'Not even club cricket': Mark Waugh,

[vvvslaxman]

https://www.tbsnews.net/sports/not-even-club-cricket-waugh-clarke-extremely-critical-west-indies-bowling-2nd-test-548434

 

'Not even club cricket': Waugh, Clarke extremely critical of West Indies bowling in 2nd Test

Former Australia cricketer Mark Waugh was critical of the West Indies bowling. He labeled the quality of bowling in the last session on day two as "not even club cricket". He came down heavily on the visitors' strategy to use spinners Kraigg Brathwaite and Roston Chase before Tea.

 

In the ongoing second Test match between hosts Australia and West Indies, batters Marnus Labuschagne and Travis Head scored big hundreds and the hosts declared at a huge total of 511 for seven.  At one stage, Australia were 131/3 with captain Steven Smith caught and bowled for a duck by Jason Holder. But after the fall of the third wicket, Marnus and Head stitched a 297-run partnership to put the visitors on the back foot.

Former Australia cricketer Mark Waugh was critical of the West Indies bowling. He labeled the quality of bowling in the last session as "not even club cricket". He came down heavily on the visitors' strategy to use spinners Kraigg Brathwaite and Roston Chase before Tea.

"Tactically, I couldn't understand bringing a part-time spinner on in the first hour of the Test match," Waugh said on RSN Breakfast Club.

 

"They hung in there pretty well halfway through the day when they had Australia 3-131 but after that Marnus and Travis Head just took the game away from them. The last session, that was club cricket, not even club cricket, I'm being a bit disrespectful to club players. The bowling was very, very ordinary, they had hands in pockets and long-sleeve jumpers on, it just didn't look like they wanted to be there," he added.

Former Australia captain Michael Clarke was equally displeased with the uncompetitive cricket played by West Indies and he flayed them left, right and center.

 

 

"Take nothing away from those two batsmen but clubbies at best, the West Indies," Clarke said on Sky Sports' 'The Big Sports Breakfast'.

"Their bowlers, again they brought a debutant out from West Indies who landed a handful of days ago, always going to be a risk and it's such a long way to travel. They bowled two part-time spinners in the first session of a Test match. It's an average attack. Their tactics were just horrible. They are in deep trouble," he added.

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[express bowling]

5 hours ago, vvvslaxman said:

 

 

 

What does he want to mean here ?  Australia is pummeling most of these teams in test cricket.

[Need4Speed]

26 minutes ago, express bowling said:

 

 

What does he want to mean here ?  Australia is pummeling most of these teams in test cricket.

I guess its a sarcasm that they prefer to play against India/Eng most of the times..as that brings in lot of money..and also these 3 forms upper tier of cricket boards..

Edited December 12, 2022 by Need4Speed

[express bowling]

2 minutes ago, Need4Speed said:

I guess its a sarcasm that they prefer to play against India most of the times..as that brings in lot of money..

 

India and England ... but still they play a lot against the other teams too. About to play a 3 test series agsinst SA, which is pretty standard these days. 

 

Sarcasm must be based on facts to be funny.

[Need4Speed]

5 minutes ago, express bowling said:

 

India and England ... but still they play a lot against the other teams too. About to play a 3 test series agsinst SA, which is pretty standard these days. 

 

Sarcasm must be based on facts to be funny.

True..they also played against Pak recently..

 

[SRT100]

Im fairly certain the real cashcow for Australian Cricket is playing India in tests.

While Australians love the Ashes, I highly doubt it brings in those big dollars like playing against India.

Even crowd wise too.

[singhprakash72]

For WI cricketers Test cricket stopped making sense long time back...I don't see that changing anytime soon with all T20 leagues played globally.

[vvvslaxman]

48 minutes ago, singhprakash72 said:

For WI cricketers Test cricket stopped making sense long time back...I don't see that changing anytime soon with all T20 leagues played globally.

 

But they do well against England for some reason.

Edited December 13, 2022 by vvvslaxman

[singhprakash72]

13 hours ago, vvvslaxman said:

 

But they do well against England for some reason.

That will remain a mystery...there is something about England that makes them go specially at home. But fundamentally it is a side whose majority Test player will not even qualify as 12th man in the top 6 Test playing nation. They did show some promise few years ago under Jason Holder but that quickly fizzled out.

I think Ian Chappell alluded to that unless the domestic infrastructure doesn't attract Test players then it becomes really hard for sides like WI, Ireland, Afg, Zim and even Bang to have a decent Test side. I see in future only 4-5 countries actually playing serious Test cricket while the rest will be putting up a Test team that at the best will be a good One day side.

[sage]

15 hours ago, vvvslaxman said:

 

But they do well against England for some reason.

Windies beating England are responsible for Bazball being invented and Root stepping down

[Vijy]

On 12/13/2022 at 12:20 PM, sage said:

Windies beating England are responsible for Bazball being invented and Root stepping down

and a good thing it was for WC too