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LOL @ mumbling Benaud.

He would have to be the most boring commentator I have ever heard, makes me go to sleep

One tone voice.

Get some oomph in ya for Gods sake.
 
trainspotter said:
Why not send Lara in as third drop? She is used to playing on a sticky wicket, she can obviously handle a middle stump or two and is used to playing with balls. Get rid of Clarke ... hopeless EMO IMO.
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Well that statement came back to haunt me didn't it ! Clarkey whacks the Kiwis for a century on return from the Bingle Bungle and I think I will change feet next time as this one tastes like leather.
 

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did anyone watch the game? was going to say 'match' but not really appropriate.... :)

Why the collapse do you think guys? I read somewhere a theory that Aussie back yards are no longer 1/4 acre so less space for kids to run & bat & bowl. Not sure how that stacks against the average UK back-yard tho.

Maybe the Aussie cricketers can't find their balls?
 
Edwood said:
did anyone watch the game? was going to say 'match' but not really appropriate.... :)

Why the collapse do you think guys? I read somewhere a theory that Aussie back yards are no longer 1/4 acre so less space for kids to run & bat & bowl. Not sure how that stacks against the average UK back-yard tho.

Maybe the Aussie cricketers can't find their balls?
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Probably more accurate to compare the average size of the Aussie backyard to that of the average South African backyard...

Absolutely disgusting performance from the Aussies. After our loss last Ashes and continued poor form at Rugby, I need somewhere to hide. The english media were talking as if they'd won the ashes before it started and it's only getting worse. Even a cabbie was getting stuck in to me yesterday.

If anyone wants a ticket to the Perth test... it's looking like my time might be better spent drowning my sorrows down south. :(
 
doctorj said:
Absolutely disgusting performance from the Aussies. After our loss last Ashes and continued poor form at Rugby, I need somewhere to hide. The english media were talking as if they'd won the ashes before it started and it's only getting worse. Even a cabbie was getting stuck in to me yesterday.
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It would be excrutiating being Oz in UK if this continues.

You may consider stating you are a Kiwi :(, to discourage casual abuse

As you will cop plenty from smug pommy financial types, who know you are an aussie, if you associate with such.



I thought their approach to the final innings in particular, showed a tactical disregard, as the ground was washed out at 2.00pm

What the hell is wrong with an ignominious draw, compared to the outcome!

It reminded me of a lower-grade club game at times, guys knowing they cant win, its hot, they just want the game over, so throw the bat.

Most regretably, when the head is rotten, so will the body

Ricky did poorly in all aspects of the game imo, I hope he goes better in the rest of the series, cause we need him.
 
The pathetic performance this Ashes series, and now in Melbourne, is down to the selectors. They have lost the plot, and look desperate. What is this ..a new spinner for each match, and then make him 12th man and then drop him, what is that about? Fast bowlers in and back out again, never given a chance to settle.

'Mr Cricket' on the verge of being dropped, then turns out to be our batting saviour.

And why isn't Brad Hodge in the team? A Victorian run machine, a cricketer never given a fair go by the selectors. Why isn't Cameron White in the team, another Victorian.

Australian cricket brutally exposed. The selectors must resign. Don't make Rick Ponting the scapegoat.
 
Ashes all over again :( Wonder what the selectors will do for Sydney seeing the whole team is horribly out of form. There are some good young players out there, it might be a good opportunity to give them a go but stick with them for a while. Now to avoid all the Poms at work for the next 2 years.
 
So Ponting is out of the fifth test meaning Khawaja is likely to make his debut. Now if Australia can win and the debutant makes a hundred...could Ponting be squeezed out of the team?
 
I believe every counrty goes through periods of weak teams and this is not strange to Australia.
Since the retirement of McGrath, Warne, Gilly, Haydo and one or two others in the same year, the selectors seem to be running around like headless chucks looking for new blood. I'm sure things will settle down and Australia will get back to the higher standard we all once knew. After all they stay can't on top year after year. Australia has lots of young talent coming through who have yet to find their feet. I'm, sure there is another McGrath or Warne out there somewhere. Brad Hodge has retired from international cricket.
I believe Ponting has well and truly past his prime and should do the honorable thing and bow out. clarke?????????????? He has lost the plot and should go too. Hussey is near retirement and is too late for the Captaincy. Perhaps the selectors should be looking at Haddin or Watson.
 
noco said:
I believe every counrty goes through periods of weak teams and this is not strange to Australia.
Since the retirement of McGrath, Warne, Gilly, Haydo and one or two others in the same year, the selectors seem to be running around like headless chucks looking for new blood. I'm sure things will settle down and Australia will get back to the higher standard we all once knew. After all they stay can't on top year after year. Australia has lots of young talent coming through who have yet to find their feet. I'm, sure there is another McGrath or Warne out there somewhere. Brad Hodge has retired from international cricket.
I believe Ponting has well and truly past his prime and should do the honorable thing and bow out. clarke?????????????? He has lost the plot and should go too. Hussey is near retirement and is too late for the Captaincy. Perhaps the selectors should be looking at Haddin or Watson.
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Noco I'm inclined to agree that Ponting is in decline now. The reflexes required at that level are for a young man. Eight consecutive failures on home pitches are not what captains are made of.

I've heard a lot of criticism at times of his field settings from commentators that seemed to hold water and made me wonder what was going on upstairs.

Then after he lost the toss in Melbourne and was asked what his plans were he said something along the lines of " I wasn't too sure what I was going to do" !!!! WTH What is he getting paid to do stick multivits up his ****?

He probably gets paid ten times what I do yet I start making a day plan for work when I'm having a shave and get thinking harder from there. And he comes up with that. :mad:

I guess as long as the boys have plenty of vodaphone and KFC contracts and the IPL is an overpaid version of centrelink we're unlikely to see much change in Australian cricket.

Just wait till next summer when whoever tours be it the saffas or pakastanis or whoever and watch those falling gate receipts tell the tale of an overpaid unimpressive national side becoming increasingly estranged from it's fan base.

And as for Michael Clarke our next golden boy. He has his first test in front of him.

IMHO given the form in this series and his experience Hussey should captain on merit in a caretaker role but he will have to be content to acede to the better judgement of the selectors.

They want 91 dollars for a seat in the shade at the SCG where I can't even buy a decent beer. Not likely :screwy:
 
trainspotter said:
Ricky Ponting has quit as captain of the Australian Test and one-day teams, with Michael Clarke set to succeed him in these roles.

http://www.theroar.com.au/2011/03/29/ponting-retires/

Senator Mark Arbib was seen leaving the dressing room with a bloodied knife.
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According to the news this was the most important thing that happened today... never mind that LIbya thing.

Probably a good move. Ponting has been the whipping boy of late. now that the Fevola fever has subsided.
 
I honestly don't think the country wants M Clarke as it's captain. So in the interests of Australia, I have posted a young, exciting team capable of winning both tests and ODI. Number one in the world? Of course not, but with development potential.

Australian side, note the fact that I don't rate clarke, white or smith, and that I think Katich and Hussey, the great players that they are should be put to pasture.

We really need to get a young team together and make them a unit. Ponting for a couple of years, and rotate to haddin the V/C for a couople of years before he is replaced.

1. Phil Hughes
2. Shane Watson (vc)
3. Usman Khawaja
4. Callum Ferguson
5. Ricky Ponting (c)
6. Brad Haddin
7. Steve O'keefe
8. John Hastings
9. Mitchell Johnson
10. Ryan Harris
11. Big Doug/Siddle

12. D Nannes - would be in my side, but a bit old for my liking.
13. Voges - might be worth considering for a batting alrounder - needs to work on bowling. O'keefe deserves a real go at test cricket.
 
medicowallet said:
I honestly don't think the country wants M Clarke as it's captain.
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Clarke is a mistake. He has never grown up and lacks judgement. This is the guy who selected Lara Bingle for a life partner, a woman who even Brendan Fevola rejected after a short trial.

You have left him out of your team and rightly so.
 

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