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Matt Baseley retweeted
Indian captains have publicly demanded groundskeepers be sacked for not preparing pitches to the captain’s specifications
India recently prepared a pitch v Australia that was more worn on one side then the other bc we had a lot of left handers playing
Back in your box Sunny 🌞
Is Sunny on the money? 🏏
Indian cricket legend Sunil Gavaskar says the pitch at the fast-moving Test match at the SCG would be questioned if it were played in India. 🌱
"If 15 wickets fell [on one day] in India, all hell would have broken loose. We had Glenn McGrath saying he'd never seen so much grass. Did you hear any former India cricketer moan about the pitch?" Gavaskar said.
"When we go out and play cricket we will toughen it out. And if we are beaten, we are beaten. Overseas it's very difficult to beat home teams.
"I did say that when we saw the pitch yesterday, the cows could have gone and grazed on it.
"This is not the ideal Test match pitch that you want because you want it to go into a fourth and fifth day. Unless there is rain I don't see us being here on day four." 🇦🇺 🇮🇳
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Matt Baseley retweeted
Jasprit Bumrah has been unstoppable without ever getting angry or looking fired-up throughout his career. Imagine how destructive he could become if he does start getting angry & fired-up. Konstas might have found a switch that we didn’t know existed. Look out batters #AusvInd
Matt Baseley retweeted
Simon Taufel: "We saw with that side on shot there was a spike on RTS with the bat away from the pad, in other words the bottom of the bat hadn't reached the pad.
"Therefore rolling that through in its natural course, you may have seen that second spike (on Snicko, to indicate bat hitting pad) come through, had it been rolled all the way through."
#AUSvIND
"His pad and bat are not together at that point in time as the ball passes.
"It's (bat hitting pad) after, in fact, the ball passes the edge. Does Snicko pick up the sound of the bat hitting the pad?
"We're assuming (Snicko) may be the outside edge of the bat but that may not be the case."
- Matthew Hayden #AUSvIND
Matt Baseley retweeted
Another game to be decided by a referee. Disgraceful penalty on Jurbo for great tackle changed momentum of the game. Now a sin bin. It’s a friggen joke
Matt Baseley retweeted
If Manly are to go deep into the finals it will be off the back of Tom Trbojevic.
Since returning to the field, he has scored 6 tries and set up 9 in 6 appearances...
When he's fit he is 'the best No.1 in the game' 🤩
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Matt Baseley retweeted
J.K. Rowling and Elon Musk have both been named in a criminal complaint filed to French authorities over alleged “acts of aggravated cyber harassment” against Algerian boxer and newly crowned Olympic champion Imane Khelif.
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Matt Baseley retweeted
This has become an absolute farce.
For children to play sport on weekends, it can’t rain on the day or the night before…..otherwise matches are not played.
Councils just cancel games on a whim leaving young kids devastated.
Balmain is one of the worst. Any sign of mud, it’s cancelled.
Registration fees are exorbitant & this year footy players have missed more matches than they’ve played.
Matt Baseley retweeted
That's as gutsy as it gets from Manly.
First team to come from behind and win a game this year after losing a back in the first half.
And they did it with zero fit players on the bench, as a team who has given up plenty of leads this year. #NRLManlyDragons
Matt Baseley retweeted
Manly down to 13 men for the entire second half, and risk playing short if they lose another man to injury.
That is a genuine duty-of-care issue, with forwards forced to play unchanged.
18th man has to be available for more than just concussions. #NRLManlyDragons
Matt Baseley retweeted
Alexa Leary nearly died after a catastrophic bike accident three years ago.
Now she's headed to the Paralympics -- and she gave the best interview ever immediately after! 💚💛
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Matt Baseley retweeted
Frank and Shirley discover that their new bridge partners are swingers #brianwenzel #lorraedesmond #acountrypractice
Matt Baseley retweeted
Celebrate the start of the NRL season at the Rugby League in Las Vegas Fan Fest on Thursday 29 Feb at 6pm.
Be there to witness all the excitement with your favourite players, indie rock band @wearesheppard and one of DJ's @StaffordBros and much more!
Entry is free!
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Matt Baseley retweeted
I dont want to hear anymore world cricket needs a strong West Indies.
You want us to build from this - create a financial model that allows us to keep players like Shamar Joseph playing test cricket.
We lose money playing test cricket this needs a co-ordinated ICC approach.
Matt Baseley retweeted
In 2023 Pat Cummins has captained Australia to win the World Test Championship, retain the Ashes, win the World Cup, win a Test series v Pakistan and along the way took more Test wickets than any other fast bowler in the world. Have all those critics woken up now?
Matt Baseley retweeted
India’s net run rate - 2.456
England’s total points - 2
#CWC23
Matt Baseley retweeted
Good luck finding time in the cricket calendar to schedule a reserve day for every Test around the world because occasionally it rains. Drawn Tests are down from 45% in the 1980s, 35% in the 90s, 24% in the 00s, 19% in the 2010s, 16% in the 2020s. It's not exactly a major problem