Farking who is paying who to continually get this muppet a game!
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Itâs gonna be a loooooooooong summer, cricket-fans.
might just give it too much air but at least he is getting it up and the pakis targeted him early. the chances going down never helps ones self confidence
One particular newspaper is very fond of the Marsh boys. When theyâre out of the team its lobbying is constant, when theyâre in the team and firing its coverage is fulsome, when theyâre in the team and failing its coverage is âHey, look, that dog has a fluffy tail.â
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Thatâs a lot of fluffy-tailed dog stories then.
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I donât think he is the answer, needs to find a middle ground between trying to get a wicket every ball and drying up runs to build pressure.
his was the lowest run rate of all the bowlers except head bowled one over. 2.87 per ov is not getting pasted all over the ground. marnus went for double the run rate so was he trying to buy a wicket. so is it ok to go for twice the run rate for one wkt. but then again marnus is to blame for no wkts
only calling marnus by his first name because i canât spell his surname. could look it up but bugger that
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Holland bowls pies. Marnus l fear will be the next Mitch Marsh. A number 6 batsmen who cant make runs but will be perservered with for too long because he has picked up some handy wickets this series. His three dismissals this series have been as embarrassing as the Marsh brothers.
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One is a part time bowler, one is 1 of 4 main bowlers.
He bleeds to many easy runs, without being overly threatening⌠The Captain of Australia seems to agree!
If the Marsh brothers remain in the team for the First Test of the Australian summer, it shows that itâs more about who youâre mates with (or your family lineage) than actually performing. The fact that Maxwell has been prevented from playing the opening Shield game of the season to be in the UAE for the upcoming T20 series shows yet again the absolute farce of his situation. How is he supposed to get any meaningful red ball cricket in if:
- heâs told by CA to not playing an English County season and rest for the Aus A tour of the sub-continent?
- is then not selected for said A tour because "we donât need to see how Maxwell plays in the sub-continent?
- is not selected as part of a heavily depleted touring squad thanks to Smith, Warner and Bancroft being suspended because he âdoesnât make enough hundredsâ?
He barely plays that format because heâs either told not to by CA and that he should ârestâ, or heâs playing for Australia in short format cricket. End of the day, a 1-0 series loss superficially doesnât look too bad, but we can see so many issues with the setup at CA. Langer might be a good coach but he is blinded by his Western Australian bias. You watch Bancroft come straight back into the team once he is eligible for selection again. Renshaw or Burns shouldâve been picked. This was their time to step up and show what theyâve got, especially Renshaw. I feel like moving Khawaja to open was almost a âkeep the seat warmâ move for Bancroft, and once heâs able to be picked again he comes straight back in and Uzzie drops back to 3âŚ
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Australia will crush Sri Lanka this summer, itâs the Indian series which will be a real battle.
Bird with 10fa
India will flog us
Vics and Tassie have big wins
SA in bother against NSW at 2/19 needing 234 more. Weatherald and Ferguson out.
Bird 10/77 for the game at the Gabba.
Tremain 5 and Boland 4 for the Vics in Perth. Philippe maiden ton.
so more wear and tear from MCG pitches.
https://www.mcc.org.au/whats-on/latest-news/2018/october/mcg-pitches-in-for-cricket-season
On the back of another successful AFL season, and following last weekendâs WWE Super Show-Down, preparations at the MCG have turned to the upcoming cricket season, with the portable pitches installed in the stadium this week.
The final set of cricket pitches arrived at the MCG last night. The first match, a four-day Sheffield Shield contest between Victoria and New South Wales, starts on October 25.
Melbourne Cricket Club CEO Stuart Fox said that the club had conducted a thorough review of recent MCG pitch performances, including last summerâs Boxing Day Test pitch.
âThe pitches that we produced for long-form cricket last summer were lower and slower than we would like, and didnât deteriorate sufficiently over the course of matches,â said Mr Fox.
âHowever, we remain of the strong belief that portable pitches can produce quality cricket and we are determined to do that this summer and beyond.â
Matthew Page joined the MCG team early this year as head curator, after five years at the WACA Ground in Perth.
âSince Matthewâs arrival, he has worked with Cricket Australia and other curators around the country to ensure our practices and techniques are enabling us to get the most out of our pitches here in Melbourne,â said Mr Fox.
A number of changes have been made since the end of last cricket season:
⢠A reduction from 10 to seven pitches on the square to allow for more wear and tear.
⢠Bringing forward the timing of an aggressive renovation of the pitches, designed to improve the clay profile of each pitch, from the start of this cricket season to the end of last season.
⢠Placement of a layer of sand on the concrete slab in the centre of the MCG to soften the connection between the pitches and the concrete base.
⢠Using the pitches either side of the Test strip for Sheffield Shield matches earlier in the season than previously.
⢠Installing two portable pitches in the outdoor practice wicket area to allow pitch experimentation to occur.
⢠Planning for an overhaul of the portable pitch nursery in Yarra Park, where the pitches live during the winter months.
⢠Introducing a layer of sand into each pitch tray before the pitches were placed into the nursery last winter.
Speaking ahead of his first season in charge of the MCG pitches, Matthew Page said he was excited about the opportunity.
âI am really looking forward to my first summer of cricket at the MCG,â said Page.
âI have already learnt a lot about Melbourne conditions in my short time here, but I have also been able to bring new ideas that, in time, will see us better deliver an even contest between bat and ball that players love.
Khawaja meniscus tear, will need surgery. Could miss the Australian summer. So thatâs a batting line-up minus Smith, Warner, Bancroft and Khawaja. Yikes! If Maxwell still canât get a game he may as well quit International cricket and just be a freelance T20 playerâŚ
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If Maxwell still cannot get a game there should be a frigginâ royal frigginâ commission!!
Oh and Fark Carlton, I blame them as well.
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Reboot Marsh here and available
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Wonât matter. Heâs Victorian. (Iâm ignoring the fact that Finch is Victorian).
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