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Oooooh my word almost!
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Jul 16, 2015 18:10
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Excellent batting
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Jul 16, 2015 18:11
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Day's end - 1/337. Pretty leet, yep. (yeah not overly but i had to point it out)
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Jul 16, 2015 18:13
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Rogers riding his luck on the line between nicking it and nudging it
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Jul 16, 2015 18:13
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Do you reckon Jimmy shops at Waitrose?
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Jul 16, 2015 18:46
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That was some decent batting to poo poo bowling on a poo poo pitch. England will have to collapse here for a result I feel.
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Jul 16, 2015 19:17
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goatface posted:Nah, Australia will still be in at Lunch tomorrow. I should have just said "this pair".
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Jul 16, 2015 20:14
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serious gaylord posted:England will have to collapse here for a result I feel. I have good/bad news...
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Jul 16, 2015 20:15
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Welp, that didn't go to plan....
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Jul 16, 2015 21:23
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HAHAHA, holy poo poo. I thought it would be a good Aussie score, didnt think it would be THAT good. Good on Rogers, he deserved that. For all of Smith's awkward movement and poo poo technique, no one has gotten close to figuring him out. Plus yet again he had a think about why he got out last test and didn't even think about trying that again. Long may he make English bowlers suffer
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Jul 16, 2015 22:40
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Don't judge a pitch until both sides have batted imo.
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Jul 16, 2015 23:24
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Well this was a nice surprise to wake up to!
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Jul 17, 2015 00:09
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Ratios and Tendency posted:Don't judge a pitch until both sides have batted imo. I'm sure England will conspire to make it look a minefield when they bat. England.txt has been restored from the archive.
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Jul 17, 2015 00:35
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Hey, Australia decided to be not poo poo for a day. Anyway, Smith owns: quote:"Look I was a little bit surprised that Trevor Bayliss would allow Alastair Cook to have a deep point for as long as he did today to be honest. I think it was a good pitch to bat on but they got defensive quite quickly. I know that's one thing we're certainly not going to do."
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Jul 17, 2015 00:39
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When was the last time someone carried their bat in the first innings?
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Jul 17, 2015 01:06
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Australia have a great start in this test, now lets just wait for the rain to ruin it.
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Jul 17, 2015 01:11
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I think I would rather Watson open then Warner. Think about it, he never really had an opportunity to prove himself.
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Jul 17, 2015 01:20
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Was a pleasant surprise to wake up to no further loss of wickets, but then my thoughts went to certain draw, then I swung back to R&T's assertion that you don't judge a pitch until both teams have batted, then I started thinking about the possibility of rain. So basically:gabensraum posted:Yessss test cricket is the best thing. Can't wait til thursday. Who will be selected, how will they respond, what turns are yet to come? gently caress yessss cricket!
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Jul 17, 2015 01:42
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Steve Smith in first innings the last nine times Australia has batted first: 111, 115, 100, 84, 162*, 192, 117, 199 and 129* last night. Averaging 172.71.
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Jul 17, 2015 02:00
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So he's going alright then
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Jul 17, 2015 02:13
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hiddenmovement posted:So he's going alright then Smith averages 90ish in the first innings and 30 in the second.
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Jul 17, 2015 02:27
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Guys, I think something's wrong with Ben. 
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Jul 17, 2015 02:31
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Is Smiths technique that weird. It's a bit like Simon Katich. It doesn't matter what a batsman does as long as his head is nice and still when the ball is released.
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Jul 17, 2015 02:39
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Ben Stokes furrowed brow makes him look like a troll from the Hobbit. Specifically Tom.
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Jul 17, 2015 03:05
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As an aside I feel a bit for England. They've been riding this wave of excitement of the "new England". The England of aggressive cricket. You can see it in the players faces they prefer it. Now I'm not going to attack or defend Cook. He felt the need to stack the off side and try and bore the batsman out. A strategy that very often works. However players like Stokes were getting visibly frustrated by this plan because its not in their nature.
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Jul 17, 2015 03:07
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Burn Down Canberra posted:Is Smiths technique that weird. It's a bit like Simon Katich. It doesn't matter what a batsman does as long as his head is nice and still when the ball is released. Yes it's weird but frankly look at other good to great batsmen. How many of them had a classic "correct" technique? Plus it's the whole "Look he's falling over his stumps, bowl at his pads.... poo poo it went for four?" bemusement. Opposition sides are also just not clueing on Smith is not dumb - eg Smith worked out much faster than other batsmen (like say Warner) that clubbing Ali out of the attack wasn't going to work, so he switched to grafting. Or look at the WI tour as Smith worked out how to play to the conditions very fast.
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Jul 17, 2015 03:27
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I think that last night was a ominous sign for anyone thinking Smith is a passing fad. 2 30s made him think wtf am I doing and score a century next innings. Scarily good cricketer.
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Jul 17, 2015 04:09
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Burn Down Canberra posted:As an aside I feel a bit for England. They've been riding this wave of excitement of the "new England". The England of aggressive cricket. If the ECB had anything to do with the state of the pitch (they deny they requested a flat wicket) they only have themselves to blame really. It's hard to attack when the pitch is giving you so little.
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Jul 17, 2015 04:15
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Smith's main strength is his adaptability imo. He visibly learned from his innings in Cardiff and the results are tangible at Lord's. He's intelligent.
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Jul 17, 2015 04:51
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Shmoses posted:Steve Smith in first innings the last nine times Australia has batted first: 111, 115, 100, 84, 162*, 192, 117, 199 and 129* last night. Averaging 172.71. The Smith-o-zone looks pretty loving handy.
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Jul 17, 2015 05:18
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Shmoses posted:Smith's main strength is his adaptability imo. He visibly learned from his innings in Cardiff and the results are tangible at Lord's. He's intelligent. This is really the main thing about his batting. If one goes back to how he batted against England at the WACA in 2013 he was much more still at the crease. This was because England were bowling short at him and he was comfortable wipping the ball onto the onside. The reason he does shuffle back and across like an old time batsman is because he was having trouble with the ball moving away from him. Now off stump is more like his middle stump and so he can leave a lot more and he has a lot more time to play his shots. He often changes his trigger movements from over to over. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBhI9njK9zQ Here is an innings from about a year ago. He is much more traditional at the crease. The pitch has a bit more in it and the South Africans are a good bowling side. He still has a movement across like a lot of batsman but its more orthodox. Basically the slower and easier the pitch the more he is going to be moving about because he feels that he can take his offstump completely from the game. EDIT The biggest issue he will face is getting too clever and a slowing down of his footwork. At the moment his footwork is silly good. That will become more of an issue as he ages. He won't have the reflexes to just bail out of trouble like he thinks he can do against spin bowlers all the time (Ali dismissal aside) I actually thing Rogers technique is uglier and weirder than Smith. Both players somehow managed to avoid getting too tinkered with by batting coaches over the years but how about the way Rogers plays behind square. It works but its weird. Burn Down Canberra fucked around with this message at 05:29 on Jul 17, 2015 |
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Jul 17, 2015 05:25
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Shmoses posted:Steve Smith in first innings the last nine times Australia has batted first: 111, 115, 100, 84, 162*, 192, 117, 199 and 129* last night. Averaging 172.71. hes now got 10 centuries from 30 career tests, which isnt a bad record by itself but when you consider he didnt score his first century until 12 tests in it definitely looks impressive
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Jul 17, 2015 07:48
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Just saw the score. LOL.
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Jul 17, 2015 08:05
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England will want to take more than 1 wicket today I feel.
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Jul 17, 2015 08:12
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Isn't 337 in 90 overs a poor run rate?
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Jul 17, 2015 08:16
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It's probably a little bit higher than average for modern tests. England did bowl quite defensively for much of the day.
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Jul 17, 2015 08:18
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I can see Australia batting through today quite easily.
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Jul 17, 2015 08:27
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Australia should declare at or around tea. By then they should be 500-550 runs, which is plenty of runs. Australia want plenty of time to bowl England out twice if the wicket is as flat as 1 wicket in a day suggests.
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Jul 17, 2015 08:33
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all the australian bowlers will have to do to keep the ascendency up is to bounce out the english batting line up again, same plan as cardiff really
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Jul 17, 2015 09:11
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Just keep batting until Jimmy's legs fall off imo.
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Jul 17, 2015 09:20
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