Low 140’s but hoops it a mile and has a bit of Starc about him. Really should have been playing a while back and we have a hell of a job on out hands trying to hold on to him now
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That’s sharp in my book
I’m used to facing 100-120 plodders in atca 
You mean “sweepshow”?
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Kohli mentioned so many test venues being a factor in how poor some of the pitches have been. Its not like the Indian batsmen are like “yeah, fine if I can’t bat as long as the bowlers get wickets”.
I suspect there is plenty of underhanded corruption going on when it comes to awarding test matches to grounds that have no right to host one.
I just hope Dharmsala gets its moment though. Got be in the top 2-3 cricket grounds in terms of views.
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That ball change was great for us!
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I have just watched our second innings this morning. Bloody work got in the way yesterday. For me the turning point was Marnus refusing to face up to Ashwin when he was trying to bowl off 2 steps. It was a little thing at the time but it showed we weren’t going to take any of their crap. At the end of that over they whinged about the ball which was subsequently changed. Then we started scoring freely. 13 runs off the first 10 overs and then 65 off the next 8.5 overs.
A great win. It was also super chase given the potential for it to be a real banana skin.
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The pitch produced by the BCCI for the third Test in Indore has been slammed as “poor”, and handed three demerit points by match referee Chris Broad after Australia cleaned up India by 9 wickets inside three days.
The ICC’s pitch and monitoring process gives venues demerit points for pitches rated below average, on a scale that also includes “poor” and “unfit” ratings.
Where a venue accumulates five demerit points, it is suspended for hosting any international cricket for a period of 12 months.
The BCCI are able to appeal the sanction within 14 days.
“The pitch, which was very dry, did not provide a balance between bat and ball, favouring spinners from the start,” Broad said.
“The fifth ball of the match broke through the pitch surface and continued to occasionally break the surface providing little or no seam movement and there was excessive and uneven bounce throughout the match,” he said.
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Not sure why they would bother appealing.
With so many test venues to choose from there is no real issue if one gets binned for a year
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Matt Short gets another 100*
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Tell Warner thanks for the memories and enter the Ashes with:
Khawaja
Head
Lab
Smith
Short
Green
Carey
Cummins
Starc
Lyon
Hazlewood/Boland
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Trav ain’t opening going forward. He has already been told this was short term and that if Warner was still fit he would be batting in his usual spot. Another opener which at this stage will be Bancroft will in the squad so it will be Warner or Bancroft who open in England and at this stage I’d have money on it being Warner
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A man can dream tho
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Yes we can but unfortunately it ain’t going to happen. Trav will be batting at 5 so it’s just a question of who opens. With Khawaja also turning 37 this year it’s pretty imperative that we find a couple of openers from somewhere quick smart
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So sad what happened with Pucovski who would be a natural successor
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How does the Sheffield Shield points table work?
Victoria started this round of matches slightly ahead of Queensland and finished slightly behind them despite us winning by ten wickets and Queensland by five wickets.
The points system plays a vital role in determining the overall winners of Australia’s Sheffield Shield so let’s now take a closer look at how it works.
Sheffield Shield Points System
How Does it Work?
The six teams in the Sheffield Shield each play ten games during the regular season. The points system works to reward the best performing sides as the league table develops. This is first class cricket so there is scope for four possible results – a win for either side, a draw or a tie.
Across those regular season games, teams will earn six points if they achieve an outright win. If the game is drawn or tied, each side gets a single point.
Sides are also awarded bonus points during those games based on the number of runs that they score and wickets that they take. At the end of each match, the table is updated and, as the regular season concludes, the two teams at the top of the league will progress to the Sheffield Shield final.
The placings at the top are important as the first placed side will have home advantage for that final. Therefore, the points system is crucial at all stages of the season and teams strive to get wins with as many bonus points as possible.
Bonus Points
Bonus points help teams to progress up the Sheffield Shield table and they can even determine the winner of the final itself. Those bonus points start to be awarded after a team has reached 200 runs in their first innings.
For every run scored above 200, 0.01 of a bonus point will be awarded. So, for example, if a team makes 400 in that first innings, 2 bonus points are added to their tally at the end of the game.
As one final point to note in this section, bonus points will only count during the first 100 overs of that innings. Any points scored from the 101st over onwards will not be counted.
In general, I would say that this is a fair system and, realistically, only the first innings should count. Rain could play a part plus, a team could make a big total batting first that sees them win a game by an innings. It wouldn’t be right to penalise them by counting second innings runs scored by their opposition.
Additionally, by using 100 overs as the cut off point, the organisers are guarding against dull cricket. Sides could just continue to bat and pile up the bonus points if they felt that they had no chance of winning the game.
Bowling bonus points are also available: For every first innings wicket taken inside those first 100 overs, 0.01 of a point is awarded.
From 2020 onwards, bonus points have been introduced in the final. Previously, if that final was drawn, the team with the best record in the regular season would win the Sheffield Shield. This system had been in place for years but it would sometimes lead to boring games where one side would continue to bat their opponents out of the contest.
Now, the team with the highest number of bonus points will win the final if it is drawn. The same batting and bowling points system for the first 100 overs of the first innings is used.
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QLD would have got slightly more BP’s.
You only get BP’s in the first innings
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Can’t believe it’s a year since we’ve lost Warnie.
I do like having Boxing Day 2006 being played on Fox now though
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Forgot that Haydos dropped Strauss off Stuart Clark.
Absolute soda
Speaking of Pucovski
Fawad Ahmed got him today