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[Alvaro]

England will get smashed. Harris is the main bowler.

[Pendles10]

Personal favourite yesterday came from Warne as Swann was brought into the attack at which Warne described was the wrong end, 2 balls later he picks up the wicket of 'Captain Courageous' Michael Clarke
They spout utter (No Swearing Please), just like me some of you may think

Yeah but that's cricket, things happen unexpectedly.........and I think Warney knows what he is talking about.

[harv]

Need to get the final four wickets quickly, one (or more) of the top 6/7 have to score a ton surely!!

[awp]

England will get smashed. Harris is the main bowler.

Don't prejudge. It's a belter of a batting wicket. I did say in earlier post that I suspect Harris will be the hero.  This pitch will suit carberry, KP, bell, prior. Depends is Mitch softens EM up. I'd love to see KP bat well.

[steyn92]

These so called 'slabs of concrete' Australia premier batsman, Pup, didn't get any when Smith got 92 in Mohali. In fact Pup got a golden duck.

When Smith scored both his hundreds, again Pup didn't.

So he can score runs when Australia's premier batsman fails.

Hallmarks of a class batsman.

I was on about the other 3, Old Trafford, Oval and here.

[lazza32]

41 is not world beating, I'd say that is 'average'. You'd expect great players to average 45 -50 these days.

He is a decent player, who plays within his limits, as shown with 47 of his 50 on the leg side. He had one off aide scoring shot in that time.

He is young, and will most likely get better,but to class him in the same breath as Alma is being very presumptuous.

If you said, take any two players in the top 6 to bowl at who is most likely to get out, you'd probably pick Bailey and Smith.

Wow JJ '41' is an average,average(is that right?). Joe root is at that average and I wouldn't call him average. I recall bell having a bad 'Average' in his sherninator days. You sure your not confusing  unorthodox technique (smith) with ability. Also Trott is a huge leg side player, is he 'average'. He certainly is not a great but I would rate him above average.

[joeljonno]

Wow JJ '41' is an average,average(is that right?). Joe root is at that average and I wouldn't call him average. I recall bell having a bad 'Average' in his sherninator days. You sure your not confusing  unorthodox technique (smith) with ability. Also Trott is a huge leg side player, is he 'average'. He certainly is not a great but I would rate him above average.

Smith averages 33, 41 in whatever section of time he classed as.

Trott, over his career, averages 46.

Root, averages 41ish. There is talk on here whether he is good enough at this time.

I have not said Smith does not have ability. I said heplays to his strengths and has potential. To class him as a world class batsman is jumping the gun.

[lazza32]

Smith averages 33, 41 in whatever section of time he classed as.

Trott, over his career, averages 46.

Root, averages 41ish. There is talk on here whether he is good enough at this time.

I have not said Smith does not have ability. I said heplays to his strengths and has potential. To class him as a world class batsman is jumping the gun.

I must have misread cricinfo stats. I agree that both root and smith have not cemented themselves in international cricket yet but my concern is that smith is being judged, rightly or wrongly, on his unorthordox approach to batting. Smith has an excellent record in first class cricket and although not the same as international it is still a very strong testing ground.

[Sam]

What a dreadful decision there by the third umpire for Root... Nothing on hotspot and a tiny noise on snicko after the balls past the bat. Why have this tech if we don't use it?

[lazza32]

What a dreadful decision there by the third umpire for Root... Nothing on hotspot and a tiny noise on snicko after the balls past the bat. Why have this tech if we don't use it?

It's rediculous. I'm and aussie and I can't believe it ! Match fixing maybe??

[joeljonno]

It's rediculous. I'm and aussie and I can't believe it ! Match fixing maybe??

Match fixing? That's big slanderous call.

Woke up to Eng being two down, so only seen replays. Botham's right that there was a conflicting noise/no nick so stays on field. I just hope it is the same when the Aussies bat.

[Sam]

Match fixing? That's big slanderous call.

Woke up to Eng being two down, so only seen replays. Botham's right that there was a conflicting noise/no nick so stays on field. I just hope it is the same when the Aussies bat.

The ball was nearly 10 inches past the bat when the tiny noise that lookeed nothing like you'd usually see for an edge come up though.

[lazza32]

Match fixing? That's big slanderous call.

Woke up to Eng being two down, so only seen replays. Botham's right that there was a conflicting noise/no nick so stays on field. I just hope it is the same when the Aussies bat.

Tongue in cheek JJ. It already happened to the aussies remember Khawajas call. That was even worse.

[joeljonno]

Tongue in cheek JJ. It already happened to the aussies remember Khawajas call. That was even worse.

Tongue in cheek, maybe,but after recent threads on here, I think people need to be very careful in what they say and how they say it.

[jackmorris]

fairplay great catch from johnson but awful shot from pietersen