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General Cricket => World Cricket => Australia => Topic started by: Aussie In England on December 09, 2015, 09:52:09 PM
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Australia on the back of beating New Zealand take on fallen giants West Indies. First Test starts at Hobart tonight.
Australia:
1 Joe Burns, 2 David Warner, 3 Steven Smith (capt), 4 Adam Voges, 5 Shaun Marsh, 6 Mitchell Marsh, 7 Peter Nevill (wk), 8 James Pattinson, 9 Peter Siddle, 10 Josh Hazlewood, 11 Nathan Lyon
West Indies (possible):
1 Kraigg Brathwaite, 2 Shai Hope/Rajendra Chandrika, 3 Darren Bravo, 4 Marlon Samuels, 5 Jermaine Blackwood, 6 Denesh Ramdin (wk), 7 Jason Holder (capt), 8 Carlos Brathwaite, 9 Kemar Roach, 10 Jerome Taylor, 11 Devendra Bishoo.
James Pattinson replaces the injured Mitchell Starc. Nevill will stay at 7, despite for widespread calls for him to move up to 6.
West Indies missing pretty much most of their star names, whom are chasing the T20 cash...
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West Indies look very very average. Voges and Marsh cashing in big time against a poor attack. Marsh lucky to be there had many chances before and thought they might have invested in a younger player considering the oppo, could have been a chance to ease them in so to speak. Think Jackson Bird should be around the squad over Coulter-Nile better shield form.
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West indies cricket at an all time low !! No spirit,no fight in any of them.
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Voges making the second most pointless double ton of all time (after Dizzy Gillespie's against Bangladesh). Meanwhile, Malcolm Marshall is spinning in his grave...
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Voges making the second most pointless double ton of all time (after Dizzy Gillespie's against Bangladesh). Meanwhile, Malcolm Marshall is spinning in his grave...
I'd give my right bollock for a test double ton...
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I'd give my right bollock for a test double ton...
I'd give your right bollock for a test double ton too!
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I know it's the Windies but I thought the Victorians were supposed to fill the ground out...
Warner's clearly taking the Michael already
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Warner 444.3
Not a bad first 5 balls in a test. Procricket1982 will be having a fit, wherever he is without the internet.
Big news is Shaun marsh dropped for the returning khawaja.
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23 off 10, this is Don Bradman Cricket 14 form...
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Lucky Marlon
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Ordinary shot by Warner
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You can kind of allow it, again, its the Windies.
The more I think about it the more sorry I feel for Jason Holder, he's really the only player who clearly cares about test cricket
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Don't think the Aussie dressing room would have minded that.
A 50 ball hundred from Warner would have destroyed the windies mentally before dinner, and worth a try going for it.
23 of 12 may seem a waste, but Aussies have plenty left in the shed against this poor windies side.
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I know it's the Windies but I thought the Victorians were supposed to fill the ground out...
Warner's clearly taking the Michael already
Was really wet this morning, plus all the huge bushfires along the Great Ocean Road. Still 53000 is far more than many if not all countries around the cricketing world.
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Terrible drop from Samuels
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Terrible drop from Samuels
Just seen the highlights while the rain delay on the Engkand game. Maroon Samuels looks like from the highlights he couldn't give a damm about playing for his country, miss fields galore, dropped basic catches and just an attitude of why am I not a T20 superstar like all my mates.
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Or..... Why am i the only t20 player here and the rest just do to be a dam?
It's amusing that the West Indies board claim gayle chose t20, and gayle claims he wasn't picked due to his back even though he said he could be available.
One thing that always gets me r.e windies, when times are tough and there are other options, it's easy for them to not care, because it is not there country. It's an amalgamation of all the Ireland's.
It's not the good old days anymore when they were so strong it was such a private to be picked as one of the nest xi available.
Anyway, good job Warner got out, windies would have been looking at 600 in a day if not.
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Just seen the highlights while the rain delay on the Engkand game. Maroon Samuels looks like from the highlights he couldn't give a damm about playing for his country, miss fields galore, dropped basic catches and just an attitude of why am I not a T20 superstar like all my mates.
He seemed to suggest shortly after he didnt see it, i guess the last thing he expected was for a wide long hop to be hit straight at him but still he does as you say look uninterested.
Cricinfo had an article the other day where they suggested it was time for the West Indies to split and go it alone as individual countries. Whilst it would be a shame based on their history in test cricket i do wonder if the individual nations mixed in with Ireland, Zimbabwe etc would make an interesting 2nd tier of international cricket (maybe playing 4 day games instead of 5)
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Or..... Why am i the only t20 player here and the rest just do to be a dam?
It's amusing that the West Indies board claim gayle chose t20, and gayle claims he wasn't picked due to his back even though he said he could be available.
One thing that always gets me r.e windies, when times are tough and there are other options, it's easy for them to not care, because it is not there country. It's an amalgamation of all the Ireland's.
It's not the good old days anymore when they were so strong it was such a private to be picked as one of the nest xi available.
Anyway, good job Warner got out, windies would have been looking at 600 in a day if not.
I saw a little bit this morning and Holder had decent stats (0-33 from 17 overs) but all of the others were leaking runs - Roach 10 overs 0-53 being a particular example. Like you say, if Warner had got his eye in and batted all day he could have filled his boots quite considerably!!! With the poor fielding and bad bowling i imagine WI struggle to keep any pressure on teams
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The opposition is truly dreadful but it's really good for Australian cricket that the players they've shown faith in Burns, Khawaja, Voges and Pattinson have thus far delivered the goods.
The selection panel where 100% correct in sticking with Burns over Shaun Marsh
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@smilley792 => Warner might have got them in a day, but looks like Aussies are going to reach that target anyway ...
551/3 => 4 centuries in a single innings. Aussies are going to hand WI another innings defeat. I am not sure if Jason Holder can keep taking hits like this. WI board is hell bent on demoralizing and breaking down a young captain ...
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The Aussies are certainly generous declaring early again. They should have continued batting and got 700-800. Least that way the match might have gone 4 days.
Just shows how vital chanderpaul was for the west indies. Still can't believe they dropped him because he had 1 poor series whilst the rest of the team continue to fail series after series.
The alarming thing is the decline in their bowling, they always had the bowlers to take 20 wickets but now the only world class bowler is Taylor. Roach is finished and holder bowls well but never takes any wickets. No one else in the reserves
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Been watching the test now for two days straight, WI have been very disappointing, thank God I am able to watch a great test match unfold with the Safers and Poms game
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This isn't a good endorsement for Test cricket. Yes I'm Australian but I like to see some sort of contest. This is like one sided beat down where the lesser side has no hope of actually fighting back.
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Turn the channel to the SAF vs ENG game. Far more entertaining.
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Credit to Australia who are being ruthless here but this is appalling from WI, some of those dismissals were absolute village stuff.
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The aussie commentators are so biased its unbelievable, "that was defiantly not a no ball, there was a mm of boot behind the line and even so is it even disadvantaging the batsman?"
Err no MATE, that's the law no if ands or buts, Pattinsons boot shouldn't have even been that close to the line in the first place. Deffo gonna watch on mute plus the fact Mark Nicholas keeps chiming in with his nonsense.
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Exactly! That was a no ball all day long!
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This is certainly admirable from Bravo here
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Do you think he's being paid for every ball he blocks?? I feel he's only delaying the inevitable if he's not actually going to score.
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Commentators spot on with their comment on Bravo. He's playing himself out of form by blocking everything.
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Hahaha hahaha haha :):) you silly Aussie, get your foot behind the line
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One of them called a G-Shock an Apple Watch! Lol. Think it was Healey
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One of them called a G-Shock an Apple Watch! Lol. Think it was Healey
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Really? I have a small collection of G Shocks, might list them on eBay and target the Australian market if that's the case! :D
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I might have to do that with a couple of mine too. "Apple Watch Dark Knight Edition" sounds good doesn't it?
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Target set: 460. They have two days to make it. Rather than chasing 460, can WIndies survive two days?!
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It'd be great if they could...
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It'd be great if they could...
One can only hope. Would be fantastic if they can
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Marsh bowling 140+ at the moment
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It's all over - They couldn't bat a full day!
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Generous from Australia, could have batted another 2 sessions and filled their boots.
Least west indies put an improved performance, could have been far worse at 91-6
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This is such a non event...
Players aren't actually learning anything from this.
Good for the stats mind you...
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Looks like the SCG will be a turner with the upcoming tour to Sri Lanka on the horizon. Hazlewood and Siddle seem likely to miss out with niggles. Victorian Scott Boland should make his debut and Stephen O'Keefe should play on his home ground.
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Looks like the SCG will be a turner with the upcoming tour to Sri Lanka on the horizon. Hazlewood and Siddle seem likely to miss out with niggles. Victorian Scott Boland should make his debut and Stephen O'Keefe should play on his home ground.
From what I've read, they will be making way for an additional spinner at the SCH
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Sri Lanka have been trampled by NZ and now they are being to sent to Australia for total decimation ? I pity Angelo Matthews.
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The commentators on ABC Radio the other day were talking about a tee shirt they had seen that read:
"The bowlers Holding, the batsmans Willey..." Cracked me up! :D
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The commentators on ABC Radio the other day were talking about a tee shirt they had seen that read:
"The bowlers Holding, the batsmans Willey..." Cracked me up! :D
That was actually said live on TV by a commentator!
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That was actually said live on TV by a commentator!
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ok... Still funny tho!
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Lol certainly is
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That was actually said live on TV by a commentator!
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Right up there with Aggers and Pietersen's rubber...
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3rd Test at the SCG, Windies won the toss and bat.
Australia 1 Joe Burns, 2 David Warner, 3 Usman Khawaja, 4 Steven Smith (capt), 5 Adam Voges, 6 Mitchell Marsh, 7 Peter Nevill (wk), 8 James Pattinson, 9 Steve O'Keefe, 10 Josh Hazlewood, 11 Nathan Lyon.
West Indies 1 Kraigg Brathwaite, 2 Shai Hope, 3 Darren Bravo, 4 Marlon Samuels, 5 Jermaine Blackwood, 6 Denesh Ramdin (wk), 7 Jason Holder (capt), 8 Carlos Brathwaite, 9 Kemar Roach, 10 Jerome Taylor, 11 Jomel Warrican.
SOK in for Siddle.
Hope in for Chandrika
7 NSW boys playing on their home ground. Looking forward to seeing Lyon and SOK in tandem.
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Rain effected first day at the SCG with the Windies closing on 6/207. Youngster Kraigg Brathwaite top scoring with 85. Nathan Lyon was particularly impressive with the ball bagging a couple of wickets.
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Rain wrecked the second day in Sydney, only 68 balls where possible. But big Carlos Brathwaite smashed an entertaining 69 before Jimmy Pattinson ended his fun.
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It was good to see the WI batsmen to apply themselves though, not thinking that they are just here to try their luck. Really want to see Ramdin go away and give up for another batsman. He has been tried a little too many times.
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Plenty of turn for Lyon. If the Windies can get 300 and get amongst Aus then it could still be a good test. Only saw some bits of the cricket but O'Keeffe doesn't turn it much does he?
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Plenty of turn for Lyon. If the Windies can get 300 and get amongst Aus then it could still be a good test. Only saw some bits of the cricket but O'Keeffe doesn't turn it much does he?
SOK seems to just be darting it in to middle and leg. Bizarre as his FC record is quite fantastic
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Surprised they didn't pick a leggy given how WI struggled with Tahir. Quite a few decent ones going around too, zampa and boyce.
Hearing Day 3 looks to be another wash out. Decent result that for the west indies
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Surprised they didn't pick a leggy given how WI struggled with Tahir. Quite a few decent ones going around too, zampa and boyce.
Hearing Day 3 looks to be another wash out. Decent result that for the west indies
No way either Boyce or Zampa are ready for Test cricket. Still a couple of years away for both.
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I wonder has Chris Lynn got any English parents or grandparents
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I wonder has Chris Lynn got any English parents or grandparents
Hands off fella!
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http://www.espncricinfo.com/australia-v-west-indies-2015-16/content/story/957737.html (http://www.espncricinfo.com/australia-v-west-indies-2015-16/content/story/957737.html)
Good read
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This rain is absolutely killing me. There's only so many Big Bash re-runs you can watch...
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This rain is the Windies best opportunity to take the game into day 5!
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Day 3 at Sydney is the Pink Day for the Jane McGrath foundation, unfortunately rain spoiled the day.
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Day 4 washed out. This must be the improvement holder called for! They've taken a test match to the 5th day!
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Tune in right now ... David Warner is on fire !! 84 of 64 balls ....
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At least Warner gave the crowd a bit of entertainment after no cricket for a few days
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At least Warner gave the crowd a bit of entertainment after no cricket for a few days
Agreed .. If they had atleast 3 days of the test match, i am sure Australia would have gone up 3-0 in this series. Warner smashed the bowlers around while Joe Burns was watching at the other end.
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Great to see Davey making the crowd happy..
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http://www.espncricinfo.com/australia-v-west-indies-2015-16/content/story/959157.html (http://www.espncricinfo.com/australia-v-west-indies-2015-16/content/story/959157.html)
Had WI accepted the offer, it would have been one hell of a game for the last day !
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[url]http://www.espncricinfo.com/australia-v-west-indies-2015-16/content/story/959157.html[/url] ([url]http://www.espncricinfo.com/australia-v-west-indies-2015-16/content/story/959157.html[/url])
Had WI accepted the offer, it would have been one hell of a game for the last day !
WI had no chance of winning that deal, not surprised they turned it down. would've been a much better days cricket though.
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[url]http://www.espncricinfo.com/australia-v-west-indies-2015-16/content/story/959157.html[/url] ([url]http://www.espncricinfo.com/australia-v-west-indies-2015-16/content/story/959157.html[/url])
Had WI accepted the offer, it would have been one hell of a game for the last day !
Surely if it had happened, it would be border line match fixing? Unless all the public would be aware of declarations etc.
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Do you think they could declare without everyone's knowledge?
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Its hard to do this now days because of the gambling interest. They should start thinking about the public and be able
to call it a draw and have a exhibition 20/20 or 50 over match like they did a few times many years
ago and charge a gold coin donation fee for a charity.