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Topic: 2021-22 Ashes Series Posted: 16 Nov 2021 at 8:52pm |
Starts in 3 weeks tomorrow.
A slight change to the usual, Brisbane still the first test followed by Adelaide but with Melbourne and Sydney following on and Perth the 5th test.
Australia 4-0 with a weather induced draw in there somewhere.
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Posted: 17 Nov 2021 at 10:13am |
How good are the Pommy pace men? Who are they?
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Posted: 17 Nov 2021 at 11:29am |
Anderson, Broad & Stokes seem to go okay to my eye
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Posted: 17 Nov 2021 at 12:16pm |
I was afraid you'd say that. They've not going to give us a good series with those old flogs. Haven't they got any young talent?
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Posted: 17 Nov 2021 at 12:25pm |
Australia’s Ashes squad: Tim Paine (c), Pat Cummins (vc), Cameron Green, Josh Hazlewood, Marcus Harris, Travis Head, Usman Khawaja, Marnus Labuschagne, Nathan Lyon, Michael Neser, Jhye Richardson, Steve Smith, Mitchell Starc, Mitchell Swepson, David Warner
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Posted: 17 Nov 2021 at 1:41pm |
Predictable squad
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Posted: 17 Nov 2021 at 4:49pm |
From that squad the line-up looks like being Warner, Harris/Khawaja, Labuschagne, Smith, Head/Khawaja, Green, Paine, Lyon, Cummins, Starc, Hazlewood.
Given the big 3 quicks have just played the T20 World Cup and the tight timing of the series, I'm guessing there is a fair chance Richardson and Neser play at sometime throughout the series, perhaps even as soon as Adelaide, I doubt any of the big 3 rest for Brisbane unless they're carrying a niggle as the team will want to make a statement in the first test for sure, also if the series is sown up or as good as coming into Sydney, Swepson definitely comes in for Sydney with an eye to the visit to India in 2022.
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Posted: 17 Nov 2021 at 5:20pm |
Tlazolteotl wrote:
How good are the Pommy pace men? Who are they?
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James Anderson, Stuart Broad, Craig Overton, Ollie Robinson, Chris Woakes, Mark Wood.
Anderson is 39 and hasn't gone well over here in his peak years, will likely be pedestrian except under lights in Adelaide when it swings, will be rested for at least one test.
Broad is 35 and hasn't ever really gone that well over here either, similar to Anderson despite being 4 years younger, will rest for at least 1 test and likely also be pedestrian except under the Adelaide lights.
Craig Overton, has an OK record, averages 23.33 with the ball in first class cricket but that's in England where medium fast bowlers can excel, his average from 6 tests in over 33, could produce a good spell but chances are he'll have more spells where he gets pasted over here.
Ollie Robinson, 28 wickets @ 19.6 from 5 tests, but all at home, has a first class average of 21 for over 300 wickets but similar to Overton for mine, will bowl some good spells but also get pasted at times.
Chris Woakes, been around the well a few times, averages a tick under 28 with the bat and a tick under 29 with the ball and has a test hundred and 10 at first class level, again capable of a good spell but, like Overton and Robinson when the ball is doing nothing for him he'll get pasted. Mark Wood, quick but injury prone, I think he'll find it tough out here and will likely be injured at some point.
Ben Stokes is the wild card, he's likely to produce an inspired spell of bowling at some point but given he only averages 21 overs a test over his career for a tick over 2 wickets a test, it doesn't suggest he's going to come out and take 30+ wickets this series, his go is much more with the bat.
I think this group actually does compare well to the 10-11 group that dismantled us over here (Broad, Anderson, Bresnan, Finn, Tremlett) but that group faced an Australian side that was not travelling very well, beaten an innings 3 times, against an England side that saw 6 of it's top 7 grab hundreds over the season, including Alistair Cook grabbing 3 and 766 runs overall. This years group face an Australian batting line-up that is going much better and also lack their own batting line-up to put the runs up to bowl at.
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Posted: 18 Nov 2021 at 9:28pm |
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Stupendous listening.
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Wow, what a speaker.
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Posted: 18 Nov 2021 at 11:16pm |
That was fantastic.
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Posted: 19 Nov 2021 at 7:24am |
Looking forward to this, should be a great month or so of viewing. Got tickets to day 1 Brisbane but I decided if I’ll go at this stage. One of the advantages of Gabba members still having to reserve a seat I suppose.
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Posted: 19 Nov 2021 at 7:54am |
Why would you go? It will be a great days cricket
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Posted: 19 Nov 2021 at 7:55am |
Sorry typo. Why would you NOT go? It will be a great days cricket
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Posted: 19 Nov 2021 at 8:26am |
Agree, will be a great day of cricket. Guess I could have been clearer - whether I go or not will come down to whether I can actually make it. Won’t be a matter of wanting to.
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Posted: 19 Nov 2021 at 8:34am |
Phew, I though you were going to turn it into some Rona discussion
Go, enjoy
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Posted: 19 Nov 2021 at 8:39am |
Why would you think I would do that? Haven’t you worked out that I think the whole thing is somewhat overblown at this stage?
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Posted: 19 Nov 2021 at 2:35pm |
Paine no longer captain. Sent a d*ck pic to a co worker back in 2017 or something.
Amazing timing hey
Sounds like a beat up to me. They were both texting and flirting before hand.
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Posted: 19 Nov 2021 at 2:43pm |
riDICKulous TJ! anyway I have tickets to the third day - can't wait!
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Posted: 19 Nov 2021 at 2:46pm |
Ooops
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Posted: 19 Nov 2021 at 2:48pm |
http://www.foxsports.com.au/cricket/australia/cricket-australia-2021-tim-paine-sexting-scandal-texts-latest-news-investigation-the-ashes-sacked-resigns/news-story/f0f04ffd8664c276552f36217f98ab3d
Tim Paine has stood down as Australia captain after being investigated by Cricket Australia over sending a co-worker an explicit image of himself along with a string of lewd messages. The 36-year-old was promoted to captain following the ball tampering scandal in South Africa in 2018 but has resigned in shame following the latest scandal to rock Australian cricket. In a statement just released, Paine has told Cricket Australia that he will quit as captain, effective immediately. Cricket Australia chairman Richard Freudenstein said: “Tim felt it was in the best interests of his family and Australian cricket to take this decision to step down as captain. “The Board has accepted Tim’s resignation and will now work through a process with the National Selection Panel of identifying and appointing a new captain.” According to the Herald Sun, the messages date back to the eve and the morning of the first Ashes Test at the Gabba in 2017. They report that while some of the messages were too explicit to publish, the exchange included Paine suggesting to the woman: “Will you want to taste my *** ?? F*** me, I’m seriously hard.” The messages also included what was described in the texts as a “dick pic”. In a correspondence with Australia Cricket authorities in June 2018, the woman claimed she was offended by “Mr Paine’s sexually explicit, unwelcome and unsolicited photograph of his genitals in addition to the graphic sexual comments”. Cricket Australia reportedly became aware of the messages as long ago as March 2018 after letter of complaint were sent to Cricket Australia and to Cricket Tasmania - the latter of which she worked at before resigning in 2017. It is also reported that complaints were made to the Australian Human Rights Commission regarding alleged sexual harrassment in releation to the exchange.
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Posted: 19 Nov 2021 at 2:57pm |
So who takes over the captaincy?
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Posted: 19 Nov 2021 at 2:59pm |
Does that article leave out what she was saying back to him? He didn't just send her a picture one day off the cuff.
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Posted: 19 Nov 2021 at 3:00pm |
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Cummins is VC. Or maybe give it back to Smith?
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Posted: 19 Nov 2021 at 3:02pm |
She is just as much in the wrong here.
Feel sorry for the wife and kids.
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Posted: 19 Nov 2021 at 3:03pm |
They might parachute Cameron Bancroft into the job.
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Posted: 19 Nov 2021 at 3:03pm |
She isn't the Australian Test captain.
Apparently this was believed to have been dealt with prior to him being appointed captain(does that mean people paid off?) and it has only surfaced again because the pics and texts are about to become public He is resigning not sacked, he says for damage done to the game.
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Posted: 19 Nov 2021 at 3:07pm |
He and the woman had exchanged dozens of texts throughout that year.
But the correspondence became increasingly flirtatious between the woman and Paine, who has been married since 2016.
On November 22, 2017, after the woman joked about “partying like a rockstar”, Paine texted: “I like good girl (name removed). But this other one sounds interesting.”
“When I’m good I’m good. When I am bad I am brilliant,” she added, prompting Paine to ask: “Brilliantly bad??”
The following morning, just hours before Paine was due to take the field against England, the woman texted: “I will think naughty thoughts about you whilst we watch the TV.”
“I’m cracking! Ha ha. Naughty thoughts like what? I’m about to give something firm a pull…,” Paine responded.
The woman texted him back saying: “Ha, sorry I’m getting ready for work … it’s a big day for us kids.”
Then Paine texted: “Will you want to taste my ***?? F*** me, I’m seriously hard.”
In apparent reference to Paine’s wicket keeping duties later that day, the woman wrote in response: “I thought we were resting hands.”
Paine responded: “Can’t rest them when I’m this hard!! Need to ease the tension … Finish me off with those lips then (name deleted)”.
The text ended with a wink-face emoji.
Paine then sent what is described in correspondence as an unsolicited “dick pic”, before asking the woman: “Finish me off right now!!!”
The woman has claimed she was taken aback and found it offensive.
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