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Summer of Cricket thread

beau webster looking really uncomfortable against spin early on

would love a good 30 minimum from him
 
Richie said:
Green is looking more composed with the bat today after being unlucky with the ball. Is the fact he has struggled this series because he is battling his mind. Hearing that he will earn some $3m in IPL wont help that mind set either. I always maintain that half of being good at sport is played in the head. Green has to overcome any mental demons if he is to be the special cricketer some of us believe he will be.
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My eleven of Green at 5, with Murphy/ Rocky instead of Usman is looking good.

Smith and Bethall extracting turn.

Are you at the Test live, Baggers?
 
Smith and the Slug from Snug are looking good!

How many runs is this partnership? Just saw 54 off 74 balls.

Green batted well till he got himself out. IMO at only age 26 worth persisting with.

Smith imperious!
 
Richie said:
I asked you this the other day.
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Yes he does sometimes. Sorry didn’t see your post, Baggers.

He mainly bowls pace because of Bellerive wicket being lively at times. Webster extracted a lot of turn in Sri Lanka.
 
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Stumps 7/519.

Lead by 134.

Smith 100 plus - not sure how many he is on?

Webster 42 NO.

Big partnership. Is it 70 odd?
 
could really be cat among the pigeons if we survive the first hour tomorrow. England quicks look spent and probably have one burst left in them

700 not completely out of the question
 
Decentric said:
Good wrap!

Glad you attended live.

Huge crowd!

I think Weathers, playing for Tas, my home state, has been found out at Test level. He crouches low, with his head too far over off to pitched up balls. I don’t think he deserves a continued spot.

The Poms think our collective batting has been suspect for a while. Only a brilliant bowling attack has papered over the batting cracks. We have 3 of the 4 bowling greats injured ATM.

Neser has taken wickets, but maybe late order?
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This test is a big opportunity for Webster and Green to cement their spots.

Green has already done enough, but one on 2 second innings wickets will help. I was happy with his bowling and batting.

Webster is pretty solid with the bat. IMO is bowling is handy enough on flat wickets. But on a wicket with seam, uneven bounce or spin ne might take a wicket or 2.

70 runs with the bat and 3-40 with the ball might press his case. The pitch is starting to offer assistance. I don't consider the pom spinners to be genuine frontline spinners, but they were getting turn and were hard to play at times. If Webster is any kind of spinner he is a chance.

IMO Green + Webster = 1.3 batmen and 1.3 - 1.5 bowlers depending on how well Webster can bowl spin.

Potts and Webster have the same issue not much bowling recently.

I still don't understand why Ingliss was selected ahead of Webster.
 
grazorblade said:
That shot won't win green a lot of fans, seems very annoyed with himself

getting out just as the sting is going out of the bowling
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Actually I was impressed with Green with bat and ball.

IMO the ball surprised him, but if he fully comitted to the shot even a miss-hit might have cleared the fielder.

The idea was good, he misread the ball, or the ball did something unusual.

Green is performing better than his stats in this test.

Carey was the guy that got out to due to a bad decision,
 
just noticed greens career average is 32 with the bat and 36 with the ball which is already excellent and I would expect that to change quite a bit over the next few years. Just had a horrid series
 
zimbos05 said:
I think Webster has proven himself quite well this test. He would be dissappointed he didn't get more overs.
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I have watched Webster play a lot of Shield cricket. The consummate all rounder - great slip fielder, batter, medium- fast pace bowler and finger spinner.

Always in the game. Tasmania hasn’t had a strong team, so often the Slug from Snug has had to play innings under great pressure to dig Tas out of a hole.

Conversely, Green has batted in a stronger West Aus line up. Hence, he has not had to hold the team innings together after collapses that much.

Green having to bowl 15 overs of quick stuff has been a huge increase in his workload. Was there a team game plan requesting him to bowl short?
 
Hounddog said:
This test is a big opportunity for Webster and Green to cement their spots.

Green has already done enough, but one on 2 second innings wickets will help. I was happy with his bowling and batting.

Webster is pretty solid with the bat. IMO is bowling is handy enough on flat wickets. But on a wicket with seam, uneven bounce or spin ne might take a wicket or 2.

70 runs with the bat and 3-40 with the ball might press his case. The pitch is starting to offer assistance. I don't consider the pom spinners to be genuine frontline spinners, but they were getting turn and were hard to play at times. If Webster is any kind of spinner he is a chance.

IMO Green + Webster = 1.3 batmen and 1.3 - 1.5 bowlers depending on how well Webster can bowl spin.

Potts and Webster have the same issue not much bowling recently.

I still don't understand why Ingliss was selected ahead of Webster.
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I can't believe Inglis was selected above Webster either?

This has been a strange selection panel.

It interesting hearing the English media citing the failures of a few specific Aus batters over a few years, which should have been exploited this Ashes series.

Mind you before the last innings, Crawley, Brook and Root have only averaged 30 - 33 this series. I feel like they have made Aus chase a lot of leather.

When I looked up Athers and Nassar Hussain's career averages they are only 37-38.
 
Hounddog said:
Actually I was impressed with Green with bat and ball.

IMO the ball surprised him, but if he fully comitted to the shot even a miss-hit might have cleared the fielder.

The idea was good, he misread the ball, or the ball did something unusual.

Green is performing better than his stats in this test.

Carey was the guy that got out to due to a bad decision,
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I think Green had a good innings, increasing from 77% controlled shots to 88%.

He got himself out. Loss of concentration.
 
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