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Re: Australian Ashes First Test XI
« Reply #210 on: June 11, 2013, 09:16:09 AM »

Don't get me wrong I'm a big Jackson Bird fan i just think he isn't going to do what Australia are expecting him to do.
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Re: Australian Ashes First Test XI
« Reply #211 on: June 11, 2013, 09:20:15 AM »

with KP lacking fitness and likely to struggle on his return.

Dont rule him out even with injury. He can be a freak of nature sometimes!!!!
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Re: Australian Ashes First Test XI
« Reply #212 on: June 11, 2013, 11:25:35 AM »

Don't get me wrong I'm a big Jackson Bird fan i just think he isn't going to do what Australia are expecting him to do.
Jackson Bird bowls 81-84 mph?

Praveen Kumar who was 77-80mph did well back in 2010.

Bird's considerably taller, so there's no reason why he won't be successful.
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Re: Australian Ashes First Test XI
« Reply #213 on: June 11, 2013, 11:43:53 AM »

The key to Jackson Birds bowling is he uses the lost art of the cutter... Rolling the fingers across the seam and getting the ball to move off the wicket.. Much harder to play than swing
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Re: Australian Ashes First Test XI
« Reply #214 on: June 11, 2013, 11:47:12 AM »

Jackson Bird bowls 81-84 mph?

Praveen Kumar who was 77-80mph did well back in 2010.

Bird's considerably taller, so there's no reason why he won't be successful.

Oh I'm not saying he won't be but for me i don't think he is gonna be the 'secret weapon' Australia are hoping for. I hope to be wrong.
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Re: Australian Ashes First Test XI
« Reply #215 on: June 11, 2013, 11:51:19 AM »

Oh I'm not saying he won't be but for me i don't think he is gonna be the 'secret weapon' Australia are hoping for. I hope to be wrong.
Ok fair enough mate
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Re: Australian Ashes First Test XI
« Reply #216 on: June 11, 2013, 12:44:44 PM »

He looks a decent but unremarkable seamer to me...but then, so did Terry Alderman and Carl Rackemann in 1989!  If he had a bit more experience in English conditions, I could actually see where people are coming from - he certainly gets the ball to talk - but I wonder if he might struggle to get his lengths quite right.  I'm also not sure how he makes the test side over Pattinson, Starc, Siddle and Harris!
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Re: Australian Ashes First Test XI
« Reply #217 on: June 11, 2013, 12:54:34 PM »

Oh I'm not saying he won't be but for me i don't think he is gonna be the 'secret weapon' Australia are hoping for. I hope to be wrong.

It's only my opinion.. I'm not talking for all of Australia haha :D
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Re: Australian Ashes First Test XI
« Reply #218 on: June 11, 2013, 05:41:30 PM »

Rumours in the evening standard of Clarke being out for the Ashes...

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Re: Australian Ashes First Test XI
« Reply #219 on: June 11, 2013, 08:23:42 PM »

Rumours in the evening standard of Clarke being out for the Ashes...

If that is the case then we may as well send over the RCC U/15's to play for the ashes
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Re: Australian Ashes First Test XI
« Reply #220 on: June 12, 2013, 02:32:13 AM »

If he had a bit more experience in English conditions...

He plays for Tasmania. You can't get conditions closer to English than there!
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Re: Australian Ashes First Test XI
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Re: Australian Ashes First Test XI
« Reply #222 on: June 12, 2013, 08:40:16 AM »

He allegedly punched Joe Root. He's nearly had as many infractions as runs!
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Re: Australian Ashes First Test XI
« Reply #223 on: June 12, 2013, 12:24:23 PM »

He plays for Tasmania. You can't get conditions closer to English than there!

Do Tasmans generally whinge, get passive aggressive in queues and drink warm beer?
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Re: Australian Ashes First Test XI
« Reply #224 on: June 12, 2013, 12:27:05 PM »

Bird will always get a look in if the aussies go with this rotation caper again. Plus Harris will break down midway in the 1st test he plays.
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