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Bluelighter
I can't wait until Lara gets his hands on the bat.
Naughtiest_Maximus
Bluelighter
#1 Jaded One day international fan.
Lets flog the dead horse.....1 day cricket becomes even more the poorer cousin to test match cricket the more the powers that be decide to change the rules and contrive meaningless series like this one imho. To my mind the variables you throw in like super subs and power plays the more you take away from the game itself, leaving more and more to the instance of luck. One captiain's loses the toss ends up with a ineffectual super sub, one captain put's on a power play and ends up with his bowlers getting hammered, the other one ends up having a batsmen being caught by the almost impossible effecting a batting collapse. Keep it simple, if i had my way i would juts change the field restrictions, 1-20 overs 2 men out of the circle, 21-40 overs 3 men out, 41-50 4 men out of the circle.
I know this series was on the calender before the recent Ashes results but i would rather have seen a series where an Australia A team plays the current side. Now that's a series where the places in the current team would be well and truly up for grabs.
End drunken rant now.
Lets flog the dead horse.....1 day cricket becomes even more the poorer cousin to test match cricket the more the powers that be decide to change the rules and contrive meaningless series like this one imho. To my mind the variables you throw in like super subs and power plays the more you take away from the game itself, leaving more and more to the instance of luck. One captiain's loses the toss ends up with a ineffectual super sub, one captain put's on a power play and ends up with his bowlers getting hammered, the other one ends up having a batsmen being caught by the almost impossible effecting a batting collapse. Keep it simple, if i had my way i would juts change the field restrictions, 1-20 overs 2 men out of the circle, 21-40 overs 3 men out, 41-50 4 men out of the circle.
I know this series was on the calender before the recent Ashes results but i would rather have seen a series where an Australia A team plays the current side. Now that's a series where the places in the current team would be well and truly up for grabs.
End drunken rant now.
Pleonastic
Bluelighter
Catches - two down.
Pleonastic
Bluelighter
Although it's a good thing we took one the next ball... 
FaTz
Bluelighter
hahahaha Go Lara 
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Pleonastic
Bluelighter
FUCKING CATCHES!!! ARRRRGGGGG!!!!
keystroke
Bluelighter
Australia 255/8 (50 ov)
ICC World XI 104/6 (28.5 ov) ICC World XI require another 152 runs with 4 wickets and 21.1 overs remaining
Australia RR: 5.10
ICC World XI RR: 3.61
Required RR: 7.18
ICC World XI 104/6 (28.5 ov) ICC World XI require another 152 runs with 4 wickets and 21.1 overs remaining
Australia RR: 5.10
ICC World XI RR: 3.61
Required RR: 7.18
stepchild
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i cant understand why people are bagging martyn and think he needs to be dropped. being dropped from the test side is the most disgraceful decision i have seen in australian test match cricket for along time. he was test player of the year last year with six centuries, he has one bad series (in which he was wrongly given out twice) and is dropped. compare that with matthew hayden, he holds the record for australian top order batsmen for number of consecutive innings without scoring over 70, it is close to 30. thats 15 tests! he finally scores a very streaky century in which he was dropped and was plum lbw but given not out. how could anyone say that hayden deserves to be in the team more than martyn? the ultimate scape goat
unfortunately he didnt do himself any favours by playing a rash shot yesterday. i just hope people dont start calling for him to be dropped because that would be an absolute tragedy.
unfortunately he didnt do himself any favours by playing a rash shot yesterday. i just hope people dont start calling for him to be dropped because that would be an absolute tragedy.
keystroke
Bluelighter
Australia won the toss.
Ahktar is absolutely hammering the ball down the pitch at the moment, when he got the bat the other night it looked like he can do some serious damage too.
Ahktar is absolutely hammering the ball down the pitch at the moment, when he got the bat the other night it looked like he can do some serious damage too.
I totally agree Stepchild. Martyn has always been the scapegoat in the Australian team. He gets bagged out regardless. Like you said, he had 1 bad series and really his performance wasn't really that far behind the rest of the team. Hayden and Ponting were the only 2 batsmen to look at all convincing at any point and like you said Hayden was pretty streaky in his innings. I think Martyn is used as a scapegoat because he is a quiet introverted player who doesn't get around blowing his own trumpet. He is a low profile player even though his form in recent times has been brilliant (winning Test player of the year). He is probably unlucky in that respect because he is a quiet bloke the selectors may be less likely to persist with him because he isn't a leader/mentor in the team ala Boof Lehman.
I hope that Hayden retains his spot because he is the sort of player who can turn a game and destroy the bowling attack. Wholesale changes aren't required, but maybe a regig of the coaching system. Obviously our fielding has dropped away and needs to be worked on. I think Buchannan is a good coach, in terms of his management of players and the team which is what coaching is about. However I think he needs specialist help to work with bowlers and batsmen to iron out bugs as he doesn't have the expertise to do so as he was only a pretty average cricketer himself.
Beech
I hope that Hayden retains his spot because he is the sort of player who can turn a game and destroy the bowling attack. Wholesale changes aren't required, but maybe a regig of the coaching system. Obviously our fielding has dropped away and needs to be worked on. I think Buchannan is a good coach, in terms of his management of players and the team which is what coaching is about. However I think he needs specialist help to work with bowlers and batsmen to iron out bugs as he doesn't have the expertise to do so as he was only a pretty average cricketer himself.
Beech
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