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I donāt know who nick stragsnokolis is. Or how I spell it.
Hi nick, hi.
I saw our captain go for an expansive driver at 5 down for not a lot and get bowled. Should he be dropped too?
Iād say Paine has showed a lot of grit throughout his time in the team in general
Probably not the right example to compare but plenty of others in the sides picked recently certainly havenāt valued their wicket by the shots played.
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Maxy was promoted to #3 for the national Test team and got out reverse sweeping about 3rd ball, iirc leaving us 2/fark all. It was sheer stupidity. Iām not sure he should be drawing comparisons with a bloke getting to his tonne with a reverse sweep.
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Anyone see Langers PConf? He bristled a tad at some question re Maxwell, and then apologised for being āGrumpyā quite profusely, when I donāt reckon he really needed too, ā¦ he seemed to be just asking the Journo if what he was asserting happened that he based his question on had actually happened, which I thought was fair enough, and he wasnāt nasty really, so it was a bit odd that he guilted out about it so much to me,
Thing is, I couldnāt hear what the Journo said or asked, ā¦ did anyone catch it??
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Itās all over the Cricket.com.au socials.
Journo asked him if he has a right to be confused after he was told not to go to England as there was an āA tourā and the UAE coming up, for which Maxwell wasnāt picked for either and then missed the home test summer as well. Langer bristled at the question as a way of questioning whether or the not that alleged conversation even happened. But then refused to actually answer on the record whether it did or not. To me it had a lot of āthe lady doth protest too muchā about it.
Thereās a lot of ā ā ā ā ā ā ā BS games going on with Maxwell. Iād suggest that neither party is particularly fond of each other but both are trying to not blow the top off completely whilst he is still an undeniably valuable limited overs player. If we didnāt have a World Cup this year, itād be all bets off I reckon.
He aināt playing test cricket again soon though.
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Ah, ok.
Thanks.
Mitch Marsh pulls out of the first ODI with a sore tummy
He is replaced by a fast scoring middle order batsman and part-time offspinner
and no it isnāt Glenn Maxwell he already there, it is Ashton Turner.
Surprised itās only happened now. M Marshās form has long suggested to me that he hasnāt had the stomach to play for Australia.
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Just proves he is ā ā ā ā
I weep for the future.
And Ed Cowanās a dickhe@d
Mitch got the wrong kind of runs
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I donāt understand the Maxwell situation. We have no match winners at the moment, we have Maxy sitting there playing two bit T20 crap when he should be batting 5 or 6 in the test team.
Sure, he does have brain fades and at times plays stupid shots but thatās the trade off for having someone who can do things very few others can. He is an X factor that Australian cricket is really lacking.
Other than him I really hope Pattinson can get some continuity, the way he bowls is made for an Ashes tour.
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This must be satire.
Iām pretty sure I picked that the last of the 5 mediocre WA all-rounders must be due for a call-up - after Marsh, Stoinis, Cartwright and Agar had all already been tried.
One of them has to be good, right?
Jo Angel must be fucken ā ā ā ā ā ā . He wouldāve played 250 Tests if J Langer was coach in his era.
Edit:
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Hohns is pretty clear on Maxwell:
"I guess right here and now we are wanting him to focus on white-ball cricket with the World Cup coming up.ā
Iād suggest Maxwell should perhaps take better council than to be casting shade on anything Justin Langer did in his playing career, especially through the heroic medium of a tweet. Probably says a lot about the bloke.
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As opposed to the heroic medium of this?
Itās a fucken joke, nobodyās died, people need to get over it.
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