred Nerk wrote:Commentators screaming for the follow-on has exactly the same credibility as commentators screaming for the early declaration - ie diddly-squat

I bet Crappelli is ranting about it on radio right now.

Fred Nerk wrote:Commentators screaming for the follow-on has exactly the same credibility as commentators screaming for the early declaration - ie diddly-squat

They’d have rolled our top order over in an hour under the lights. Batting again has no merits other than boosting drinks takings for tomorrow.

Apart from the fact we’d have bugger all chance of setting you even 100, we haven’t got a spinner for bowling last anyway.

Name another sport where the team leading at half time has responsibility to keep the game interesting? The team with the 200+ run first innings lead earnt it, and with it the right to steer the conduct of the game in the way that best suits it.

And congrats Dave and Marcus on compiling 25 runs and the best opening partnership of the 7 innings so far in the series

Fred Nerk wrote:Broad skies one to give Starc his 4th, all out 236, Oz to bat again

Good effort to hit it to extra cover from his stance at backward square leg.

beamer wrote:Australia batting again… really?

I think I’d like to see the follow-on become mandatory, piling on the runs batting third in such situations does little for the game. VVS Laxman has a lot to answer for…

What? We should have given England a chance to win?