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General Cricket => Latest Matches => Topic started by: stevie_94_ on August 31, 2011, 09:26:46 AM
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Is anyone else watching this?
Also have Australia really picked a spinner whos played about 5 first class games and averages about 45?
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Is anyone else watching this?
Also have Australia really picked a spinner whos played about 5 first class games and averages about 45?
They did worse with Doherty who had played 30 odd games and averaged 48, so they klnew he was s**t but at least they have done better with Lyon ahah.
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Its free on Eurosport 2 which is great. Ball is turning bigtime and plenty of rough on the second session of a first day pitch !
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Real pressure debut for Lyons on a spinning pitch.
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Hussey is batting really well, hopefully he can get to his 100,
What's up with Siddle that he's not in the side?
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Siddles not in the side I guess cause you can obviously play only 3 quicks. Johnson will always be there, and I dont know the coach came out and said Harris is the number 1 bowler Australia have (news to me). So it only leaves 1 spot.
The reason Copeland is there is just cause its sri lanka. He will be used in the same way australia used michael kasprowitz. By the end of kasprowitz's career he really only ever played in the sub continent and copeland does the same thing (A bowler who just hits the spot, bowls cutters and just looks for seem movement - no pace at all).
I think Copeland might go ok over there, this wicket is condusive to seem - but yeah it wont last after this series.
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Copeland only bowls around 125km/h and he still manages to take wickets, I just don't get it, Afridi's quicker ball is faster than that.
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Have to give it to Lyon, he did bowl.
Second innings will be a huge test for him I think
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Ricky ponting's off spinners aren't too bad!
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Sri Lanka facing saction after the pitch was rated poor by the ICC: http://www.espncricinfo.com/sri-lanka-v-australia-2011/content/current/story/531060.html
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Oz making a strong start again - Sri Lanka 133-7. Lyon bowling pretty nicely again, just picked up his second, going at 3.6 though. Keep them to under 175 and Aus will probably build a big lead on day 2/3
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if only I had knocked my bat in properly...
(http://i895.photobucket.com/albums/ac151/buzzrockport/136859.jpg)
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I assume you mean that massive crack on the inside edge ???
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Just looking at the current match and it appears that the Aussies picked Hughes instead of Khawaja
Please can someone explain why Marsh wasn't promoted to opening with Watson, Ponting back at 3 and the rest as was? Techinally Marsh is in a differnet league to Hughes who has a sting of low scores to his name and can't play the short ball.
As for Khawaja he has been one of Aus' best players on tour... I suspect that Hughes and Clarke are mates or something, but seriously, I don't understand the selection policy at all.
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Why did no one say that this test series was on euro sport! I really wanted to watch some of it!
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Just looking at the current match and it appears that the Aussies picked Hughes instead of Khawaja
Please can someone explain why Marsh wasn't promoted to opening with Watson, Ponting back at 3 and the rest as was? Techinally Marsh is in a differnet league to Hughes who has a sting of low scores to his name and can't play the short ball.
As for Khawaja he has been one of Aus' best players on tour... I suspect that Hughes and Clarke are mates or something, but seriously, I don't understand the selection policy at all.
The Hughes hundred has shut me up somewhat!!
Good to see Michael Clarke score some runs too, I think he is a wonderful player to watch.
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not sure what the Australian selectors hope to achieve with Hughes, but they clearly see something int eh lad and have decided to stick with him through hell and high water. It seems an odd one to me personally - Marsh is an opener, Hussey was at the start of his career and there a lad called Nic Maddison (sic?) scoring loads of runs for NSW who seems like a candidate, but you have to admire their tenacity. And, from an English perspective, it worked with Cook when he had a rotten couple of seasons, so you never know...
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I finally find out it's on tv and catch the last 2 overs of the series!
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The Hughes hundred has shut me up somewhat!!
Good to see Michael Clarke score some runs too, I think he is a wonderful player to watch.
But you could argue that Hughes is scoring runs because of the bowling attack and against both SA and English attacks, he finds it much harder.
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Hughes scored two hundreds against SA.
Cook only had a rotten summer against two brilliant swing bowlers.
But intrinsically I think Hughes is not that great...
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Marsh should open and Khawaja should be at number 3 or 4. Hughes technique is just terrible whereas both Marsh and Khawaja have very solid techniques.
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Marsh should open and Khawaja should be at number 3 or 4. Hughes technique is just terrible whereas both Marsh and Khawaja have very solid techniques.
I think so too. But with this hundred he has played himself into the team for the Aussie summer and a series against a relatively toothless Indian bowling attack. Unless Zaheer and Instant Sharma bowl out of their socks... It will also be interesting to see if Ojha gets picked ahead of Harbhajan - certainly on form it is a no brainer.
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Hughes scored two hundreds against SA.
Cook only had a rotten summer against two brilliant swing bowlers.
Appreciated Amir and Asif were quality bowlers, but his record before that was not so classy either - he only averaged 24 in the 2009 Ashes and struggled against Banglasdesh at the start of the 2010 summer to the extent that a lot of commentators were calling for him to be dropped.
Not saying the two are the same - Cok's technicaly flaws were relatively minor compared to Hughes inability to get in line with anything approaching medium pace, but the attitude's of the two sets of selectors are very similar.
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he may have had a poor ashes - like most of the eng team, but he scored two hundreds (173 in chittagong and 109* at Dhaka) in Bangladesh and as captain won every game... cook's technical floors come from a very complicated tripple movement trigger and his head not always getting inline with the ball - mostly getting too offside and thus he loses the location of his off stump. Cooks issues were massively blown up in the press. see http://stats.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/player/11728.html?class=1;template=results;type=allround;view=match
Hughes doesn't get half the abuse in the press...
Hughes' technical floors start with the fact he can't even hold the bat properly, let alone get in line or play the short ball!!
however as he still scores runs he must be mentally pretty strong, which would explain he getting picked.