Perhaps you should have got the picture of Johnson doing it , considering it happened three times....
Alright, so I am quite drunk tonight, had a crazy night, which I may or may not start a thread cause in my opinion, it deserve one. But I am drunk and tired, so give it some love
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Watson needs a ton. Hopefully he and Hussey can sink the boot in. We need 450.
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What a great end. Aussies with the momentum now.....
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I hope some of the poms have to deal with some chin music today.... Especially Anderson.... oh and Swann...
So far, my prediction is coming through about swann, 3 tests down, effective only in one. Tony Grieg was quite critical of him yesterday. Saying this is the first time he has been challenged and he has no idea how to respond.
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Why does England have to be so shit??? They have now caused Australia a selection nightmare...
If they put up a bit of a fight, Smith could have had a bowl and we could have seen how he went.
Now heading into Melbourne, they will probably have to drop siddle for Beer. I actually like all those boys in there for this test, and if Smith went well, he could have played as our front line spinner and left a 4 prong pace attack....
Fuckin England....
Love it!!!
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im still perplexed by the selection of smith if they keep the same XI for the 4th test. i like smith, but he's not in the top 6 batsmen in australia. granted he bats in the top 6 for nsw and has made runs, but hes not a test #6. neither is he the best spinner in australia. so he's sort of an insurance policy, which is pretty risky at #6 when ponting and clarke havent hit it off the square for 2 years. i guess you could look at it differently if hadds batted 6 and smith, 7, but i still think playing smith and beer is wrong for he mcg. if youre going to pick beer for boxing day, then smith should go for another top6 batsman... we werent found out by this interesting selection in perth because harris and johnson bowled so well. oh and hughes has to go. no questions asked. his technique is so highly flawed at the top level it's not funny. cant let this win get in the way of the fact that watson, hussey and haddin at #7 is what's holding us together with the bat.
Yeh I've seen Pearl Jam, too. But I can't remember the dates.
I would love to keep the same 11 for MCG, but I know it can't happen... I'd be reluctant to change the team too much (beer fo siddle prob the only one. They have a winning feeling now... I agree about Hughes, but I like him (maybe its the NSW in me, but my favourite players aren't determined by the state they're from) If he gets lucky and hits a ton, all of a sudden he will be the flavour of the month....
Thrilla? where are you???
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So it was a great test, and as I will try and do is make my team of the series up.... SO here goes
1 Cook
2 Watson
3 Trott (not too impressive here)
4 Pietersen (um, Clarke doing nothing)
5 Hussey (I think he is man of the series so far. Maybe a tie with cook, but Hussey has been the backbone)
6 Bell
7 Haddin
8 Anderson (losing form, disappointing for a quality bowler especially seeming he was bowling at fast bowlers heaven)
9 Johnson
10 Harris
11 Finn
12 Swann just... (has struggled)
Special mentions to Tremlett, bowled very well
A four prong pace attack....
And even though he is not in the team, captain goes to Ponting. Tactically one of the best games he has had for Australia. He set good fields, he lobbied for the 4 seamers and he lead well. Batting.... Well here's hoping he comes good.
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Ponting said yesterday that he doesn't know how his form is because he hasn't been able to hang around long enough to see...
Had a couple of good cherries early, brilliantly caught by Collingwood, and a stupid tickle down leg side...
Strauss is a funny one, for a few balls he looks good, then just seems a shadow of himself in other balls.
But as I said in an earlier post, I think tactically it was the best game Ponting has played as a captain in a long time... Set good fields.... Plenty of pressure behind the wicket, bowlers didn't bowl to short (apart from that spell from Siddle where he got Prior) Bowled full and most of the wickets (perhaps all) were either bowled, LBW or caught behind the wicket.
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Bowled the best ball of my life today. Man I was so excited.
Bowling to my old captain, who is a decent left hand bat, he is still playin and has scored 160 from his last two digs. Anyway, we were just in the nets, and there was a strong breeze blowing from left to right, so I bowled around the wicket, throwing the ball into the breeze, which was holding the ball up nicely and I was getting a bit of turn (offies).
Bowled him about 6 balls, bowled a few goodies, he played some good shots. Next ball I bowled a quicker one, no flight probably 10-15km faster than normal pitched middle and leg, he came to defend it with a good stride forward bat and pad together and the ball whizzed past the outside edge and hit the top of off....
I was pumped,
Sorry for boring you, but I could only tell my mum and sister and they know nothing about cricket so didn't understand.
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Ponting said yesterday that he doesn't know how his form is because he hasn't been able to hang around long enough to see...
Ha, the man is an idiot, I'd say if you can't last more then 15 balls your form is pretty shit. There still wasn't many positives in that test, sure the win is good but think of how fucked we would have been if Johnson sat out another test. Our batting still needs a lot of improvement if we are to win this thing overall. If we could bat it should have been a bigger flogging then that. England had two days to score 300 and something runs, just lucky for us they didn't.
I honestly think we were the slightly less shit of two shit sides out there this week.
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lbw?
Tut tut ... BD ... leg before wicket!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leg_before_wicket
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Good image... I'll keep that...
So can we go to a match the next time over?
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100% argee
not looking good now...but still 3 days to go :shock: we need to bat slowly 2 annd over no silly shots..we can chace a big total.
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2 down
bat slow we have 2 days :evil:
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Cricket is boring.
**hides**
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What a great end. Aussies with the momentum now.....
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1-1 it will be with a day and a half to spear
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That haven't been abandoned ... there have been some that have lasted less than 2 days.
So far, my prediction is coming through about swann, 3 tests down, effective only in one. Tony Grieg was quite critical of him yesterday. Saying this is the first time he has been challenged and he has no idea how to respond.
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If they put up a bit of a fight, Smith could have had a bowl and we could have seen how he went.
Now heading into Melbourne, they will probably have to drop siddle for Beer. I actually like all those boys in there for this test, and if Smith went well, he could have played as our front line spinner and left a 4 prong pace attack....
Fuckin England....
Love it!!!
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Thrilla? where are you???
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1 Cook
2 Watson
3 Trott (not too impressive here)
4 Pietersen (um, Clarke doing nothing)
5 Hussey (I think he is man of the series so far. Maybe a tie with cook, but Hussey has been the backbone)
6 Bell
7 Haddin
8 Anderson (losing form, disappointing for a quality bowler especially seeming he was bowling at fast bowlers heaven)
9 Johnson
10 Harris
11 Finn
12 Swann just... (has struggled)
Special mentions to Tremlett, bowled very well
A four prong pace attack....
And even though he is not in the team, captain goes to Ponting. Tactically one of the best games he has had for Australia. He set good fields, he lobbied for the 4 seamers and he lead well. Batting.... Well here's hoping he comes good.
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whats up with the captains :?
ponting still looking crap.and ours like to find the slips
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Ponting said yesterday that he doesn't know how his form is because he hasn't been able to hang around long enough to see...
Had a couple of good cherries early, brilliantly caught by Collingwood, and a stupid tickle down leg side...
Strauss is a funny one, for a few balls he looks good, then just seems a shadow of himself in other balls.
But as I said in an earlier post, I think tactically it was the best game Ponting has played as a captain in a long time... Set good fields.... Plenty of pressure behind the wicket, bowlers didn't bowl to short (apart from that spell from Siddle where he got Prior) Bowled full and most of the wickets (perhaps all) were either bowled, LBW or caught behind the wicket.
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Bowling to my old captain, who is a decent left hand bat, he is still playin and has scored 160 from his last two digs. Anyway, we were just in the nets, and there was a strong breeze blowing from left to right, so I bowled around the wicket, throwing the ball into the breeze, which was holding the ball up nicely and I was getting a bit of turn (offies).
Bowled him about 6 balls, bowled a few goodies, he played some good shots. Next ball I bowled a quicker one, no flight probably 10-15km faster than normal pitched middle and leg, he came to defend it with a good stride forward bat and pad together and the ball whizzed past the outside edge and hit the top of off....
I was pumped,
Sorry for boring you, but I could only tell my mum and sister and they know nothing about cricket so didn't understand.
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Ha, the man is an idiot, I'd say if you can't last more then 15 balls your form is pretty shit. There still wasn't many positives in that test, sure the win is good but think of how fucked we would have been if Johnson sat out another test. Our batting still needs a lot of improvement if we are to win this thing overall. If we could bat it should have been a bigger flogging then that. England had two days to score 300 and something runs, just lucky for us they didn't.
I honestly think we were the slightly less shit of two shit sides out there this week.