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12:00 New Zealand v Australia T20 Series
20:00 How many credits in the bank for Aaron Finch?
28:55 India v England Review and Preview
29:45 Pitches, Ashwin, Selections, Asian Century
41:17 Sheffield Shield Update
47:38 Colin Miller in Las Vegas
1:24:54 #AskTGC involving smashing fingers with a hammer
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24 Comments
I held Bill O'Reillys baggie green once. It was like holding the shroud of Turin. A cloth full of mystery and the owner who used the secret arts of leg spin to befuddle mere mortals.
What about Lyon thinking of bringing Ahmedabad curator to SCG ? and imagine it happens for Ashes ? Eng won’t like that 😛
Boys! i'm gonna be brutally honest ok. imo nobody on mother earth cares about Australian and English cricket at the moment. AUSI and ENG cricket is really really boring at the moment. I mean just look at the test batting averages of the current batch of players…Below 30? Apart from Smith and Marnus. forgive me if i got my stats wrong. This content wont grow your following ok…is what i think. (And i absolutely love this podcast)
Perhaps you should cover the Vijay Hazare Trophy (between this Test series)?. Or the change in standards in West Indies Cricket, with the Super50 Cup. Or What's going on in NZ. All upcoming talents there.. Or the rise of Afghan cricketers. How did that happen?
Exciting cricket content isn't Eng or Ausi cricket AT THE MOMENT.
Just my 3cts
"This is an Indian account anyway. Yeah, welcome back to the GULLY Cricketer…"
LOL We love you guys! 🙏
Steven Waugh is the OG Aussie surrogate daddy 😀😀
Boys! An attempt at a normalised conversation regarding what’s a good pitch and why sides getting rolled by swing is different to getting rolled by spin. Joe Root is the definition of a part time bowler. Perhaps a spell before the second new ball while quicks are resting or switching ends. There is no way he should be getting 5 wickets (admittedly the tail) on the second day of a test. Could it happen on day 4? Sure you can make an argument for that. Without trying to diminish Root’s skill, the pitch is elevating him to have the same impact on a game as a frontline spinner.
Regarding swinging and seaming conditions on day 1 and teams getting rolled, I would argue that rarely would you see a Joe Root equivalent medium pacer roll through a side and take 5 for in a spell on the first day of a test. It is almost always the frontline bowlers doing the damage. I think that’s because it takes more skill to bowl swing bowling consistently than to bowl spin on a raging turner. A lesser medium pace bowler doesn’t always have the skill to get the seam upright to induce swing on a consistent basis and will get hit by the batsmen, whereas, and again not trying to diminish Root, it would appear that on those last two Indian pitches that landing the ball with some sort of rotation over the horizontal axis of the ball was enough to elevate Root to have the same impact as Ashwin.
While there’s no doubt that Ashwin is a world class bowler, I wonder how he’d feel being asked if Root taking 5 wickets on day 2 was because Root himself is a world class spinner (spoiler: he’s not) or whether the pitch impacted his performance and how Ashwin feels about bang average part-timers being able to have the same impact on a game that he, a world class spinner does.
Cheers BOYS!
Why don’t these guys tone down a bit on that f word? Conversations are so much better to listen to when there are no abuses.
2012 … English team beat India when there spinners out spun the Indians….so you have to adapt according to the conditions …and that's what competitive sport all about….if Nadal beats everyone on the clay court …other guys can't cry about the court being a clay court .
Axar Patel won't be in the XI if India's playing in ENGLAND or Australia…you have to develop your bench Strength if you want to do well in all the conditions …
As Ashwin mentions on his tweet, they keep telling what they want to say. They are not talking about the Pink Ball. Its the Pink ball tests… If you look all the Pink Ball tests… you know they complete quickly. Everyone still need to get used to them. If its was Red ball on the same surface it wouldn't have completed in 2 days.
For some reason a few blokes on YouTube saying the pitch is bad means the whole of England is saying that
a good test surface is one where 95% of them arent from spin
The best askTGC ever!!..
The devil in these pitches can be defeated ONLY when ICC banishes "money power" and starts using synthetic surfaces, inclusively and transparently produced in England/ Australia and assorted true democracies. That's how the Gentleman's Game will be saved for future generations, like field hockey.
Pitch's (SENA) produce uneven bounce and hit batsman's in helmet and glove and make them injured was called as SPICY pitch and when it spins in day 1 called as dead, unfit pitches. Grow up guyz 🤫
A good pitch is different to every batsmen.
"Eat a bit of food, do ya mate" xDDD
When Higgos said: "run out if carrots" in the manscaped ad, I then spent 6 minutes choking on coffee. Thank boys
Weather plays the most important role in the pitch/soil/surface composition. The soil and hot/humid conditions in India, makes the surface as the "dust bowl" as you call them. Such ignorance and so convenient to make a partial/incomplete/misleading comments (the so called "environment thing")
Imagine India was UK and India was cricket’s motherland..spin would have the norm and a green pitch would have been the wild Wild West!!
28:55
Love Higgos laugh at the baggy green story, Sam literally told that story before, but refused to give the name of the player!! Still good
I like Colin a lot
you guys should get SCG Macgill on the show.