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The Humble Pie thread

GIMH

GIMH

Norwood's on Fire
I’m an honest man, and I admit when I was wrong. It’s so rare that I could probably get away with not doing so, but Lannisters always pay their debts.

I gave Mitch Starc some **** over the last six months as the idea of him playing here amused me. Some of that stands up to a degree, he’s still got plenty of tap at plenty of times. But right here right now I feel more worried when the ball in his hand than Cummins.

He’s come through for his team, and they needed him to. Fair play.

Feel free to add your own (especially if you said Ben Stokes was the new Mike Brearley)
 
T

Tom Flint

International Regular
Crawley is doing a sound job and I think he will turn a good start into a ton and end up for the series averaging 45+.
I had little hope of that a month ago
 
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Ashes81

State Vice-Captain
Probably Mitchell Marsh for me.

He's one of those players the Aussies have banged on about for years but I've never really seen it.

His test record is still pretty moderate - 27 with the bat, 37 with the ball.

However, he was seriously impressive in this test. His century was top class - I didn't think he had that type of ability in the locker to be honest.
 
Athlai

Athlai

Not Terrible
I liked Wood and Starc to begin with. I think Robinson ****ing sucks and so does Arshdeep.
 
Burgey

Burgey

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On topic, I thought Boland might actually bowl overarm this series. Fmd he’s been terrible. Released pressure every spell bar one with at least one four ball per over. Hasn’t looked like it at all, and it’s put a lot of work back on the other two front liners in the games he’s played. Marsh bowled comfortably better than him in the third test.
 
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Spark

Spark

Global Moderator
GIMH said:
I’m an honest man, and I admit when I was wrong. It’s so rare that I could probably get away with not doing so, but Lannisters always pay their debts.

I gave Mitch Starc some **** over the last six months as the idea of him playing here amused me. Some of that stands up to a degree, he’s still got plenty of tap at plenty of times. But right here right now I feel more worried when the ball in his hand than Cummins.

He’s come through for his team, and they needed him to. Fair play.

Feel free to add your own (especially if you said Ben Stokes was the new Mike Brearley)
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Yeah Starc has proved most of us wrong here. He looked properly threatening every time he came on to bowl yesterday in a way the others didn't and he's bowling with a lot more craft and skill than he's been given credit for.

Ashes81 said:
Probably Mitchell Marsh for me.

He's one of those players the Aussies have banged on about for years but I've never really seen it.

His test record is still pretty moderate - 27 with the bat, 37 with the ball.

However, he was seriously impressive in this test. His century was top class - I didn't think he had that type of ability in the locker to be honest.
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No one's ever really doubted his shotmaking ability tbf. Just his forward defence, and it did get him out twice in this game. However it makes England's decisions around pitch preparation very interesting - a true batting surface like Edgbaston with limited movement and he becomes arguably the most dangerous cricketer on either side because he'd be near impossible to contain.
 
Molehill

Molehill

Cricketer Of The Year
Burgey said:
On topic, I thought Boland might actually bowl overarm this series. Fmd he’s been terrible. Released pressure every spell bar one with at least one four ball per over. Hasn’t looked like it at all, and it’s put a lot of work back on the other two front liners in the games he’s played. Marsh bowled comfortably better than him in the third test.
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I went out on a limb on 2 Aussies, been proven absolutely spot on with Boland. He had no form outside of Australia, and even his crazy spells there were largely against poor or broken teams (or both). I suspect his Test career may be over, even in Australia you'd think the selectors would turn to younger options instead.

As for Head, I just hated him because of how **** he was at Sussex and then turned into Bradman against England. He seems to get a lot of luck but he makes the most of it. He's having a decent series (largely with respect to how average some of his more talented team mates are performing) but not a killer one.
 
Spikey

Spikey

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Spikey said:
my for real opinion is that I reckon they got spooked by the idea of starc going for 50 runs off a 5 over spell or whatever and so went for 'control', but also: you got spooked.
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sorry I said australia got spooked. they were actually just dumb *****
 
Gob

Gob

International Coach
Look who is back after missing out on the first two tests. Fair weather as ****

As for Starc, can't really blame people people for doubting him after WTC final. He was awful
 
Spark

Spark

Global Moderator
Molehill said:
I went out on a limb on 2 Aussies, been proven absolutely spot on with Boland. He had no form outside of Australia, and even his crazy spells there were largely against poor or broken teams (or both). I suspect his Test career may be over, even in Australia you'd think the selectors would turn to younger options instead.

As for Head, I just hated him because of how **** he was at Sussex and then turned into Bradman against England. He seems to get a lot of luck but he makes the most of it. He's having a decent series (largely with respect to how average some of his more talented team mates are performing) but not a killer one.
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Head won't ever be the prettiest or most correct technical player going around but he has a valuable and imo underrated in general ability of finding ways to get runs even when he's struggling, he virtually never gets tied down at one end for long. That gives him much more scope to work around his technical shortcomings and get set, at which point technique matters far less anyway.
 
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