Carlton Supporters Club

Fair point , I don't want any political messages, banners, speeches, knees etc at cricket games and I don't want that stuff in my country outside Parliament house or clogging my main streets or have to read or see it on players boots, bats, hats whatever.
Cricket has always transcended politics, skin colour, religious differences etc and that's how it needs to remain.

Remind me why south africa was banned for so long?

Remind me why south africa was banned for so long?

How did that workout how's South African cricket going? It's new sponsors/owners are the same who own the IPL...politics destroyed the game over there. The local  white business owners won't invest in the game ....see Graeme Smiths views on the game.

Cricket has always transcended politics, skin colour, religious differences etc and that's how it needs to remain.

This game could be over by tea.

All playing these has-beens has done is teach Pakistan that if they maintain the effort we'll collapse like a house of cards, now we see the true cost of those cheap runs that Starc gives up!

Not a bad effort from Pat Cummins; a tenfa!

I sometimes think that his captaincy is lacklustre and/or unimaginative but that was a captain’s bowling performance.

The much-maligned Mitchell Starc did OK too.  I don’t really understand the criticism he cops.  Wasn’t he the Australian player of the recent Ashes series?

It was interesting to read that he was unhappy with his action in the Perth Test and had a net session after play to sort it out. 

If the Pakistanis held a couple of catches, it could have been a very different game …