BTW...as an ex-fast bowler & someone has loved the art of quick bowling for decades.......I have no idea how Bumrah bowls 147 ks. It just shouldn't be possible with that runup & action.
It's the new rules Malo, in slow motion he looks like a half throw, but now that is allowed in the rules.
Agree. Too often last year Jones was caught in two minds and looked bad. I think it was as much a result of our disorganisation at the back as anything else. If he is given a defined role and the rest of the team perform theirs he'll look a lot better imo.
The caught in-between situation was caused by the lack of defensive run from our mids and forwards. Players like Cripps, Ed, SoJ and Kennedy can't keep up with opposition players who stream forward.
Some other Carlton players just refuse to chase with the same intensity that they show when they run forward.
Our batsmen are certainly our Achilles' Heel at the moment. Very ordinary.
I think it's both batting and bowling, our players and coaches are making excuses for poor to average bowling on a deadly pitch. India get hold of a pill and it again magically looks unplayable.
Bad batting certainly yes, good bowling no way in hell!
Nothing to do with Hick. These blokes have been born and bred on garbage cricket. Change the academy or centre of excellence and change the style of cricketer that emerges from it
Yep, this is the long term price the national team will pay because the ACB's emphasis on T20 and ODI. If the ACB keep bending over for the BCCI and it will continue indefinitely.
Keep in mind, most of the Indian's are trained and coached by premium former test playing Australians at the MRF Academies, while the ACB hires a bunch of B-Graders.
Interesting to see Gov training with the midfield group, and Setterfield having a run with the forwards. Fasolo has also spent time training with the midfield.
Jones is exclusively training defence so there is no doubt he'll be down back.
OK, I realise I'm not worldly by music standards, but really?
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Radiohead, The Cure, Roxy Music and The Zombies also join.
Janet Jackson, is Kylie in there? (Yes, I'm being sarcastic!)
Why do we have to adapt to 20/20? The Australian cricket team is not judged on its results in 20/20. What the players do in the Big Bash or IPL is of little consequence. Maybe the golden era was a result of preparing the players, for the first time in Australian Cricket history, in the right way? Then we stopped it....
Very good points JH, T20 is not about cricket at all it just a form of theater.
If you focus on T20 you're closer to being a Roman Gladiator than a General in the army, you'll live and die by the sword to cheers from the crowd!
Being "The Big Thing" in T20 is always going to be about the "Next Big Thing", when you done with T20, and you are not the "Next Big Thing", you are dust!
Have you ever heard the farmers fable of The New Cow?
BCCI has controlled international cricket for well over a decade.
They don't need to 'muscle in' - they've got the game exactly where they want it.....
CA isn't exactly short of a quid either - albeit they had too many fat cats on their books - Sutherland and Howard was at the the head of the list for way too many a year.....
... we have to adapt to 20/20... i’d hope we are adjusting to the new reality. Evidence suggests we aren’t.
Is it reality Bear, or is it artificial?
The BCCI pay their test cricketers well, the Indians don't have to commit to play T20 to make good money, so the Indian players get to use T20 like a bonus system. They get "overs" for a game here or there and usually when they are back home during a touring break.
For every other international cricketer the IPL interferes with test preparations, players have to FIFO often in very shorts gaps in between other international commitments. Is it an accident or is it a deliberate action by the BCCI to weaken the opposition and control cricket?
Right now you will find a barrage of published reports claiming India v Australia is crickets greatest rivalry. This is the BCCI muscling in on the ICC and Lords by undermining it's authority over the remote outposts. They are spinning that India v Australia is bigger than an Ashes!
The BCCI knows that the ACB needs money, and they have plenty of it so they don't need to be too secretive or political! The BCCI can just bludgeon it's way across the cricket landscape. Maybe the interesting thing is the Saffies, they have lingering politics that seems to make them want to resist, it's not all about money but equality. Their countries history also provides them with the tools and knowledge to deal with this situation.
On the Saffies, the word I have is that they are heavily supporting Perth's bid to get hold of the Boxing Day test. They see Perth hosting an Australia v Saffies Boxing Day test in two or three years is the first step to exclusively hosting a Boxing Day test in South Africa.
People don't realise how much money an event like the Boxing Day test is worth. I've heard an estimate that for Victoria a Boxing Day against a team like India or England will bring 10000 people to town for about a week spending "on average" $10K in that week, that's $100M. The "on average" part is important because of the wide range of budgets that people will spend in that period. For some tests the MCC have reported that as high as 1 in 7 has been a interstate or international visitor, that's almost 15000 people. Even if they don't go to the match everyday, they are in town for it's duration.
Even higher numbers come into play for the week of F1, and Cup week, no wonder NSW want to stage competitive races.
You'll be alarmed at noticing similarities between this "investigative report", if you can call it that, and John Le Carre's novel Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy.
I looked for the line that read, April Fools, but couldn't find it!
In my opinion The Rage should add a new disclaimer for articles like this, "Fantasy by Plagiarism"
It's interesting Thry, I reckon the Western District bid was the outlier, but it's the one bid that brings new money. The other bids seem to be about moving money around that is really money already in the system, no or less new money.
You also want to be suspicious of government involvement, it's no different to other clubs kiboshing Princes Park developments before launching their own. This link to Kardinia Park should be a bit of a tell, they've got an expensive AFL boutique venue paid for by the State that is empty 85% of the available time! Yet apparently Kardinia and the Dawks Dingling Folly(Located above the new train loop! ) are better value than Carlton developing it's AFL, AFLW and VWFL and VFL headquarters.
Where will this new boutique stadium go, is it a coincidence some massive Asian investors are buying up land in the Western District? If some of those areas get re-zoned to build a stadium, I wouldn't want to be living out that way and driving to work 20 years from now. I'm pegging a location falls above the proposed rail loop!
The punters in the SE must be spitting chips, it's growing 200% faster than the West, but the West isn't where Lindsay Fox built his airport, or where Andrews favors the new port. The opposition argument is that the locations are not justified due to a lack of demand, so make some seem to be the answer, an artificial island port for an artificial demand!
I don't know enough about the Sydney FFA bids to comment, but I bet there are links with other NRL venues as unused or owned!
Finch has been playing in the middle order for Victoria. That is where he should be at this point in his career. Khawaja looked to be totally out of form in the last test: no big surprise considering the lack of cricket he has had lately. But he has done his best work opening. Harris probably deserves another try, but I'd like to see some more shots. I wouldn't have picked Marsh, but that is another tale. He hit his best 4th innings score in the last game, so he saved himself for a little while longer. Handscomb also needs to play a few more shots. He gets out when he is bogged down.
Look at the coaching names Crashlander, Langer and Hick, while on average they have reasonable figures, reliable grinders would be a good description of their typical game style.
It's still beyond me how guys get to test or 1st class level and have so many quirky traits and defects in their batting. You can't slag off their ability, but the coaches have a lot to answer for in my opinion, they are greatly over-rated.
) are better value than Carlton developing it's AFL, AFLW and VWFL and VFL headquarters.