SA Footy

whufc wrote:The Maddison selection is baffling

In the case of Ferguson and Mennie they were 50/50 selections who both looked like boys against men, more so than any debutants I've seen in a long time.

Ferguson isn't being dropped just because of that one test, it's also because of what has happened in the last four days with both his performance and his nearest rivals performance. The Ferguson non selection was the easiest of all the decisions the selectors had to make

Their dropping is just the selectors fixing the initial mistake of selecting them imho Handscombe and Sayers have come in a test late

daysofourlives wrote:

RustyCage wrote:Callum Ferguson and Joe Mennie join Paul Wilson, Graham Manou, Dan Cullen and Peter George as SA's "One Test Wonders" in the last 20 years.

dont forget Peter McIntyre.

Worrying signs for the Chad

Booney wrote:

whufc wrote:The Maddison selection is baffling

In the case of Ferguson and Mennie they were 50/50 selections who both looked like boys against men, more so than any debutants I've seen in a long time.

Ferguson isn't being dropped just because of that one test, it's also because of what has happened in the last four days with both his performance and his nearest rivals performance. The Ferguson non selection was the easiest of all the decisions the selectors had to make

Their dropping is just the selectors fixing the initial mistake of selecting them imho Handscombe and Sayers have come in a test late

Maddinson has a huge upside, he was an opener when he made his 1st class debut for NSW and can bowl some handy left arm slow if need be.

Rik E Boy wrote:I don't think Ferg is finished just yet. Hopefully not anyway.

regards,

REB

The Dark Knight wrote:I watched a press conference earlier where they interviewed Matthew Wade. I learnt that he is colourblind and he said that sometimes he initially has trouble picking the pink ball up when batting but once he sees it he's fine. I wondered how that has effected him with his infamous wicketkeeping blunders that posters on here love to ridicule him about. Not that he'd use his colourblindness as an excuse but just intriguing as to how/if it would effect him just a little bit causing him to make a crucial blunder.

Grahaml wrote:Du Plessis fined for ball tampering apparently. Does raise the question about why we bother having rules if the ICC are going to be so toothless in policing them. Whether people think it makes a difference or not, clearly Du Plessis did and in cricket, getting the ball to swing even a little more can be all the difference. This is also his second offense. Final wash up seems to be that repeatedly cheating is ok in cricket.

Grahaml wrote:Du Plessis fined for ball tampering apparently. Does raise the question about why we bother having rules if the ICC are going to be so toothless in policing them. Whether people think it makes a difference or not, clearly Du Plessis did and in cricket, getting the ball to swing even a little more can be all the difference. This is also his second offense. Final wash up seems to be that repeatedly cheating is ok in cricket.

Dutchy wrote:

Who is the Aussie player at the front?

jackpot jim wrote:

Grahaml wrote:Du Plessis fined for ball tampering apparently. Does raise the question about why we bother having rules if the ICC are going to be so toothless in policing them. Whether people think it makes a difference or not, clearly Du Plessis did and in cricket, getting the ball to swing even a little more can be all the difference. This is also his second offense. Final wash up seems to be that repeatedly cheating is ok in cricket.

The ICC are the biggest, most farcical, embarrassing joke of a governing sport organization in the world.
The last few decades have been littered with numerous unsatisfactory and blatantly biased resolutions that required far stronger and more definitive actions to be undertaken.

Booney wrote:If there's a members pass floating around that could get me behind the vale of secrecy, that'd be great.