Cricket

[lukeanddad]

Maxwell you star, a match winning champion. You'd have to go a long way to see a better innings than that.
I thought Kohli's innings was something else, but Maxwell's was better 113 off 55 balls.
Now to watch the end of England's ODI innings, they're 345 off 44 overs.

No doubt Leysy will be around soon to acknowledge Maxi’s innings...

 

[MD Jazz]

Maxwell fails: “see, he’s no good”
Maxwell succeeds: “see, he’s no good, he should do more....”

Yeh, he seems to be judged under a different criteria than most.

All would agree he is a sublime talent though - even Leysy?

 

[toby64]

Some big hitting in the West Indies as well...Jos Buttler 150 off 77 and the Gayle gets 162 off 97.

 

[tigerman]

Some big hitting in the West Indies as well...Jos Buttler 150 off 77 and the Gayle gets 162 off 97.

Yes, a total of 46 sixes and 64 fours for the match

 

[Midsy]

Some big hitting in the West Indies as well...Jos Buttler 150 off 77 and the Gayle gets 162 off 97.

Yes, a total of 46 sixes and 64 fours for the match

Ground was a joke - about a 20m radius. Cricket stats are *smile* now. They bring the LED advertising signs in 15 metres and then the ropes another 5m inside that.

 

[tigerman]

Ground was a joke - about a 20m radius. Cricket stats are *smile* now. They bring the LED advertising signs in 15 metres and then the ropes another 5m inside that.

True it's not the biggest ground, very scenic though.

 

[tigerman]

Check out how Maxwell made a full toss out of the last six that he hit, about 13.15 minute mark.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4Kw97Mgw-U

 

[tigerman]

Finch's run of outs continues, a 3rd ball duck, Aust 1/3 in 2nd over after winning the toss and batting.

 

[MD Jazz]

Kawahja a poor innings. 50 off 76 is not good enough. More pressure on the guys coming in.

 

[MD Jazz]

We might get a score now handscomb is gone as well as kawahja.

 

[tigerman]

Kawahja a poor innings. 50 off 76 is not good enough. More pressure on the guys coming in.

Yep, i'd rather Short, he opens in T20's, can't see why they wouldn't play him instead of Khawaja, he's handy bowler as well.

Good to see Turner get a game, he can really go when he gets in.

 

[MD Jazz]

Alex Carey batting himself out of the ODI World Cup squad. No good when ball coming st him. Wade must get a game in front of him.

 

[tigerman]

New Zealand are well on top in the test against Bangladesh, they declared a 6/715. Bangladesh bowler Mehidy Hasan Miraz had figures of 2/246, he wont be skiting to the grand children about that test. :hihi

 

[spook]

Alex Carey batting himself out of the ODI World Cup squad. No good when ball coming st him. Wade must get a game in front of him.

I'd have neither. Handscomb can keep, and Phillippe can be his back-up as well as a reserve batsman.

My squad:
First XI
Warner
Short
Smith
Marsh
Maxwell (c)
Handscomb (wk)
Cummins
Starc
Richardson
Zampa
Hazlewood.

Some will say long tail but they can all bat, bar Hazlewood, and gives us no weakness in the attack.

Reserves:
Stoinis
Phillippe
Worrall
Boyce

Khawaja and Stoinis faced 129 balls between them, for 87 runs. That's 43% of your innings. Stoinis leaves half the balls he faces, even slow juicy mediums outside off that scream "hit me for 6 over cover!" Both of them fail to score from far too many balls. Dot, dot, dot. They don't know how to work the ball into the gaps or drop and run to turn the strike over. Can't winn a World Cup like that. We can win a World Cup with my team.

 

[tigertim]

I'd have neither. Handscomb can keep, and Phillippe can be his back-up as well as a reserve batsman.

My squad:
First XI
Warner
Short
Smith
Marsh
Maxwell (c)
Handscomb (wk)
Cummins
Starc
Richardson
Zampa
Hazlewood.

Some will say long tail but they can all bat, bar Hazlewood, and gives us no weakness in the attack.

Reserves:
Stoinis
Phillippe
Worrall
Boyce

I was watching this game thinking geez, who’s not in this team that’s in our best ODI team and yeah, there’s Smith, Warner, Starc, Marsh, Short, Hazelwood. Be funny if Maxwell was captain of Smith too.

 

[tigerman]

I'd have neither. Handscomb can keep, and Phillippe can be his back-up as well as a reserve batsman.

My squad:
First XI
Warner
Short
Smith
Marsh
Maxwell (c)
Handscomb (wk)
Cummins
Starc
Richardson
Zampa
Hazlewood.

Some will say long tail but they can all bat, bar Hazlewood, and gives us no weakness in the attack.

Reserves:
Stoinis
Phillippe
Worrall
Boyce

Khawaja and Stoinis faced 129 balls between them, for 87 runs. That's 43% of your innings. Stoinis leaves half the balls he faces, even slow juicy mediums outside off that scream "hit me for 6 over cover!" Both of them fail to score from far too many balls. Dot, dot, dot. They don't know how to work the ball into the gaps or drop and run to turn the strike over. Can't winn a World Cup like that. We can win a World Cup with my team.

I don't mind your team, and agree with you about Khawaja and Stoinis are terrible at turning the strike over. Stoinis needs to work on that, his strike rate in ODI's is 97 which is world class.

 

[spook]

Maxwell is in superb touch. He played two magnificent back foot drives, one through covers, one straight down the ground. Both off Bumrah, arguably the best fast bowler in the world at present, on a fast, bouncy deck. Only a top shelf batsman can do that.

 

[MD Jazz]

Maxwell is in superb touch. He played two magnificent back foot drives, one through covers, one straight down the ground. Both off Bumrah, arguably the best fast bowler in the world at present, on a fast, bouncy deck. Only a top shelf batsman can do that.

Yeh, they were proper cricket shots. Hopefully langer was watching.

Leysy has not had much to say since the B.B. final?

 

[tigerman]

Maxwell is not going to play IPL he's playing County Cricket instead, i reckon he'll kill it over there. Whether that will be good enough for Langer and Greg Chappell to bring him back into the test side, who knows, probably not.

 

[tigerman]

Chris Gayle might be 39 years old, but he's still got it. His last 4 innings against the Poms in the current ODI series he has scored 135, 50, 162 and 77. He has been smashing the Poms, his last innings of 77 he hit 9 sixes and 5 fours. That's 74 of of his 77 runs being either a four or a six.