Ashes 2009
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@Allan Towle said:
Australia need to treat this test as a series of 50 over games given the beautiful one minute pouring the next Pommy summer….both with the bat and ball if they are any hope....At least it shows they have a plan to try and win the thing....You watch the Poms freeze and go to water when they bat
So was Hussey bowled so much for the plan…..
Juro
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Congratulations to Ponting for passing Border's record. Shame he couldn't go on with it…
Don_Brodga
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@Jazza said:
Every bowler sucked in India. Much like in england at the moment, Hilfenhaus has been the best performed of the lot, but he's still been fairly average.
Watson has been playing first class cricket for 8 years now. In test cricket most players generally hit the ground running and have exceptional averages that over the course of time fluctuate. Shane Watson in contrast, has an average of 22\. He is weak physically, he is weak mentally and I'm sorry, but runs he has scored against weakened shield sides and english county sides doesn't show he can play.
All he has to do is stand up and he is rushed back into the national squad simply because he is liked by the captain and coach. He is not in the top 6 batsman in the country and his gun barrel straight 130 km/h garbage he bowls doesn't put him in the top 4 bowlers. The sooner hacks like Shane Watson, Peter Siddle and Michael Hussey exit the side, along with the inept coach and selectors, is when we will start winning tests again.
Don_Brodga
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@Juro said:
Got out to a bouncer aswell. Guess he's suspect to the short ball now also.
Don_Brodga
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@Allan Towle said:
Simon Katich got a run a ball 46, that's not Neck's style. Australia went out there to score runs fast and succeded. When it was actual Test match conditions like this morning, Shane Watson showed what he's made of.
So were they justified in dropping Hughes for Watson? No Way!
@Don Brodga said:
If your blaming the selection of Watson on Hughes dumping then I think your directing you angst at the wrong player and State….Hussey as a pretected species is the one I'd be peeved at...Watson got a pretty good ball first up ....what Hussey did was either criminal or idiotic he's lost it....also Bollinger should be there for Johnson and his piechuckers hey
Clarke just got a stinker fron finger of death Rudi.....Use the technology Rudi you clown
Clarke looked out live though. Seemed to get heaps far over.
Hughes shoulld deffinately be playing though. The bloke was a champion on the last tour and without a recognised spare batsman, you stick with him. Hayden was given heaps of time as is Hussey and the new bloke gets shafted because Watson comes out publicly saying he wants to open. Than Merv Hughes the clown says publicly Hughes struggles against the short ball. What a moron. Johnson was given the chance and is also visibly struggling but everything is rosey.
North goes fishing than Johnson leaves a straight one. Hawkeye says going over but you dig your own grave when let you the ball go. 7-202\. Hauritz keeps out the hatrick ball. Australia will be bowling sometime after lunch for sure. Might not be a bad thing with this ball doing these things if the bowlers can put it in the right spots.
Hughes shoulld deffinately be playing though. The bloke was a champion on the last tour and without a recognised spare batsman, you stick with him. Hayden was given heaps of time as is Hussey and the new bloke gets shafted because Watson comes out publicly saying he wants to open. Than Merv Hughes the clown says publicly Hughes struggles against the short ball. What a moron. Johnson was given the chance and is also visibly struggling but everything is rosey.
North goes fishing than Johnson leaves a straight one. Hawkeye says going over but you dig your own grave when let you the ball go. 7-202\. Hauritz keeps out the hatrick ball. Australia will be bowling sometime after lunch for sure. Might not be a bad thing with this ball doing these things if the bowlers can put it in the right spots.
I have to actually give Merv credit for saying that cause the dumb ass, Poms brought it…Watson plays the short ball as well as Ricky...
Poms have bowled well....and it's moving....lets go Hilfy
Poms have bowled well....and it's moving....lets go Hilfy
@Geo. said:
I agree, if they were to drop anyone, it shouldve been Hussey, Watson could then come in and bat at number 6, and Clarke can then shift up to number 4 where he should be as an experienced player in a young side. Hussey, I dunno i think he needs glasses, he has had more then enough chances to get out of this slump, its been 14 tests since his last 100 and even before that 100 he didnt do to well in the Windies either.
8/203, whats that a collapse of 8/118?
I too must say that as somone who bowls swing, its great to see. The ball is moving a mile and the lengths theyare hitting are perfect. Great stuff from a swing bowlers point of view.
With that said, Hilfenhaus and Siddle need to bowl just as well and Johnson needs to show something.
With that said, Hilfenhaus and Siddle need to bowl just as well and Johnson needs to show something.
Juro
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My goodness! What a disastrous session that was! Where's that damned rain when you need it? I guess if you can't last 2 sessions, you need an awful lot of rain!
Don_Brodga
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Well Ricky Ponting's dream team seems to be doing brilliantly. You'd like to think the team will be vastly different.
Team for first test of Aussie summer should be:
Jaques
Hughes
Ponting
Katich ©
Clarke
North
Haddin
Lee
Hauritz
Clark
Bollinger
No bits and pieces players, no players picked because they "played well in the nets" just 7 great batsmen, 4 great bowlers. When you pick batsmen, you pick them on how they bat, not on whether they can offer "handy" bowling options. The media and selectors undying need for an all-rounder is ridiculous. Steve Waugh's side proved you don't need one.
Team for first test of Aussie summer should be:
Jaques
Hughes
Ponting
Katich ©
Clarke
North
Haddin
Lee
Hauritz
Clark
Bollinger
No bits and pieces players, no players picked because they "played well in the nets" just 7 great batsmen, 4 great bowlers. When you pick batsmen, you pick them on how they bat, not on whether they can offer "handy" bowling options. The media and selectors undying need for an all-rounder is ridiculous. Steve Waugh's side proved you don't need one.
Don_Brodga
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@Allan Towle said:
Isn't it sad. Australia is praying for rain against bloody england.
I feel so ashamed.
@Don Brodga said:
Steve Waugh also had a lot more talant…plus he had Steve Waugh.....Ponting should have the NSW team but I'd drop North and put in Thornley....
