The Official Cricket Thread 2006/2007 (2 Viewers)

[Bookie]

Possibly because hes scored 1000+ runs for 6 years(?) running

 

[MRCUNT]

Possibly because hes scored 1000+ runs for 6 years(?) running

380 from zimbabwe in one innings...
lol, he was pretty gud. but as i said australia play a lot of test matches, especially on wickets that favour batsmna, in australia primarily.

 

[DRAGONZ]

380 from zimbabwe in one innings...
lol, he was pretty gud. but as i said australia play a lot of test matches, especially on wickets that favour batsmna, in australia primarily.

Australia play a lot of matches?

Compared to the teams in the sub-continent, they play rarely.

In Australia, they play at:
- 'Gabba
- SCG
- Adelaide Oval
- Bellerieve Oval
- MCG
- WACA

Of those, the only TRUE batting pitches are the 'Gabba and Adelaide Oval. MCG is also a good batting track, generally. SCG offers too much for spinners, Bellerieve too much for the seamers, and WACA is a similar story .. too much bounce for the fast men.

It's not Australia's problem that they can adapt better than other countries to the bounce at the WACA. Or that, India aside, they can adapt to the conditions at Sydney better.

 

[Bookie]

australia plays more test matches.

the subcontinentals play more one dayers.

 

[MRCUNT]

australia plays more test matches.

the subcontinentals play more one dayers.

yeah tats wat i meant, and about aussie pitches - they are batsman's paradise compared to other pitches around the world excluding trindad and that region.

 

[Jimmy_B]

Of those, the only TRUE batting pitches are the 'Gabba and Adelaide Oval. MCG is also a good batting track, generally. SCG offers too much for spinners, Bellerieve too much for the seamers, and WACA is a similar story .. too much bounce for the fast men.

It's not Australia's problem that they can adapt better than other countries to the bounce at the WACA. Or that, India aside, they can adapt to the conditions at Sydney better.

sorry buddy, that may be true historically but over the past few years, all the aussie pitches seem to be becoming homogenous roads. if it wasn't for having legendary bowlers in warne and mcgrath and class backups like gillespie we'd have won way less games at home.

 

[HotShot]

sorry buddy, that may be true historically but over the past few years, all the aussie pitches seem to be becoming homogenous roads. if it wasn't for having legendary bowlers in warne and mcgrath and class backups like gillespie we'd have won way less games at home.

plus nowadays there are hardly any swing bowlers, u have pathan, hoggard, harmison, jones pretty much the england bowling lineup, then maybe akthar. thats it. mostly seamers nowadays.

 

[DRAGONZ]

Bracken, when he makes the squad.

Also, Harmison doesn't primarily focus on swing. He delivers more short stuff than the rest of the England attack put together. Flintoff is more likely to pitch it up and get some late outswing.

 

[Minai]

If the pom's swing bowling is nullified on Australian pitches, I think England will get hammered in the Ashes.

They sorely missed Trescothick and Vaughan in India, so they're batting is pretty shallow (at the moment, and comparing with the calibre of Australian batting when in form)

 

[Mc_Meaney]

Cant wait for boxing day test...be there to see Australia paddle the poms

yay 100 posts

 

[HotShot]

If the pom's swing bowling is nullified on Australian pitches, I think England will get hammered in the Ashes.

They sorely missed Trescothick and Vaughan in India, so they're batting is pretty shallow (at the moment, and comparing with the calibre of Australian batting when in form)

there is little swing offered in Australian conditions. Flintoff got hammered, when he was playing in the restof the world XI against australia.

the real threat in bowling is i think simon jones, fast accurate. gud bowler he is. and the aussies middle order is lookin fragile, with ponting and hussey really only being consistent. saying that the enland depend heavily on peitersen against the spinners and prob vaughan in australia.

england struggled aginst india in the odi. considering india has a new team, and england having injuries, i guess it equals out.

 

[HotShot]

finger injury's what kept ponting out of the tuor of india

and yeah i think ponting at the end of his career's gonna be the most successful batsman of the modern era n can be named with great names like richards, sobers and the eternal don bradman

he will up there, joined by Tendulkar, Dravid, Sehwag, Yuvraj, Kaif, Oh wait the entire indian batting lineup - lol.

 

[BumJockey Bill]

WTF

Australia getting hammered by Bangladesh
164/1 36 overs

Fuck its meant to be a test match and its bangladesh.......

 

[BumJockey Bill]

Carnage continues 229/1

Shit when was the last time Warne had these figures
12-0-80-0

 

[DRAGONZ]

2/238 at tea. MacGill removes Bashar with a crap ball which was top edged.

Bangladesh will probably collapse to be all out 300. If not, it just means that the Test will go into the fourth day.

 

[tasha1188]

well bangladesh seem to be doing rreally well...4/318...good for them

 

[beabenn]

5/350 odd at stumps. That's an excellent score for any day one. Although, England made 400 in one day last year in the ashes. Plenty of batting to come for the bangas so they should get 400. It's important that they bat as long as they can if they've got a chance.
Pitch will turn on day 3 and aussies are only fielding 5 specialist batsman but lee and warne can be considered all-rounders.
Interesting that the ABC chose not to send a commmmentary team over their to call the action (for understandle reasons) But in hindsight, the cricket was not all that one-sided

 

[Minai]

ahah, nice one Bangladesh.

I think Australia will wake up to themselves tomorrow, especially Brett Lee. He should rip through the lower order tomorrow, but that depends on the pitch eh..

 

[tasha1188]

wow bangla are 6/413...they are doing awesome...i don think aussie have woken up yet..and they really need to...and mr lee and mr clark really need to take wickets...but good 4 macgill for taking 4wks and my mr clarke is doing well too 7 off 3overs yayy..

 

[Constip8edSkunk]

bahahaha... o dear.

2nd highest innings score by bangers ever.

macgilla saves the day with 8 wickets, warnies gone for a wicketless century at 6 an over ...hmmm...


edit: haha and fatarse hayden gets himself out.... wtf happened to the flat track bully? this is a disgrace...