2nd Test

[Fro]

you are right Shane but he wont open in the tests if keeping.

unless you are saying play him just as a batsman? which is far from the worst idea you have ever had.

 

[The Eagle]

Gilly opened at times iirc, why can't a keeper open the bat??

 

[Clint]

I think it can work occassionally but not as a long term fix. Too much workload. Keeping for 80 odd overs then coming out to face the last 7 overs of the day as an example.

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Bring Hussey on Clarkie

 

[Fro]

no what shane is saying (I think) is that Gilly played as a batsman at times and didnt keep.

He is half right, it was never in tests, he did it in a few one dayers.

Never in tests, as has been correctly pointed out its just too much work.

 

[The Eagle]

Hmmm,well Uzi could go up one

 

[Berkeley_Eagle]

Hughes ends his test career
Out for 20

 

[The Eagle]

Hughes must go now

 

[Fro]

Khawaja has missed a golden opportunity as well.

If Marsh and Watson are both fit for boxing day they will be straight in.

 

[The Eagle]

Warner will stay....****en poster boy for less boring test matches...although he is earning it

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That was awful.....hope its not his last game at home in the baggy green

 

[Berkeley_Eagle]

FMD we are falling apart

 

[Wolfpack]

Collapsing like a boss.

 

[Clint]

feckin kiwis 🙂

 

[Fluffy]

Well Hughes and Uzi's crappy scores allowed Warner to get close but yet another collapse down the order.

ive forgotten what a middle order fightback looks like.

Some good bowling by Bracewell though to get them a good win from 2/150.

 

[The Gronk]

It's a bit different to when we had Tugga in the middle order who actually valued his wicket.

 

[Kiwi Eagle]

Sir Douglas Bracewell

Great effort from Warner to still manage MOTM .....

 

[Kiwi Eagle]

On a serious note, I have to say I have massive concerns about this ball tracking

Just watching the replay of some of it, no way in the world that LBW referral of Lyon pitched outside leg, missing leg maybe but it pitched in line

Pattinson one much the same, I can't see on any replay how the impact was outside off stump

 

[The Gronk]

Yeah they brought the ball tracking over from the tennis. I don't see how it can be as accurate given how far away the cameras must be on a cricket field compared to a tennis court.

 

[Kiwi Eagle]

All I can really come up with is that the down the pitch cameras must have been at a misleading angle.

Tony Grieg swears by the tracking so it must be good haha

 

[Fro]

on a side note guess where the ball tracking comes from, your backyard KE 🙂

 

[Cameron]

I love low scoring test it was great dispite the result.

Here's my cricket yart if they were all fit and the selectors weren't tossers

Warner
Katich
Marsh
Pointing
Clarke
Watto
Haddin
Siddle
Cummings
Pattinson
Lyon

The wild card for ms is Johnson if he can use his time once his foot is right and could really work on getting the ball to swing properly back In to the right hander like he did In in south africa in 09 then he would come in for siddle.