3rd Test at the SCG, Sydney, 7 Jan - 11 Jan 2021

[Fuller Pilch]

Would Australia promote Starc for quick runs? Neither Paine nor Cummins are very quick scorers.

 

[honestbharani]

Could be a change made to adapt to the conditions. He does do that a lot

Kimber had a piece the other day pointing out that people are bowling shorter and straighter to him and he's having a lot more difficulty scoring off those balls. It's an interesting thesis tbh, not sure if I buy it though - seems very much a consequence facing so much Wagner more than anything else.

Nah, he has done it all series, even when he was making big runs in the LO games, and when he was not scoring many runs. Guess there are enough moving parts to the way he bats that it could swing back around to normal, but I feel these seem more age related. A bit like Lara in his latter days, will score big when he gets in but may just present more opportunities to be dismissed before he gets in than he used to, at his best.

 

[Coronis]

Aggressive straight outta lunch.

 

[Flem274*]

wish fox would always show the lead, but this is the session to give both guys a license

 

[TimAngas]

Smithjara

 

[Prince EWS]

It'd be great for Green's confidence moving forward if he successfully played with some freedom here.

 

[Starfighter]

Mucky stuff from Mohammad Silage these past few balls, particularly with fine leg being rather square.

 

[Spark]

commentators laughing at that lbw from lord's do know that he was literally concussed and shouldn't have been out there, right

 

[Gob]

Smith 57 (153) but no discussion about his strike rate for some reason

Hi

 

[Spark]

Looks close tbh

 

[Coronis]

Damn

 

[Spark]

Yeah, looked out tbh. Well bowled

 

[Starfighter]

So about the morning's go slow...

 

[OverratedSanity]

Hi

Was still worse batting than Pujara before this acceleration(which everyone kne was coming) when you consider Smith is in a declaration situation and Pujara wasn't.

Defensive batsmen always get stupid criticism for their slow innings even in innings where everyone else fails. It's really ****ing dumb.

 

[Pratters]

What a wicket

 

[Spark]

So about the morning's go slow...

What about it? They already have enough.

 

[Starfighter]

Send Starc out.

 

[stephen]

If that was a caught behind decision it would have been given out because there was a tiny spike on snicko.

Honestly in real time I thought he'd been bowled between bat and pad though.

 

[OverratedSanity]

Could be fun if they collapse but I think they probably have enough already. There's some inconsistent bounce that'll make things very difficult in the 4th innings.

 

[Starfighter]

If that was a caught behind decision it would have been given out because there was a tiny spike on snicko.

Wouldn't be surprised.

Now we get to watch these two crawl along.