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And that is history!!

Dizzy Gillespie knocks up an unbeated double century!! Thats gives him a higher top score in Test cricket than batsmen like Steve Waugh, Mark Waugh, Jauques Kallis, Alec Stewart. There are a whole lot of brillant batsmen to never make 200. Mark Waugh's highest Test score was 153 and he is considered one of Australia's greatest batsmen and Steve Waugh's highest score was 200. Granted this score has been made against Bangladesh but still he batted for over 9.5 HOURS! That is an amazing feat of concentration. Pretty different innings to Hussey who knocked up 186 in just over 200 balls.
Now we have a couple of days to bowl out the Bangas.

Was good to see Dizzy get this milestone but conversely it has put Australia under a fair bit of pressure to bowl them out, probably should have declared a fair while ago in terms of just wanting to win the game. What do people think, should Ponting have declared earlier or has he done the right thing by letting Dizzy get this milestone? Hopefully someone replies soon before we have the great asset of retrospect.


Beech
 
Even if weather intervenes and the test ends in a draw i don't think there is any way it will be remembered any other way than the test that Dizzie managed to score a double a ton!:D So that being the case i really don't have a problem with Punter not declaring. The way i look at it a test win against Bangladesh is all but worthlerss, a possible draw in which the likes of Gillespie scores a double ton, and the threat of bad weather is Bangladesh's biggest hope shows a lot more of how inept they really were in this test.
 
You're going to win the series, so it was worthwhile giving him the chance to make 200. How often does anyone get that chance, let alone a freaking no. 10? Your bowlers should be able to knock them over anyway. You have 130 overs left, and they're already one down. Anyway, credit to Gillespie :)

Meanwhile, RSA beat the Kiwis on a shocking pitch where the new ball was almost unplayable. To protect the top order, Fleming sent Kyle Mills, who normally bats 10, in at no. 3 (this is 30 minutes into the first session of the day). It didn't work, but what a fascinating tactic.
 
I agree that Ponting made the right decision. I'd rather be the captain that maybe cost the team a win but allowed a tailender to make 200 than the captain who declared and stranded the "batsman" and won the Test against the weakest Test playing nation in the world. However, I can also see the point of view that the game is not about personal accolades, its about winning the match and its for that reason that Lara has been criticised for his decision to continue batting in his world record innings.

Gotta hand it to Stephen Fleming, he is probably one of the better captains in the world, shame that for much of his time he hasn't had the team to back up his leadership skills (not trying to slag of NZ here, just saying that in Flemings time they haven't been the best side in the world). Imagine if Fleming was in charge of a truely top notch team, he would probably be more widely considered as one of the greatest leaders.
I do think Fleming lost in a bit in the last series against Australia when he and the coach got caught up a bit too much in off field slagging of the Aussie team. Plenty have tried that in the past and it has never worked. That was one thing that gave me the shits a bit about that series, all the sooking and whinging about this and that from both teams.


Beech
 
Dizzie is a mad bastard :) Love 'im....can't believe the fact he got a hundred let alone 2....

Been a while since i've been back to me ol' cricket thread! I think I have you to thank Beech for keeping the great game alive in BL :)
 
Hahha yeah seems like an eternity since you posted in this thread. I guess I'm just a bit of a cricket tragic since I'm kinda limited to talking about the game since i wrecked my shoulder.

If there was a thread about hockey and other people actually wanted to talk about it I would probably be all over that!

Beech
 
^^ Well truth is i've never played any except the odd backyard game. Always wanted to but never got into competition. At 25 i'm guessing it's maybe a little late :)
 
Its never too late to take up a sport. Prolly a bit late if your wanting to play Australia but its never too late to start wielding the willow.
 
I just wanted to know something about spin bowling

Why is a leg break wrong'un called a googly, and why is an off break wrong'un called a doosra, and why do commentators insist on calling brad hogg's std delivery to a right hander a wrong'un when it's clearly his std. delivery just backwards to the batsman??

any help greatly appreciated

Good on the lanki's pulling a draw out of the fire against the poms =D
 
from what i understand its just what each commentator prefers to call it. Dif commentators dif terminology. I know what ya mean with it being kinda frustrating. The fact that some countries put the score before the wickets shits me. I like our way of 3/204 as oposed to 204/3.
 
the doosra thing was originally used in refference to murali's delivery because it was bowled a particular way. Possibly it has become a generic term now or possibly other bowlers are delivering their wrong-un in the murali fashion
 
again i think that just pertains to certain commentators. Some just say wrong-un and some say googly. i could be wrong, maybe someone else has a clearer idea. Seems to me it goes in phases, many years ago they always used to refer to warney's wrong-un as his googly and then they eventually started calling it the wrong-un and now they seem to be moving back to the googly.
I dunno.
 
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