Vics sent Tassie in and had them 3/58
Tassie ended up with 381
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And Owen contributed 53 of them!
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Aus women make 412 in 3rd odi against India.
After 17 overs India above the run rate at 2/171. This could be a remarkable run chase to win the series for India.
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Need to get their ground staff out here to work on our roads.
Vics have lost their two opening games.
Might be a long summer for the Vics in all formats.
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That doesnât even qualify as a roadâŚsomething easier for batting.
Aust A vs India A game 2, Aust 4-186 at tea, Konstas made 49 and McSweeney still plodding away 69no off 152 balls.
Interesting to see Siraj playing for India A, isnât he still a front line bowler for the 1st XI?
This belongs in here.
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Vale Dicky, from an era where umps werenât too scared to make a call.
Thought he did a very good job over a lot of years and all umpires make shockers from time to time but overall I thought he was one of the better ones
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I played a season of cricket in Yorkshire when I was much younger and Dickie was a god up in those parts alongside Geoff Boycott. One of those umpires who was not only a very good decision maker but also had a great rapport with players too. He was also a fairly decent cricketer himself in his heyday? RIP.
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Stokes Wood Root Potts
Archer Tongue Jacks Pope
Interesting
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This is a squad england needed to name for the Ashes. They will need their fast bowlers to be fit and in form because they come across a suspect Australian batting line up. Then theyâll need their gifted players in Brook, Stokes and root to play up to their potential. Its a big ask.
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India up to their usual petulant antics.
Win the Asia cup defeating Pakistan but refused to shake hands and then were a no show for the trophy presentation because an official from the Pakistan cricket board was due to present the trophy
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Ridiculous. Sport and politics shouldnât go together.
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How do we feel about the prospect of tactical subs in cricket?
I find myself agreeing with Ben Stokes on this issue.
Article from todayâs âAgeâ below.
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Australian cricketâs revolutionary experiment with injury substitutes in the Sheffield Shield will allow for the provision of an AFL-style tactical sub for the opposition, to ensure that the groundbreaking rule is not manipulated.
Cricket Australia has confirmed to this masthead that the experimental playing condition is currently being written up after weeks of consultation with state teams, the Australian Cricketers Association and the International Cricket Council.
Travis Head avoids a bouncer.Credit:AP
It will be trialled over the first five rounds of the Shield that begins on Saturday, with the option of extension for the whole season.
If successful, there is a strong chance the rule will be adopted for Test matches next year. India is conducting a trial of a more limited injury sub-rule â allowing only for external injuries and without a tactical sub â during its domestic season.
The ICC had initially placed far more restrictions on what kind of injury subs rule may be trialled, before relaxing their stance to allow for the current experiment without threatening the Shieldâs first-class status.
The introduction of the injury sub, which must be decided on before the start of day three of a Shield game, was always going to be contentious with traditionalists, but the addition of a reciprocal sub for the opposition takes the trial even further into the unknown.
England captain Ben Stokes, who is touring Australia this summer for the Ashes, has been the most vocal opponent of the idea.
âItâs absolutely ridiculous that thereâs a conversation around an injury replacement,â Stokes said during this yearâs series against India. âThere would just be too many loopholes for teams to be able to go through.
âYou pick your eleven for a game; injuries are part of the game. I completely understand the concussion replacement; player welfare, and player safety. But I think the conversation should just honestly stop around injury replacements because if you stick me in an MRI scanner, I could get someone else in straightaway.
âIf you stick anyone else with an MRI scanner, a bowler is going to show, âOh yeah, youâve got a bit of inflammation around your knee. Oh sweet, we can get another fresh bowler inâ. I just think that conversation should be shut down and stopped.â
However there are plenty of advocates for the move, not the least sport science and medical experts in the game who believe that injury mitigation should be a greater priority to extend the careers of players, particularly pace bowlers.
âWe are the only team sport that does this,â former England captain Michael Vaughan wrote in The Telegraph earlier this year. âWhat we are doing at the moment is intentionally depleting a contest by making one of the teams effectively play with ten men for four days of the match, on the back of bad luck.
âI have felt for many years that Test cricket should introduce substitutes for injuries that are clear and obvious, like we have seen with Rishabh Pant in the fourth Test at Old Trafford.â
Under the trial, Shield teams will get the option of making one âlike-for-likeâ injury substitution per match, as distinct from the unlimited provision for concussion subs.
England captain Ben Stokes opposes the introduction of an injury substitute in Test cricket.Credit:AP
The âinjuryâ can be any kind of physical problem picked up during play, in warm-ups or off the field. Illness is also a valid reason to make the substitution.
The match referee will determine whether the request is legitimate, and may also restrict the replacement playerâs role, forbidding them from bowling if, for example, the player they are replacing is a batter only.
As a quid pro quo, the opposing team can then choose to make a tactical substitution in response, also by the end of day two of the game.
Once they have been substituted, the injured or ill player must serve a mandatory 12-day stand down period, during which they cannot play again. The 12 days start from the day after the scheduled second day of the match.
Teams will still only be allowed to travel with squads of 12 for Shield games, with the 12th player meant to be a fast bowler, due to the statistical likelihood that most injuries will take place to fast bowlers.
CA statistics show that last summerâs Shield featured eight instances where a player was injured during a game, and on six occasions the substitute rule would have come into effect because the player had been injured on the first two days of a game. Six of those injured were fast bowlers.
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And how long before the injury sub becomes a tactical sub? Ooh, the pitch is starting to turn, time for a quick to be subbed out for a spinner.
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Iâm not against the idea of a tactical sub in test cricket.
Has to be announced prior to the toss, though.
For me, a test is simply that. No subs, I donât even think you should be allowed concussion subs
Test match cricket is the pinnacle of not only your physical toughness but of your mental toughness
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