God help me - the Cricket thread

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Re: God help me - the Test Cricket thread

Reply #1830 – January 15, 2026, 09:48:20 am

Quote from: DJC – on January 14, 2026, 05:20:36 pm

I'd just like to acknowledge Australian Test captain Alyssa Healy's wonderful career now that she has announced her retirement. She has had an outstanding career in all forms of the game.

I really enjoyed listening to her insights in the commentary box. She is extremely knowledgeable, speaks clearly and explains things very well, and has a good sense of humour without being blokey. I think part of her post-playing career is sewn up!

Congratulations!

Agreed, a stellar career, and perhaps not dissimilar to Gilchrist in changing the way Keeper's are perceived.

The girls are really showing that in some sports the difference in performance between men and women can quite small. I accept we are unlikely to see a 200cm 150kph bowler in the women's competition, but there are already plenty pushing towards the 130kph mark and that's plenty by the standards of the vast majority of cricketers male or female.

Re: God help me - the Test Cricket thread

Reply #1831 – January 15, 2026, 05:31:00 pm

Yep well done to Alyssa Healy, agree she is good value in the commentary box and gives straight forward views on the game which I like. Interesting her other half Mitchell Starc has attributed his good form and exceptional fitness this summer to giving up the booze during the series. England it seems took the opposite approach of increasing their alcohol intake and there have been reports of players fronting up to the Perth Test overweight.
Maybe Bazball should be renamed Boozeball, I cant see how McCullum survives given the English off field culture is Rat crape and the Management wont call out the bad behaviour and lack of professionalism from the playing group.

Re: God help me - the Test Cricket thread

Reply #1832 – February 13, 2026, 08:24:20 pm

I know this thread is for test cricket (mostly), but today's T20 performances against Zimbabwe was unbelievably poor. Losing to these guys is unacceptable on any deck.
Mind you, we seem to playing all of our games on low turners.
What does it say about our ability o play spin? You don't need to be a genius to guess what I think.

Re: God help me - the Cricket thread

Reply #1833 – February 13, 2026, 09:40:10 pm

It’s the cricket thread now Crash 🙂

I think that T20 encourages the adoption of set approaches to batting that may not cope with a deviation from the usual bowling attack. I suspect that under age T20 competitions are more formulaic and teams are more susceptible to something different.

Re: God help me - the Test Cricket thread

Reply #1834 – Today at 06:44:40 am

Quote from: crashlander – on February 13, 2026, 08:24:20 pm

I know this thread is for test cricket (mostly), but today's T20 performances against Zimbabwe was unbelievably poor. Losing to these guys is unacceptable on any deck.
Mind you, we seem to playing all of our games on low turners.
What does it say about our ability o play spin? You don't need to be a genius to guess what I think.

I was thinking about the outrage such a pitch would cause here, the top tier have become prima donnas. They rated the MCG pitch poor and that pitch good!

Re: God help me - the Cricket thread

Reply #1835 – Today at 07:42:19 am

Young spinners are marginalised at club level and don't develop. Cue the Vic spinner missing the last test in Sydney. Every weekend I see club sides crumble against spin but it's so hard for such kids to continue without support.
Our T20 side is made up of average players and over the hill types...for example, Stoinis hasn't delivered when it matters for a long, long time. Our T20 stalwarts are big players in a small pond and get shown up on the bigger stage.