Anyone else sick of the constant chatter from the Australians in the field? The shit they spouted yesterday trying to put the Indians off was just mindless shit you'd expect from 7 year olds. It's driving me mad.
I've thought a few times recently that maybe teams shouldn't be able to "retain" a trophy, every time a series is played both teams either need to win the trophy or neither team gets it and it's kept by a third party until the next series. For example for the current series if neither team wins then the trophy is kept by England, SA or one of the other main nations.
Personally I don't like how retaining the trophy is a goal for teams and is almost like a win, in the last Ashes the aussies celebrated retaining the Ashes as if it was like a win and then they basically threw away the last test. Now in this series we have India playing for a draw in two consecutive tests. I think the emphasis should be on teams to win a series and the trophy rather than not losing.
Yep mightily impressed by the Curry Munchers. They dug in like ticks and would not be dislodged.
Our bowling unit was pretty spot on too, aside from an erratic Starc so they can't be blamed.
Paine's captaincy was frankly terrible all series and he should be gone, but won't be. The latest in a shithouse cavalcade of skippers since Waugh. Unlike the others however his play doesn't leave let much to recommend him either.
I would dump a lot of them to be honest. Wade, Green top of the list and as always fuck Warner.
Again, bloody well done to the Indians they deserved that all the way.
I drink a great deal, I sleep a little and I smoke cigar after cigar. That is why I am in two hundred percent form - Sir Winston Churchill
Well done to them, I was too quick to assume they were going for the draw but gotta give it to them for going for the win and pulling it off. Apart from that one batting collapse they've generally been the better team
India just proved that we, being Australia, really do need to start giving people a go in the test team and lose this right to be there because this player is such and such. We aim for a stable team and I get the benefit of that but give a couple of outsiders a crack and not just for one spot and see how it goes.
He should have never been captain or even in the team. CA should be ashamed of themselves for this. This is a another reason why the women's game is so much better. There's no shit, no drama, none of this acting like fucking pigs. It's cricket how it should be.
Dr. Pain wrote: ↑Tue Nov 23, 2021 11:19 am
He should have never been captain or even in the team. CA should be ashamed of themselves for this. This is a another reason why the women's game is so much better. There's no shit, no drama, none of this acting like fucking pigs. It's cricket how it should be.
They need to dump Payne now.
I agree about Payne.
But, if the people I know in the cricketing circles are right, there is some drama behind the scenes with the women's cricket too. Possibly not as shitty, but drama none the less.