2025-2026 Summer of Cricket

A convulsive series victory by Australia but the selectors need to make some changes for the next test series. Jake has to be dropped, Webster is a better option than Green at present and a spinner should be picked for each test except where the pitch is too green.

The next Ashes series in England will be much harder to win.
 
My team for the first test against Bangladesh this Winter:

Head
Renshaw
Labuschagne
Smith
McSweeney
Carey
Webster
Cummins
Starc
Lyon, if fit, Kuhnemann if not
Hazelwood

Boland
Richardson
Kellaway
 
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I’d be picking Boland over Hazelwood at this point. I like the rest of your side though. Webster should have been picked in the first test over Green for the ashes
 
Alyssa Healy has announced her retirement after a long and an exceptional career.

I wonder if we can expect to hear the pitter patter of a Starc child with an truely exceptional cricketing pedigree before too long.

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Australia women’s captain Alyssa Healy to retire from cricket in March

Alyssa Healy, the captain of Australia’s women’s team, has announced she is to retire from cricket in March and so will not play in the T20 World Cup in June
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Macca89 said:
I’d be picking Boland over Hazelwood at this point. I like the rest of your side though. Webster should have been picked in the first test over Green for the ashes
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I know Hazelwood is injury prone but he was in exceptional form in the lead up to the Ashes, but it would take him a while to regain his match fitness. Boland would be the safe option.
 
If he gets right for the back end of the Sheffield shield and looks good then I’d pick him but if he hasn’t played any games I’d go Boland
 
Australia play ireland in there first match of the u19 world cup tonight from 630. Icc tournament so it is only on amazon prime.
 
Another round of shield cricket kicked off yesterday with three first class teams again unable to bat through a single day. I don't think our bowling stocks are good enough to explain this happening so regularly. Wickets need to be good enough to reward patient batting which in turn toughens up our leading bowlers. We produced our best test teams with that formula through the 90s.
 
Owey said:
Another round of shield cricket kicked off yesterday with three first class teams again unable to bat through a single day. I don't think our bowling stocks are good enough to explain this happening so regularly. Wickets need to be good enough to reward patient batting which in turn toughens up our leading bowlers. We produced our best test teams with that formula through the 90s.
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It’s the insane points system. Much easier to take 10 wickets in 100 overs than score 300 runs so they just don’t prepare flat decks anymore.
 
Being able to stay at the crease has nothing to do with the wicket prepared. Batters have a willingness to slap fours and sixers, with the attitude to prove they are better then the bowler staying at the crease trying to keep your wicket is not as important as scoring runs. When batters transfer to the long game they dont have the right skill set to stay at the crease and it is difficult to transfer from limited overs to batting all day with your wicket being the priority. Yet I am a bit bias and my opinion is that batters don't have the skill set to block a ball on a seaming wicket or a wetty never mind on one with no bounce like we all use to play on before the big covers and heavy rollers came into a suburban cricket club.
 
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