Its Summer! - the Fever Cricket Thread. (Part 2)

This will be turning square by the end of day 3...turning massively already...plus Swann is bowling very well...

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Harris is a machine right now. Impressive stuff!

Warnie must be feeling a right goose now..."Bringing Bresnan on at this stage lacks logic"....

They might be a Saffer English team...but it really is sweet seeing the Aussies being stuffed at cricket...

Hope England make it 4-0 at the Oval.

When it was 100/1 yesterday I was chatting with someone at work, we were saying how it was a shame that Australia seemed to have sorted their shark out. I commented that I still held out hope as this Australian team have a knack of finding new ways to make us laugh uncontrollably. And then they lost 9/100

BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

So long, Sachin https://www.espncricinfo.com/india/content/current/story/678469.html

Cricket won't be the same without him...

Anyone keeping an eye on the Blackcaps? Good knocks by Kane, Watling, Fulton and Boult at the End. Think we may struggle to get 20 wickets though.

Interestingly Boult (our usual #10/11) now has a test 50 and Bracewell (our usual #8) doesn't.

Also does anyone know anything much about this new guy Sodhi? Jeets must have really fallen off the radar!

I guess if you're going to give him a crack anywhere, Bangladesh is a decent option. But you would have thought that Martin and Kane would have been enough spin for a side. Does seem pretty random, but it's funny I haven't seen heaps about it in the news. He's played 14 first class games. Ha.

Agreed that BJ is class. I don't know why he keeps getting chucked in so low down the order. Boult might move his way up the tail soon also.

It's actually good that Trent stuck around as I was starting to complain about BJ being wasted down the bottom of the order, he always seems to be left on 30 or so and then either he gets left not out or has to start slogging and gets out - with an actual, non-Chris Martin tail, then we could see a bit more productivity.

Bit of a meh result all up. Hope there's something in the pitch for the 2nd.

There's a few people putting in some decent shifts over there atm. Wagner & Sodhi with the ball. Anderson, Kane, Ross, BJ & Sodhi again with the bat. Particularly gutsy effort by Kane coming back from getting hit. Bruce Martin must feel a bit edgy on the sidelines watching Sodhi take 3 with the ball and hit 50 with the bat...

Good signs.

176/6 Bangladesh batting first.

Oh wow. This tour is really not going as planned...

It's all about consistency.

Consistantly bad as they snatch a loss from the jaws of victory.

#blackcraps

What bugs me is that westpacs shape was partly determined to accomodate Cricket, yet over the last 5 or so years, their performances hav left the stadium as a full as the average Phoenix/Lions game. we would have been better off with a square shape and closer to the pitch stadium.

Not denying it is a great stadium but did they really pick the right shape? 

Cricket players need to start winning and fill the stadium again.

LG this has been discussed 600,000 times on this forum. Most people agree that, in hindsight, the basin could have been upgraded (because it's already there) and a proper football stadium built. It's <a href="http://i.imgur.com/7CZby9V.gif">shark</a> the way it is but nothing can be done now short of talking about it once every two months.

Perhaps if the Blackcraps started performing on the field, then the stadium might actually fill up.

@LG it's still <a href="http://i.imgur.com/7CZby9V.gif">shark</a> watching cricket in that stadium. It does not feel like a cricket ground no matter how full.

@Tegal yeah it varies, 2 months tops!

Blackcraps 307-5, bangladesh 49-0

Decent batting performance, good contributions from the rookies while Taylor brought it home. Certainly had my reservations about our ability to defend it though.

Worst headline ever on cricinfo:

"Bangladesh chase 308, sweep series"

#blackcraps

Maybe Bangladesh are now saying.... it's only New Zealand

We would smash them on home soil

We should smash them on their soil !

Aussie 101/5 on the first day of the ashes.

Haha love it!

273/8 so swung back to the Aussies.

Still England's day. They'll comfortably post 400+ on this pitch.

Wow, an expert on the Gabba.