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Summer of Cricket thread

I expected no momentum shifts and there were 2 momentum shifts, both sides patchy,

Batting looks impossible at times and easy at other times.

My prediction is Australia will win, it will take 2-3 Batsmen to bat well.

I would promote Lyon to opener and promote Carey if Weatherald gets out early. Lyon tries to hang around, Weatherall and Carey try to score.

Smithy and Head can win it for us, if they get the right conditions.

However once Starc and Boland got tired our attack really ran out of steam, the Poms will last longer.

Hopefully we last the last session and it is a hot day tomorrow.
 
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Don't think a lot will bother going to ground tomorrow. Get it down now and give the English a day at the beach. Talk about compacting the amount of play time though. Monday Tuesday and absolute write off.
 
If England wants a moral victory they could say "2 teams out there but only one of them is playing cricket"
technically that would be true :D
 
Australia win by eight wickets in Perth, chasing down England's 172 and 164 easily posting totals of 132 and 2/205. Travis Head having a field day as impromptu opener in the second innings and possibly a shout for player of the match.
 
In the end it was easier than I expected.

But you don't expect to see an innings like the one Head played, especially in the circumstances.

Promoting Head to opener really took a lot of pressure off Weatherald.

I would go with Weatherald and Konstas to open next test.

Save izzy for the Sydney Test which can be his last game.

Boland came good, with Cummins back our side should be in good shape.
 
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I would go with Weatherald and Konstas to open next test.
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I think see how Konstas runs in New South Wales' Shield game against Tassie first before deciding whether he comes back as opener for the second Test, but definitely Weatherald is better batting at number two as opposed to being the opener.
 
Head opens in every other format so why not keep him there with his mate from way back at SA Jake the Snake.

Maybe also Konstas could return to the middle order and let him learn his craft from there before moving back up the order much like the Ponting mold.
 
The fact that head can open and we have other decent openers and then a string of middle orders it makes no sense to persist with Khawaja.
 
I have to say...I'm a little baffled at England's tactics

In perth with a bouncey wicket (yes I know its not the wacca but with drop in pitches it played like a traditional wacca pitch) you never want to play with a diagonal bat. So you really want to be careful playing anything wide unless it is super full. On the other hand, the bounce is pretty true as is the pace. A lot of bowlers get excited by the bounce and pitch back of a length because you get a lot of play and misses and batters ducking and weaving but its fools gold. The windies showed that you actually want to bowl on the fuller side at perth.

In the first innings, England were shorter than us and I thought we were quite poor to let them get away with it. In the second innings England flashed at anything wide and got punished and we flashed at anything short and got rewarded, yet they persisted with the back of a length tactics!

Do England have no one with local knowledge of Australian pitches? Not that I mind...

England said that the game rewarded people who are positive...which is super unnuanced. Adelaide will be interesting. There are times in a pink ball test (the middle session of the day if I recall correctly) where batting is way easier and you want to be positive, and no one is better at positive cricket than the bazballers, but there are also sessions where it is better to be more cautious and they don't have those gears in them

The first innings collapse from us showed we can reward poor bowling tactics, there is a real frailty to us (although their speed and more importantly wrist speed will make things tricky even when the tactics are wrong), so not confident of a whitewash yet
 
Here we go, from last 3 matches
  • 1st session: 22.48
  • Middle session: 33.55
  • 3rd session: 25.77
with day 1 the easiest time to bat and getting harder after that. So good toss to win
 
I thought Australia had been ad hoc with what their batters were doing but England also just seemed to do whatever. Woeful display.
 
I've seen a lot of cricket, since the 74/75 Ashes, but without doubt I dont recall seeing a more atrocious display of Test bowling than from England yesterday. Stokes got the plot so horribly wrong and the ECB will haul him over the coals and the Pommie public will crucify him..
 
Has anyone credited Steve Smith for his astute reading of the game by having Head open and to just play his natural game.
 
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