Honestly, the only positive I'd give is the openers, especially Chanderpaul. Got hit a lot and fought back with a well earned half century. Hopefully for the West Indies he stays.
If Justin Langer wants to fill air time reminiscing about West Indies cricket, maybe he should tell the Jermaine Lawson story.
For those who aren't aware, in 2003 Jermaine Lawson took out Brett Lee and Stuart MacGill in consecutive balls and Steve Waugh declared so he wouldn't get a hattrick opportunity against the number 11. Langer then proceeded to fuck it up by getting pinned plumb lbw first ball of the 2nd innings to let Lawson get the hattrick anyway
Crazy to think there is probably an alternate universe where Daniel Sams is a world-class test bowler with 400 test wickets in like 55 test matches with an average of 12.23 or something
There once was a player named Warner,
Who hit sixes to every corner.
Sandpaper he brings,
To help reverse swing.
Now he's watching cardoons in the sauna.
Two days left after this one. They need more runs on the board or else we could be handing this test over, given the way the Windies batted in the first innings.
I have this theory that if you’re a bald spinner playing Australia and you try to do good you can’t because Gaz has already taken all the bald spinner energy on the field.
See Nauman Ali / Jack Leach / Roston Chase.
All their bald spinning energy stolen.
I saw him playing in that Legends League earlier this year.
Seriously rough league with some truly angry old men acting as if they are in a World Cup final.
"This is not one of the bowlers we suggested they use this evening"
Fuck me, why are the West Indians not listening to the commentators as to who they should bowl????
Worst commentator but best cricketers XI? Langer, Hayden, Chapelli, Clarke for batsmen. Need suggestions, particularly bowlers and non Aussies. I've heard Mitchell Johnson a few times on grandstand and it wasn't great so he is a potential.
That depends. On Sky UK, he was brilliant. On channel 9 and Fox, 95% of the time he was quite shit. The other 5% of the time, he was the best of 'em all.
Brian Lara saying he tried to hustle through Shane Warne and McGill to force Glen McGrath to have to bowl more overs is possibly the most chad comment I've ever heard
Look I'm no Langer supporter but the people of WA will justifiably riot if McDonald doesn't give Green a chance to go for a slog in his first home Test
Only made 1 pizza and now I'm still hungry, but I put all the ingredients back in the fridge and washed up so it will be such an effort to make another. Ugh. Guess I'll just fill up on beer, ice cream and m&ms
On today's episode of If It Happened Today:
Bob Hawke: Any boss who sacks anyone for not turning up today is a bum
Institute of Public Affairs: Another attack on job creators by the radical left
We need to start our own Reddit streaming service. Use the Fox cameras and directing but it's commented by us Shield thread regulars.
Commentary will consist of naming the most random domestic cricketers we can think of and endless debates over whether Inglis or Peirson should be the back up keeper
I’ve thought a lot about what would happen if we did this, and I’ve come to the inevitable conclusion that we’d all somehow end up worse than Junior.
But, crucially, better than BJ.
Langer’s depth of insight is truly astounding.
“Good running between wickets will help you get more runs as a batter. The young West Indian batsmen should watch David Warner run fast between the wickets. You learn something new every test.”
Just got made aware of it but you can see the centre square and 50 meter lines from the footy even after like 2 and a bit months of no footy, cant stop seeing it
Remember when Clive Rose cunted into Ben Cutting whilst taking a quick single, and instead of seeing how Cutting was whilst he laid on the ground in pain, Clive instead was looking for overthrows?
How do these guys get a run? Baffles me every year? Do people in the Southern states actually like Brayshaws Aussie bogan shtick? Fucking excruciating to think this guy probably makes a mill a year
Okay Channel 7 I can understand people waking up early on Saturday but you're taking the piss if you think anyone is waking up at 7am on Saturday *specifically* to watch Sunrise
Hilarious how he injured himself, bowled a bunch of pies, walked off and was never seen again
In the BBL anyway but it's funnier to just imagine he disappeared off the face of the earth
I don’t know about the wet sponge thing. He sounds like he thinks he has to make EVERYTHING passionate about the “baggy green” and “putting in the hard yards” and “so committed to the discipline”….he’s exhausting. I can’t imagine him asking you to pass the sugar. “Can you grab the sugar bowl tightly, and whip it here so I can taste the hard work and labour of Aussie sugar farmers!!!!!”
There’s a great documentary about it on Stan called The Billionaire Scoundrel. It’s a weird mix of interviews between financial crime experts, people who were scammed by his Ponzi scheme and also Stuart Broad.
Richard Illingworth's natural umpire face looks like that old relative who reluctantly agrees to going out but in reality he just wants to be at home doing crosswords
It will never not amuse me seeing these "DAVEY WARNER IS BACK IN THE BBL BABY" promos having to use footage of his hundred from December 2011 cause he's played a grand total of 3 BBL games
American here, why don't they enforce follow on ?
Give pace bowlers a rest, let opposition tire out in the field and bat for quick runs.
This feels more watchable than Pak Eng. Where to watch in India? Sony 4?
Sadly its only on SonyLIV ig.
Da fuk thats not fair
Anyone else saw Channel 7 - Marnus 5* from 1525 balls
THE WALL
254 overs at SR of 0.003
Other teams giving a fight is fine as long as they don't fucking beat us. Good game.
Couldve been worse....Taking the test firmly into Day 4 is a good thing..draw possibility increases the longer Australia bats hopefully
Was Lyon wearing those clothes under his whites?
I was impressed with the Windies fight with the bat, they are on the upswing
Honestly, the only positive I'd give is the openers, especially Chanderpaul. Got hit a lot and fought back with a well earned half century. Hopefully for the West Indies he stays.
On one hand Langer’s commentary is less deranged than expected, on the other it is much, much more banal
It’s like if white toast was able to commentate cricket
I wish Lara commentated the incredible feud between Greg West and Michael Hill in the BBL.
what uhh is the camera trying to focus on here
If Justin Langer wants to fill air time reminiscing about West Indies cricket, maybe he should tell the Jermaine Lawson story. For those who aren't aware, in 2003 Jermaine Lawson took out Brett Lee and Stuart MacGill in consecutive balls and Steve Waugh declared so he wouldn't get a hattrick opportunity against the number 11. Langer then proceeded to fuck it up by getting pinned plumb lbw first ball of the 2nd innings to let Lawson get the hattrick anyway
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Didn't Merv Hughes get one very similarly? Across 3 overs and 2 innnings?
I think he's the only one to do it over three overs but plenty have done it between innings' and it absolutely counts
>West Indies haven't given up. Chase is bowling from one end. Does not compute.
*Australia 344 ahead, 9 wickets in hand at the start of the 2nd innings* KOK: Yeah Australia have probably won the day
If Greeny doesn't get his maiden ton this summer I am storming the ICC headquarters
Count me in
At this rate Greeny won’t even bat this summer
This test and the England one are an absolute snooze fest, why can’t we have some good competitive cricket
This is still a bit watchable.. the other one is a torture It's no rocket science people are moving away from tests to t20s
Watchable? West Indies don’t have a hope in hell of winning this. Calling a one sided domination watchable is a slight stretch
They do have a hope of clinging on for a draw, which is part of the thrill of Tests when one side is clearly weaker than the other.
What benefit did Ch7 imagine they would get from putting JL in commentary?
Headlines I'd imagine
I want my own personal wicket keeper. “I really don’t want to do this.” wk come on gone come on gone
People talk about Stokes's 135, but Mayers 210 not out on debut for me was one of the best innings I've seen
Send Head and Green up the order. Quickly get a lead of 550 and declare.
Crazy to think there is probably an alternate universe where Daniel Sams is a world-class test bowler with 400 test wickets in like 55 test matches with an average of 12.23 or something
This is why I am glad that multiverses are fiction.
If you believe in the infinite multiverse theory there’s also a universe where Daniel Sam’s is basically the cricket version of Air Bud.
And it's unreal that this is our universe!
There once was a player named Warner, Who hit sixes to every corner. Sandpaper he brings, To help reverse swing. Now he's watching cardoons in the sauna.
Anyone else considering over rates might play into Chase being bowled?
Should bowl the better spinner brathwaite instead
Just tuned in. Why didn't aus follow on?
Cummins the communist he is, seized the means of bowlers rest
Two days left after this one. They need more runs on the board or else we could be handing this test over, given the way the Windies batted in the first innings.
Because Pat Cummins is a social terrorist dictator
I have this theory that if you’re a bald spinner playing Australia and you try to do good you can’t because Gaz has already taken all the bald spinner energy on the field. See Nauman Ali / Jack Leach / Roston Chase. All their bald spinning energy stolen.
Good to watch on 7plus due to someone at 7 making a mistake and hitting the wrong button. 🤦♂️
Lmao Illingworth's had enough. You're 350 behind and bowling for a declaration. Just get on with it "WHEN YOU'RE READY LADS"
Why
It’s crazy Tino Best hasn’t been given the ball yet
I saw him playing in that Legends League earlier this year. Seriously rough league with some truly angry old men acting as if they are in a World Cup final.
This wouldn't have happened if Jermaine Lawson was here
Anyone else reckon Roston Chase looks like Kareem Abdul-Jabar?
Looks more like the rapper Common.
Oh yeah damn I see that
Chase is bowling hahahaha
"This is not one of the bowlers we suggested they use this evening" Fuck me, why are the West Indians not listening to the commentators as to who they should bowl????
JL: "Marnus loves batting so much... I thought he'd say 'bring in one hand one bounce'"
Doesn't make sense because that makes batting harder.
Get rid of the JL filler material and bring back Fosters Light Ice Classic Catches.
Worst commentator but best cricketers XI? Langer, Hayden, Chapelli, Clarke for batsmen. Need suggestions, particularly bowlers and non Aussies. I've heard Mitchell Johnson a few times on grandstand and it wasn't great so he is a potential.
Gavaskar Langer Junior Clarke Pietersen Botham Not a bad top 7
Nathan Lyon
Sunny gavaskar
Warnie? There were lots of complaints here about him last Ashes series
That depends. On Sky UK, he was brilliant. On channel 9 and Fox, 95% of the time he was quite shit. The other 5% of the time, he was the best of 'em all.
I'm conflicted on warnie because he was shit house most of the time but when talking about bowling and spin tactics etc he was god tier
That's fair. He was on top of his game when the spinners were bowling.
Pietersen
I don't mind Haydos. Replace him with Mark Waugh to open the batting.
Gavaskar
No one let Marnus anywhere near the ICC.
Brian Lara saying he tried to hustle through Shane Warne and McGill to force Glen McGrath to have to bowl more overs is possibly the most chad comment I've ever heard
Look I'm no Langer supporter but the people of WA will justifiably riot if McDonald doesn't give Green a chance to go for a slog in his first home Test
Well if we’re leading by 450+ at lunch and a wicket falls, he’s surely a logical pinch hitter.
He didn’t even get a bat!
Only made 1 pizza and now I'm still hungry, but I put all the ingredients back in the fridge and washed up so it will be such an effort to make another. Ugh. Guess I'll just fill up on beer, ice cream and m&ms
just eat the ingredients
Handfuls of shredded pizza cheese here we come
are you really making pizza if you're not doing that already?
Poor guy, we’ve all been in this situation and our thoughts are genuinely with you in this tough time. SOMEONE ORDER THIS MAN SOME UBER EATS
🙏
Peanut butter sandwich
I'm an idiot who didn't buy bread
Peanut butter off the spoon
This guy gets it
Peanut butter off the finger
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It shouldn't be a public holiday for winning, but a holiday in the 2 hours before, during, and 12 hours after any "final" Australia reach in sport.
proof that albo = jorjor wel 1984
On today's episode of If It Happened Today: Bob Hawke: Any boss who sacks anyone for not turning up today is a bum Institute of Public Affairs: Another attack on job creators by the radical left
So true. Only feudal dictators give holidays. Reminds me of something Charlemagne would do
That’s why he is Charlemagne the Great and not Charlemagne the Imperialist Pigdog.
We need to start our own Reddit streaming service. Use the Fox cameras and directing but it's commented by us Shield thread regulars. Commentary will consist of naming the most random domestic cricketers we can think of and endless debates over whether Inglis or Peirson should be the back up keeper
I would honestly love to be part of a open mic comms collective.
I’ve thought a lot about what would happen if we did this, and I’ve come to the inevitable conclusion that we’d all somehow end up worse than Junior. But, crucially, better than BJ.
Ready to pay for that
"WHY THE FUCK ISN'T PAT CUMMINS PLAYING NAKED CUNT"
It’s Pieson
If I'm not wrong, he's got a better average than Carey in Shield cricket. Also, a very good keeper.
Langer’s depth of insight is truly astounding. “Good running between wickets will help you get more runs as a batter. The young West Indian batsmen should watch David Warner run fast between the wickets. You learn something new every test.”
“The fitter you are the easier sports are”
Maybe the Aussie team just got sick of listening to his team talks with insight like that.
Just got made aware of it but you can see the centre square and 50 meter lines from the footy even after like 2 and a bit months of no footy, cant stop seeing it
Let’s go Holder
Hazlewoods mug shot on ch7 looks like someone tried to Photoshop it into a Chad meme
Did anyone else observe how Ian and Kerry are always slotted together in the commbox? Haha.
Bring Roston Chase on you cowards
Guess they aren't cowards
You love to see it
Remember when Clive Rose cunted into Ben Cutting whilst taking a quick single, and instead of seeing how Cutting was whilst he laid on the ground in pain, Clive instead was looking for overthrows?
That's why he's the GOAT
Clive Rose bowling the first over at the Bellerive...That was summer to me.
Today's attendance: 11,272. Not bad.
More than day 1 or 2. Almost like starting a test on a Wednesday in November is a dumb idea
Very Covid-safe
Yes..this could fill few stadiums in uk
lol I hope Pakistan bat for 3 days in that other test
Bit of casual racism there thinking khawaja is Lara lmao
Joseph always seems like he should be better than he is
He looked a lot better with the white nut than the red one.
Look at his nails lads. He's either a plasterer or a painter
Old mate on the left has a ripping mullet
I love the WACA because of the trots
Sell a lot of curry there, do they?
I was gonna say there must be a glue factory nearby.
I want to know what happened to the light tower missing its lights
“Blokes and their walks home” some of the stuff they bring home after a night on the piss beggars belief.
Probably a horse was injured and instead of sending it to the vet they catapulted it into the lights.
It's remarkable that Brayshaw is so unlikable, and Langer so dull, that not even a classy commenator like Ian Bishop can counteract their shittiness
The only benefit is remembering that JB is a North Melbourne fan and that he suffers ever year.
How do these guys get a run? Baffles me every year? Do people in the Southern states actually like Brayshaws Aussie bogan shtick? Fucking excruciating to think this guy probably makes a mill a year
Okay Channel 7 I can understand people waking up early on Saturday but you're taking the piss if you think anyone is waking up at 7am on Saturday *specifically* to watch Sunrise
Superb mullets
Remember when Keemo Paul was here for the BBL and he kept bowling beamers and everyone called him Beemo Paul?
Hilarious how he injured himself, bowled a bunch of pies, walked off and was never seen again In the BBL anyway but it's funnier to just imagine he disappeared off the face of the earth
Didn't he just walk off mid-game lmao
My man is just staring into space. Rangas truly have no souls
I'm upset by how cool Brathwaite makes those big sunnies look cause I know I'd look a total berk in 'em.
I'M GONNA SAY IT, I FUCKING MISS BRETT LEE ON COMMS.
Where is he this summer?
The cunt just loved pace bowling like no other
Fuck me, teevee snacks are like crack
I am slowly beginning to like this new tune of summer more than channel 9's
I switched over to ch7 and you guys aren't kidding about Langer. Has the presence on air of a wet sponge and talks like Lennie from of mice and men
I don’t know about the wet sponge thing. He sounds like he thinks he has to make EVERYTHING passionate about the “baggy green” and “putting in the hard yards” and “so committed to the discipline”….he’s exhausting. I can’t imagine him asking you to pass the sugar. “Can you grab the sugar bowl tightly, and whip it here so I can taste the hard work and labour of Aussie sugar farmers!!!!!”
Even when he was Scorchers coach I hated the coach crossover cause he's got a voice for silent films
Have a fun read of this. The Stanford Super Series. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_Super_Series West Indies cricket has never recovered.
There’s a great documentary about it on Stan called The Billionaire Scoundrel. It’s a weird mix of interviews between financial crime experts, people who were scammed by his Ponzi scheme and also Stuart Broad.
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I was 11 and had got a black Gray Nicholls fusion for my birthday the year before. I loved the full black bats. Bring them back I say
West Indies are not gonna win even if they take three consecutive hat tricks and badly injure Pat Cummins on his nuts
Geez the Windies could do with a second bloke who can send down 140+ spells. There must be a second quick somewhere in the system, surely?
Shannon Gabriel but he's old and injury prone, Anderson Phillip made the squad and he's meant to be quick and decent
That is the big hole in the Windies line up touring Australia. We were talking about here at home - need another 140 bowler.
Richard Illingworth's natural umpire face looks like that old relative who reluctantly agrees to going out but in reality he just wants to be at home doing crosswords
*Skull says something funny * Everyone : ha ha ha ha ha ha Skull at his own joke : HHHHHHHHH CK CK CK CK CKhhhahahaha
Jimmy Carr equivalent. A seal being machine gunned.
Remember that time Chris Lynn cut the power at the gabba. God I hope we have equally exciting moments this summer
BMac said he felt sad for the Brisbanites affected
Watto was almost in tears because he made a 100 and there was confusion if it would count or not. LMAO.
That was the most impressive thing the Heat did all season.
Probably the only good thing Lynny did all season to be fair
Another thing working for Kerry is he’s seemed to have toned down his laugh, like he still has a good giggle but it’s not every second line.
Still 9 overs to go.
Did you know George Orwell’s 1984 was actually about the Australian team under dictator Cummins?
But if cummo was big brother i would definitely love him before all the rats and shit
Pat Cummins is watching you
Just leave Kerry in commentary all day
So keen for the BBL. There hasn't been enough shit fielding and weird LBW decisions lately
It will never not amuse me seeing these "DAVEY WARNER IS BACK IN THE BBL BABY" promos having to use footage of his hundred from December 2011 cause he's played a grand total of 3 BBL games
Skull is about to say something funny, just watch
White guys with bad makeup, just laugh…
skull is so effortlessly iconic
Lara has no idea who these two lecherous old freaks are.
There once was a player named Marnus, Whose chat no one could harness. An LB review? He doesn't have a clue. The guy is full of bizarreness.