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Reply #435 –
Quote from: Professer E – on
I reckon Warner and Finch are both very close to the end,  there's a pair of elephants in the short overs room.   Then specific T20 openers can get a gig.
Ditto Smith.....not sure I'd be burning Cummins and Hazelwood up in T20 cricket either, England dont play their test quicks other than Woakes.Tymal Mills has just got injured for England and is out of the comp replaced by Topley, imagine that had been Anderson or Broad or we had lost either Cummins or Hazlewood with the Ashes coming up.

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Reply #436 –
T20 is a bit Mickey Mouse, but I was glad to read Wade had some success.

I wish him and some of the other fringe players well because I think they have had far from a fair trot at representing Australia in other forms of the game.
"Extremists on either side will always meet in the Middle!"

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Reply #437 –
The shorter forms of the game throw up some odd results.

NZ making the finals doesn't surprise me,  but if somebody has said Aust would make the final I'd have told them to F off.  Other results have been mystifying...the Windows,  SL and India bombing out?   England crashing at the penultimate hurdle? 
DrE is no more... you ok with that harmonica man?

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Reply #438 –
Quote from: Professer E – on
The shorter forms of the game throw up some odd results.

NZ making the finals doesn't surprise me,  but if somebody has said Aust would make the final I'd have told them to F off.  Other results have been mystifying...the Windows,  SL and India bombing out?  England crashing at the penultimate hurdle?
Agree, it's that luck element that makes it interesting to many but reduces my interest in the short form. However, I still hope guys like Wade and Maxwell do well enough to show up the institutions ruining the long form of the game.

Maxwell is to me a modern version of Doug Walters. A once in a generation player who every 4 or 5 innings could score a ton in a session, or a triple ton in a day, runout opponents like Viv Richards and take catches like Pontin, but he's consigned to joke cricket!
"Extremists on either side will always meet in the Middle!"

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Reply #439 –
Warner is called  a flog because he hits a rank ball for six,  but no comment when he walks when he wasn't out.  We all know who the flog is in this case.  Funnily enough,  it isn't an Australian, although there are many who claim that we're the source of all evil.
DrE is no more... you ok with that harmonica man?

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Reply #440 –
Quote from: Professer E – on
Funnily enough,  it isn't an Australian, although there are many who claim that we're the source of all evil.
I get that, it is a natural part of being combative in sport, but we should be highlighting the hypocrisy not turning the other cheek.
"Extremists on either side will always meet in the Middle!"

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Reply #441 –
India should have done better but are self destructing with Kholi at war with Ashwin and Rohit Sharma.
Got to give credit to the Kiwis.. Test champs and in the t20 finals now too.
For a nation that small its a decent effort and Williamson is one of the best modern day captains the game has seen.
Watched  the NZ leggie Sodhi get hit by a full on drive that had the ball smacking him straight in the forehead and he should have been taken from the ground because he was concussed for sure but kept bowling and its an area the game needs to clean up.

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Reply #442 –
Makes me laugh EB the rank hypocrisy emanating from India.  Ashwin is a great bowler but he ain't got a lot of mates,  he's been involved in more than a few very unsavoury on field acts.  Nothing destroys a team faster than disunity.  As for commentators, as soon as they leave the game they think they're the best ever and they can't help themselves trying to get back involved.   Like wicketkeepers,  the best aren't noticeable.
DrE is no more... you ok with that harmonica man?

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Reply #443 –
Quote from: Professer E – on
Makes me laugh EB the rank hypocrisy emanating from India.  Ashwin is a great bowler but he ain't got a lot of mates,  he's been involved in more than a few very unsavoury on field acts.  Nothing destroys a team faster than disunity.  As for commentators, as soon as they leave the game they think they're the best ever and they can't help themselves trying to get back involved.   Like wicketkeepers,  the best aren't noticeable.
Yep, lot of commentators have an axe to grind and use their new job to pot old foes and teammates.
Indian cricketers are treated like rockstars and have an inflated opinion of their own importance. Kohli is the megastar and Ashwin the evil Prince wanting his crown.
More of a reality series now with the IPL, there are more cricket shows than Bollywood flicks getting made and the money is obscene when you have so many poor in the country.
Great for the game when the Kiwis beat them in the test final and now they have all turned on each other.
The coach Shastri has quit because he knows its now a bitch fight reality show..
 

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Reply #444 –
Quote from: ElwoodBlues1 – on
More of a reality series now with the IPL, there are more cricket shows than Bollywood flicks getting made and the money is obscene when you have so many poor in the country.
Is there is a bit of schadenfreude watching India reap what it has sowed?

They used the IPL to undermine opponents, they put in place a system that was massively biased in favour of Indian 1st class cricket and undermined opposition test squads. Yet now India is starting to suffer the same fate as the rest of the test playing nations with the quality of 1st class cricket massively degraded and divided loyalties. Money corrupts.

So I'm not sure if it is schadenfreude or satisfaction that I feel!
"Extremists on either side will always meet in the Middle!"

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Reply #445 –
Well bowled Starcy

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Reply #446 –
We won the final ... not that I care for T20 at all, but good to see

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Reply #447 –
And hilarity ensues when you think of the $$$ India pour into t20, likely more than our countries GDP...  ;)

Not real cricket but we'll take the win and trophy.

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Reply #448 –
Quote from: raven – on
And hilarity ensues when you think of the $$$ India pour into t20, likely more than our countries GDP...  ;)

Not real cricket but we'll take the win and trophy.
The BCCI make a bag of money out of T20, I don't think they care that much about T20 compared to Test, but they now have the same problem as every other country, the players want the cash!


"Extremists on either side will always meet in the Middle!"

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Reply #449 –
Quote from: capcom – on
We won the final ... not that I care for T20 at all, but good to see
Main thing was India didnt win......just hope we dont get sucked in with Mitch Marsh and put him in the test team at some stage.
Good short format player but not test material IMO.