@carlton_hero@Daffodi08166614 Why say "on the field" if not to draw this distinction? They could hardly have tampered with the ball in the dressing room for example, as the ball was never in the dressing room.
Did the full time cricket journos fly up to Sydney for this? Why is no one asking about sandpaper on the ball before the start of each session? He keeps hiding behind the wording of sandpaper "on the field", but that's not the claim or the revelation of this past week.
@APJReyno@smokeyjoh Khawaja has said they used sandpaper on the ball before the start of each session, after the umpires handed over the ball but before the team went on.
@DemPanopoulos How about him actually reading the book instead of responding to quotes and stories? How about responding to claims actually made, rather than a strawman about knowing that sandpaper was on the field of play?
@Jousting_Sticks They absolutely won't, but imagining the for public sale ones having a back sash and the playing version not having it. They'll sell you the playing version but only at club shop and only if you get a number on it. Ideal but unrealistic
A fifty off 14 balls. Then a hundred today. But Nobody is hyping Jake Fraser-McGurk any more. That is the strange part. He has spent this week batting like the most talented kid in Australia and the noise around him is gone, and I still cannot work out whether this bloke is good or garbage.
What happened to this kid?
You know him from the IPL, from when the hype sat at a level almost nobody in Australian cricket ever gets handed. Then he disappeared. Not in one go either, which is what I keep turning over. The fall was somehow sudden and gradual at the same time, and I cannot work out why it happened at all.
Because he could have been the best batting talent in Australia right now. The raw skill is insane. But either he has been reluctant to improve, or his coaches have been unable to fix his technique, and I honestly do not know which of those two it is. Between them, the talent is going to waste.
He is your classic hitter without the technique to back it up. One game in ten the slashing comes off and he looks like the best young batter on earth. The other nine he flops.
Raw skill on its own has never carried anybody far. He has to work out what actually works for him.