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The Ashes

Busty St Clare said:
Beer weak as piss under the WACA Sun
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Yup. I'm glad Beer wasn't brought in, especially for this match. imo Steve Smith is a better spinner/all rounder to have in, plus despite Mitchel Johnson failing in the first test, it is great that he's back and I beleive he'll be more sucessfull this match, and he already did this today batting!

I'm starting to lose a bit of faith in ponting now and think he will retire in around the next 12 months. He is a great captain, but after all the change in the Australian side over the past few years, he has recently been unable to perform his own batting.

One of the biggest problems right now is the selectors. The aussies aren't a stable team because every match people are dropped and nothing is consistant. Eg. Johnson may have failed to deliver in the first test, but I can't see what dropping him for the second, but then all of a sudden bringing him back in the third is going to do.
 
Fuck I love Australia's vast land expanse. I get to finish my xmas shopping, come home, have a siesta and then sit down and do bowls until 8pm watching test cricket. God bless the western sea board.
 
^Amen to that!

Pity about the Antiques Roadshow or whatever they choose to annoy us with around dinner time, but apart from that hurdle....brilliant!
 
^ Yeah I can't stand it how channel nine puts the news on at 6pm during the cricket, when they're supposed to be broadcasting the cricket. Theres 20 other channels with news on available. Is worse living in a regional area when they also show win news.
 
Well fuck me sideways, that was a bit of a let down after Adelaide. On to the Gee then.
 
That was incredible. I've copped so much shit at work recently and it was fucking awesome to turn up today without having to say anything except, 'See the game?'

That being said, I was kinda trumped with, 'Yeah. Tendulker got his 50th test century.' Fair call.
 
You leave those selectors alone Sir Pacman, well at least till the series is dead and buried :D
 
The first one dead and buried will be Ponting (Steve Smith and Phil Hughes may get back into the team one day). I give Clarke until the end of the World Cup and I doubt he will be captain of both (or either) teams.

I don't understand Australia's bowlers today. If they were watching the same game I was surely they would have seen England getting movement off the seam/pitch. Yet as soon as they tried to bowl they were trying to swing it. Who is responsible for that tactic?
 
Yup, I was at the 'G today (will be tomorrow as well) and aside from Siddle and a fiery spell from Johson, it was a weak effort. Hilfenhaus refused to sit the seam up and let it cut and he sure as shit wasn't swinging it.

Hughes is hopeless. His technique isn't there. He just plants his feet and gets into all sorts of trouble. Smith has a future, even if only as a legspinner. He bowled a couple of decent overs today but didn't look like taking a wicket. Clarke has to be under pressure to keep his place for the next test series, let along to make captain. Ponting will surely retire at the end of this series.

It's embarrassing when England's top scorer already has made 30% more runs than your entire team.

Best case scenario from here is an epic second-innings with at least 3 centuries and one or two of those being double tons. And that's just to make England bat again :( There's surely no hope of a draw from here...
 
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Hughes is hopeless. His technique isn't there. He just plants his feet and gets into all sorts of trouble.
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Agree, Hughes is a complete waste of space in the team. His footwork is just awful, I don't think that back foot ever leaves the ground!

It also just seems at the moment that there just isn't much passion in the Australian team. Even if they are not winning all the time, I'd just be happy to feel that all the players are playing with passion and really giving it their all. Particularly the display in this current Test has been severely lacking. Which is shit considering we were the ones coming in to this match with the momentum of winning in Perth.
 
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I agree but think it's mainly limited to the top order batsmen. The bowlers - particularly Siddle, Hilfhenaus and Johnson looked to be really trying hard on Day 2.

It doesn't matter though, because the batters have once again capitulated. Hughes finally looked to have found some touch before Watson ran him out (Watson really needs to get his calls sorted out). Watson got 50-odd but as usual, couldn't go on with it. Ponting absolutely battled to get his 20, Clarke looked average against Swann for his 13 and our best batter of the series, Hussy, failed when we needed him most. Smith's just gone now.

Looks like this could well be over today.
 
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