GNR4LIFE
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@GNR4LIFE said:
Get that man a NEW.
Cricket Season Thread
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Get that man a NEW.
@GNR4LIFE said:
No, we're not smug or arrogant are we?
Most teams behave like that when they are winning. The Indians and Aussies are shocking when they are on a hot streak.
tig_prmz
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well i hate england, seeing them smash us and then smash the indians in england as well as in india made me even more angry. bloody hellll
Glen_McWilliams
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Celebrated by taking a pee on the pitch apparently.
Stay classy England.
Stay classy England.
WestsSupporter
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When England come to Australia, I hope the whole environment is hostile. The team shouldn't socialise or play nice with the English. Broad should be given the same treatment Quade Cooper got a the World Cup in NZ. Clarke needs to find some sort of Border-like-quality inside him and be a real dick to England.
@Glen McWilliams said:
A bit late in trying to green it up
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@Cultured Bogan said:
Mafia agrees with all that written above we are the worst country in cricket when it comes to losing as for England being wankers I never once saw any of there players dancing with a wicket over there head like the biggest wanker warne did well done England you deserve it they played a lot better than us simple really 3-0
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GNR4LIFE
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@MAFIA said:
The link i posted above was from the famous SCG test against India. Michael Clarke edged to slip and stood his ground. Funny how the Aussie public get cases of selective memories when deciding to bash Stuart Broad. I find the whole thing pathetic. There isn't anything the Poms have done that the Aussies in era's past haven't.
Could you imagine the hate we'd have if one their players came out before each series and predicted clean sweeps like McGrath use to?
Double standards
tigertilidie
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i hope stuart broad cries when he comes to Australia. i know i will be giving it to him on boxing day and at the test in sydney
@GNR4LIFE said:
I love giving it to the Poms don't get me wrong, but I am not one to suffer the delusion that we're morally superior to them. We're just as bad, in fact we're probably worse. Our players don't walk, sledge to kingdom come and will do anything for the win. Australians (generally speaking,) are shocking when it comes to acknowledging their opposition. The English played horribly by their standards and still won 3-0\. We can bleat about the two weather affected matches and how it was ours to win but it we didn't win it, that's cricket.
Lastly, I found it funny how England was criticised for delaying tactics in the last Test, but when Clarke knew the game was in the balance he was pleading with the umpires to call it due to bad light.
happy_tiger
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Gee ODI squads for both Australia and England are weak
Atherton reckons the public has a right to demand a refund
Supposedly the players want a rest before the Ashes series begins
So its August 28th and they want a break until November
I'm with Atherton ,suck it up princesses you had a few days off with the washout days
Atherton reckons the public has a right to demand a refund
Supposedly the players want a rest before the Ashes series begins
So its August 28th and they want a break until November
I'm with Atherton ,suck it up princesses you had a few days off with the washout days
GNR4LIFE
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@Cultured Bogan said:
Its also funny how we give it to them for having so many South African's in their side. If theres one nation that doesn't have a right to bag others for the use of ex-pats its us. Throughout sport over over the yrs, we'd have one of the highest rates of ex-pats of any country in the world. A lot of the whinging about it though has a lot to do with the fact we're losing like you said. If we were winning no one would care, but we have to find an excuse and someone to blame when we lose.
Glen_McWilliams
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Must have been like batting on my mum's driveway.
http://www.espncricinfo.com/the-ashes-2013/engine/match/566937.html
http://www.espncricinfo.com/the-ashes-2013/engine/match/566937.html
Finch almost outscored the Poms on his own.
GNR4LIFE
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In regards to the Aussie batting line being settled now, well id dispute that. A settled batting line up is one that produces hundreds consistently, not just one test. Guys like Smith, Watson and Rogers still have a lot to prove. People often get caught up in flavours of the month who produce a couple good scores then flat line, like Warner, Cowen and you could throw Hughes in there as well. but they can't do it consistently. 1 test where a couple guys who needed to deliver made big scores isn't enough for me just yet to say the batting puzzle has been solved.
@GNR4LIFE said:
Toheeys drinker….explains a bit :sunglasses:
What an incredible batting effort over night by Finch. Some of those sixes were extraordinary shots...e.g. the cut shot six when he fell away from the ball and was on one knee.
I still think 20/20 is a joke game but that was one of the better ones thats for sure.
Zimbabwe jagged a win against Pakistan.
Wonder if the ICC will look over that one?
Wonder if the ICC will look over that one?
Glen_McWilliams
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Hussey raised concerns about team culture
Daniel Brettig
October 2, 2013
Michael Hussey has revealed he arranged a formal meeting with former Australia coach, Mickey Arthur, to express concern about the direction and culture of the Australian team as early as the West Indies tour in 2012, and also conceded that his concerns hastened thoughts of retirement. During the Caribbean trip, on which the tourists won the Test series 2-0, Hussey met with Arthur to outline his worries about the way the team was progressing, foreshadowing the dire results that would occur in India and England following his retirement.
A few of Hussey's points of trouble included the development of an insular team environment where players looked out for themselves and their own positions rather than pulling together for the team, and also the emergence of a tense, unhelpful atmosphere in the dressing room. In his autobiography, Underneath the Southern Cross, Hussey writes that he did not feel his concerns were adequately addressed.
"While I was in the West Indies, I became concerned at a deeper level about how I was enjoying being in the team," Hussey wrote. "My view was always that in cricket you have to be genuinely happy for your team-mates' success. If it wasn't happening, was it the team culture or was it just a few players? I was a bit nervous about that, and organised a meeting with Mickey.
"I sat down with him and and got all my concerns out in the open. 'We need to foster a culture that makes them want to think about other people and play for the team,' I said. 'Get them out of [that] insular thinking and bring in team activities. It's about caring for each other. There's too much insular thinking; about number one only.'
"Did Mickey see it as something that could be improved? In our chat, I don't think anything I said went in. Mickey definitely listened, but he was in tunnel vision mode too. He had specific things he wanted to focus on, and anything from left field didn't register. I walked away from the meeting thinking I was glad to have got it off my chest, but it didn't go anywhere.
"It was understandable how Mickey had his specific plans, and Michael [Clarke] too, but for me it was a big early warning sign that this team had problems ahead of it. We were fostering an environment where guys only cared about their positions and didn't think about the team. The dressing room became just as stressful and tense as [it was] out in the middle. It should be a sanctuary, where you can let go and have a joke with your team-mates. Our dressing room wasn't relaxed or calm, or conducive to good play. I didn't enjoy that tension, and I'm sure some of the guys weren't enjoying it."
Through the period of Clarke's captaincy and Arthur's coaching tenure, Hussey enjoyed some of the best run-scoring form of his career, but his memoir is dotted with instances of reservations about the direction the team was taking, particularly due to several of the dictates of the Argus review. Hussey also recalls how Clarke's position as a selector, a post he has now relinquished, created an atmosphere in which players were fearful of consequences should they put a single step wrong in the dressing room.
Issues with the Australian team's direction and the attitudes of individual players were to bubble to the surface in India earlier this year following Hussey's international retirement. His earlier worries were borne out in the homework saga, David Warner's misbehaviour during the Champions Trophy in England, and the sacking of Arthur immediately before the Ashes.
Michael Hussey's autobiography, Underneath the Southern Cross, is out this week.
http://www.espncricinfo.com/australia/content/current/story/676155.html
Looks like it will be an interesting read and likely to have more of an effect on Australian Cricket than the Argus Report.
Daniel Brettig
October 2, 2013
Michael Hussey has revealed he arranged a formal meeting with former Australia coach, Mickey Arthur, to express concern about the direction and culture of the Australian team as early as the West Indies tour in 2012, and also conceded that his concerns hastened thoughts of retirement. During the Caribbean trip, on which the tourists won the Test series 2-0, Hussey met with Arthur to outline his worries about the way the team was progressing, foreshadowing the dire results that would occur in India and England following his retirement.
A few of Hussey's points of trouble included the development of an insular team environment where players looked out for themselves and their own positions rather than pulling together for the team, and also the emergence of a tense, unhelpful atmosphere in the dressing room. In his autobiography, Underneath the Southern Cross, Hussey writes that he did not feel his concerns were adequately addressed.
"While I was in the West Indies, I became concerned at a deeper level about how I was enjoying being in the team," Hussey wrote. "My view was always that in cricket you have to be genuinely happy for your team-mates' success. If it wasn't happening, was it the team culture or was it just a few players? I was a bit nervous about that, and organised a meeting with Mickey.
"I sat down with him and and got all my concerns out in the open. 'We need to foster a culture that makes them want to think about other people and play for the team,' I said. 'Get them out of [that] insular thinking and bring in team activities. It's about caring for each other. There's too much insular thinking; about number one only.'
"Did Mickey see it as something that could be improved? In our chat, I don't think anything I said went in. Mickey definitely listened, but he was in tunnel vision mode too. He had specific things he wanted to focus on, and anything from left field didn't register. I walked away from the meeting thinking I was glad to have got it off my chest, but it didn't go anywhere.
"It was understandable how Mickey had his specific plans, and Michael [Clarke] too, but for me it was a big early warning sign that this team had problems ahead of it. We were fostering an environment where guys only cared about their positions and didn't think about the team. The dressing room became just as stressful and tense as [it was] out in the middle. It should be a sanctuary, where you can let go and have a joke with your team-mates. Our dressing room wasn't relaxed or calm, or conducive to good play. I didn't enjoy that tension, and I'm sure some of the guys weren't enjoying it."
Through the period of Clarke's captaincy and Arthur's coaching tenure, Hussey enjoyed some of the best run-scoring form of his career, but his memoir is dotted with instances of reservations about the direction the team was taking, particularly due to several of the dictates of the Argus review. Hussey also recalls how Clarke's position as a selector, a post he has now relinquished, created an atmosphere in which players were fearful of consequences should they put a single step wrong in the dressing room.
Issues with the Australian team's direction and the attitudes of individual players were to bubble to the surface in India earlier this year following Hussey's international retirement. His earlier worries were borne out in the homework saga, David Warner's misbehaviour during the Champions Trophy in England, and the sacking of Arthur immediately before the Ashes.
Michael Hussey's autobiography, Underneath the Southern Cross, is out this week.
http://www.espncricinfo.com/australia/content/current/story/676155.html
Looks like it will be an interesting read and likely to have more of an effect on Australian Cricket than the Argus Report.
happy_tiger
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It will be interesting to see what pitches we prepare for the Poms when they come out
They have a better batting line up , consistently better quick bowlers ( we can be as good as the Poms but then offer some woeful single sessions ) and we definitely lose the spin battle
Looking at each ground
The Gabba will probably suit the Poms better
Perth will definitely suit the Poms especially if they can get the doctor to work in their favour when it reverses
MCG will be evens
Adelaide will suit the Poms
Sydney will suit the Poms the longer the Tests lasts
Not a very promising outlook Who wins the toss in Sydney ,Adelaide and even Melbourne will be crucial
They have a better batting line up , consistently better quick bowlers ( we can be as good as the Poms but then offer some woeful single sessions ) and we definitely lose the spin battle
Looking at each ground
The Gabba will probably suit the Poms better
Perth will definitely suit the Poms especially if they can get the doctor to work in their favour when it reverses
MCG will be evens
Adelaide will suit the Poms
Sydney will suit the Poms the longer the Tests lasts
Not a very promising outlook Who wins the toss in Sydney ,Adelaide and even Melbourne will be crucial
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