God help me - the Cricket thread

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Re: God help me - the Cricket thread

Reply #1875 – Today at 11:08:46 am

The NSW Cricket Mafia has backed itself into a corner, it can't blame the bowlers this time because they are all in on the incumbents. The defenders of the top order would normally see it as a bowling fail not a batting fail, they would expect the batting did nothing wrong and the bowlers weren't able to knock over Bangladesh for a similar score!

Even in the post-match the usual suspects were talking about a refresh, then spent 10 minutes discussing the next generation of bowlers.

The only batsmen they threw rocks at were Weatherald and Webster, declaring both fails, they wanted Inglis in and an extra bowler!

Re: God help me - the Cricket thread

Reply #1876 – Today at 11:28:11 am

Lyon looks finished
Webster is a bit of this and a bit of that
Cummins played (and lead) like a busted crab
Marnus still won't play shots
Smith looks close to cooked mentally

Starc and Head won the ashes....this is an old, poor side with a few blokes who are capable of first tier performances

Re: God help me - the Cricket thread

Reply #1877 – Today at 11:32:18 am

Quote from: Professer E – on Today at 11:28:11 am

Starc and Head won the ashes....this is an old, poor side with a few blokes who are capable of first tier performances

They have golden moments, sometimes a few in a row, but there is little consistency from any of them.

We've been spoilt over the years, Lillee, Warne, Langer, Haydon, McGrath, you got 24x7 cricketers who always managed to compete. But a lot of their success came due to the reliability and consistency of partners in crime, we don't have it at the moment, we aren't relentless like we were.