Guy Bifkin Posted July 31, 2013 Share Posted July 31, 2013 Sounds like KP will be fit. Where does that leave us? Also, I think the sun and heat will be back for the start of the test. Hurrah!  With the same team as Lords I reckon.  I'll be "working at home" tomorrow, Friday and Monday if necessary so I should be able to watch the lot of it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Devon Malcolm Posted July 31, 2013 Author Paid Members Share Posted July 31, 2013 Yeah, they're not changing that team. Fuck knows who Australia are picking, though. Lyon in for Agar and possibly Warner for Hughes seems the safest bet but I wouldn't be surprised if Merv Hughes pulled on the Baggy Green tomorrow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guy Bifkin Posted July 31, 2013 Share Posted July 31, 2013 Of course the Aussie batting line-up will be further weakened by the injury to Pattinson He should be replaced by someone called Jackson Bird because they are paranoid about Mitchell Starc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loki Posted July 31, 2013 Share Posted July 31, 2013 You could make a better team out of the crowd at these Tests than the Aussies can currently field, for sure. There's always chaps like Glenn McGrath and Adam GIlchrist knocking around doing commentary. Quick stretch of the old knees, couple of windmills, get out there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Lion_of_the_Midlands Posted July 31, 2013 Paid Members Share Posted July 31, 2013 No change for England you would guess provided KP is fit. Root's wickets in the last test probably did Monty's chances no good even if it is going to turn as much as they think. Â The convicts though could pick anyone. They were talking about a recall for Simon Katich earlier on the radio. That would be real desperation if they go for that. Lehman might as well pick himself if it is getting that bad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Devon Malcolm Posted July 31, 2013 Author Paid Members Share Posted July 31, 2013 (edited) Katich should still be in the team. Australia are in a right knot. They dropped him a couple of years ago so they could pick younger players like Warner and Hughes and Cowan and Watson. Katich went mad in a press conference about it, saying they would regret it. And they are. Â So what do they do for this tour? They call up Rogers - a mid-thirties crabby left-hander with a solid technique who has played a lot in England. Sound familiar? Completely stupid. Even Ted Dexter wouldn't have managed something that dumb even during our darkest days. Edited July 31, 2013 by Devon Malcolm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikey Posted August 1, 2013 Share Posted August 1, 2013 The problem is they seem to be stuck in this halfway house of picking older players because they don't have faith in young players and then also picking young players because they feel they ought to. They should just shit or get off the pot here. Either go with the youngsters or pick your best team irrespective of age, as doing a bit of both isn't really working. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LariatTom Posted August 1, 2013 Share Posted August 1, 2013 If they pick the younger players, they need to stick with them and not drop players after one game. Keep faith in the players, even if they're not winning matches at the moment and once they start to grow then fortunes will change. Â I guess this is what happens when you've got a group of fantastic players who all retire from international cricket within a year or two of each other...you get a massive influx of new players and if you don't have confidence in them to deliver from the start, you find yourself picking anyone and everyone who can hold a bat the right way around. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators PowerButchi Posted August 1, 2013 Moderators Share Posted August 1, 2013 The problem is they seem to be stuck in this halfway house of picking older players because they don't have faith in young players and then also picking young players because they feel they ought to. Â My god, it's almost like them choosing between Matthew Maynard and Adam Hollioake. Â Let them make those choices, it's about fucking time they had to. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loki Posted August 1, 2013 Share Posted August 1, 2013 Australia win the toss. They're going to bat first, and make three changes - as expected, it's Warner, Starc and Lyon for Hughes, Pattinson and Agar. England are unchanged. Â No Merv Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators PowerButchi Posted August 1, 2013 Moderators Share Posted August 1, 2013 Warner will have a massive innings as he's so fucking Australian. He's like a throw back to the Border days. He's average but he'll play well against Wales and England. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members JNLister Posted August 1, 2013 Paid Members Share Posted August 1, 2013 Odd to see Channel 5 commentary and presentation making it look like there was no controversy at all about the Khawaja dismissal and review. They even tried to claim the reason he was shouting/swearing as he left was because he was frustrated at making a mistake in playing the shot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loki Posted August 2, 2013 Share Posted August 2, 2013 That was weird. In fact, it felt from watching back the highlights that it was just one of a number of contentious calls - England lost out on 2 or 3 wickets as well. Â Whereas the rest of the press seem to regard the Khawaja incident as the nail in the coffin of DRS. Â Â I'm starting to think we should just get rid of all the technology and go back to umpire's decision. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baz Windham Posted August 2, 2013 Share Posted August 2, 2013 There's very little wrong with the technology, the use of it by Australia in particular and the Umpires has been the problem. Having seen the absolutely shocking umpiring in this series doing away with technology couldn't be further from my mind. Commentators saying things like "well they shouldn't have use their reviews" seems to be somewhat covering the terrible umpiring we are seeing. Â Does anyone know if Snicko is going to be included? because I think that's the best of all the technology. The reason it wasn't was because it took too long but all of sudden it seems to be available pretty much straight away. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loki Posted August 2, 2013 Share Posted August 2, 2013 Snicko's the only bit I trust, Baz. The hotspot seems to be really unreliable. Â The decision yesterday that amazed me was England's LBW appeal where Hawkeye clearly showed it was going on to hit the stump, and yet the decision was left as Out. Just as baffling as Khawaja. Â Presumably there are rules that the off-field umpires are applying, but whatever those rules are they seem to be having quite the opposite effect. Â The tech is only worth using if it eliminates all doubt. Hot spot seems to add doubt and Hawkeye isn't being rigorously followed. Snicko IMO can clearly show a sound as the ball passes the bat, and is the most reliable of the lot for that sort of appeal. From what they were saying, Snicko should be in use by the 2nd Ashes series. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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