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Anderson pitched one up at off stump, siddle missed it. Broad and Bresnan are throwing them down missing the stumps, so even when these batsmen miss it it goes straight through to the keeper. Hit the stumps fuckers.
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Jul 21, 2013 18:40
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Lol he's out. Missed it too.
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Jul 21, 2013 18:42
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well gently caress
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Thank gently caress for that
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At last
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Great LBW decision.
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great decision
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Jul 21, 2013 18:43
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Ugh, finally. Shouldn't have taken more than 5 overs past tea.
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Jul 21, 2013 18:44
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who's winning lads
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Jul 21, 2013 19:38
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It's obvious that Clarke's captaincy isn't working out. How long before they see sense and give the captaincy to Renaissance Man Shane Watson?
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Jul 21, 2013 20:04
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I wouldn't have given Agar out.
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Jul 21, 2013 20:47
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Jul 21, 2013 21:12
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tarbrush posted:I wouldn't have given Agar out. He knew he'd hit it too. His reaction after the shot proves it. Cheating gently caress didnt even walk.
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Jul 21, 2013 21:14
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I wonder if he's actually injured too or they're just saying that as an excuse because he's clearly not good enough as a spinner. Although what they expected by picking a 19 year old club cricketer I don't know. Still looking for a magic fix, they never learn.
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Jul 21, 2013 22:11
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Six consecutive losses, our worst streak since 1984 when we lost six straight to the Windies. And it's only going to get worse 
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Jul 21, 2013 22:43
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Lol for anyone who thinks we might over use this meme:quote:I don't want anybody in our team to not play their natural game and not back their natural instinct. You have to do that 100 per cent This is Michael Clarke twisting himself in knots trying to explain how our batsmen need to apply themselves yet continue to play their "natural" game (ie poo poo) http://www.espncricinfo.com/the-ashes-2013/content/story/653983.html Read it and weep.
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Jul 21, 2013 22:51
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The true state of LOLstralia revealed in all it's pathetic shame for all to marvel at how loving crap the batting truly is. Altho to be fair, the bowling isnt terrible and even has some potentcy occasionally. Agar shouldnt be playing test cricket yet but he's got some ability at least.
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Jul 21, 2013 23:02
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I thought Clarke acquitted himself, as he always does in the media, very well in extremely difficult circumstances.
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Jul 21, 2013 23:08
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This is what happens if Australia ends up on a deck that spins or plays a bit flat. Outside of Clarke the side is pretty uncomfortable against spin and even on a flat wicket they aren't very good. The only people worth feeding in the Australian side are the quicks. So if they are taken out the game the batsmen will gladly self destruct. We are honestly lucky England batted poorly in the first innings or it could have very easily turned into a very big innings defeat.
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Just realised that the last Australian to score a century was Clarke .. in the first Test against India. So we've now played 11 innings without a single century - a lean trot for a single batsman but for an entire team that's ridiculous. The two batsmen* who've come closest are Mitchell Starc (99), and Ashton Agar (98). And in that time we've conceded double-centuries from Dhoni (224) and Pujara (204), plus hundreds from Kohli (107), Vijay (167), Vijay (153), Bell (109) and Root (180). What an absolute joke.
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Jul 22, 2013 00:50
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Grim situation, as expected really.
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Jul 22, 2013 00:58
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Who was the last Australian to score a century that wasn't Clarke ?
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Burn Down Canberra posted:Who was the last Australian to score a century that wasn't Clarke ? Gonna go out on a limb and say Warner but I haven't spend 1 second looking it up
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Hyperriker posted:Grim situation, as expected really. Yeah but just why is it so good??
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Burn Down Canberra posted:Who was the last Australian to score a century that wasn't Clarke ? Matthew Wade actually, he scored 102* in the 3rd Test vs Sri Lanka. Clarke and Hussey also scored hundreds in that series.
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Jul 22, 2013 01:16
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That's not too bad. Thought we would have to go as far back as warners against the kiwis
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This is a public service reminder. Simon Katich is just a phone call away. All that needs to be done is for Clarke to suck his dick, say sorry and hand him the captaincy and Australia will suddenly have a capable, experienced opening batsman with international experience, and a clever innovative captain to boot. Oh, Michael Hussey can still bat better than all these guys combined. I have to say, when you look at the current team and think about those guys being discarded in order to give Clarke the captaincy, it beggars belief.
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Jul 22, 2013 01:34
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No old player who still has skill with the bat wants to be within 5000 miles of the current Aussie side. It's too poisonous
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Jul 22, 2013 01:59
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Katich, Ponting, Hussey.Wikipedia posted:After retiring from test cricket, Ponting played out the Sheffield Shield season with eventual champions Tasmania. He was the competition's leading run scorer with 911 runs at an average of 75.91. As a result of his prolific form with the bat, he was named the Sheffield Shield player of the year.
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baked posted:Katich, Ponting, Hussey. Honestly wouldn't surprise me if at least Ponting and Hussey suspected the imminent debacle and decided to get out early.
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Jul 22, 2013 02:20
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They made their bed, now they have to lie in it and choke in their sleep. Bringing back old players merely kicks the can down the road a little. Which it means that's what they'll do I guess.
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True, bringing back the oldies isn't the answer to the problem, but at least it will give some of the younger players a chance to play in a stable environment and learn from someone. Right now, who do they have to look up to? Watson, Clarke and Haddin and to some extent Rogers. This article is as interesting as it is depressing, and I'm not even an Aussie fan. Australian sports in general have this obsession with not losing players to rival codes, in cricket's case, AFL mostly. So they set up BBL to have more money to pay the players, but it's killing their test cricket. I reckon they'd be better off losing some talent and having the rest of the players be tough test capable players rather than the current situation where David Warner is hailed and rewarded as a star. http://www.espncricinfo.com/the-ashes-2013/content/story/653981.html
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Oh noes Tasmania and Queensland have started producing decent wickets and the precious babies can't handle batting on them. Get hosed. Good wickets should produce good tough batsmen.
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Chemi posted:I thought Clarke acquitted himself, as he always does in the media, very well in extremely difficult circumstances. Well he's had plenty of practice. I hope we lose 10-0. Cricket Australia needs a massive rocket up them, and Clarke could do with one too. Getting Boof was only one small part of the solution, the rest will take years as we have to rebuild from the ground up and try and develop some hard nosed batsmen who don't forget they are playing tests and slip into T20 mode. Unfortunately batsmen like that are not favored by the conditions at grade and state level and are out shined by their more flamboyant counterparts. The solution is pretty simple, we just need to emphasize tricky wickets to bat on and in a couple of years natural selection will have seen to the demise of the T20 superstars and replaced them with patient, gritty hard-nosed cunts who would sooner die than give their wicket away.
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Won't ever happen while we've got idiots walking around parroting the "GOTTA PLAY YOUR NATURAL GAME MATE" line. Is this "must bat aggressively at all costs" a thing in England as well?
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webmeister posted:Is this "must bat aggressively at all costs" a thing in England as well? Probably not given they have Trott and Cook in the same side. And the fact that they have given Morgan the arse. That's not to say there isn't a place in test cricket for aggressive batting, it just needs to be put on hold until the top order has taken the shine off the ball and worn out the bowlers a bit.
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Remember when Border was made captain despite not really wanting the job, and consistently threatened to quit because the team was so loving useless? I kind of wish Clarke would do that, except from what I've read he's partially responsible for the terrible condition of the team in the first place.
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Burn Down Canberra posted:Oh noes Tasmania and Queensland have started producing decent wickets and the precious babies can't handle batting on them. Get hosed. The fact that the SCG does not turn square on day one makes me weep. I miss that old dustbowl. Replacing the soil hosed it good and proper.
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