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Is it my eyesight? When Robinson first broke into Test cricket he looked pretty quick. Not as fast as Wood but up around the 85mph mark. Now he just seems to be bowling line and length and plodding away around 75mph. Am I missing something? Haven't been to Specsavers for a good few years so that may be the problem.
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ICC Rankings
The latest rankings are HERE Maybe someone can explain this to me. Labs is the new #1 ranked Test bat in the world according to the ICC. He has played about 3 Tests in 2021. Joe Root has played plenty of Tests this year. His form has been stellar. He is getting close to the highest ever number of runs scored in Tests in a calendar year. Why isn't Joe still number one? Travis Head at #10 is fucking laughable. If that is true then Test cricket is in a very bad way. Four of the top ten bats are Australian yet they have hardly played. The same with the bowlers. Cummins, Hazelwood & Starc are all in the top ten in Test cricket. Again after hardly playing all year India and NZ are deservedly ranked #1 & #2 Test teams yet between them they have only three bats in the top ten (Williamson, Sharma & Kohli) and four bowlers (Ashwin, Southee, Wagner & Jamieson). Ashwin has hardly played a Test yet is rated the #2 Test bowler Don't forget that Australia lost its previous Test series against India in Australia last year. All very puzzling to me :clueless: |
Its explained here Baz. Complete load of bollocks and that often used word algorithm crops up. Far better based on an average calculated by total runs scored divided by dismissals. Minimum of 25 Test Innings would exclude the flash in the pans.
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What a sad day for English Cricket!
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Stayed up Boxing Day night to watch the Test, for the second and last time this series. Wont be wasting anymore time on these wankers. Silverwood and around 6 players from the last team need to be given the bullet. |
Bit of a shit storm over Langer's resignation
Sporting websites and Facebook alive with opinions & comments. Public opinion seems to be with Langer. As am I. Ex-players really dishing it out to current players and also to Cricket Australia especially to the CEO Nick Hockley who, BTW, is a Pom Mitchell Johnson Quote:
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The full article is HERE And this one from Langer himself. Pretty classy IMHO Quote:
Whoever the new coach is, he better get results or it will all go wonky quickly. Players, new coach, and Cricket Australia are really in the spotlight now :toot: |
After winning the T20 for the first time then rolling the poms 4 zip in the ashes Langer resurrected a lame mob who fell down after the sandpaper debacle in SA. What a mob of cunts the current bunch of players and CA are to treat Langer this way. A good coach does not have to be loved by his players to get results and Langer proved that in spades. CA are a disgrace and their cowering to the players and woke mentality will be the end of cricket as we diehards remember it!
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From up here Langers departure just sounds like Player Power has taken another victim. No logical reason why players in any sport should be able to dictate the direction any team goes in. So the next coach will have to be approved by the players? Probably will be someone as weak as piss and lets them do what they want.
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Joey's gone!!
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