No surprises, here.
David Warner
Usman Khawaja
Marnus Labuschagne
Steve Smith
Travis Head
Cameron Green
Alex Carey (wk)
Pat Cummins (c)
Mitchell Starc
Nathan Lyon
Josh Hazlewood
Team selected by the CA site.
World Test C'ship Final.
As already posted, Archer was ruled out for the summer. The ECB guy (maybe Key) named Cummins as someone to give Archer hope. But KP reckons that's it for Archer and Test cricket, and he should focus on "franchise cricket".K wrote:Jofra Archer Test careerK wrote:...
Sheesh, FTB is hopeless against the short ball.
The first delivery in the video (where FTB gets hit on the left elbow) is barely above stump height. (Look at the slo-mo replay in the video at 0:28 on.) FTB just flinches down into it.
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The headline of the video says "brutal deliveries"... Bollocks!! They're only brutal to flat-track bullies with defective techniques. Look at Archer's Test record now. Very mediocre. When you see FTB destroyed by that on a flat pitch, imagine how he'd go against Holding, Marshall, Garner & Roberts on pitches fair to bowlers. They'd have totally destroyed him.
13 Matches, 434.5 Overs, 42 Wickets, Average 31.04, Economy 2.99, SR 62.1
(The Age)
We'll see...
Of course, if Archer were gonna have a long Test career, it shoulda been for the WIndies, not England...
Before the latest Archer news, N. Hoult wrote in the Telegraph, London:
... if England get one Test out of Jofra Archer they will have done well
9 May 2023
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/cricket/202 ... and-ashes/
'It is devastating for Archer, who has put so much into his rehabilitation and wanted to repay the faith of England and his other employers around the world. It is a lonely existence being an injured fast bowler, handling the demons inside as they naturally worry about never regaining full fitness, and then have to endure watching on the sidelines while a big series captures the nation’s attention. It must be torture.
We don’t know if Archer is back at the start again, but it feels as though England’s attack is going to look very familiar this summer: James Anderson, Stuart Broad, Ollie Robinson and Chris Woakes. It is the same line-up that barely made Australia blink at home 18 months ago.
...
Stokes has bowled one over since the Wellington Test and it was as painful to watch as it looked to deliver, and one unintended consequence of England’s quick scoring championed by the skipper is less time for bowlers to recover during a match. It is hard work.
...
But Archer will not be fine. And that is a crying shame for all England followers who have to now hope it is some big double bluff and he pops up in the nets at Hove this week to terrorise Smith again.
Sadly, that will not happen and their duel is probably over.'
... if England get one Test out of Jofra Archer they will have done well
9 May 2023
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/cricket/202 ... and-ashes/
'It is devastating for Archer, who has put so much into his rehabilitation and wanted to repay the faith of England and his other employers around the world. It is a lonely existence being an injured fast bowler, handling the demons inside as they naturally worry about never regaining full fitness, and then have to endure watching on the sidelines while a big series captures the nation’s attention. It must be torture.
We don’t know if Archer is back at the start again, but it feels as though England’s attack is going to look very familiar this summer: James Anderson, Stuart Broad, Ollie Robinson and Chris Woakes. It is the same line-up that barely made Australia blink at home 18 months ago.
...
Stokes has bowled one over since the Wellington Test and it was as painful to watch as it looked to deliver, and one unintended consequence of England’s quick scoring championed by the skipper is less time for bowlers to recover during a match. It is hard work.
...
But Archer will not be fine. And that is a crying shame for all England followers who have to now hope it is some big double bluff and he pops up in the nets at Hove this week to terrorise Smith again.
Sadly, that will not happen and their duel is probably over.'
Cummins has confirmed Boland is in, preferred to Neser.
"A green surface greeted the teams two days out from their inaugural Test encounter on neutral territory, though Cummins expects the grass to be trimmed before Wednesday.
Abbott, who has played at The Oval in three first-class games this northern summer for the ground's home county Surrey before joining the Test group as a reserve bowler in recent days, has told the Australians to expect a surface that is fast and bouncy by English standards."
And Andy Flower will be a coaching consultant to Oz.
(cricket.com.au)
"A green surface greeted the teams two days out from their inaugural Test encounter on neutral territory, though Cummins expects the grass to be trimmed before Wednesday.
Abbott, who has played at The Oval in three first-class games this northern summer for the ground's home county Surrey before joining the Test group as a reserve bowler in recent days, has told the Australians to expect a surface that is fast and bouncy by English standards."
And Andy Flower will be a coaching consultant to Oz.
(cricket.com.au)
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Aussies: David Warner, Usman Khawaja, Marnus Labuschagne, Steven Smith, Travis Head, Cameron Green, Alex Carey (wk), Patrick Cummins (c), Mitchell Starc, Nathan Lyon, Scott Boland.
India: Shubman Gill, Rohit Sharma (c), Cheteshwar Pujara, Virat Kohli, Ajinkya Rahane, Kona Bharat (wk), Ravindrasinh Jadeja, Shardul Thakur, Umeshkumar Yadav, Mohammed Shami, Mohammed Siraj
India: Shubman Gill, Rohit Sharma (c), Cheteshwar Pujara, Virat Kohli, Ajinkya Rahane, Kona Bharat (wk), Ravindrasinh Jadeja, Shardul Thakur, Umeshkumar Yadav, Mohammed Shami, Mohammed Siraj
Donny.
It's a game. Enjoy it.
It's a game. Enjoy it.
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It should be on ABC radio, just got to find it.
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If that doesn't work you can listen here https://www.abc.net.au/news/sport
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Every dead body on Mt Everest was once a highly motivated person, so maybe just calm the **** down.