I never really warmed to Steve Waugh. Always came across as a bit of a toss pot.
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I never really warmed to Steve Waugh. Always came across as a bit of a toss pot.
Straya gonna get run down in the 4th again? We're pretty good at it
carn get in
How bad are you to get it wrong coming out of Steve O'keefes hand.
Indians still win 3-1.
4 tests? 1 win 3 washouts
Yeah but the mistake the Indians made was they actually thought he could spin the ballQuote:
Originally Posted by plague
It was his stock ball "the straight one" that fooled them everytime
Bloke never turned one all game on that wicket
Contrast that to Jadeja who turned it miles and we couldn't get bat on it to get out
Sometimes less is more and in this case it was
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Originally Posted by MFKS
this here is gospel.
watch Kohli's 2nd dig dismissal. Plays for the turn.
realises o'keene can't turn it.
too late.
shameful.
both will avg 400 rest of the series.
I'm with my bro Plague again - the bookies have made their money. India will be let off the leash now and score a squillion.Quote:
Originally Posted by plague
I reckon kohli's leave was the greatest ever cricket shot. It will only be topped in cricketing folk lore by his subsequent referral!
so at 1 for i turn over, go back, 8 for. carn
All done now!
How good the cricket today.
Kohli giving the big ones and running the mouth
Smith and Renshaw just smiling at him
It just good to see a contest like this
what a dour struggle. each run = 3
Mitch Marsh doing what the Marsh brothers do some things never change.
For the afficiandos of Test Cricket it captivating this dour struggleQuote:
Originally Posted by hawk
For the neutral it killing Test Cricket and giving the leg up on T20 shit
Batting for 90 overs and Aussies not score 200 in the day
Why??
Because the negative pitch and negative bowling and negative fields employed.
The shithlful wickets India keep producing is the main reason they are not able to dominate world cricket like they should as they don't develop good enough quick bowlers to do the business OS
it's absolutely brilliant. best game on the planet.Quote:
Originally Posted by MFKS
Already preaching to the converted with you though Q ManQuote:
Originally Posted by q-money
If you were trying to get into what test cricket was about Tests in India ain't exciting enough
Captivating last day
But the Aussie batting??
WTF???
Pretty piss poor effort Smith and Handscomb aside
fyi i had a good weekend at the casino so your boy nostraplageus can't miss at the moment.Quote:
Originally Posted by plague
who's kohli shushing lol
what's his average this series :yap:
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Originally Posted by q-money
whoever the damn hell he wants!!!!
We are also great for a collapse lolQuote:
Originally Posted by hawk
Clap that one kohli you knob.
Now, when does our 2nd innings collapse begin
It just not as fun watching the cricket without Kohli out there
Bloke makes it happen
Good shit this cricket
Australia relying on Glenn Maxwell to get us enough runs to give us a chance to win the series
**** me
Well, we are going to have to pull something ridiculous out here to get the win.. :whistling:
ditto.
Bangerdesh are munching us
dave warner, what a myth this flat-track bully is
Has a great record on fast pitches where he can hit through the lineQuote:
Originally Posted by q-money
Put him on slow pitches with any movement from seam or spin and he a complete enigma
Comical watching Australia's "best" trying to play Banga's spin.
Reverse sweep, charging down the wicket, playing off the back foot, making room and not knowing which way it will spin.
If the Poms have any sense they won't send any fast bowlers out here - don't need them.
Its interesting. On the one hand, I like the fact that different nations have different conditions suited to different playstyles - of both bowling and batting. It means there is actually huge differences between where matches are played. On the other hand [although this could just be showing my young age] it seems like in the last 5 - 10 years, these differences have become more pronounced. Sure we may always have struggled in India. But it seems like wherever we travel these days we are hugely inferior to our home form. And perhaps its slightly more pronounced with the Aussies but many other countries have similar differences in performance.
Are cricket boards around the world just tailoring conditions far more than they used to? Are local games more isolated than they used to be?
I think it has a lot to do with how cricket is played these daysQuote:
Originally Posted by Macca
20 years ago Aussie cricketers used to go to England in the off season and hone their skills
Nowadays the likes of Smith Warner etc don't as they either playing T20 or ODI shit or having some union enforced break and don't play county cricket
Matter of fact most of our current test team don't play First class cricket outside of tests as they never available for shield cricket
Throw in the reluctance for having warm up matches of note or doing legitimate tours and you can see why blokes are exposed to the conditions as being foreign
Some fair points there. Particularly the county cricket and shorter tours.Quote:
Originally Posted by MFKS
Before World Series Cricket arrived the game was in dire straits. Ian Chappel managed to get players a living from the game and all was well. Nobody really wanted 50 over cricket but it was the price we had to pay to rid the game of its amateur status. 20/20 is pretty much the straw that broke the camels back - it has ruined the game. Batsmen today shit themselves on anything thats not flat and predictable - bowlers are forced to bowl on lifeless wickets because the marketing department think balls going over the fence is what the fans want. You would need to be a glutton for punishment bowling in these times and it's no wonder bowlers come and go through injury so often.
We don't want to be back where Bradman had the game in the 60's / 70's - but the sooner 20/20 goes the better. It's ruined the game. Players and administrators target an income rather than a level of skill.
Our saviour at the momentQuote:
Originally Posted by q-money
Lol
Useless ****s really
Can't bat
Can't play
How some of these posers get selected beats me
Ever since Matt Wade came into the side has he made a ****ing score with the bat??
Maxwell now your ****ing kidding
Poms got rolled by the Windies too.
Ashes should be ace.
few egos getting put into place i hope. They aint all that. Dizzy could have won this by himself
players dont care, who they gonna pick instead.Quote:
Originally Posted by hawk
everyone in the team is the best we've got standing innit?
except Maxwell who is trash and garbage and Wade whos there just because Peter Neville is very quiet as he scores a million runs.