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The Sports Desk / Re: God help me - the Cricket thread
Last post by LP -Slug will stay, though, as the quicks are getting old and Green is not bowling, so they need the back up. It will be Green in for Madinson, and Renshaw moved to the top.... nothing surer. I'd give Sammy Harper a go at openning - in good form, and wont back down - but they wont
I think Webster's biggest problem is that Cummins has NFI how to use all-rounders, so he basically runs the regulars including himself into the ground without any forward planning for tomorrow or the next match. By the time he started bowling Webster Boland, Starc and Cummins were all cooked.
Then there is the issue of the NSWelshmen defending their turf, which is anything connected to the baggy green. The old joke about getting a baggy green in a brown paper bag every time you get a NSW cap isn't really a joke is it, and as @dodge points out now blokes won't let go when they are cooked. I don't blame them for not wanting to relinquish a spot for Boland, because he will replace them and probably should have years ago!
( PS; Warner is already out in force on social media offering up a bunch of NSW names as replacements. )
As for "pace", the Saffies have made a joke of needing it on this pitch, it shows you how predictable and pedestrian our blokes look when the pitch or conditions aren't assisting, excluding Boland who has the hunger the rest basically go through the motions! They don't want to be there, they can earn 10x playing for 1/20th the time in India!
