Zimbabwe 164 & 121/5 (21 ov) v New Zealand 576/6d
West Indies 196 v India 126/1 (37 ov)
Australia A 396 (119.5 ov) v South Africa A
1st Test: Sri Lanka v Australia at Pallekele - Jul 26-30, 2016
Sri Lanka won by 106 runs
Worcester v Pakistanis at Worcester - Jul 29-30, 2016
Match drawn
>Australia A racked up 302 for 5 in the 88 overs bowled on the first day, and Philander explained that most of those were bowled with a soft ball. "The pink ball is a bit similar to the Duke, except that when we got past 30 overs, the ball got extremely soft. That's the only negative about it," he said, though he did not go so far as to suggest that he will be anti-day-night Test, which some of his team-mates were when the fixtures were being decided. "We are all excited about the pink-ball game, and as long as we can improve the ball, we will have a good future with the pink ball."
ugh, so like every Cuckaburra ball ever?
>not including the Kia Super League in the OP
I won't tolerate this blatant sexism.
>Loughborough Lightning 128 for 9 (Devine 52) beat Yorkshire Diamonds 85 (Grundy 3-21)
>Vipers v Stars (14:00 local | 13:00 GMT | 01:00 NZST 1d)
>Storm v Thunder (14:30 local | 13:30 GMT | 01:30 NZST 1d)
Has a team ever tried to play 3 full time spinners in a lineup besides maybe India?
I can't say I've ever seen the 3 spinner meme
Sri Lanka literally just did it m8
Sri Lanka LITERALLY did it last game you utter casual
full time I said
cabbie and Sandakan are full time, the other guy is a part timer
wrong
they had
>Pradeep - seamer
>Herath - spinner
>Mark Chapman - spinner
>Dilruwan - spinner
>Dhananjaya - spinning allrounder
so 3 specialist spinners and one allrounder
No he isn't
Technically they picked four, given that Da Silva seems to be bowled as a frontline spinner for his domestic side (averages 23)
Australia is fucking shit.
Don't forget Slowthews
...
i dont even count him as a bowler
if he is an ""allrounder"", so is Stove
He bowls every game for 10 overs or so so I think that counts by definition
Even if he does average 55
Angelo Mathews: 61 FC wickets @ 45
Steve Smith: 63 FC wickets @ 53
part-timers m8. IMO the definition of an allrounder is having a bowling average lower than your batting average
and yes im fully aware that disqualifies Shitshell Darsh
Why is Arthur the hottest new Instagram meme?
Burns
Warner
Khawaja
Smith
Voges
Nevill
Starc
Lyon
Marsh
Hazlewood
Bird
Mmm no
Part timer is how much you use them. Smith is a part timer because he bowls only a couple of overs every five or six tests. Mathews literally bowls 10+ an innings pretty much every time.
Doesn't matter how shit his stats are, SL play him like he's an allrounder. If he bowls every innings he is by definition not a part-timer. He has bowled every innings for SL in recent memory. You are also aware that allrounders with bowling averages lower than batting ones are REALLY rare, right?
Is a part timer by definition just and unsuccessful all rounder?
Can be. See Steve Smith obviously. But more commonly the part timer is usually the top order bat who bowls some cheeky off breaks every now and then. Most team have one that they turn to as standard when they need cheap overs (Kane for us, Root for England, Elgar for SA etc), but none of those were ever allrounders.
These lists that Lord's have been posting are pretty interesting I think, it's quite funny how there are about six players that literally everyone ever has in their lineup, the only ones that change are the #5 batsman and the two fast bowlers that aren't McGrath. It's pretty much
>Sehwag/Hayden
>Tendulkar
>Ponting
>Lara
>pick any of the other great batsmen (often Sanga)
>Kallis
>Gilchrist
>Warne
>pick two seamers
>pick two seamers
>McGrath
Every time.
Whatever happened to that Shanaka guy? Thought he was supposed to be SL's new allrounder
>bowling seamers on SL wickets
lol
why the fuck are these spergs picking Sachin as an opener?
Tendulkar is God of cricket.... He can bat anywhere and be problem for kangaroo...
Only way to fit the big 4 plus Sanga into the top order? I dunno. I happens a lot though. I guess because he opened in ODIs?
UGLY XI
Poojara
Lyth
Smoth (c)
Rahane
Sarfrax (wk)
Ronchi
Ashlose
Fuckner
Lyon
Misra
Ishant
SEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEETHING casual detected
Mine would have to be (and we're only talking the 2000s)
Sehwag
Smith
Dravid
Tendulkar
Lara
Kallis
Sangakkara
Pollock
Steyn
Bond
Muralitharan
I'm bored
Current world XI with only one player from each team
1. K Brathwaite
2. Joyce
3. Williamson
4. Root
5. Kohli
6. Mathews
7. Shahzad (wk)
8. Starc
9. Rabada
10. Mustafizur
11. Yasir
Or maybe
1. Shahzad (wk)
2. Joyce
3. Williamson
4. Root
5. Kohli
6. Chandimal
7. Ten Doeschate
8. Starc
9. Rabada
10. Mustafizur
11. Yasir
Weak opening pair and Tendo as 4th seamer could be a weak link. Also could swap Rabada for Steyn but he's not really 100% right now.
Has Australia been exposed or just Meme Shit's captaincy?
Bit of both
it was literally Warners fault
>the size of that boundary
I know they're trying to pander to the Americans but holy shit, I've played 8 over u-16 games with boundaries bigger than that.
Weird way to spell Smith desu
>top scorer
>only player on the team who looked like he could score in these conditions
KYS my man
vs
>le miss the fulltoss man
>I've played 8 over u-16 games
No you haven't.
Just lost my virginity to a prozzy lads
Statsy's losing it lads
its posts like this that are the reason half of >our twitter followers are fake prostitute accounts
We literally have 35 followers
It honestly amazes me
I wish I had the password lads. Needs more britbong
[email protected]
Zerogoose
It would literally take you 10 seconds in the archive to find it
Yeah I used to play cricket before. Haven't been able to because of school for around 2 years though.
Mitchell Johnson was the Sehwag of bowling. Prove me wrong.
You literally can't.
Sehwag played well for a number of years and in different conditions
He is better than Johnson
I kinda get what you're trying to say as they both had a philosophy of play that worked really well when it came off and went all over the place when it didn't, but Sehwag was more consistent across his career whereas Johnson was elite in bursts
Also Sehwag would often go from being elite to shit within a single match, I think he averages like 25 less in the second innings than the first.
dead irrelevant poomunity
>[email protected]
>Zerogoose
i'm in lads
So I stumbled across "FOX Sports Australia" today when someone in my news feed liked one of their posts or something
Gee I know I've heard all the talk about it being back
But fuck me
>sack everyone
>why weren't they going for the win
>if OKeefe hadn't have got injured we would have one
You can't make this shit up
I'm amazed you haven't seen their comments already. It's a running joke among aus/cric/.
They've dropped off my newsfeed completely. Fox Sports posts were all over my newsfeed in the Jarryd Hayne saga and now none of my kikebook friends give a fuck
second post is completely correct tbf
drop ins and the Argus review turned Australia into epbin homebabbies
AB summed it up in about two sentences on commentary yesterday
>all pitches the same, never breakup, you could play a 20 day Test on them and theyd be the same
>spinners get no help, batsmen just BTFO them
>no spinners developing, batsmen play no good spin
never going to win in the subcontinent with a system like that
Yeah I'm aware of the running joke I just never actually bothered to look. I assumed it would be Vietchy on Sport-tier bad but that's so much worse.
Yeah he's not wrong, I more cropped that for the first and last one.
our spin bowling is England-tier once you take Lyon and SOK out of the equation. The standard of Shield bowling is so fucking awful
how hyped are you for the 3rd test lads? #EngvPak
youve always got michael beer to bring in m8
Pretty hype
Could go either way, feels like the ashes last year when no one knew who would win at all after the first two
Actually now that Aus v SL has got interesting we've got three potentially awesome series back to back with >us vs SA coming up. Wish it wasn't fucking two matches though, that proves literally nothing.
On an offtopic, when did the Sad! posting take off?
I did it once a couple of weeks back and I've seen it done multiple times today across 3 boards.
I don't know whether I subconsciously followed a trend or more people are just Trump-posting, but it is intriguing.
2 match test series is a literal meme, how retarded are the icc.
every test series should be 3/5 matches tbf
should be 2 divisions aswell to avoid statpad zim/wi/banglel/(normally sri lanka but australia lol) vs anyone else
or Doherty
I thought it was taking the mickey out of Jynn. But then, she might have just copied it from someone else
Just woke up lads and remembered that our second cricket golden generation is over before it even began
It's not the ICC's fault, most of the boards are just too povvo to have 3 test series. And I think this is the first time SA are having a winter series so it makes sense for them to test the waters a little with just 2 tests. Would have been great to see 3 though.
Also I'm pretty sure Australia are touring SA for a fucking pyjama series right after our test series wraps up. Sad!
>that netball thread
I'm not sure whether it's awful or amazing
>how retarded are the icc.
Freshcunt
It's LITERALLY our cricket board who decides them. It's fucking frustrating, especially now that >we are ahead of SA in the """rankings""", a shitty 1-1 draw gives us nothing
Based gatebro, didn't the sleeping pills work?
A 1-1 draw is wishful thinking, especially if Nicholls is unironically playing and Gupshit opening.
It does make me very happy to know however, that we permanently broke South Africa's back with that semi-final. They've been scarred ever since.
i think South Africans have always been able to detach Test and pyjama
2015 was far from their worst pyjama choke and theyve always been a consistently good Test team since readmission until this year
I don't think they care about that pyjama match m8
They are still the better team on paper though, we would definitely be lucky to escape with a drawn series. All the shitters would need to show up to give us a chance
I disagree, I watched the Bangladesh tour and they practically just sleepwalked their way through it.
There was so much riding on that WC campaign both from the public as well as pressure self-imposed by the players and management. Steyn in particular looks like a part of him is missing, although that might just be the injuries.
SA absolutely does care about pyjama, moreso than tests. They probably had the most serious prep for the WC than any other team plus that overblown send-off right before they left South Africa.
There was a lot more riding on the 2015 campaign than 1999, 2007 or 2011.
>Steyn in particular looks like a part of him is missing, although that might just be the injuries.
Definitely noticed this, but it's not just that. It's the quotas, it's the over-working of several players, it's the shitty domestic system. Steyn literally begged to be left out of the tri-series and then when he was he then went and played meme20 in England. AB was literally like "I'm prepared to retire early from tests" so they dropped the captaincy on him to make him stay.
>Steyn literally begged to be left out of the tri-series and then when he was he then went and played meme20 in England.
Pretty sure Moonda said it was the other way around. CSA "rested" him (ie gave his spot to a quota), were originally going to do that to Morkel was well but called him so he wouldn't retire and then Steyn took Morkels place at Glamorgan
also i think you're reading too much into the WC. All these reasons
>It's the quotas, it's the over-working of several players, it's the shitty domestic system
are much more relevant
yeah but doesnt the rankings indicate how many tests a series can have? literally if your zimbabwe the max you can have is 2?
sorry dont read too much into that shit, englel pretty much always have 4/5 test series vs decent teams and 2 vs shitters
>yeah but doesnt the rankings indicate how many tests a series can have
nope
Englel could be 10th (or 9th like they were in the early 00's) and the Ashes would still be 5 Tests
>englel pretty much always have 4/5 test series vs decent teams and 2 vs shitters
duh cus money. Good teams generate interest and revenue. No body wants to watch Zimbabwe for even one Test let alone 3
Ashes will always be 5 cos muh tradition
tbf how the fuck do SA slip from 1st to 6th in literally months
>icc
Rankings points only last 2 years and SA dont play that many series. So two series losses rips their rating to pieces
every test side should play atleast 10 tests a year desu, get rid of dead weight like zimbabwe, west indies and bring in the strong irish
t. Paddy
lasts about 4 years but the previous two years points carry more weight.
Every wicket should be a green seamer and the ICC should bring in a law so that tests can only be played in overcast conditions so that Jimmy Anderson can become the leading wicket taker of all time
Australia should only play test cricket at Sydney, Melbourne and Hobart, fuck the WACA and Adelaide, absolute shitholes.
the fundamental flaw with Test cricket is the economics of it. The way international cricket is structured the host team keeps all the revenue from a tour. And the only tours profitable for the smaller nations are India, England and to a lesser extent Australia.
So if South Africa play 10 Tests in a year, host 5 and none of those 5 are against India or England they are bankrupt
Nah, the FTP recommends who to play but whether or not you go through with it and how many tests you play is all agreement between boards and based on money
England had a 2-test series with >us when the teams were ranked 3rd and 4th. Even though it would have been very competitive it wasn't monetarily lucrative (apparently, I think both sold out though)
fu
t. Marsh
Sri Lanka have played 8 (eight) more tests than India/Pakistan have in the rankings
Why? There is literally no money in Sri Lanka, whereas in India or Pakistan (not uae) I can guarentee in their fucking huge stadiums they will be atleast half full for a decent test match vs non shitters
Idk, I guess their board is good at sucking off the big guys, or the other boards don't care enough
Guess the brown manlets love Pyjama too much
what did he mean by this?
orangehamstergirldrinkingfromastraw.jpg
cricket is gay
Dubs of truth desu.
I'll even agree with using the MemeCG.
*SQUASH*
Oops, I didn't see there were Wormans in here.
>Englel could be 10th (or 9th like they were in the early 00's)
This is the biggest argument against a test tier system Tbh. I don't want muh ashes taken away because one team is ranked too low.
There would never be another trans-tasman series either. Australia would literally just play England, India and Pakistan for ever
The Adelaide Oval is GOAT
New Perth Stadium will be GOAT
>Australia's selectors have lost patience with Glenn Maxwell, putting "the big show" on hiatus by dropping him for the ODI series in Sri Lanka and instructing him to work on evolving into a more consistent batsman.
JUST
also literally retarded. He played an amazing game in like his last match
>Australia's ODI squad for SL
Steven Smith (capt), David Warner, George Bailey, Nathan Coulter-Nile, James Faulkner, Aaron Finch, Josh Hazlewood, Moises Henriques, Usman Khawaja, Mitchell Marsh, Shaun Marsh, Nathan Lyon, Mitchell Starc, Matthew Wade, Adam Zampa
he LITERALLY didn't
Maxwell is fucking done
second last then
he LITERALLY isn't
Lads
This should be over in five minutes
Boult on five for watch
Zimbo commentators have forgotten their mics are on and are talking shit
Also getting the keepers wrong
Yeah lol that wasn't out gj umpires
Is there no DRS?
Oh my god these commentators are so awful
It's not out
He didn't hit it
Fuck this
Who is this biased fucking moron who thinks it is