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  1. Smudge49

    Australian Domestic Season 2020/21

    Thank you for looking out for me mate, promise to not repeat this.
  2. Smudge49

    Australian Domestic Season 2020/21

    International travel wasn't even a thing for a long period of time after March last year and still isn't the easiest thing with many nations across the world. Yeah, I also fail to see the sense in cricketers being told they are travelling to a state where they are going to have to follow the...
  3. Smudge49

    Australia's Mental State

    The hard fact is even a half fit Starc when on song, is a better bowler than either Neser or Abbott. Neser would have been just an insurance or cushion to come and bowl meaningful overs when the team needed it. India throughout the series benefited from that cushion of having an extra bowler...
  4. Smudge49

    Australian Domestic Season 2020/21

    Apparently your every argument basically puts up a case that, everything was going great till March of 2020 in Australian cricket and then all of a sudden Covid came and blew a hole in the whole financial structure. Around 2017 there was a player uproar regarding fair pay and with Sutherland at...
  5. Smudge49

    *Official* Australia in New Zealand T20s 2021

    Barring Warner, the last time an Australian had a good IPL was Watson for Chennai and he had long retired from international cricket by then. So if IPL form is the only criteria, barely anyone apart from Warner makes the team.
  6. Smudge49

    Which Aust player likes to go on field with a toasted sanga in his pocket?

    Jokes aside, it is pretty creepy that the coach is keeping tabs on what's there in the pockets of fully grown men. Maybe it's a thing post sandpaper shenanigans but it's one more reason to Sack Langer!
  7. Smudge49

    Australian Domestic Season 2020/21

    The screenshot below is from Cricket Australia's own website, and this response from Hazelwood in the middle of 2020 to CA declaring their "cash crunch" is pretty telling if you haven't already shut yourself off completely to a counter argument. Two months into the pandemic Cricket Australia...
  8. Smudge49

    Which Aust player likes to go on field with a toasted sanga in his pocket?

    This has Lyon or Starc written all over it, no wonder poor lads were bowling as if they were famished.
  9. Smudge49

    Australian Domestic Season 2020/21

    Look mate, BBL in it's current form is like a baker making a cake from borrowed ingredients, what's worse he is making a ****ty cake out those ingredients and putting it on window display and then at nightfall he is eating all of that cake on his own and leaving the crumbs for people from whom...
  10. Smudge49

    *Official* Big Bash League 10 2020-21

    I think it's fair to say Strikers at least made a game of this, despite having Carey and Head in their top 3. Makes me shudder to even think, that those are the two bright future leaders of Australian cricket.
  11. Smudge49

    Australia's Mental State

    That's the point mate, Australian think tank can pick a batsman who can bowl over a pure batsman even if it further compromises a brittle top 6 but they can't take a risk with an extra bowler in a must win game. My opinion of Paine aside, he was Australia's 3rd best batsman through the series...
  12. Smudge49

    *Official* Big Bash League 10 2020-21

    Starc playing for 6sers?
  13. Smudge49

    *Official* Big Bash League 10 2020-21

    I would start rating Lehmann the best coach in Australia, if he somehow manages to win the BBL with this squad.
  14. Smudge49

    Australian test selection 2020/21

    I don't think Ponting will kiss any behinds and tolerate mediocrity in the team, which Langer is apparently really good at doing.
  15. Smudge49

    *Official* Big Bash League 10 2020-21

    "Who would you have rather selected.' -JL Langer
  16. Smudge49

    Australian test selection 2020/21

    TBF, all his coaching glory has come with IPL teams which I don't think is a great yardstick to judge an international coach by. From what I know there is a platoon of coaching, scouting staff and $$$'s that goes into making a successful IPL team. If he has passion for coaching Australia, he...
  17. Smudge49

    Australia's Mental State

    On one hand your argument is four bowlers are good enough to get the job done and there is no reason to weaken an already weak batting line-up by including Neser. Now none of those all-rounders barring Green (on his shield form) even deserve to be considered among top 6 bats in the nation at...
  18. Smudge49

    Australia's Mental State

    It need not have been Green, it could have been Harris or Wade also. At the end it was about making that call realistically seeing the way series went. An average return from either of those three batters was 30-40 runs with a century being the best outcome, which would made India's target 388...
  19. Smudge49

    Australia's Mental State

    India needed just a draw to retain the BGT at the Gabba. They could have hunkered down and played Sundar for Ashwin and gone in with six batsmen with Pant batting at 7. However they took the aggressive approach and eventually it paid off, they sent Pant at 5 both at Sydney and Brisbane on the...
  20. Smudge49

    Australian Domestic Season 2020/21

    I don't know how much you are aware of this, but even pre covid Cricket Australia's finances were in a ditch, they just said this publicly only after covid put a wrench in administering future games. For a cricket board that is the part of the big three club, it is a stinker that not only the...

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