Jack McNamara

@abbacarter @Zeus_Cricket 2003 World Cup in South Africa at same time, I think?

@Zeus_Cricket How did Mail get picked ahead of Bevan in that final? Surely you open with Katich or even Junior to get Bevan in. Was he injured?

Which Sheffield Shield winning batting lineup gets your vote?

Paid £7m for "implied silence". What happens when a bloke looks at Russian oligarchs and gangsters for lessons in morality and football.

Clinton has been sending Ollie to the same hairdresser. @VicStateCricket

@PaulAmy375 @vicpremcricket Saw that the Dandy skipper was a Newman, thought it must be Dave’s lad. But then made me feel even older.

Good double for Dandenong's Cooper Newman in the Dowling Shield, taking three wickets with his leggies and making 29no in a successful chase of Prahran's 257. He comes from good cricketing stock: his father, David, was a fine allrounder for two @vicpremcricket clubs.

@chris_willo Going to be analysing running between wickets like a centre bounce soon. “You have to get lower on the turn, he’s been run out by 3cm, and touched his bat 10cm over the line”.

@Bedeapk Mate, he’s got a catalogue of rippers.

Why as a publisher of Wisden would you tweet this tosh

@chris_willo Need Director of Cricket to be the one who looks after the external stuff; here is how warm up and prep is done, our goals and priorities are this, you need these asst coaches. Baz been given too much leash.

@willis_macp Coach started in charge of a team with an older core and took a step back, cleared their heads, got results. But been a lot of turnover since 2022… There’s a bit of a reverse Justin Langer here.

England review into Ashes shocker underway. No final decisions made, but if Brendon McCullum is to survive he will be told the culture of the team has to change markedly telegraph.co.uk/cricket/2026/0…

@StevoMedia Come on Stevo, he’s a NSW selector who has had a go at Bailey, Allsop and Oliver. It would be like a club employee making attacks on a bunch of AFL House staff members while on Comms.

CA banning ABC over this a nonsense. Does it expect media to be a cheersquad?

@daanysaeed @amenners Is seam bowling more effective in the “fringe” post Big Bash, Feb and March often driest months and wicket squares drier at that point?

@amenners Noting that Bellerive hosted all of two AFL games this season, the most recent in mid-August, and the most recent Clarence game was in late August.

Some of the main reasons spin bowling is in a tough spot in Australia: • AFL has taken over cricket grounds, meaning pitches aren’t as well prepared for longer-form cricket • Sheffield Shield and WTC structures reward results over draws, leading to livelier pitches • The Big Bash has pushed Sheffield Shield to the fringes of summer, where seam bowling is more effective • This has also forced more FC matches onto smaller grounds, where spin bowling is more challenging

@codecricketau @craddock_cmail Yes, particularly when the choice he’s given is a right arm off spinner, think it’s doubly so.

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@danbrettig Underplayed part of this seems to be Smith’s want for at least two seamers who can bowl short stuff. To be honest, think selection has been conservative at both Brisbane (Doggett picked to bowl sniffs in DN test??) and here in Sydney, where there was still a role for spinner.

“It’s sad." Former Australian spin bowler and selector Peter Taylor has declared Test cricket is poorer for the decline of slow bowling opportunities on grassy pitches, on the day Australia snubbed spin at the SCG for the first time since 1888 #Ashes theage.com.au/sport/cricket/…

Method has been to take “pressure” (consequences) away. Like Eng league cricket on steroids, “ah I’ll get a hit tomoz”. Guys dismissed letting their mates down and told “go harder”. Anti-thesis to what 🇦🇺 have been brought up with (2 day cricket, nothing given, everything earned)

Also, there is a point here on different reaction. But points finger at Australia vis press reaction (hmmm…) vs looking at what we might have respected about 2010/11 team vs this lot. Lots enjoy pointing out Aussies riled up by Bazball, without touching a main point.

Can we get a moratorium on comparing the pitches in Perth and Melbourne? If Perth’s pitch was so bad, why did England spend the majority of Travis Head’s innings bowling it half way down with six on the fence? And doing same to Marnus when he came in?

Where’s the logic here? Australia wanted a result wicket when 2-1 up against India, with Bumrah at the peak of his powers? Pull the other one. Just seen that what “Australia wants” pitch wise doesn’t actually come into play at all. @willis_macp

@BrookerRules @lithgowflashman Not really. SCG has issues, MCG spicy since they got in trouble and Perth not as consistent as WACA. Chuck in a pink ball test or two… 90s and 00s Australia had fifteen years on roads, with McGrath & Warne the key to bowling teams out.

@jackson_mac @lithgowflashman It is it simply that T20 is killing technique and application?

As has been the case for the last 18 months, thank goodness that Englands top order is atrocious. Australia’s top order are extremely lucky they have had Carey, Head and Webster around in 2025. Yes I know Beau Webster is not in the team. I just don’t accept it. #Ashes2025

@NickWelch51 I don’t blame the hesitation that much - the second thought was probably natural when it started spinning back to Carse. But running that extra distance - and taking away a legal “obstruction” was mad.

@chris_willo Forget Noosa stuff, handling of Wood is the issue that Eng have (so far) managed to avoid proper scrutiny over. Jofra getting injured might change that. Plus, non-English journos have spent a long time eye rolling at this team. Higgo & Pez can say out loud what others thinking.