Matthew Wade was brought back into an Australian side at its lowest ebb for, among other reasons, his big mouth. And the Channel Nine stump microphones on Saturday night revealed the recalled Australian wicketkeeper running it with abandon.
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Starc stars as Aussies eye victory
Mitchell Starc shone with both bat and ball to put Australia in a winning position following day three of the Third Test against South Africa in Adelaide.
"Let's start a collapse here boys!" Wade barked at one point when the mics were left turned up by the broadcaster between balls. "Open the door, Hoff!".Â
When Nathan Lyon was bowling from the Cathedral End, with Wade stationed in close to the batsman, the relentlessness of the gloveman's chatter was evident.
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"Nice, Garr-eeeey!!" or the alternative "Nice, Gazza!!" are the stock lines, hollered in the ear of South Africans for any ball that went remotely near the stumps. There were quite a few of them as Lyon, in a very good spell after the dinner break, tied down JP Duminy and Stephen Cook before frustrating Duminy, on 26, into an attempted flick across the line that ended with him losing his off bail.
Later, while Temba Bavuma was reviewing an lbw decision after being trapped by Lyon near the close of day three, Wade couldn't resist a chat with umpire Nigel Llong as the rest of the Australians waited in a group.
The concept of a 'keeper who natters away incessantly is, of course, hardly foreign to cricket but whether it has any discernable impact on the opposition is debatable.
"Wade is a world-class 'keeper... and to have that vocal [element] back in the side is probably helping especially with the younger guys in our team," Lyon said. "But in saying that, Peter Nevill is up there with the best glovemen I've ever bowled to."
The contrast here, though, with the man Wade deposed, Nevill, is striking.
It's not that Nevill isn't a talker, it's just that in the Australian team and with Lyon in particular, his chat tended to be conducted between overs and gave the impression of being of a more cerebral nature.
The switching of Test glovemen, the most controversial of the raft of changes that were made leading into the third Test in Adelaide, continues to be a discussion point.Â
It's natural that the subject continues to be on the water-cooler agenda with Nevill's dropping having occurred so recently and it only intensifies with just about every move Wade makes here. There was a further reason for comparison on Saturday as Nevill, batting at No.5 for NSW in the Sheffield Shield, made his way to an unbeaten 73 at stumps against Tasmania.
At around the same time of the afternoon Wade, who was out cheaply in difficult batting conditions in Australia's first innings on Friday night, was being questioned about whether or not he should have moved across to snatch a ball that had flown off the edge of Hashim Amla's bat between the 'keeper and first slip Mathew Renshaw.
The debutant Australian, reaching to his left, put the catch down but it was Wade who should have stepped across and taken it rather than have his feet glued to the ground, argued former Test gloveman Ian Healy. Â
"I think it's [the] keeper," Healy, who believes Wade kept well in the first innings, said on the Channel Nine telecast.
"How quickly can it disappear for a wicketkeeper? He's really got to get the left foot on the deck when he's moving to the right and get that movement started so slips aren't confused and major catches are taken."
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