leicsmac 4,803 Posted 11 January Report Share Posted 11 January Thought I'd open this one up. India-Aus Test looks like it's shaping up for a good finale - all four results possible! 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
StanSP 28,433 Posted 11 January Report Share Posted 11 January Only been able to watch first sessions due to timings in UK and watched last night. Chasing 407 and we end up on 190-2. So I was surprised to wake up to a draw! Phenomenal effort considering Pant and Vihari are with injuries, Jadeja is injured and now misses final test, and no Kohli. Even more impressive when you consider how badly and embarrassingly India lost the first test. Apparently Australia not lost a test in Brisbane for 32 years. Could be a cracker! Rishabh Pant . If he continues like that, he'll go to the higher levels of all formats. Already cracked T20 so now needs to perform consistently in tests. He and Pujara in that first session last night was great to watch. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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RonnieTodger 3,665 Posted 11 January Report Share Posted 11 January "Same old Aussies..." 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Osavo 249 Posted 11 January Report Share Posted 11 January How on earth has Tim Paine got away with convincing everyone that he's a really good bloke? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
AKCJ 15,271 Posted 11 January Report Share Posted 11 January 1 hour ago, Osavo said: How on earth has Tim Paine got away with convincing everyone that he's a really good bloke? Absolutely no idea. He's a tosser. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Angus Scott 426 Posted 11 January Report Share Posted 11 January Smith will never learn. He should be given 100 lines of - "once a cheat, always a cheat". Horrible individual, as are most of the Aussie team 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Corky 13,580 Posted 11 January Report Share Posted 11 January Didn't Langer go on a drive to improve their conduct and behaviour? I know we aren't a bunch of angels but they are something else and so many people thrown out for abuse in this Test alone from the stands. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
StanSP 28,433 Posted 12 January Report Share Posted 12 January (edited) Is Paine actually taking the piss Never seen Smith, or any other player do it before. With the amount of cameras and video around these days it surely would have been picked up if so?! Quote Steve Smith did not deliberately scuff up the crease during the final day of the third Test against India on Monday, says Australia captain Tim Paine. Former captain Smith was seen on the stump camera scraping the crease with his boot during a drinks break. He was criticised on social media, with suggestions he was removing the India batsmen's guard - the marks used to guide where they stand. "He was certainly not changing a guard," Paine said. "I imagine if he was, the India players would have kicked up a bit of a stink at the time. "As we know, he has those many Steve Smith quirks - one of those is he is always marking centre." India batted out a tense final day to salvage a draw, ensuring the series remained level at 1-1 going into the final Test in Brisbane, which starts on Friday. Smith, who was sacked as captain in 2018 following the ball-tampering scandal, was seen shadow batting and then scuffing the crease with his boots. When India batsman Rishabh Pant returned to the crease, he had to ask the umpire for his guard again. Former England captain Michael Vaughan described the incident as "very, very poor". "He (Smith) is disappointed with the way it has come across," Paine said. "That is something he does every single game, five or six times per day. He likes to walk up to where he bats and visualise where he is going to play. "Yesterday you could see him up there playing a couple shots as left-hander as if where he wanted Lyon (Australia spinner Nathan Lyon) to pitch the ball. It is one of his mannerisms." Edited 12 January by StanSP Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Finnegan 26,868 Posted 12 January Report Share Posted 12 January 16 hours ago, Angus Scott said: Smith will never learn. He should be given 100 lines of - "once a cheat, always a cheat". Horrible individual, as are most of the Aussie team Isn't this just yet another bit of dark arts that every player does but he's getting pelters for because he got caught once? It's like the ball tampering shit. I mean literally everyone does it right? Cricket always strikes me as a bit weird with its ethics. Like in rugby, this sort of shithousery is celebrated, the rules are basically if the ref didn't see it its legal and trying to get away with as much a a you can is part of the sport. Cricket can't seem to make up its mind if it likes skulduggery or if it's the sport of modern chivalry. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
StanSP 28,433 Posted 12 January Report Share Posted 12 January Everyone doing it doesn't make it any less right Pretty weak excuse to rely on in my opinion. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Finnegan 26,868 Posted 12 January Report Share Posted 12 January 54 minutes ago, StanSP said: Everyone doing it doesn't make it any less right Pretty weak excuse to rely on in my opinion. I'd rather defend him by acknowledging everyone does it than be a hypocrite piling on pretending they don't. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
StanSP 28,433 Posted 12 January Report Share Posted 12 January 48 minutes ago, Finnegan said: I'd rather defend him by acknowledging everyone does it than be a hypocrite piling on pretending they don't. Who's pretending they don't? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ealingfox 5,624 Posted 12 January Report Share Posted 12 January 4 hours ago, Finnegan said: Isn't this just yet another bit of dark arts that every player does but he's getting pelters for because he got caught once? It's like the ball tampering shit. I mean literally everyone does it right? Cricket always strikes me as a bit weird with its ethics. Like in rugby, this sort of shithousery is celebrated, the rules are basically if the ref didn't see it its legal and trying to get away with as much a a you can is part of the sport. Cricket can't seem to make up its mind if it likes skulduggery or if it's the sport of modern chivalry. Not everybody brings sandpaper on to the field to tamper with the ball to that extent tbf. There's quite a bit of daylight between that and a bit of saliva. A lot of the uproar on that was internal anyway because of the self-imposed red lines of the Aussie 'play hard but fair' schtick. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Stuntman_Mike 1,379 Posted 12 January Report Share Posted 12 January https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/55629954 This is his reasoning.. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
StanSP 28,433 Posted 12 January Report Share Posted 12 January 3 minutes ago, Stuntman_Mike said: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/55629954 This is his reasoning.. I don't buy that at all. He can visualise where batsman are lining up without marking the centre. Literally no need to mark the centre to do what he is suggesting. He also does a little sweep of his foot before properly marking it which makes me think even more it's bollocks. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
leicsmac 4,803 Posted 13 January Author Report Share Posted 13 January The Aussies going all "play hard but fair" is bollocks anyway. Their ethos has always been that if you're on the field you're looking to win by whatever means necessary and if you don't buy into that then you shouldn't be on the field in the first place. That hasn't changed. Whether one agrees or not with that level of ruthlessness is obviously down to the beholder. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Izzy 23,504 Posted 13 January Report Share Posted 13 January Might be an unpopular opinion, but I really like Justin Langer Love how he get's animated in this interview Australia coach Justin Langer defends batsman Steve Smith over scuffing claims https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/55646108 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Voll Blau 9,382 Posted 14 January Report Share Posted 14 January Nice to get up to see England actually doing well abroad for once! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
The People's Hero 2,187 Posted 14 January Report Share Posted 14 January Proper off-spinner's Michelle that is! 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
leicsmac 4,803 Posted 14 January Author Report Share Posted 14 January As collapses go, that was an entertaining one to watch. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
RowlattsFox 2,497 Posted 14 January Report Share Posted 14 January (edited) Abysmal from Sri Lanka. Easiest 5 wickets Bess will ever get. Bit of luck too with rebound catch and the run out. Although, always careful not to criticise too much until England have batted Edited 14 January by RowlattsFox Quote Link to post Share on other sites
AKCJ 15,271 Posted 14 January Report Share Posted 14 January Nice to wake up to that this morning. Saw half an hour or so before work. Totally forgot we were playing. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
RowlattsFox 2,497 Posted 14 January Report Share Posted 14 January How has Crawley got away with that? Saying that, the fact he's ran to the other end and back suggests there was a single there. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
UniFox21 7,480 Posted 14 January Report Share Posted 14 January Very poor shot from Crawley Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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