Of all the absolutely batshit bits of that game, Ashwin not offering a shot on what was supposed to be the last ball of the game might take the cake
#T20WorldCup
A Pakistani with no English who came to Australia to play club cricket in Tasmania takes a hat-trick at the MCG and then has his post-game interview translated (beautifully) by his teenaged Nepalese teammate.
The Big Bash is great
#BBL09
Heaps of talk around on this
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tour about how India are supposedly trying to stitch up the Aussies.
Well, here are Khaleel and Mahesh.
(a short thread) 1/6
One for the 'never seen that before' pile: No-ball called, so field must stay the same for the free hit. But Pollard (understandably) has no interest in staying at short leg where he had been standing. So he goes off the field and WI field with 10 men for the free hit
#WIvAUS
The Poms are down 3-0, their whole cricket system is being questioned, all their coaches are out with covid and they’ve been in bio bubbles for much of the past year.
Yet they’re still fronting up and trying to get a bit better each day. Deserve more credit than they’ve got
Maybe a result of the dwindling numbers in England’s coaching staff, but Joe Root seems to have taken on some coaching duties at the SCG, even dishing out some throwdowns, three days out from the fourth
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Test
Quite a remarkable achievement for Stuart Broad this week. Playing at The Oval will mean he has featured in every match of the last five
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series in England. Has not missed a Test in any of the 2009, 2013, 2015, 2019 or 2023 series
Does Australia appreciate just how good Meg Lanning is?
If the Aussies win on Sunday, she will have five world titles and three Ashes wins before her 28th birthday.
Averages 52 in ODIs, 36 in T20s. Will go down as one of our greatest ever cricketers
Here is David Warner, three days out from the start of the Galle Test, batting right-handed. And doing it better than most natural righties could ever hope to
#SLvAUS
Batters: stand wherever you like, face up with either hand and switch whenever you like.
Bowlers: bowl from here, tell everyone when you want to change sides of the wicket or want to change bowling arm, don't bowl too many bouncers and only have four fielders on the boundary
Australia's quicks during this WTC cycle (incl. the final):
Boland 33 wkts @ 14.57
Cummins 57 wkts @ 22.15
Starc 53 wkts @ 28.49
Hazlewood 10 wkts @ 29.70
There's no big three anymore. It's the big four
#WTCFinal2023
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Mitchell Starc's two wickets this morning highlight why he is a far better bowler in England than he was four years ago. Both wicket balls were wobble-seam deliveries that nipped back into the left-hander. He didn't have that ball in 2019
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Andre Russell is a hell of a cricketer - and a man making up for lost time. It wasn't so long ago he spent a whole year banned from even visiting a training facility
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Boundaries have been brought in a LONG way. Confirmation they have picked the pitch on the far (eastern) side of the ground for the Ahmedabad Test
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Incredible batting from Dinesh Chandimal. Scored 42 off 18 balls after the fall of the ninth wicket to get to his double ton, including a pair of sixes onto the road just in front of the fort. Aussies have had no idea where to bowl to him
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Fair play to David Warner - he’s in the nets giving throw downs on Sunday morning after playing last night’s T20.
Rest of the XI from that game having a (well-earned) day off. Carey, Swepson, Cummins, Green, Marnus the others having a net
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That's Steve Smith's fourth straight half-century since returning to the Australian side - 89*, 91* and 76 in his previous three knocks. Sure, they've all been practice games, but he looks in terrific touch
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David Warner soldiering on with busted ribs, Mitchell Starc bowling heat with a busted back, Joe Root batting under lights with a busted ... abdomen. Some tough cookies playing in this
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series
This has been a gem of an innings from Alex Carey, who's having an under-the-radar good World Cup. Now averaging over 70 and striking at 114 for the tournament
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It’s the little things that make great teams. Stopping an extra run here has zero bearing on the match yet watch how two fielders sprint off the boundary to back up this throw. No wonder the Aussies are the best in the world
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Chris Lynn back facing bowlers in the nets for the first time since his most recent shoulder injury.
Faced Billy Stanlake and Ben Cutting, all three off to the IPL this weekend
Mitchell Starc on
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at the drinks break: "I think he was halfway down Punt Road, wasn't he? ... Just letting him know if I have to keep my foot behind the line, he can keep his bat behind the line."
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"We're generally the enemy" 😅
The scenes in Colombo after the fifth ODI were unreal and left Glenn Maxwell and the Aussies stunned as fans thanked them for touring 🥰
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Have India rolled out a few turning tracks in this series. Of course they have. What did you expect? But I thought this story highlights that they’ve also received some pretty amazing hospitality in this country 🇮🇳 6/6
Aussies batters playing and missing/false shot percentage in this innings:
Before the ball change: 16%
In the 10 overs after the ball change: 38%
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🚨 Cricket nuffie thread alert 🚨
The wobble seam ball may have been pioneered by England, but Australia's quicks have become as adept as any around the world at bowling it.
It is essentially Pat Cummins' stock ball:
Just in: Glenn Maxwell added to Australia’s Test squad in Sri Lanka, while Murphy, Holland and Kuhnemann are staying back after the Aus A/ODI matches
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Bizarre incident: Anrich Nortje got knocked over by Fox's spidercam between overs just standing in the outfield. He's fine - and seems to have taken the blow surprisingly well
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Pakistan have got a unique training device in the nets: a slab of marble. Mohammad Rizwan had it tilted on angle. They hope it will help them deal with Perth’s extra bounce
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Marnus Labuschagne coming off the ground after being struck in the helmet at short leg... but looks more concerned with finding a new lid that fits than a possible concussion
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After putting down several chances in the first two
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Tests, Steve Smith spent hours catching balls including this drill involving a metal barricade ordinarily used for traffic control. No fluke he took one of the best of his career yesterday. More:
This might tell you a bit about what Australia are expecting from this pitch. This was taken about 30 seconds after the final Indian wicket. Only four blokes left to clap Kuhnemann off after his maiden five-for. The rest sprinted off to get their pads on
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This hat-trick is also an exhaustive instruction manual on acceptable ways to react after being dismissed:
Root - taps pitch
Williamson - replays shot
Bairstow - walks off as fast as possible
If Steve Smith gets into double-digits in a domestic one-dayer, you're in trouble. His seven innings for NSW since 2015:
143*
72
0
0
136*
84*
9
127
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Crooked stands, straight fingers. Green and Starc having a yak to the physio after catching balls at training in Delhi. Both remain hampered by damaged digits
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