AGB Cricket

SECOND TEST: HAGLEY OVAL

Another Test. Another greentop. Another toss won.

FIRST TEST: BASIN RESERVE

The top is green, the undies brown, the toss critical.

CHADLEE

Last time Australia played an ODI in New Zealand (the World Cup match at Eden Park) everyone thought road and runs, then the ball started moving. Given recent matches, though, and the hefty scores made by Australia, India, New Zealand and Pakistan you'd have to think juicy runs will be on the menu.

THIRD TEST: ADELAIDE OVAL

So you thought Adelaide had rarely hosted a Third Test. Idiot.

SECOND TEST: THE WACA

They still play Tests at the WACA? I trust the nets are up to keep the savages off the oval. (Or to keep the commentators from raving on about the pace of the WACA pitch.)

THEIR DON BRADMAN

Our Phil Hughes. Their Kane Williamson: "Is New Zealand batsman Kane Williamson better than Don Bradman?" Malcolm Knox injects perspective. (Malcolm's "degree-of-difficulty loading" is also a reminder that perspective needs to be maintained when a batsman makes a big score.)

FIRST TEST: THE GABBA

Bill Collins of film fame once said that you must keep watching films to keep in practice. The same applies to blogging: you've got to keep up the momentum. I've lost momentum.

95% of the way through a post on Stokes, Starc, Smith and obstruction, absolute grist for the AGB mill, it suddenly occurred to me that I couldn't be bothered. Couldn't even be bothered doing a post about David Gyngell and 4 days Tests. Jimmy Anderson saying the Poms fixed the pitches. The cancelled Bangladesh tour. Warner on McCullum and sledging. Yawn.

Anyway...