Great to see the West Indies level their test series with England with victory at Headingley. England’s bizarre decision to declare has come back to bite them in the arse. Difficult to fathom the thinking behind that - lack of thinking is probably more accurate.
Ti Em first Windies test win in England in 17 years.There was only 7 balls left when they got there.
The Poms probably didn’t think the Windies were up for the fight,Ti Em.Nor did I.
Even their own supporters didn’t think they could bat their way out of a wet paper bag,citing any target of 175 Runs and up,was unattainable.Still,good on 'em.Any loss for the Poms is worth celebrating.
Snort,chortle,snigger!:evil:
Great to see the West Indies level their test series with England with victory at Headingley. England’s bizarre decision to declare has come back to bite them in the arse. Difficult to fathom the thinking behind that - lack of thinking is probably more accurate.
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Think more arrogance and lack of respect for the WI batsmen Ti Em than lack of thinking…really think Eng bowlers reckoned the WI batters wouldn’t be good enough to repeat first innings performance…how wrong they were…
Kwakka out, O’Keefe in.Replacement for Hazlewood.
Thought SOK was gone for his activities a while back anchor?
Got me beat why we don’t send Fawed Ahmed to the spinning Wickets of the Subcontinent.
Politics?
So did I, but just read in on the net.
Nine wide world of sport Freez.
So if he is replacing Hazelwood, does that mean we play three spinners or does Agar miss out.
Anchorman, I believe bird will come in as the quick.
I believe that they are grooming Agar for the number 6 spot, so they may play O’Keefe and Lyon and the spinners and Agar as the all rounder.
Really Maxwell’s bowling is ordinary at best, and his batting is unreliable…
Ti-em – as you well done to the WI; it was a ridiculous decision to declare the innings closed. They were 1-0 up in the series all they had to do was bat to the end and take a draw into the thrid test.
AU has now lost 5-28 off 14 overs.8-204 still 64 behind.
Diabolical batting from Glenn Maxwell - should of just blocked the first ball he faces after lunch instead tryed to smack it for a boundary and is bowled!. Probably thought he was playing in the IPL. Oh well, its up to Lyon and Cummins now.
The Bangas prevail by 20 runs.
Fair dinkum what a joke our Cricket side is atm, put their hand out for millions more money and put up that absolute garbage as a reward.
Cricket Australia should have called these pretenders bluff and put them all on performance based contracts.
Khawaja, Maxwell & Wade should never play Test Cricket ever again!
Yep, diabolical techniques against any hint of movement. Maxwell, fair dinkum, he should have handed his baggy green back at the gate after he got out to that mind numbingly dumb shot and kept walking off into the streets of Dhaka never to be seen again.
We’ll be flat track bullies again at home no doubt but what is it with cricketers we produce these days who haven’t got a friggen clue how to play a ball that moves off the line whether that be seam, swing or spin?
Was a tight match all test.The momentum swung to both sides.AU continue to struggle in the Sub Continent. Two good Test Cricket results in the last two days.And well done to the Bangas on there 1st test victory over AU.
geez if we cant handle the movement and spin from the bangla’s, the pom’s will destroy us if they can get that reverse swing happening. Not looking good and I like the idea someone put up that the players should be put on performance based contract, at the moment most of them would be broke!!
Bangladeshi champion Shakib Al Hasan is a top class all rounder gtr.
They have a decent spin attack but as Dazz posted world cricketers must lick their lips at bowling to our hopeless against spin, seam, swing batting line up!
I wonder if Lehemann will be writting anymore letters? Honestly, people, they were lucky to get within twenty runs. We should remember that in our first innings, they dropped one of our tail enders whom helped our first innings to look respectable; we should have been a lot further behind. As we have said before only four players are test standard:
Lyon
Starc not in this test?
Warner
Smith
the other opener has potential
Hazelwood tries hard.
the rest don’t even star at Shield level.
well done East Pakistan.
Can’t change the way the Aussies play BH.But Cricket Australia might get there big TV deal.An American broadcaster called CBS has just bought Channel 10.There big on live sports.The only big Free to Air contract up for grabs is next year’s Australian Cricket Summer.
Of topic I know and won’t help us in Bangladesh. But could be a big cash injection for AU Cricket.
Matthew Wade letting through 30odd buys is telling, How is he the best keeper in Australia???