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Donny
Formerly known as MAGFAN8.
Joined: 04 Aug 2002 Location: Toonumbar NSW Australia
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3 January. Sydney Cricket Ground.
Australia. v. New Zealand.
I see no change for the Aussie XI. Hazlewood will be short of a gallop and who would you drop, anyway ?
No second spinner needed, especially when it would mean dropping Head or Wade. Not going to happen. Labu provides any need for a leg spinner. Head can also bowl offies if Lyon needs a break. _________________ Donny.
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23 YIPPEE!!!
YIPPEE 23!!!
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2 words dead rubber |
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It all counts towards the WTC.
The pitch was the main talking point leading into the Boxing Day Test, but for this one it'll be the air quality. |
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Cricket told to consider change as bushfire smoke threatens SCG Test
https://www.smh.com.au/sport/cricket/cricket-told-to-consider-change-as-bushfire-smoke-threatens-scg-test-20191223-p53mkq.html
"The air quality index reading used by cricket is assessed over a rolling 24-hour period but Professor Mark Taylor from Macquarie University's department of environmental sciences wants the game to consider change.
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CA works with the Australian Institute of Sport, the International Cricket Council and state governments for guidelines to match officials though each organisation has different levels considered as hazardous.
Air quality assessments are now part of the medical briefing conducted before games in NSW because of the bushfires.
The air quality index reading on the final day of the Sheffield Shield match between NSW and Queensland, which was played in thick smoke, was 170 – which is in the "unhealthy" range for the ICC.
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Under ICC guidelines, match officials consider suspending play when the air quality index reading nears 300. Air quality is considered "hazardous" at 300."
[ Anything above 100 is "poor", 150 "very poor", and 200 "hazardous". The ICC guidelines are endangering the players, probably so that games in the subcontinent won't be disrupted.] |
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K
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Will Somerville has been drafted into the NZ squad.
(Off spinner, 35, played for NSW, Test debut against Pakistan last year.)
Pierik, The Age:
"The tourists have leg-spinner Todd Astle in their squad but Somerville is seen as being able to extract more bounce and provide better accuracy, thereby restricting the Australians' scoring rate."
(Todd Astle is not related to Nathan Astle.) |
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'Warne ... had trained with Swepson during the MCG Test and floated the idea of resting Lyon so that Swepson could play his first Test ...
"Did Warney ever want a rest and give Stuart MacGill a go? I won't be resting," Lyon said.'
[If only MacGill's career had come later than Warne's, huh?] |
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Paine makes leadership ban end irrelevant
"The Sydney Test will be the last played under Steve Smith's leadership ban but that could be irrelevant with evergreen Tim Paine's form showing no sign of letting up.
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Paine's Boxing Day Test in Melbourne against New Zealand was as good as any in his career.
And he's shown his desire to carry on, frequently talking about the World Test Championship final in June 2021.
His 79 on day two at the MCG was superb, upping the ante and ensuring Australia would have all the momentum from his highest Test score in nine years.
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For all the criticism of his lack of centuries, Paine's batting average of 31.58 is the third highest of all Australian wicketkeeper-batsmen behind Brad Haddin and Adam Gilchrist.
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The Tasmanian had eight dismissals and fluffed none in Melbourne, with his stumping of Henry Nicholls off Nathan Lyon particularly smart.
They helped take his tally of career catches to 131 - the most of any wicketkeeper in history after 30 Tests.
Meanwhile his tally of 58 dismissals in 2019 was the equal-sixth highest for any wicketkeeper in a calendar year in Test history."
(AAP) |
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'In the 30 Sheffield Shield matches he played prior to the start of the 2019-20 season, Swepson claimed 83 wickets at an average of 38.24 each and an economy rate of around 3.9 runs per over.
So far this season, he's played four Shield matches for 12 wickets at 26.58 apiece and has seen his economy rate dwindle to a little more than 2.3 per over.
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"I just changed a few little technical things that helped with that, done a lot of work with John Davison up in Queensland, he's been great for my bowling over my whole career.
"And more recently Craig Howard has been great to work with in the pre-season, so just a few little tweaks here and there have really helped this year."'
(A. Ramsey) |
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"Langer indicated the Australian team would remain unchanged ...
Williamson and New Zealand batsman Henry Nicholls didn’t train on Wednesday due to illness but Black Caps bowling coach Shane Jurgensen said he expected them at the SCG for the Kiwis’ final pre-match session on Thursday."
(SMH) |
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"As cricket prepares to honour victims of the bushfires around the country, officials say play will be suspended during the Test should smoke significantly affect air quality or visibility.
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Peter Siddle was treated for smoke inhalation after bowling just two overs in the Canberra BBL game, putting the issue of air quality firmly in the spotlight.
"If you sit next to a campfire, just imagine that, that's what it felt like out on the field," Siddle said.
The ACT Health's Air Quality Index (AQI) soared above 1300 during the abandoned BBL match, well above the average reading of 300 that is the International Cricket Council’s safe limit.
On Wednesday, as smoke from the tragic coastal fires reached the nation’s capital, the air quality soared to beyond 4700.
However, air quality in Sydney on Tuesday remained below the ICC’s limit."
https://www.cricket.com.au/news/australia-new-zealand-bushfires-sydney-nsw-third-test-honour-victims-langer-siddle-bbl/2020-01-02
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"New Zealand have made an eleventh hour call to uncapped batsman Glenn Phillips for the Sydney Test as two of their star batsmen battle illness on the eve of the match.
Skipper Kane Williamson and left-hander Henry Nicholls were too unwell to train on Wednesday and Thursday, while spinner Mitchell Santner – who was facing the axe regardless after an ineffectual start to the series – has also fallen ill."
(cricket.com.au) |
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'"Basically, when it goes smoky we're coming off," Paine said on Thursday.
That decision is for ICC match referee Richie Richardson to make but Australian medicos will be providing advice to the former West Indies captain and updates on players' welfare, while umpires will monitor visibility levels.
"We won't be putting the players' health at risk, nor will be putting the health of match officials o[r] fans at the match, or our own people, our own employees, at risk. That's something we'll be monitoring consistently throughout the five days' play," Roberts said.
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The process is complicated by there being no set point in the deterioration of conditions that would trigger a suspension of play. The ICC guidelines list an air quality index reading of 300 as hazardous for health – the AIS puts the figure at 150 for high-intensity exercise, and the state government has the number at 200 – but CA's head of sports science and medicine, Alex Kountouris, told The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age this week the ratings were "not very useful" for calling off play in Sydney as they were published on a 24-hour rolling average. The reading for the Randwick area on Thursday afternoon was 102, in the "poor" range.'
https://www.smh.com.au/sport/cricket/when-it-goes-smoky-we-re-coming-off-ca-won-t-risk-players-health-20200102-p53ocv.html |
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Donny
Formerly known as MAGFAN8.
Joined: 04 Aug 2002 Location: Toonumbar NSW Australia
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Oz 2/95. Warner 45.
Labuschagne 28*. _________________ Donny.
It's a game. Enjoy it. |
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Pies4shaw
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Marnus 51* from 97 balls. Australia 2/135. |
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K
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Wow...
NZ are totally stuffed by injuries and illness. Did they borrow the Collingwood fitness and medical staff?
Latham is acting captain. Spinners Astle and Somerville both play.
And apart from the personnel, the game so far is deja vu... |
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